- Print Brief Visit
- Key Features or a Magazine Cover Visit
- Preliminary Task Contents Page Flatplan Visit
- Kayne West Front Cover Deconstruction Visit
- Lana Del Rey Front Cover Deconstruction Visit
- Preliminary Task Front Cover Flatplan Visit
- Contents Page Deconstruction Visit
- Contents Page Deconstruction Visit
- Contents Page Deconstruction Visit
- Front Cover Deconstruction Visit
- Update Diary Visit
- Update Diary Visit
- Magazine Proposal Visit
- Inspirational Text Visit
- Inspirational Music Visit
- Photoshop Skills Visit
- Institution Research Visit
- Update Diary Visit
- Preliminary Front Cover Task Visit
- Contents Preliminary Task Visit
- Double Page Spread Visit
- Double Page Spread Visit
- Double Page Spread Visit
- Double Page Spread Flatplan Visit
- Magazine Flatplan Visit
- Analysing Student Work Visit
- Contents Flatplan Visit
- Update Diary Visit
- Stage 2 Planning Visit
- Photoshop Practice Visit
- Photo Shoot Planning Visit
- Location Recce Visit
- Update Diary Visit
- Photo Shoot Images Visit
- Conventions, Producer and Target Audience Visit
- Font Pallette Visit
- Update Diary Visit
- Audience Research Visit
- Update Diary Visit
- Double Page Spread Story Visit
- Update Diary Visit
- Final Front Cover Visit
- Final Contents Page Visit
- Final Double Page Spread Visit
- Evaluation- Target Audience Visit
- Evaluation- Chosen Institution Visit
- Evaluation- Visit
- Evaluation- Visit
- Evaluation- Technologies Visit
Friday, 2 May 2014
Contents
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Evaluation- Question 7
What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the school magazine (preliminary task), to creating your music magazine?
During the progression of creating my magazine, I done a lot of research and practice to help me create the most professional magazine that I can. I have researched into what would make my magazine suitable for my target audience, using surveys created on 'Survey Monkey', which has helped me gain skills and knowledge. I have also analysed previous student work, which I was able to identify the strengths and weaknesses within their work, to help strengthen my own. I have also gained confidence and skills when using Photoshop, therefore, I was able to edit my photos professionally, compared to when I used the photos in my preliminary task, my photos for my final magazine are taken in a professional studio, with a digital SLR camera, and appropriate lighting. I could then edit my images on Photoshop, using the skills that I have learned when practising on Photoshop, which you can see in my blog, which I will also link to this post. After researching previous student work, I was able to acknowledge what makes a music magazine stand out and what is popular with my target audience, such as being able to identify which font would be most sutiable and professional, and how to edit/touch up any images to give them a more professional look, compared to my preliminary task which was much more amateur and only gave a basic structure of my magazine, which, overall after I had analysed other work, and current music magazines I changed the structure slightly such as the location of my cover lines, colour and fonts. In this post I will also link my prelimary task to show development. My contents page has also changed a lot since my prelimary task. After thorough research I had identified what makes a contents page unique and stand out to my target audience. I changed the layout of my images, list of contents and masthead. After having a lot of practice taking photos during my photoshoot, I was able to find the right style for my model and myself to work with whilst creating the images for my music magazine 'NOIZE' this allowed me to use my current knowlegde to create a professional image using angles, lighting and styling to suit my magazine. Although one thing I may change with my magazine if I were to repeat it would be to not make a lot of my images in black and white, and allow myself to experiment with other colours and themes, which may allow my magazine to stand out more using a wider variety of colours.
Photoshop Practice
Preliminary Contents Page
Preliminary Front Cover
During the progression of creating my magazine, I done a lot of research and practice to help me create the most professional magazine that I can. I have researched into what would make my magazine suitable for my target audience, using surveys created on 'Survey Monkey', which has helped me gain skills and knowledge. I have also analysed previous student work, which I was able to identify the strengths and weaknesses within their work, to help strengthen my own. I have also gained confidence and skills when using Photoshop, therefore, I was able to edit my photos professionally, compared to when I used the photos in my preliminary task, my photos for my final magazine are taken in a professional studio, with a digital SLR camera, and appropriate lighting. I could then edit my images on Photoshop, using the skills that I have learned when practising on Photoshop, which you can see in my blog, which I will also link to this post. After researching previous student work, I was able to acknowledge what makes a music magazine stand out and what is popular with my target audience, such as being able to identify which font would be most sutiable and professional, and how to edit/touch up any images to give them a more professional look, compared to my preliminary task which was much more amateur and only gave a basic structure of my magazine, which, overall after I had analysed other work, and current music magazines I changed the structure slightly such as the location of my cover lines, colour and fonts. In this post I will also link my prelimary task to show development. My contents page has also changed a lot since my prelimary task. After thorough research I had identified what makes a contents page unique and stand out to my target audience. I changed the layout of my images, list of contents and masthead. After having a lot of practice taking photos during my photoshoot, I was able to find the right style for my model and myself to work with whilst creating the images for my music magazine 'NOIZE' this allowed me to use my current knowlegde to create a professional image using angles, lighting and styling to suit my magazine. Although one thing I may change with my magazine if I were to repeat it would be to not make a lot of my images in black and white, and allow myself to experiment with other colours and themes, which may allow my magazine to stand out more using a wider variety of colours.
Photoshop Practice
Preliminary Contents Page
Preliminary Front Cover
Evaluation- Question 1
In what ways does your music magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of existing music magazines?
I have used templates of other magazines such as 'NME' to help me structure where to place my masthead, cover lines and main image for my front cover. I have placed my masthead at the top left of my front cover, similar to the layout of the 'NME' magazine I used to help me, which I have placed a image of this magazine on this post. Simliar to this magazine, I have used one image for my main image on my front cover, although my magazine my image covers the whole of the front page, with the masthead tucking behind the image and the coverlines overlapping the image. I have no other background but the colours of the image used to be the background for my front cover. I edited my frton cover image using photoshop allowing the backdrop to have a stronger colour. Although for my contents page, I have used four different images and have edited the background to be a 'N' which represents the main letter for 'NOIZE' making my magazine have a flowing theme as on the bottom right of both the contents page and the double page spread I have placed 'NOIZE' magazine next to the page number, creating a identity with the reader. I have also used the layout of this magazine to help me structure my contents page for my magazine. Although I have challenged where the images are placed, and allowed myself to have my own twist for my magazine, although using a popular music magazine as a main template and develop my ideas to create a professional magazine. I used this template from 'NME' magazine also, to help me create the layout for my magazine. Although on my double page spread on my magazine, I have placed my image on the left page and had my text surrounding the image on the right hand page, I was able to look at this double page spread as a template for my own. I had researched a few different double page spread, and used prevous student work to help me identify strengths and weaknesses for my double page spread. I also placed a pull quote on my double page spread, to allow my article to stand out more. I identified that on the 'NME' double page spread, the article stood out due to the style the masthead is written in, I decided to create my double page to stand out using a pull quote. Therefore, I have used existing conventions to help me develop my own music magazine, challenging them as I alter certain things on the page to create my own version, and using research I was able to apply my knowledge in order to create a professional and unique music magazine. Overall the one thing that I would wish to change if I done it again would be to not use black and white images as often, which may of allowed my magazine to stand out more, I would also change the style of the images I used for my contents page, as I found them a little amateur compared to the image used for my front cover.
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Evaluation- Question 3
Chosen Institution
This video created using Animoto, shows a brief answer of my chosen institution to produce 'NOIZE' magazine. I have also linked in this post my full institution analysis to show my comparisons and research. I have chosen IPC to distribute my magazine as they already produce popular, mainstream magazines which are well known. I want my magazine to fit into this popular category, appealing to a wide audience, and IPC Media have experience producing popular magazines, which hopefully my magazine will be also.
Full Institution Research
This video created using Animoto, shows a brief answer of my chosen institution to produce 'NOIZE' magazine. I have also linked in this post my full institution analysis to show my comparisons and research. I have chosen IPC to distribute my magazine as they already produce popular, mainstream magazines which are well known. I want my magazine to fit into this popular category, appealing to a wide audience, and IPC Media have experience producing popular magazines, which hopefully my magazine will be also.
Full Institution Research
Evaluation- Questions 2, 4 and 5
'How does your music magazine represent particular social group?'
As said in my Stupeflix video, my magazine represents a particular social group as it features exclusive interviews and news about the latest popular urban artists, with free gifts and competitions that would attract my audience, such as festival/concert tickets. The style of my magazine also reflects the social group that I am representing, it is very mainstream, and nothing too alternative is included in my magazine, as it aims to suit a wide mainstream audience.
'Who would be the audience for your music magazine?'
The audience for my magazine is a mainstream culture, including both genders but mostly aimed at young adults, as it includes popular urban artists, and competition chances that would best suit a younger audience, for example ages 15-late 20's.
'How did you attract your audience?'
I have incorporated these three questions together as I did not have a lot of information to provide about my social group which my magazine is aimed at due to the mainstream culture. On my blog I carried out a survey using, 'Survey Monkey' which allowed me to help target my audience with my magazine as I was able to find out exactly what they wanted from a music magazine. This allowed me to then look and compare my results to know what to include in my magazine and not to include. I will link the survey in this post.
Survey Monkey Research
Friday, 4 April 2014
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