Main Task - Task Six

Codes and conventions of a double page spread:
-drop quotes (attention)
-begining is short like a little summeray - standfirst
-First letter us usually larger than the rest of the other text
-Large image
-strapline
-limited use of colour
-headline - eyecatching
-names are artists highlighted
-generally there is a picture of the editor
-skyline
-text in columns
-page numbers
-title of article and magazine

Main Task - Task Five

Codes and conventions of my genre of magazine pop is
-bright colours
-original writing
-images supporting the writing
-details about the free gift you may receive
-edtitors letter
-picture of the editor

Main Task - Task Four

By gathering information from my research with analysing front cover and content pages of a contents page i have come to the conclusions
Front cover :-
-original masthead
-main picture
-anchoring images
-barcode
-price
-frequancy oof publication
-issue number
-bold writing
-picture is always having eye contact
-website
-subscription details
-tagline
contents page:-
-Picture dominates it.
-Set out in columns.
-Split into three columns.
-Normally an editor’s letter.
-Have little images to display what they are showing.
-There is a page number before the story.
-Have a website.
-Titles are normally in bold.
-Page numbers are a different colour to the stories.
-Have contact details and address.
-Always have an ‘every week’ column.
-List of people involved.
-Usually two pages.
-Line gap between each section.
-Subscription details.
-Type size 11pt.
-Credits for front picture.
-Pictures are different sizes and have numbers on them which anchor them to be written in contents.
-Regular contents have a page number.
-Issue number.
-Sections for example fashion.
-One main picture in some magazines.
-Always have bright colours.

Main Task- Task Three

Using the results of my research i have come to the conclusions that my magazine:-
*Price:
-£2.50
*Frequancy of publication:
-Monthly
*adverage issue size:
-150-200 pages
*Regular Content:
- Tips
- Gotcha'
- Exposed
- Reviews
- Quizzes
- This months must haves
- Toppin' the charts
- Real Life stories
- Top 10 concerts
- That did not just happen
- Popstars speak
- Readers reviews
*Feature articles-
- Interview with X-Factors heart-throb Lloyd Daniels
- MTV award styles
- Behind the scenes of Miley Cyrus's new pop video 'Party in the USA'
- Taylor Swift is truly fearless
- Backstage with Beyonce
- Pop around the clock
- Watts going on
- Cheryl Cole
- Lady Sov
- WIN!
- Girls aloud?
- Are Busted really busted?
- Who will win the battle of the rock chicks?
- Mariah Carey
- Kylie Monogue
- Paris Hilton

Main Task - Task Two

Q Magazine
-Price - £3.90
-Frequancy of publication - Monthly
-Issue size - 150/200 pages
-Regualar content - access all areas, soap box, new to Q, Q hero, my record collection, cash for questions, around with..., Q50, Q quiz, last request.
-Feature articles - sting, green day, pop babylon, the 50 gigs you must see.
Kerrang
-Price - £2.30
-Frequancy of publication- monthly
-Issue size - 150/200 pages
-Regular content - feedback, news, live reveiws, K!icons, album reveiws, gigs, famous last words.
-Feature articles - Billy Clyro, cradle of filth, The bronx, fall out boy, civet, against me!, taste of chaos, kill hannah, hinder, lordi, bullet for the valentine.
Rock Sound
-Price - £3.80
-Frequancy of publication - monthly
-Issue size- 180-250 pages
-Regualar content - round up, Cory Taylor (8's) column, music with attitude CD, the agnoy scene, midasuno, smash and grab, bleeding through, rsvp.
-Feature articles - towers of london, 65daysofstatic, Judas preist, Mix master mike, jesu, cursed, open hand, the explosion, the AKAs, reflux, agent blue, mastodon, the feature, hot water music, failure, tokio dragons, eggsy (goldie lookin chain)
Top of the tops
-Price - £1.80
-frequancy of publication - monthly
-issue size - 100-150 pages
-regular content - posters, sing it with songwords, ringtones, singles, letters 'Ave Em', popstars, oops!, backchat, charts, albums have you heard, backstage, gossip.
-feature articles - your mutha wouldn't like it, david sneddon has an eyeful, pop therapy- James Busted, La vid shoot shenanigans with abs, kelly rowland splits the good from the bad, movers and shakers.

Main Task- Task One

The genre of muy magazine is going to be pop. The genre of the people that are going to be buying the magazine are going to be girls. This is becuase boys are not very likely to be buying pop magazines. The age that my target audience is going to be is ages 8-16. I have chosen this age as it is the age where most girls buy magazines.

Evaluation

In this evaluation i am going to talk about the problems that i encountered when coming to do my front cover and contents page of my school magazine. I am also going to be explaining how my magazine challenges and develops forms of real magazines and media products accoring to the codes and conventions.
There where many problems that i encounted from when i had to take my pictures until i was uploading my blog. The problems that i had to overcome when i was taking my pictures where that i hadnt planned all of my mise-en-scene out right. And also that because i wanted a 'New teacher' on the front cover of my magazine, but there wasnt many teachers that was willing to pose to be a new teacher on the front of my magazine. In the end i got a mathematics teacher to do it for me. Also when i came to uploadf pictures onto the blog neither the workplaces at home or at school would let me upload pictures. I could not overcome this as i had tried many times and each time would not let me.
My front cover had folowed the codes and contentions exept it didnt have a tag line. This was as i hadnt have time to think of one. As far as the contents page goes i have followed all of there codes and conventions besides the fact that the titles are in bold and i dint do that as i didnt remember to.
The media technology that i used where Quark express and Adobe Photoshop. Quark express was a brand new software for me to use, so it took me alot longer to get used to it. It took me longer to use Quark express than Adobe Photoshop.
The strengths of my media product are;
-The contents page doesnt have many images on so therefore there is more writing on it so it is more full and i have more content.
-The colour scheme was ironic as i chose blue and the name of the magazine is 'Cool Classrooms' and the connotations of Cool is blue.
The weaknesses of my media product are;
-The colour of the background as it is purple and it was just a colour chosen at random because it contasted with the light colour for my anchoring text.

Contents Page & Front Cover!

My Front Cover- finishing touches

Today i made the finishing touches to my front cover. During my time doing that i had to change the colour of my background to a more purified blue. I also had to change the colour of my shadow behind my writing saying Cool Classrooms.
This made a major improvement to what it was when i began doing the production.
I changed these things as i wanted to make it look more apealing towards my target audience.

front cover

To do our front cover we had to use the software Adobe Photoshop. This required skills that we had been taught from year ten and year eleven. To complete our front cover it took me around about one week. After we had completed our front cover we needed to complete a contents page. The contents page will be produced in Quark express.

Pliminary Sketches

Front cover and contents Page sketches!

Taking Photos

After we had done all of our theory work, we had to start taking photographs.
we had done a draft of our front cover and of our contents page. Then we made a list of all of the images that we needed to take.
Then the next lesson after the teachers had checked oour front cover and contents page we went and booked a camera out and took our pictures.
It took me two lessons to take my pictures as i had to get some teachers in my pictures so i have some pictures more difficult to take.
After i had taken the pictures i needed to upload them onto the computer, and give them names.

camera angle practise shots

During doing our theory we had a experiment and took some canera angle shots and, put caption with in on Microsoft word. Doing this enabled us to understand the differant shots and use them throughout our work. During doing our practise shots neither the work stations at home or at school would not let me upload the pictures to blogger.com.

Codes and Conventions.

Before we started to design our magazine for our school magazine we looked at the codes and conventions of a typical magazine. We worked in groups, we had examples of Contents page and we analysed them.The codes and conventions we came up with where:
contents page:
-Picture dominates it
-Set out in columns
-Editors letter
-Have little images
-Page number before story
-Website
-Titles in bold
-Contact number and address
-Regular content column
-Usually double page spread
-Line gap between each section
-Subcription details
-In type 11
-Issue number
-Sections
-Colour sceme
-Bright colours
Front Cover:
-Central image
-Puff
-Slogan
-Barcode
-Anchoring image
-Price
-Buzz
-Coverlines
-Title or logo
-Date
-Issue number
-Colour scheme
-Website
-Headline
-Supporting images
-Positioning statment

Task three- content

In this task i had to come up with a list of regular content that will appear in my new school magazine. I also had to come up with a list of 10 feature articles which will appear in my magazine. And finally i had to list the images iwth i would use on my contents page.
The regualr content that i had come up with are:
Dates for your diary,
Letter to Mr. Dyment,
Charity news,
Letter from the editor,
Hororscopes,
Reveiws-D.V.D,
Puzzles and
Fashion.
The 10 feature articles that i had come uo with are:
Weatherhead wins,
Student sucess,
Bright lights,Big Cities,
ice radio goes live,
Reach for the stars,
New on the block,
weatherhead goes green,
One to One interveiws,
Lets get physical,
Cooking up a treat.
The images that i have used on my contents page are:
Mr Dyment,
Food for cooking up a treat,
Teacher and a student,
A person with results,
a person with a trophy jumping and
A student in the ice radio room broadcasting,

Title name, and details

For this task i needed to create a title, where i am going to have all of my mise-en-scene for the front cover of my magazine and the coverlines for my magazine.
The name that i chose to use for my magazine is 'Cool Classrooms'. I had chose this by thinking of all of the words that would assosiate to school and then i made the name up.
The mise-en-scene i have chosen to use for my front cover of my magazine is just a normal working office with the 'new' teacher smiling and looking into the camera. I have stuck with the breif and have done a medium close up of my centeral image.
The coverlines that i chose to go onto my front cover are:
Ice radio goes live,
Bright lights big cities,
student sucess,
weatherhead wins and
reach for the stars.
i have chosen to use them for my coverlines because the are short snappy and catchy.