This is my final publication of my contents page
This is my final publication of my double page spread
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Publications - Music magazine and Preliminary magazine
This is my final publication of my music front cover
This is my final publication of my contents page
This is my final publication of my double page spread
This is my final publication of my contents page
This is my final publication of my double page spread
Monday, 12 April 2010
Main Task Task 18
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge the forms and conventions in read media products.
Below are my front cover and a typical pop genre front cover. You can see the things that I have just highlighted in my explanation. Underlined is the title of my magazine and compared to the Top of the Pops they are very similar as they are both curved. As you can see my colours that I had used are similar. Top of the pops is the magazine that i based my magazine on as it was very successful. Although there are two people on the top of the pops magazine the typical convention is to only have one person on there. I have challenged the codes and conventions of a pop magazine by not putting loads of pictures underneath the cover lines on the front cover. This made my magazine much easier to read as I thought that there was too much on the front cover when i put the pictures on there. It also made my magazine look cluttered. On my contents page i have placed all of my contents on one side of the page and all of the images on the other side, this makes the product look more professional and like a music magazine rather that just images all over ther place. On my double page spread i have used the images in the middle of the page and put all of my writing going around it. This is very conventional for a music magazine, as there are many famous brands that do this technique while they are writing and producing double page spreads.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Below is a you tube video of the social group pop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRqBg27KgAA
As you can see by this video most of the people there are girls. Also they are all looking quite young up to about the age of 15.
3. What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why?
This is the website to IPC media.
Here you can see all of the different types of magazines.
http://www.ipcmedia.com/
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for my magazine would be a girl from the ages of about 8-15. I have chosen this age as when you get to about 16 maybe even younger you tend to read pop magazines less and you tend to focus more on the fashion and celebrity magazines. Here is a typical fact file of someone who would buy a pop magazine.
Name: Francesca Hardman Age: 9
Hobbies: Dance, Reading, Writing.
Favourite movie: Hannah Montana Movie
Favourite singer: Miley Cyrus
Favourite colour: Purple
5. How did you attract address your audience?
I attracted the audiences address by making sure that my questionnaire was filled in correctly. I took on board what the answers where and I suited my front cover, contents page and my double page spread around it. I also conducted different methods of research. Below is a video clip of some people answering my questionnaire with there own opinions.
6. What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing this product?
Whilst I have been on this course I have learnt a variety of things, to do with the media that I have used. I have used a digital camera (still), digital camera (movement), a computer, the internet, Photoshop and Quark Xpress .Whilst I was using Photoshop I wasn’t very confident with it but as the course went on I learnt more about how it works and I was able to progress within my work standard. However I did not have any previous experience with Quark like I did with Photoshop as I had used it last year. It was all very new to me. At the start of our production work we had a tutorial of it and this helped a lot with how I was able to complete the work. I have used:
- A computer: without this I would not have been able to create my product.
- Photoshop: I used this to create my front cover, without this i would not have been able to create my front cover on neither my preliminary nor my main task.
- Internet: I have used the internet to gather all of my research together in order so that i could write my double page spread.
- Quark: I have used Quark Xpress to produce and create my double page spread and my contents page.
- Still Camera: I have used a still camera to take all of my pictures to go on my front cover, contents page and my double page spread.
- Movement Camera: I have used a movement camera, to get videos of clients that would possibly buy my magazine.
Here is six pictures of the technology that i used to create my products. Without one of these it would have been impossible to have finished it to a professional standard.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the process from it to the final product?
Looking back at my preliminary task I feel like I have learnt more about the codes and conventions of magazines in general. This has made a difference as it shown me what I had done wrong if I was really in the business of producing a magazine. I have also learnt how to use the tools from Quark Xpress, and Photoshop a lot more than what I did whilst I was producing my main task, in comparison to wh
en I was producing my preliminary task.
Below are my front cover and a typical pop genre front cover. You can see the things that I have just highlighted in my explanation. Underlined is the title of my magazine and compared to the Top of the Pops they are very similar as they are both curved. As you can see my colours that I had used are similar. Top of the pops is the magazine that i based my magazine on as it was very successful. Although there are two people on the top of the pops magazine the typical convention is to only have one person on there. I have challenged the codes and conventions of a pop magazine by not putting loads of pictures underneath the cover lines on the front cover. This made my magazine much easier to read as I thought that there was too much on the front cover when i put the pictures on there. It also made my magazine look cluttered. On my contents page i have placed all of my contents on one side of the page and all of the images on the other side, this makes the product look more professional and like a music magazine rather that just images all over ther place. On my double page spread i have used the images in the middle of the page and put all of my writing going around it. This is very conventional for a music magazine, as there are many famous brands that do this technique while they are writing and producing double page spreads.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Below is a you tube video of the social group pop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRqBg27KgAA
As you can see by this video most of the people there are girls. Also they are all looking quite young up to about the age of 15.
3. What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why?
This is the website to IPC media.
Here you can see all of the different types of magazines.
http://www.ipcmedia.com/
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for my magazine would be a girl from the ages of about 8-15. I have chosen this age as when you get to about 16 maybe even younger you tend to read pop magazines less and you tend to focus more on the fashion and celebrity magazines. Here is a typical fact file of someone who would buy a pop magazine.
Name: Francesca Hardman Age: 9
Hobbies: Dance, Reading, Writing.
Favourite movie: Hannah Montana Movie
Favourite singer: Miley Cyrus
Favourite colour: Purple
5. How did you attract address your audience?
I attracted the audiences address by making sure that my questionnaire was filled in correctly. I took on board what the answers where and I suited my front cover, contents page and my double page spread around it. I also conducted different methods of research. Below is a video clip of some people answering my questionnaire with there own opinions.
6. What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing this product?
Whilst I have been on this course I have learnt a variety of things, to do with the media that I have used. I have used a digital camera (still), digital camera (movement), a computer, the internet, Photoshop and Quark Xpress .Whilst I was using Photoshop I wasn’t very confident with it but as the course went on I learnt more about how it works and I was able to progress within my work standard. However I did not have any previous experience with Quark like I did with Photoshop as I had used it last year. It was all very new to me. At the start of our production work we had a tutorial of it and this helped a lot with how I was able to complete the work. I have used:
- A computer: without this I would not have been able to create my product.
- Photoshop: I used this to create my front cover, without this i would not have been able to create my front cover on neither my preliminary nor my main task.
- Internet: I have used the internet to gather all of my research together in order so that i could write my double page spread.
- Quark: I have used Quark Xpress to produce and create my double page spread and my contents page.
- Still Camera: I have used a still camera to take all of my pictures to go on my front cover, contents page and my double page spread.
- Movement Camera: I have used a movement camera, to get videos of clients that would possibly buy my magazine.
Here is six pictures of the technology that i used to create my products. Without one of these it would have been impossible to have finished it to a professional standard.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the process from it to the final product?
Looking back at my preliminary task I feel like I have learnt more about the codes and conventions of magazines in general. This has made a difference as it shown me what I had done wrong if I was really in the business of producing a magazine. I have also learnt how to use the tools from Quark Xpress, and Photoshop a lot more than what I did whilst I was producing my main task, in comparison to wh
en I was producing my preliminary task.
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Main Task - Task 17
1. Do you like my final product?
Yes - 10
No - 0
- Conclusion - From this question i have 10 out of 10 people have said that they like my magazine, this shows that more people would be interested tp buy it if they like it.
2. Do you think that my front cover, contents page and double page spread link together in a postitive way?
Yes - 10
No - 0
- Conclusion - In conclusion all of the 10 people that i asked thought that my front cover linked which mean's that my product would look like a complete product. This shows that i have thought about the detail and that has resulted in my magazine looking more profesional.
3. If yes, how do they link together?
Colours - 7
Pictures - 1
Font - 1
Titles - 1
- Conclusion - Most poeple that i survayed said that they think that pages linked together becuase of the colours that i used, Whereas one person thought that they linked well because of the pictures, font and the title that i chosen to use.
4. What do you dislike about my product if anything?
Colours of font - 2
The title is to obvious - 3
Nothing - 5
- Conclusion - From my questionaire i have come to the conclusion that 50% of the people that i asked what they dislike about my magazine said that they didnt dislike anything, whereas other answers that where given where the colours of the font and the title is to obvious.
5. What do you like about my product if anything?
Colour Scheme - 2
The pictures used - 3
Coverlines used - 4
The way that the contents page is set out - 1
- Conclusion - From my conclusion i have discoved that most people like the coverline the most. This is an important thing for people to like as if they dont like what is in the magazine they will not buy that magazine.
6. Do you think that the colours that i have used are appropriate for the genre of magazine it is?
Yes - 9
No - 1
- Conclusion - Most people that i asked said that they did like the colours that i used however one person said that they didnt like the colours that i used.
7. Do you think that i have used appropriate images for the content that i have on the contents page and double page spread?
Yes - 9
No - 1
- Conclusion - From my questionaire i found that 9 outof 10 people did like the images that i used on my contents page and my double page spread, however one person said that they didnt like it.
8. Was my double page spread article easy to read and understand?
Yes - 10
No - 0
- Conclusion - I have found from my questionaire that every person that i gave the questionaire to thought that my double page spread was easy to read and understand. This is important as if you cant understand the main double page spread what is the point in buying the magazine.
9. What could i have improved on?
Made the writing bolder - 8
Nothing - 1
Could have got less obvious pictures - 1
- Conclusion - Most people that i have gave this questionaire to have said that i could have improved by making the writing bolder. Other things that they said i could improve on is that i could have chosen less obvious pictures and one perosn said i didnt need to improve on anything.
10. Do you think i have enough coverline for a typical pop magazine?
Yes - 8
No - 2
- Conclusion - Out of the 10 people that i asked to fill in this questionaire said that there was enough coverline, but two people disagreed and said that there wasnt enough.
11. Are the coverline that i have chose appropriate for a pop magazine?
Yes - 9
No - 1
- Conclusion - From my questionaire 9 people said that the coverline where appropriate for a pop magazine, however 1 person said that they wasnt.
Yes - 10
No - 0
- Conclusion - From this question i have 10 out of 10 people have said that they like my magazine, this shows that more people would be interested tp buy it if they like it.
2. Do you think that my front cover, contents page and double page spread link together in a postitive way?
Yes - 10
No - 0
- Conclusion - In conclusion all of the 10 people that i asked thought that my front cover linked which mean's that my product would look like a complete product. This shows that i have thought about the detail and that has resulted in my magazine looking more profesional.
3. If yes, how do they link together?
Colours - 7
Pictures - 1
Font - 1
Titles - 1
- Conclusion - Most poeple that i survayed said that they think that pages linked together becuase of the colours that i used, Whereas one person thought that they linked well because of the pictures, font and the title that i chosen to use.
4. What do you dislike about my product if anything?
Colours of font - 2
The title is to obvious - 3
Nothing - 5
- Conclusion - From my questionaire i have come to the conclusion that 50% of the people that i asked what they dislike about my magazine said that they didnt dislike anything, whereas other answers that where given where the colours of the font and the title is to obvious.
5. What do you like about my product if anything?
Colour Scheme - 2
The pictures used - 3
Coverlines used - 4
The way that the contents page is set out - 1
- Conclusion - From my conclusion i have discoved that most people like the coverline the most. This is an important thing for people to like as if they dont like what is in the magazine they will not buy that magazine.
6. Do you think that the colours that i have used are appropriate for the genre of magazine it is?
Yes - 9
No - 1
- Conclusion - Most people that i asked said that they did like the colours that i used however one person said that they didnt like the colours that i used.
7. Do you think that i have used appropriate images for the content that i have on the contents page and double page spread?
Yes - 9
No - 1
- Conclusion - From my questionaire i found that 9 outof 10 people did like the images that i used on my contents page and my double page spread, however one person said that they didnt like it.
8. Was my double page spread article easy to read and understand?
Yes - 10
No - 0
- Conclusion - I have found from my questionaire that every person that i gave the questionaire to thought that my double page spread was easy to read and understand. This is important as if you cant understand the main double page spread what is the point in buying the magazine.
9. What could i have improved on?
Made the writing bolder - 8
Nothing - 1
Could have got less obvious pictures - 1
- Conclusion - Most people that i have gave this questionaire to have said that i could have improved by making the writing bolder. Other things that they said i could improve on is that i could have chosen less obvious pictures and one perosn said i didnt need to improve on anything.
10. Do you think i have enough coverline for a typical pop magazine?
Yes - 8
No - 2
- Conclusion - Out of the 10 people that i asked to fill in this questionaire said that there was enough coverline, but two people disagreed and said that there wasnt enough.
11. Are the coverline that i have chose appropriate for a pop magazine?
Yes - 9
No - 1
- Conclusion - From my questionaire 9 people said that the coverline where appropriate for a pop magazine, however 1 person said that they wasnt.
Main Task- Task 16
1. Do you like my final product?
2. Do you think that my front cover, contents page and double page spread link together in a postitive way?
3. If yes, how do they link together?
4. What do you dislike about my product if anything?
5. What do you like about my product if anything?
6. Do you think that the colours that i have used are appropriate for the genre of magazine it is?
7. Do you think that i have used appropriate images for the content that i have on the contents page and double page spread?
8. Was my double page spread article easy to read and understand?
9. What could i have improved on?
10. Do you think i have enough coverline for a typical pop magazine?
11. Are the coverline that i have chose appropriate for a pop magazine?
2. Do you think that my front cover, contents page and double page spread link together in a postitive way?
3. If yes, how do they link together?
4. What do you dislike about my product if anything?
5. What do you like about my product if anything?
6. Do you think that the colours that i have used are appropriate for the genre of magazine it is?
7. Do you think that i have used appropriate images for the content that i have on the contents page and double page spread?
8. Was my double page spread article easy to read and understand?
9. What could i have improved on?
10. Do you think i have enough coverline for a typical pop magazine?
11. Are the coverline that i have chose appropriate for a pop magazine?
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
First Drafts;
These are the first drafts of my main task, i have made alterations to my front cover, contents page and my double page spread. With my double page spread i found that my text and my images where not equal. Also my double page spread did not follow the typical conventions of magazines.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
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