Completed Music Magazine

Evaluation: Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The layout out my magazine has changed drastically as in my preliminary task I have not thought about how the photograph should be positioned, and it looks quite messy as the text is placed quite randomly which means I have a lot of spaces. I have learnt to structure the text with the help of guidelines as I wanted it to look professional and neat, the picture is better positioned as it is now the main focus of the magazine cover.

My college magazine's picture isn't a good quality as it is slightly blurred whereas my music magazine photo is a high quality as I used and SLR camera which meant I could focus and zoom this helped to make the picture clear. In the preliminary task I didn't understand how to portray the college genre through techniques such as mise-en-scene to have improved the college I could of added props like a backpack or books, I learnt to portray the rock genre in my music magazine through costume and makeup.

I started to think about how the use of colours and font sizes can help the way a magazine looks. I have learnt that font sizes and fonts can show the magazines genre for example the masthead is a good rock font. I have used a big font for my artist name as this is the biggest feature inside and is the text that should first attract the audience thus showing I have an understanding of font sizes.

The layout of my music magazine is better structured that the college magazine as I have placed my text in a straight column rather than turning the page stories different ways like I did in the preliminary task.

The text font for my college magazine looks childlike and slightly girly whereas I have learnt that the font reflects the genre so for my music magazine I used a bold impact font to make it stand out and create a sense of urgency.

There is a lot of blank space on my preliminary task, I have learnt that you need to fill space and make the most of the space you have by including extra pictures or text, by filling the page it looks more professional.

The college magazine photos were taken in a rush and although they show college photos they don't necessarily look good, I now know that it is important to think about mise en scene  which I have done for my music magazine, I have included props like a guitar and the clothes on the model reflect the rock genre.

Evaluation: Question 6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have used Blogger to show the process in how I learnt about making a magazine and then actually creating my own music magazine and then evaluating my work. After each lesson I would upload a new post to show what I had done in class that day so that it can show the progress I have made.

I have used Prezi in my Magazine production and Evaluation.

I have used Flickr to talk about media distribution for my magazine evaluation.

 I have used an SLR camera to take the photographs for my music magazine this helped as my pictures were better quality and I could zoom and focus.

I used photoshop to create my music magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.

I have used iShowU in my Research and Planning and Evaluation as I needed to go through my blog to highlight what i have done/used.

I have used iPhoto to download my photographs to the computer and select the ones I want to keep.

Evalation: Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/address your audience? on Prezi

Evaluation: Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product? Why?

I have drawn a person who represents the target audience of my magazine, I think she is the type of person who would buy my magazine as she seems to be quite creative (takes media at university) and would be a fan of music as she has hobbies such as DJ-ing so the audience will typically have an interest in music. I think the audience would wear typical darker and trendy fashion clothes as this would reflect the genre of music they like which would be rock in this case. The typical age for my magazine would be 18-28 years old so she fits into this age range and would purchase a magazine like mine as it suits the age range tastes and provides the things they would like to appear.

Evaluation: Question 3 - What kind of media instiution might distribute your product and why?

Please click on the images to be taken to Flickr.



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