This is a video/movie I have made in IMovie which inlcudes 3 different Insititutions and their magazines and contents. I have learnt of target audiences, the frquency and other events and how many copies they sell a month. This has helped me to decide that I like the idea of a rock genre magazine that is a weekly issue.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Music Magazine - Double Page Spread Analysis
This is an image of a double page spread that I have found in an NME magazine. I have analysed the good and bad points about it and have now got a feel of what a main feature double page spread looks like.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Music Magazine - Research - Cover Analysis
These are rock music magazine covers that i have analysed:
One:
Two:
Three:
By doing this research I have found out the effects of images, captions, logos, etc. I now know what I would like to include on my magazine in terms of layout and style. I know what types of colours are used when associating with the rock genre and will be sure to use these.
Sunday, 16 October 2011
Music Magazine - Research - Magazine Annotation
In my media class, we all cut front cover pages and double page spreads of magazines and stuck them onto a giant piece of paper where we annotated them with all the different techniques and effects that each cut out had. This has helped me to know what to include in my own magazine and what looks best.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Music Magazine - Research - History Of Music Magazines
This is a presentation showing the history of music magazines:
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Music Magazine - Research - Front Covers
These are some music magazine covers i have found on google;
From this I have learnt what music magazines look like and I have some ideas of which I like best and what components of each that I like and dislike in each cover. It has helped me to look at different genres and will help me to take the step of deiding which genre I would like to use for my own magazine.
Friday, 7 October 2011
School Magazine - Final Product
These are images of the final product of my school Magazine;
Cover
Contents Page
This is where I have put all of my research and planning together and made a fully finished school magazine cover and contents page in my own interpretation.
Sunday, 2 October 2011
School Magazine - Evaluation
When making my school magazine, as my priliminary task, i followed a brief. This brief was to make a school magazine cover and a contents page with a selection of pictures and text's to be on it. The audience was for the parents of the students and students themselves to see what had been going on in the school month.
Before starting, i conducted some research. I firstly went on google images and found a range of different school magazine covers so i could get an idea of what was already out there and what they looked like. I used a couple of these to make make a poster with my media class. We stuck a few onto a big sheet of paper and wrote down the good points and bad points about each one. This helped me to get an idea of what i should and shouldnt do in my own magazine.
Next, i created two different word documents; one for a plan of my magazine cover and the other of a plan for my contents page. These were basic outlines and texts to show where everything was going and what i was going to include on them. This helped me greatly when making the actual cover and contents. This also got me into taking photos to be used on them and deciding exactly what stories i wanted to use on the magazine.
The next stage was making them on a programme called Pages. I used a colour scheme of blue, green, yellow and white (as they are in the school's logo) and red for the title to make it bold for the audience clearly see what the magazine was called. I added the images that i had taken and completed my cover page and contents page with the use of the plans i had done previously. The main problem that i came across was that I thought I was using too many colours, so i made sure to put an almost equal amount of each colours on the pages so they wouldn't look too crowded with colour. I managed to make the two pages look like a set with the use of the same texts and some pictures as well as the colour scheme used.
To find out what other people thought of my cover and contents pages, I asked for some feedback from a person from my media class, to see from a students point of view, and my mother, to see from a parents point of view. My classmate liked the use of the colours and pictures used as they were thought to be a good combination, however some unimportant parts , such as part of a picture, seemed to stand out and made the page look overpowering. My mum said that she loved the different fonts i used and the story headlines, she thought them to be interesting and made her want to read them. On the other hand, she thought there was a little too much white and made some of it look unfilled.
I will be using this feedback i have collected if i need to improve my school magazine at a later date.
Before starting, i conducted some research. I firstly went on google images and found a range of different school magazine covers so i could get an idea of what was already out there and what they looked like. I used a couple of these to make make a poster with my media class. We stuck a few onto a big sheet of paper and wrote down the good points and bad points about each one. This helped me to get an idea of what i should and shouldnt do in my own magazine.
Next, i created two different word documents; one for a plan of my magazine cover and the other of a plan for my contents page. These were basic outlines and texts to show where everything was going and what i was going to include on them. This helped me greatly when making the actual cover and contents. This also got me into taking photos to be used on them and deciding exactly what stories i wanted to use on the magazine.
The next stage was making them on a programme called Pages. I used a colour scheme of blue, green, yellow and white (as they are in the school's logo) and red for the title to make it bold for the audience clearly see what the magazine was called. I added the images that i had taken and completed my cover page and contents page with the use of the plans i had done previously. The main problem that i came across was that I thought I was using too many colours, so i made sure to put an almost equal amount of each colours on the pages so they wouldn't look too crowded with colour. I managed to make the two pages look like a set with the use of the same texts and some pictures as well as the colour scheme used.
To find out what other people thought of my cover and contents pages, I asked for some feedback from a person from my media class, to see from a students point of view, and my mother, to see from a parents point of view. My classmate liked the use of the colours and pictures used as they were thought to be a good combination, however some unimportant parts , such as part of a picture, seemed to stand out and made the page look overpowering. My mum said that she loved the different fonts i used and the story headlines, she thought them to be interesting and made her want to read them. On the other hand, she thought there was a little too much white and made some of it look unfilled.
I will be using this feedback i have collected if i need to improve my school magazine at a later date.
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