question 7

Q7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

For the AS media preliminary task we were asked to produce a front cover and also a contents page for a college student magazine.

for my front cover of my college magazine I created a mind map of ideas that I would focus on when producing my work, I thought of the use of colours and photographs what locations I would take be taking the photographs at, what content I would include and a name for the magazine

when shooting the cover photo I thought about using the 'rule of thirds' and were the location would be so I took the photos in front of the college sign, which was at the front of the college, to show what the magazine was about and what would be included. But on my student magazine I didn't think about any of the main conventions of the magazine and so I made no edits to it and just imbedded it onto the cover. but after realising this on my music magazine cover photo I focused more on how it would apply to the codes and conventions of magazines and my chosen genre. The differences from my college magazine photo to the one on my music magazine will be the fact my music magazine cover photo is more close up it has been edited so that it is black and white and applies to the conventions of the magazine. on my front cover photo of both magazines I used mise-en-scene to help show the genre of the magazine for example on my college magazine I used props such as note books because I felt as though these would help show what the magazine was about and help show how it targeted the students, where as on my music magazine I had my model smoking a fag as the rock genre are more rebels so this showed the social group perfectly.

 

on my college magazine the design of it was very rushed and was not planed out very well, the texts and puffs and plugs came out very plane and didn't really look appealing, were as on my music magazine I made a flat plan on how it was going to be lade out, I followed the flat plan and once I looked at the finale out come of the draft I then changed text fonts and moved them around the screen, and instead of just using a plane text I edited mine by adding drop shadows and so on.

 

to conclude I feel as though I have learnt perspective of what a magazine looks like and how to follow the codes and conventions produced in different genres. I also feel as though I learnt that just changing small parts to a piece of text or an image on my front cover can make a huge different when using InDesign to create a product.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

question 6

questions 4 & 5

Question 4 and question 5

Q4. Who would be the target audience for your media product?

 

The chosen audience I chose for my magazine, being under the genre of rock and indie, are young adults ages 15-25. They can be men or women as they are both equally and they share the same interests. You will find that the people I am targeting my rock magazine at are people who like to rebel and be different they like to stand out from the rest and they all fit in the same social group together. The style that they dress can either be quite dark or even indie as it is short for individual so they tend to were what they feel comfortable in. when researching what my chosen target audience is and what they would watch on TV I found that they will most likely be interested in TV series such as the imbertweeners as most teens and young adults would like because it represents rebellion the same as misfits. But I found they would be interested in things supernatural like the vampire diaries or the walking dead.

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?                  

 

I addressed my target audience with the front cover by using the use of the colours showing the colours of the social group and also by having the artist on the front smoking it shows the rebellion of this chosen genre making the target audience be more understood as there favourite artist rebels to. My magazine will include some of the music that this social group is into for example slipknot, 30 seconds to mars and it will include some of the old rock music as this can be seen as when rock was at its best and what they are interested in. I have used images in my work like on the double page spread of the artist not looking at the camera to make it seem more mysterious and individual unlike different magazines were the artist will look directly at the camera looking at other double page spreads from existing magazines I found that rock magazines will differ in how odd or strange the picture looks were as in pop magazines the artist looks very posed like a model .

question 3

question 2

question 1

finale double page spread

here is my finale double page spread. I have made many changes to my double page spread as I found the layout of the article and spacing wrong. I made the text smaller so that the article fit in two columns instead of it partly filling the third column I also did this as the text was to big for the conventions of an article in a music magazine. within the pull quotes I made sure there were quotation marks I also made sure that around the pull quotes that the spacing of were the text went around was equal. I aligned the photographs with the question air so that the spacing down both sides of this column were equal. I changed the angle of the word 'EXCLUSIVE' on the left page of the double page spread as it did not fit with the image. one thing I could improve on was making sure that the article did not have so many dashes between words because the words were to big or there was not enough space.