Audience feedback. Q.5

5. Which technical skills in Photoshop/InDesign could be improved?

Audience feedback. Q.4

4. What could be improved in the music magazine?

Audience feedback. Q.3

3. Which element or elements of the magazine do you  like?

Audience feedback. Q.2

2. How are the models represented throughout the magazine?

·         Is their any stereo-types?

·         Is their a range of different ethnicities

·         Male/ female?

·         Is it for young people?

·         Are fans of particular music portray in a certain way?

Audience feedback. Q.1

1. Who are the target audience?

·         Lifestyle

·         Age

·         Gender

·         Social class

·         Hobbies

·         Musical genre

Music magazine: front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Location photography

I decided to take some outside location pictures to include in my magazine. One is of other new upcoming artist and the other is mannequins  representing the winter fashion advertised in my magazine.

Photography: In the studio with my model

This photo was taken for the front cover of the magazine, I wanted to make my upcoming artist look into the camera so it would be as if she is loooking straight at the audience (viewers). I might not use this picture because she doesnt look happy in this photo. The whole point of the main image is to attract the audience, therefore she has to look welcoming and attractive.



I would be using this picture for my front cover as the main image. I think this picture looks professional because she is looking directly into the camera even though she is in a pose. also, she is smiling at the camera which is welcoming and would get the target audience to buy the magazine. In researching music magazines, I realised that the celebrities always look as if they are rich or have power so I choose the costume to be a fur coat. The effect the camera and lighting made on the white back drop inhances the picture quality.




I started taking pictures for my double page spread, my idea was to have many different pictures of the celebrity in different positions (poses). i think my model looked nice in this picture but the white drop back ground ruined the quality of the picture. In the making of the magazine I would crop my model in photoshop. 

This is a sample of what my pictures would look like if I crop out the creases that are being shown on the white back drop in the photography when edited in Photoshop.

 

Production schedule

Masthead: Improved

I changed my masthead font, style and colour for my front cover of the music magazine because it didnt go with my theme, and my peers said that it didnt go with my main image on my magazine. The masthead that was used before was to masculine and more or a grime genre magazine than a Hip-Hop magazine, the main image was really professional and high quality but the masthead in bubble writting made it look cheap which is not worth the amount of money my target audience would be paying. Also, looking back at my Hip-Hop magazine research this wasn't a coventional thing.

Plan: Front cover

I started to plan what I would put on my front cover of my magazine when I start designing it because it would make thing easy for my aslo I ask my peers if i have good ideas for my cover lines

Double page spread

Contents page

Front cover

Photoshoot Ideas: for my music magazine

I did research about what poses my model can do for my magazine when I am ready to do my photoshoot. I have a range of ideas but I just chose to show a few ideas so far. This is a range of ideas for my contents and double page spread.

Ideas for my music magazine

These are the magazine idea's I found relating to Hip-Hop magazines. I found ideas for a front cover, Contents page and a Double page spread. I would be using this research to help me make my magazine look realistic.

Call sheet:

Vancia Fenton Photographer

Photo Shoot assignment / Call sheet

 

 

Date: Monday 12^th November 2012                              Timeline:

 

Time: 10:15– 11:25am                                                        10:15am: Meet in media block and

                                                                                                      Check everyone is in the right attire

Assignment: Photo Shoot assignment                                              

 

Location: College Studio & Outside                                            10:15pm: Shoot Time

 

Photographer:                                                                                   11:25pm: Shoot finished

Vancia Fenton

MUA:

 

 

 Stylist:   Vancia Fenton                                                Concept model one: need to have a cool sense of

                                                                                            style it need to wear a fur coat and a party dress. 

                                                                                  Concept model one: need to have a cool sense     

                                                                                  style. jeans shirts hats (look like it a winter season).

 

Model 1: Eronside

Model 2: Sheena

Model 3: Nahida

 

Special Instructions:

Bring a statement piece of clothing.

Magazine front cover: starting

This is my main image for my front cover. in lesson today, I took a wide, head and shoulders shot but I cropped it smaller to use in my magazine as a front cover. My next step is to add the coverlines and masthead. I think this image works well because of the brown fur coat which shows class and the black leather jacket and red lip stick helps to give the hiphop artist appearance.

Presentation

This is a short clip of my housestyle that I was presenting to the media class, talking bout my ideas for my music magazine.

Powerpoint of my magazine

http://www.slideshare.net/VanciaFenton

In my feedback my classmates said:

Newsstand task

 

 

· I went Tesco and took a photo of the music magazine section. They are displayed at the top of the magazine newsstand but each magazine article has its own space so it allows the target audience to see the whole magazine cover without having to move anything.

· There weren’t many music magazines in the store but from what I discovered I realized the same is all filled up the magazine cover.

· The masthead in each magazine is bold, big and in capital letters. Also, the color of the masthead stands out from the background color of the magazine front cover.

· The cover lines are written on the left third of the magazine front cover. There are always at least 3 cover lines but they normally have 5 max.

· On the front cover there is only one centre image and it takes over most of the front cover of the magazine.

 

Evaluation: For student magazine

Evaluation:

Whilst making my student magazine, I think my photography went well because, I was able to take a multiple of pictures from different shot angles / types, and every picture I took went according to my student magazine plan. In my plan I wanted to have a picture of a male student that plays basketball to be my front cover. I was able to take a mid-shot of a boy holding a basketball in a sports wear kit as my front cover. Then I took a mid-shot of the boy shooting the ball into the net and placed it on the contents page. However, I needed to take more picture of other things relating to the college because it not a sports magazine. So I decided to take a wide shot image of the entrance of Leyton Sixth Form College. I also, took a shot of another student revising and completing working in the library.

I didn't really manipulate my images on PhotoShop, I only cropped and made my images smaller so they could all fit on the page.

I think my layout worked really well because I had enough space to include everything that I suggested in my plan. My front cover was made in PhotoShop, on the front cover I made the main image the background and had the cover lines on the left hand side of the magazine. But I had a slogan saying "commit to be fit" near the bottom of the magazine. I placed the bar code on the bottom left of the page, and the Facebook / Twitter links advertising my magazine. My contents page was made in InDesign, on my contents page I drew guide lines so my text doesn't go over to the side I wanted have my pictures. Also I drew a guide line for my contents page title so that if I was to increase the size it wouldn't affect my contents information or images. On the left hand side the headings with sort description what would be inside my magazine, I did this so my target audience (college students) can have a brief understanding about what my magazine is about, without having to read it all. The images I took with a camera I placed them on the right. The images are another way of letting my target knows what my magazine is all about but from a visual aspect.

My Masthead is called "LSC" which stands for Leyton Sixth Form College. I thought this was a good title because the magazine is for Leyton college students and it is short, simple and easy to read. Also my target audience would know what LSC stands for straight away without me having to give them a definition. I didn't use image manipulation but I used it on the masthead. I did this by using a PhotoShop shop tool called "    ", I then when further to changing the angle. This allowed me to make my magazine look more attractive and my masthead stand out and catch the target audience’s eyes. My masthead was in capital, white, bold letters. I used the font called "     " in PhotoShop because I thought it was simple but had a bit of a style to it and I didn't want my masthead to take away the attraction from my main image, which this font helped me to do.

 On my front page of my magazine I had cover line on the left side of the magazine saying "enter competitions…" and “trip to New York...” and “healthy eating...” I was trying to advertise a wide range of different events / things happening in the college. I thought by putting a competition of going to a big city like New York on the front cover, would allow me to have more students interested into my magazine because everyone always has an interest in America. Plus it would be seen as a mini holiday from all the hard work they have been doing.

I didn't write a lot like an article but I think my journalistic style of writing went really well, because I didn't use slang and I have the correct grammar and punctuation in the appropriate places. Also I didn't make my brief paragraphs under each sub-heading on my contents page seem as a story. 

If I was to make any improvements on my magazine front cover it would be,

• I would take the picture again but have the individual against a white background
• Add more of a stylish writing to my cover lines

Also, on my contents page I would improve

• Add more colour because it was  bit plain.

The three key points for development when producing the main task (music magazine) are:

• Making sure the individual in my photography is standing in a plain n background because that takes away the attraction from my magazine front cover.
• Add more colours to my front cover and contents pages attract my target audience eyes to my magazine.
• I would make sure I focus on the target audience because they would be the ones buying my magazine.

Student magazine contents page

Student magazine front cover

 

This is my student magazine front cover. I did my own photography and I follwed my creation from my plan.

 

Student magazine plan preview

This is a drawn up version of what my student magazine plan and contents page would look like.

Plan for magazine

Plan:

Cover front page: LCS

·         On the front cover of my magazine it would be a boy with a football “commit to be fit”

·         Cover lines of different things happening in the school

·         Competitions & prizes

·         The colour theme would be blue, white and yellow

Contents page: LCS

·         interview

·         Universities

·         Money

·         Achievements

·         Trips

·         Competitions

Case study: pg1

Case study: pg2

Case study: pg3

Case study: pg4

Case study: pg5

Media kit (Vibe magazine)

The audience was adults males and females, 55% of males like it and 45% females it. This is a 10% difference. The different isn’t as big compared to other magazine media kits. In my magazine, I aimed at males and females which helped me to have a wide target audience. In the different age ranges 21+ was the most popular with 82% therefore I thought this would be a good reason to make my audience a little bit younger starting from 16+ which would make my magazine more popular in the media. Being employed was more popular than being in college that’s why I aimed mine at the working class because they would be able to afford my magazine monthly. Black/African American was 75% but the other ethnicities failed to even make it passed 16%. Therefore I made my model for my front cover have the same ethnicity because that was the main attraction,I think this is popular for the Hip-Hop genre.

Evaluation

Evaluation: Illegal downloading

In my research I found highlighting facts and figures in the information sheet and breaking down the information by annotation along the side was my strength. Also searching on the internet for more facts and quotes by celebrities to help me write my article because I didn’t struggle while doing this task also, I worked independently while trying to find out useful information which was all related to my topic “illegal downloading”. However, I found trying to decide what is most important and least important as my weakness because I thought that the facts I found out about was all very strong point but I didn’t want my article to drag on so I had to not include some of my research. Another weakness was finding statistics to back up the facts giving it was really hard to find this so I didn’t have many to show in my article.

The strengths in my journalistic and writing skills were my punctuation and grammar. Also my facts and statistics were orderly placed on each page. But when asking some of my peers for any adjustments / improvement they said I need to make the second page paragraphs into a more neat and tidy Colum so it would have the effect of an article and not an essay.

The skills I have learnt in InDesign were making your paragraphs/text into columns. Even though I didn’t use this skill I learnt how to make a picture be your background for the layout of the article and have the text be seen on top of it. My weakness was finding space to place my picture without them being tiny because I had some much text but instead I used pages to create my article.

I have not yet been able to publish my blog as the network does not allow me to.

When asking my peers (Monique & Eron) how I could make my article better they said, the layout of the magazine on the second page doesn’t match the standards of the first page. They said I could do this by editing the columns on the second page and the placing the pictures in different parts of the page.

My set targets for improvement are:

·         Add colour so it attracts the target audience’s eyes.

·         I think if I was to have the chance to make this better I would take away the picture of the skull with the headphones on because I think it doesn’t looking appealing there which may of gave me more space.

·         Make the title in a different style type of writing.

·         Adding more statistics by looking at more of a range of websites on the internet.

Illegal download article