Saturday, 12 March 2011
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?
I feel that from doing the music task from the preliminary task I have improved loads. I feel that the change in work and the prestation of my work has improved to a new level. As you can see when look at the front covers that I have done for the first task and the music magazine the improvement is big. On the first task when creating the title for the student magazine I used word art because that was the only way that I felt I could create the title for the magazine. However when creating the music magazine I learnt that you could use da fonts to get the style of font that you wanted. Then when I got the style of font that I want to use I paint to create the colour in the title and the background behind the title of the magazine. In the preliminary task I used two photographs as the background for my student magazine, which looking back know made the magazine look a bit confusing as the same girl was on both of the photographs that I had used for the cover. When I did the music magazine I put one photograph as the entire background which I feel makes the magazine look more professional. I also when looking at my front cover the improvement that I made was using bright colour texts and in some areas of the magazine I would put a bright colour background. When I made the student magazine front cover I put the information on the cover in word art and left the information in certain places. I put the master heading at the top of the page , the price in the right side of the page and the issue below the master heading. With the music magazine I put the master on one side and below that I put the price. With the cover lines I put them around the page, I also made sure that the cover lines weren’t covering any of the girls faces.
I feel in the first task I was unsure in the way to presented may work; also I feel that I didn’t have the skills to make my work looking professional. When I did my preliminary task the quality of the photographs I was taken was poor quality and I found that the photographs looked a bit blur. In the music magazine task the quality of my photograph taken has improved to make the photographs look very professionally. I feel the reason for my photographs improving in quality is because I have gained more practice in take the standard of photographs that I need for a magazine. I feel that I have learnt how to mix the colours to make the colours right for my target audience I feel that in the preliminary task I was too unsure of what to do. In the first task I was putting the work together without really think about where I should put the photographs or the texts, where as in the second task I felted that I could try different methods of creating the pages. I felted more confident in trying different colours together and putting the texts in different ways over the page. I feel that in the second task I could put the texts in colour and try out different methods with the text to make the text stand out on the page.
The improvements that I have made to my contents page are that I have put on my music magazine is a welcoming message from the editor and a photograph of myself. The welcome message was not my contents page, but I decided to add the welcome message to create and change the way my contents page looked. I felted the welcome message add to my page the look of a professional had created the page. In the preliminary task I had just put the word contents that I had create in word art. However when I created the music magazine contents page I not only put on the same master heading that I had put on my front cover. I also used da fonts to create the style of font that I wanted to use and then I went to paint and put a colour background behind the word. When I did one of the first drafts you will see that I had the colour pink behind the word contents, but I change the colour blue to make sure that my contents page wasn’t pink all the way through the page. I have also progressed on my contents page in the fact that instead of using one column of contents I have used to columns. On the first task I used the colour black when writing out the contents page. When I created the music magazine contents page I put the headings in a dark pink and the actually contents in a light purple. I feel when comparing the two contents pages that the music magazine contents page is huge improvement to the student magazines contents page. With the music magazine I feel that I was more experienced in how to create a contents page and feel that I learnt how I need to make the magazine look professional.
When I did the preliminary task we didn’t create a double page spread, so haven’t made improvements on the first page that I have create. However when creating my double page spread for my music magazine I used the improvements that I had made on my other pages to steer me in the right direction for creating a double page spread. When creating my double page spread I used things that I had learnt when creating my front cover and contents page to help me create a professional looking double page spread. When creating my double page spread I used the same master heading from my other pages. With the name of the Candy Girls as the group of the band I wanted to make it stand out from the page. When I was creating ideas for how to make the name Candy Girls stand out I started of with putting colours in the letter and having a colour background. However I made the decision when was creating the double page spread to make the name Candy Girls in to a black colour and to have the name in bold. Then behind the name I decided to have dark pink behind to make the name stand out on the page. With actually article I put the question in a dark pink, so that it was easier for the reader to see what the questions are. The band contains four girls, so I gave each girl a colour so that the reader could understand who was giving the answer. Also when the girl was answering a question I put the name of the girl at the side. (Zoe, Jade, Sarah and Chrissies.) At the started of the double page and the end of the page I put a welcome message and a goodbye message. When I first created the page I didn’t have this messages, but I decided to make the magazine look more professional I should add these messages. I put a main image of the group together and then on the image I put the name of Candy Girls in a dark pink and then I put a quote in white that one of the girls say. (“We have been the best of friends ever since.”) In the last column of the double page spread I have filled the page up with photographs of the group of girls. If I created the double page spread in the first task I believe that it would not look as good as my double page spread looks know.
I feel that the doing the preliminary task helped me to see how the pages need to be created for my music magazine. I feel that when I was doing the music magazine I was trying different styles to create the prefect balance. I feel that my work has improved since I did the preliminary task. When looking back at the preliminary task I feel that by doing the task I could see what I need to do to create a good magazine and could learn some new techniques to make a magazine.
Friday, 11 March 2011
Evaluation question 3
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Which institutions already publish magazines like yours?
The institutions that publish a similar magazine are Top of the Pops and Pop magazine. These two magazines already publish a magazine that would be very similar to Poptastic magazine. However I do feel that there is a small gap in the market for a magazine like Poptastic because the magazine will offer a different look at the Pop music. The Poptastic will offer are readers a brand new ways to look at the topics that will be are magazine.
Popstar magazine is a similar magazine to the magazine that I have created. Popstar magazine offers a inside look at the life of famous stars in the world today. The magazine not only looks at the life of the famous stars in Britain, but also the stars in America like Taylor lautner, Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato.
Teen Now magazine looks at the life of the celebrities and it offers a wide range of interviews from the stars. Teen now magazine is similar to my magazine because it looks at the life of music stars and sees what the music stars are doing at the moment. The magazine also offers fashion pages and movies reviews on the movies that are coming out. However teen now offers the look into movies stars as well, where as my magazine focus on music.
Bliss is a magazine that offers gossip about the stars whether they are in the music or acting. Also my magazine offers pages on fashion and any problems that girls might be facing like the Bliss magazine. Poptastic also offers the reader a looking into reviews on movies, books and albums just like the Bliss magazine.
Top of the Pop magazine gives the reader an inside look at the life of the music stars today Top of the Pop magazine offers the reader exclusive interviews with the stars and a chance to look at the stars lives. The magazine tells the reader about the albums and singles that are out at the time of the magazine. Top of the pop magazine is vary similar to Poptastic magazine because both magazines are based around Pop music and the stars that sing Pop music.
Why would a company want to distribute your magazine?
A company would want to distribute my magazine because my magazine would bring the company that was selling my magazine more income and would make the company more profit. Once my magazine Poptastic is out the market teenagers between 13 and 15 are going to want to buy the poptastic. The company will also want to distribute my magazine because it will offer a wide ranger of Pop bands and artistes. My magazine will offer fans of the artist a look into the life of the person or persons to see what their life’s are like. I really feel that my magazine Poptastic will be really good investment for another company because it gives the teenage girl the information they are looking for. The company will be glad to sell my magazine because I feel that my magazine could compete to down with the magazines that are on sell at the moment, for example Popstar and Top of the Pops.
Evaluation question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Which social groups have you represented?
The social group that I have represented in my music magazine is teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15. Also my music magazine will appeal to female teenagers. The music group I have represented in my music magazine is Pop fans.
How have you represented them?
I have represented teenagers in my magazine between the ages 13 and 15 because I have used bright colours and really girl colours. The colours that I used for my music magazine were dark blue, light blue, purple, dark pink, and light pink and white. The langue that I used for my music magazine was kept simple, so that the teenagers would be able to understand the magazine. The amount of images to texts on my front cover was I had one photograph that covered the entire front cover. My front cover text was placed around the image in short sentences or just one or two words. The text would also be in colour that wasn’t black. The text boxes were also had a bright colour put behind the text, to make the text stand out to the person looking at the magazine. My contents page has two columns of writing that is spread out. The writing has headings in one colour and the information in a different colour. I have editors message in the top Corner of the contents page, this is a short paragraph welcoming the readers to the magazine. I have also put an image next to the editor’s message. Down the middle of the contents page I have put images of the bands and artist my magazine contains. My double page spread has a main image in the bottom left hand Conner and then in the last column of my double page spread I have put five small pictures of the girls in Candy Girls. The text in my article is a lot of writing, so to make the writing seem less I have put the text at the beginning and end of my article is in one colour. The members of the Candy Girls each have their own colour representing each girl. This way the reader will not only be able to establish the person who is talking by the name, but also by the colour that the girl uses. The double page is bright because I wanted to catch the reader’s eye when they are reading the magazine article.
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