Diary Entry: week 9

Working towards the FINAL MAGAZINE DEADLINE

This week I have been intensively working on my media magazine at every opportunity including staying behind on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday after school.

The Main task for the Mondaywas to rethink and recheck my work making sure that my new improved magazine looked proffesional enough for goign towards the final draft. I planned to take some more photos of Hannah on Thursday again in order to find a different photo to give my work photo divesity. 

The photos themselves i was reallly impressed with because the lighting was different creating a difrent look from the photo giving them the extra edge to be able to use in my DPS. I took various levels of close up on different angles and tried using different themes. In the end I went with the 'Rolling' part of my DPS. In the end I chose a very 60's pose but close up and to a sided angle still allowing me to keep Adeles usual facial pose but adding in her fun and bubbly persnality. However this photo took some selecting which took over 2 days and about 5 favourites but by using my opinions allong with peer feedback I feel that I have selected the right one.  

I have also added numbers to the photos on my contents page and made sure that the contents page didn't have to many fonts. The week finished with another list made of things that I needed to change at the begining of next week.

Diary Entry: week 6

Construction begins!

This week I started to use photoshop to construct my magazine pages for the majority of the week I was working on the layout of the three pages. Once the pages were fully layed out I began to do some extra research for photos which was narrowed and information was fed into my photo planning grid. I also used my  sketched ideas as well as my existing magazine analysis of Q to work out what layout worked when inserting it into the Photoshop 4 software.
The thing which I managed to spend the most time on this week was trying to create a 'ALTERNAE' logo for my magazine with a wrongly slanting T, however when te calenge became to much I scraped the idea.   

Diary Entry: week 5

Magazine designing has begun!

For the majority of this week I have been working on designing my magazine by drawing out deigns on A4 paper. Before I started drawing the final designs I looked back ove my initial ideas to try and put all of my ideas together in my head before putting pen to paper. 

By the time the ideas where sorted in my head I had chose Q as my style model and my cover artist was going to be Adele. My colour scheme is going to be red, grey and white to give it a proffesional and slick look.

When starting to sketch out the pages which I envisaged in my mind I also designed the magazine logo and sketched out photo ideas before researching poses used before to portray the arists as I knew it will influence what I thought was appropriate, therefore creating more ideas for my photographic compositions. I then created 3 A4 full designs for contents page, Double page spread and front cover. All 3 pages where then scanned into the computer and uploaded to my Blog.    

Diary Entry: Week 3

Febuary half term

Over the last week I completed constructing my questionnaire and have then send it out electronically to my targeted selection. I selected my selection across the alphabet and tried to be as un bias as I could by selecting even amounts of females and males. I decided to use this as my sampling tactic to make sure I got a balanced and realistic response representing as close to what my target audience think as possible.  I have completed my initial research however my photocopier is broken however as soon as half term is over I will scan my work into the computer and upload it straight to my blog. 

Whilst waiting for results of my audience research I have selected 3 magazines, NME, Q and Uncut, and have began to analyse each one. I have also been working out what the last 2 magazines I will be analysing. At the moment I am deciding between choosing between classic rock and rolling stone or using one of those and then a contrasting music magazine.

Diary entry: week 2

Research

Since I last wrote I have been looking at a wide range of music magazines allowing me to get a wider understanding and pre knowledge of what I would be producing. Whilst looking at the magazines we picked out codes and conventions which appeared on and within the magazines, focusing specifically on the front page, contents and double page spreads.

After understanding what a music magazine entailed I created an initial ideas task in mind map form where I wrote down all of my ideas focusing on: layout, colour, subject matter, names and photography. I have also started to create a questionnaire which will include minimum of 20 questions enabling me to understand what truly makes a good music magazine. I have also selected which 5 magazines I shall be analysing for my codes and conventions write up and research. They shall all relate to my views on music magazines and the target audience highlighted in my initial ideas as the most popular and reflect my views on music magazines. However I shall also include a magazine which does not relate to my target audience allowing me to compare the differences therefore allowing me to get a wider understanding of the possibilities I can include in my final product.  

Diary entry: week 1

The preliminary task. 

Over the last week I have been working on my Preliminary task to create my own school magazine.

My first task was to research already existing school magazines and analyse the codes and conventions in which they used. I analysed 5 magazines: the front covers and contents page. In that week I also drew out my plan of how my contents and front cover should look using colours. These two pages I scanned into the computer and uploaded to my Blog.

After that I took my photos for the front cover and my contents title using my own camera. I then created the front cover and contents page on Photoshop. When finished I exported the final product as a JPEG file so I could upload onto my Blog. Which I am currently finishing the evaluation which will complete my preliminary task.