Production Diary

WEEK 3:

This week we were finishing off our preliminary task of creating our school publication. Since last week where I started to create my magazine flat plan, I have now finished my magazine's front cover and contents page. From looking at my front cover and contents page of my school magazine, which I titled 'Harris Girls' Good News' I am very happy at the way it has turned out, especially as it was my first time producing a magazine; I now cannot wait to start our main task of producing music magazines, hopefully by that time I would of learnt how to use different features and make it look much better than my school magazine. I think I reached my target demographics, this is because my target I tried to reach, which was a variety of an audience, including school students (preferably girls, as it's a girl’s school), teachers, sixth formers (boys and girls) and lastly the community. I thought community was a good demographic to target, as a school plays a massive part in the community, from activities to reputation; a school should help out in the community and bring the community closer, this is why I tried to target them in my magazine. From my original plan and mentioning it in my production diary in week 2, instead of keeping the colours to a variety of blues, I tried to add in additional colours, such as reds and purples. I used red and blue mainly as it’s a neutral colour that doesn't just target a specific identity in the demographics, as well as using purple to stand out on top of the other colours.

The next thing I am planning is to hopefully start my two page spread for my school magazine, as well as to start my main task and research into it. I am really excited to start my main task as soon as possible as I feel I am ready to get started and show more technique in my upcoming production of the magazine, now that I have learnt doing these things in my preliminary task.