Friday, 14 February 2014
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Evaluation Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?
In whats ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Evaluation Question 3 - What media institutions would distribute your media product and why?
What media institutions would distribute your media product and why?
Evaluation Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
This shows a clear overview of the results from my research survey, which shows mainly females underwent my survey while there were very few males that took it. This tells me that females would be my main audience, as looking at the results from my research, they are most likely to buy magazines and undergo these questionnaires.
As well as looking at the results of the age group, linking to what I said, the age group who would be my audience would be mid-teens from 14-21. This is because they were the age range that undertook my survey, suggesting to me I should lower my target age range to broaden my audience.
Lastly and most importantly, the results from my research told me that females liked POP music more than any other music, telling me that I should target the POP music genre to get a wider audience.
Overall, I know that from all my research carried out, the audience who would read my media product would be females, aged 14-21. Although I don't wish to specifically want to target just females, which is why I didn't make my magazine gender-specific, however, I realise that my audience may be majority females.
Overall, I know that from all my research carried out, the audience who would read my media product would be females, aged 14-21. Although I don't wish to specifically want to target just females, which is why I didn't make my magazine gender-specific, however, I realise that my audience may be majority females.
Evaluation Question 5 - How would you attract/address your audience?
How would you attract/address your audience?
Evaluation Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of conducting this product?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of conducting this product?
Evaluation Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt from it to your final product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt from it to your final product?
Friday, 7 February 2014
Production driary
Week 21
This week I finished my first drafts of my front cover, contents page and double page spread and posted them up to my blog. I am pleased with my front cover. However I feel my contents page and double page spread need working on and could've been better.
In the next week I am planning to finish my evaluation and have it all submitted onto my blog.
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Contents page drafts
Here are my drafts of my content's page for my final production; the first to the second draft shows a dramatic change, with the colours used and the layout.
The first draft I used mainly red over the page, with some black text and blue; I felt the way it was laid out left too much 'white-space' and brought my magazine's look down. I changed my magazine's layout in the second draft by placing the contents down one side of the page (left) rather than filling up to the centre of the page, leaving valuable space. Out if the two, I think the second draft gives a better look to the magazine, fitting with research and making it suit my audience. As a whole, this suits the theme of my magazine better, Making it look more professional.
The first draft I used mainly red over the page, with some black text and blue; I felt the way it was laid out left too much 'white-space' and brought my magazine's look down. I changed my magazine's layout in the second draft by placing the contents down one side of the page (left) rather than filling up to the centre of the page, leaving valuable space. Out if the two, I think the second draft gives a better look to the magazine, fitting with research and making it suit my audience. As a whole, this suits the theme of my magazine better, Making it look more professional.
Front cover drafts
Here is screen shots of my different front covers. This shows the variation in my front cover production before reaching my finalised front cover. It shows the changes I took and how I adapted the front cover from my first draft.
These were my first two drafts; in the first draft there were minor spelling mistakes, which weren't appropriate, as it is meant to be a magazine production. I changed the spelling mistakes, making my second draft. At first, I liked how different I made my magazine, such as the way I laid out my taglines in a 'ladder' format. This was taken from my research, when I looked at 'Billboard' magazine. I thought it was a good idea to make my magazine look this way, with all the taglines together, with different fonts used, as well as making some bold, some red and some black. This was to make each tagline stand out. In addition, my headline was made to stand out by using big and bold font, 'Rockwell', as well as making the artist's name be a different colour to everything else on the magazine, being pink, which linked to her pink microphone used in the photoshoot and main image.
My third and fourth draft became very different to my original ideas and drafts; I made the taglines more 'traditional' being on the left and right of the main images. I enlarged the image and moved it to the middle of the page, which gave the magazine a different look and more suited to a POP magazine. In addition, it also followed my research more, with the majority of my researched magazines' having this format. In the third draft, I thought it would be a good idea to use different coloured fonts, including, red, black, white and orange. This made the magazine seem more 'POP' as it relates to colours, which I found in my research. However, I found, this completely changed my target audience of the magazine, making it aim at a younger audience, which I didn't want; this changed, producing my fourth draft. I used a coloured theme, Red and black, which gave it a uniform, meeting my target audience target and still meeting the conventions of a music magazine. I also made changed, to some of the writing and the way it was laid out, for example, the top bar, changed to become a tagline, presenting a special edition '2014 BRIT AWARDS', which showed research into the types of stories focused on by music magazines and POP magazines especially. These were some of my changes, as well as adding in a quote for the main cover story, to get people interested in the magazine more, especially my target audience.
This shows the front cover, similar to my fourth draft, just with minor changed, such as the QR code added, to give it a modern look and adaption to the changes in audiences' lifestyles. I have minor changes to make from this.
My third and fourth draft became very different to my original ideas and drafts; I made the taglines more 'traditional' being on the left and right of the main images. I enlarged the image and moved it to the middle of the page, which gave the magazine a different look and more suited to a POP magazine. In addition, it also followed my research more, with the majority of my researched magazines' having this format. In the third draft, I thought it would be a good idea to use different coloured fonts, including, red, black, white and orange. This made the magazine seem more 'POP' as it relates to colours, which I found in my research. However, I found, this completely changed my target audience of the magazine, making it aim at a younger audience, which I didn't want; this changed, producing my fourth draft. I used a coloured theme, Red and black, which gave it a uniform, meeting my target audience target and still meeting the conventions of a music magazine. I also made changed, to some of the writing and the way it was laid out, for example, the top bar, changed to become a tagline, presenting a special edition '2014 BRIT AWARDS', which showed research into the types of stories focused on by music magazines and POP magazines especially. These were some of my changes, as well as adding in a quote for the main cover story, to get people interested in the magazine more, especially my target audience.
This shows the front cover, similar to my fourth draft, just with minor changed, such as the QR code added, to give it a modern look and adaption to the changes in audiences' lifestyles. I have minor changes to make from this.
Q Magazine research
This front cover gave me the main ideas for my front cover such as the colours (red, black, grey and white), with the use of bold outlined speech bubble. As well as this the top bar showing an exclusive in the magazine is the main idea which I plan to surround my magazine around. This front cover gives me the main idea I will be using for my magazine plans.
This shows an idea which I plan to use for my double page spread; the picture has a speech bubble with a quote from the interview. This gives me a good idea which I plan to use in my magazine, to show my research.
This is the interview of the double page spread which I looked at in the magazine I bought as part of my research. I plan to use this layout where I will separate it, using features like the giant R at the start of a column. As well as this the box in the centre showing other topics in the interview, this still will use the 'rule of three', meeting the conventions and would make my double page spread look realistic.
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