Thursday 25 October 2012

Initial ideas homework task

Price: £2.20
Frequency of publication: Monthly
Average issue size: 68
Regular content:
- Feedback from the audience
- Get a guitar lesson
- Reviews for albums, Singles, Gigs
- Notice board posting of public messages
- Fan mail
- Who's going on tour?
- Introducing new band every issue
-WIN! A guitar
-Guide Gigs
-Message of the month
-Song of the month
-Posters

Feature Articles:
- 10 moments that changed indie forever
- Best live performance of the year
- Most sold CD of the year
- Paramore are back!
- 20 Most shocking moments in music
- Scariest weekend halloween
- Secrets revealed by Arctic Monkeys
- Vote for your favourite band
-Noel gallagher gets grumpy
-On tour with Coldplay
-Where did Foster the people come from?
-Interview with Keane
-Ben howard behind scenes
-We meet Metronomy
-Talking to Radiohead
-Catch up with the Fray on new single
- Rufus wainwright tells us about his up coming album
- 100 most favourite indie songs


Wednesday 24 October 2012

Researching the market place video


This is my indie magazine video, I researched information about 'NME and 'Q' then uploaded information onto this video and uploaded it onto my blog.

Thursday 18 October 2012

strength and weaknesses of both the product and use of media technologies

Evaluation of school magazine

I have found that my media product has used codes and convention of a real magazine as on my front cover it has a title,barcode, issue number, date, cover lines, main image, no writing over the face of the main image, a price, direct address however i don't think it intrigues the target audience as it is not very welcoming to buy because it has not a good use of colour or font the size of the font is too big, the style of the front cover is also too plain. On the contents page it uses good use of colour good size and layout however the images are not at a very good standard and the number at the corner of the image is too big  I have also done spelling mistakes. i think that creating this magazine has been a challenge because i have not really understood all of the codes and conventions that need to be on a magazine.
I found it ok using new media technology even though it took a while to get used to it and know how to work it, however i found that it helped my layout more using the new media

Wednesday 10 October 2012

How did you use new media technologies in the construction of your media product

Firstly I planned what pictures I needed to take then when decided used a digital camera to take the pictures around the school I only had a short amount of time to do this. I found that doing this was the easiest as I have used a digital camera previously in spare time and was used to using this type of technology.  I took the photos to use on my front cover, and contents page. However I came to the decision of using a picture of a sixth former happy with a plain background to create a good mise-en-scene, I then uploaded the pictures onto photoshop which was fairly easy to use and complete the task that was asked because I has used it before in GCSE media. Some of the tools that I used was the 'typing tool' which was used to insert text, The image tool also let me import photographs. When editing i used quark i found this fairly easy when instructed what to do I got the grasp of it very quickly I found it easier than using photoshop even though I have used it before. I uploaded my three images the re-sized them and positioned it so then it would fit in with my text. furthermore I used a presentation website called 'prezi', This is a zooming presentation tool which is very professional and will make the audience interact more with the work I felt that this product was very effective. i found this difficult to get used to at first but i shortly got used to it, I have also got more confident with how to use it. I also used 'slideshare'. This is a website which allows users to upload microsoft presentation documents. I found this website very straight forward and simple to use.

My sketch of front cover and contents page

This is my sketch of the front cover.

This is my sketch of the contents page.

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Production of school magazine contents page

In my rough copy I have a title saying 'contents page...' however on my final magazine i just have the title 'Contents' which the font is also big in comparison. Including that the final copy has a model putting rubbish in the recycle bin, and is the same size as the image next to it whereas on the rough copy the image is half the size of the image next to it i thought that the image needed to be bigger as there was too much space left behind. On the contents page i done a heading for the page numbers saying 'Monthly News' as i thought that it looked better and followed the codes and conventions of a magazine. Also i thought  my model was going to be a girl however because it was a boy a heading changed from 'she had amazing results!' to 'He was amazed with his results' . Lastly the biggest image on the page at the bottom right hand corner it is a girl jumping in the air with her results however in the final magazine it is a image of a boy writing (image taken from over the shoulder).

Production of school magazine front cover

For my front page school magazine the title on my rough sketch is spread widely across the top of the page however in the final one it is in the center but not completely covering the  top of the page. Moreover on my rough sketch i have 'NEW' underneath the title even though on the final magazine i do not have it at all including that i used a girl and now use a boy on my final magazine as it didnt matter what model I used. Including that the cover line 'Latest school RESULTS' is next to the models head in the sketch 'CLUBS' is mid length and 'Recycle your Rubbish' is right next to it however on the final magazine they are more spread out. Also the model is holding the results with one hand on the left hand side of the page on the final magazine however on the rough one i have drawn the model so it is holding the results of paper on the right hand side of the page and is by the chest. Including that the barcode is the wrong way round on the rough copy although on the final copy it is the right way.

Camera angles

Monday 8 October 2012