Research and Planning-Contents Page Update

This is what my contents page looks like once I have finished it, I had taken more images in my free time and made the image on the right a main part of the page and I think when the reader see's this they will be intruiged by whom the person is and convince themselves to carry on reading the piece of text underneath the image.

Research and Planning-Double Page Spread Update

This is an update of what my finished double page spread looks like, I completely changed the layout of it by adding two images into the background of each side of the page, and continuing with orange colour scheme throughout my magazine I used the colour again on this page.

Research and Planning-Cover Page Update

This is just an update of what my cover page looks like on my magazine, I have also changed the colour of his jacket so the colour fits to an orange colour and I have done this because the rest of my magazine has orange throughout it so I decided to change the colour of it so it continued to fit in with the colour scheme of the magazine.

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?

The magazine has changed drastically from my college magazine to the music magazine that I more recently created. You can see straight away that in the college magazine that I didn't put alot of thought into where things should be positioned, I just put them wherever was easiest but in my music magazine I thought about it alot more and changed things many times before I came out with the final thing but with the college magazine I put the image there the first time and then left it there and didn't bother changing it. I used guidelines to help me on my music magazine, these helped me structure the text and basically make things look much more professional.  Another thing is that the image on the college magazine isn't the main focus, because the size of the image isn't that big and the rest of the text around it is attracting attention to it and this is something that I changed on my music magazine as I made the image much bigger so that is the main attraction and the text isn't.

Also, the text, I have used the same colour text throughout the whole cover of my college magazine and a plain white background. Whereas on the music magazine, I have used orange, black and white text and different sizes of font and also I have left the background in as I thought it would look much better. Another thing is the actual image on the college magazine isn't a very good picture, there is no eye contact and there is activity of other people in the background of the image. But in the music magazine image, I have taken a low angle shot of my model to make him look more superior and this is something that I didn't know much of when I was creating my college magazine so this is something that I used to my advantage.

Contents Page

My contents page on my college magazine is shocking, there isn't any real layout going on as there is just an image placed on the background and white text over it. But on my music magazine contents page there is the image on the right hand side of the page, with the contents of what the magazine will hold down the left hand side of the page and this looks much more professional and neat compared to my college magazine.

On the music magazine again there is the same colour scheme, with orange, black and white used but on the college magazine the colours don't even contrast well, you can't really read some of the text because of the image in the background and the white text and also where the image doesn't fit underneath I have changed the font colour to black so it is easier to read.

The images that I taken for the college magazine were taken simply because I didn't have a lot of time so they were rushed, I simply have a picture of the college which don't relate to the topics on the contents page and here I should have got images of the canteen or something to do with the 'Go Ape' trip which is mentioned on the contents page. The images on the music magazine however I had much longer to take them, so that's why I took the camera home and took much longer editing the picture so it looked better and more professional.

Evaluation Question 6-What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

The different technologies that I used for my magazine are: 

Blogger I updated regularly with posts of how I was getting on with my magazine and this is where I uploaded my pictures of my models and also magazine ideas prior to making the magazine.

 I used Flickr to answer questions on how my cover, contents and double page spread and how I would distribute my magazine.

 I used the SLR camera's to take the shots of my models for the different pages of my magazine.

I used Prezi because it is a different way of showing the audience about the fonts colours and other things I used when I was creating my magazine.

 I used Photoshop to actually create my magazine cover, contents and double page spread.

I used In Design to help me create the columns on my double page spread and my contents page so it would be easier to add the text and it would look more professional.

Evaluation Question 5-How did you attract/address your audience?

   

How did you attract your audience? on Prezi

Evaluation Question 4-Who would be the audience for your media product? why?

The target audience for my magazine would be students as there will be a much higher amount that buy music magazines at around the age of 16-19 than any other age. Stereotypically R'n'B music is aimed at males but I have decided to aim my magazine at males and females and this is the reason why I drew this picture as a male. My target audience would most likely shop at shops like Topman, River Island and they would mainly only really watch the music channel as this is their main interest.