Evaluation - Question 1

In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I believe that in some ways my product has similarities, for example all the information is on the left hand side, both of products have numbers and names on them which are a larger font than the rest of the information, to grab the readers attention. Mine is different because I have a full body shot for my front cover, whereas this photo is a close-up, but I believe that any angle on a front cover looks suitable, as long as you have the right kind of pose and person to pose for the photo. Also both the titles are very bold and the main focus of the whole magazine. If I had some more time to improve my front cover, I would put more information on the front of it, filling the gaps in the front cover that I have left, and also take more photos.

Final Contents Page

This Is my Final Contents page
25/03/2011

Final Double Page Spread

This is my finalised double page spread. 25/03/2011

My Finalised Front Cover - 11/3/2011

This is my finalised front cover, i edited a few bits, including the name of the artist, i made it bigger so it draws attention to the reader, i didn't edit the photo whatsoever but i did change the amount of spikes the star had, just for empahsis

My Double Page Spread - Half Way There

 This is my Double page spread half way through, ive used an idea from a certain magazine to come up with my design. In the lesson today i have been working on my double page spread and going out and taking photos to put on my finished double page spread. Next lesson i will be doing my contents and finishing this off.

Friday 11th February

Today Ive been working on my double page spread, ive learnt how to change photos to black and white and to rotate them. Next lesson i will be finishing my contents page and my double page spread.

During The Lesson..

I have gone around college and taken photos of people with guitars in a brick background, i have spent the majority of the lesson editing the photo so that it looks up to standard. Next lesson i will be finding a font, adding puffs and plugs as well.

Front cover image

this is the image i am using for my front cover. i had to edit the photo because there was a random window and a warning sign, therefore i had to copy and paste the bricks, to make the whole image have the brick effect.

Font Ideas

i Went on Da Font and i found these 3 fonts which i thought were suitable for my Masthead on my front cover.

Proposal

Proposal

I have decided to do an Indie magazine, I will be aiming it at people within any age range, and people who are interested in Indie music, I may try to interest other people who dislike the genre to attract more attention to it. My magazine will be about the artists within the Indie music industry, and it will include interviews with singers and bands, and lots of information about gigs and places you can go to express your love for the music. I will also include a column written by a singer from the Indie genre, and I will have original images to show what type of people come from the Indie genre.

I would like to use very bold fonts that you can see very visibly, and that draw the attention of the reader.  For example, I could use Arial black to make it bold and visible for the masthead, then I could use smaller fonts to show the rest of the information on the front cover and the double page spread. I will probably use neutral colours and then mix them with bolder colours to show that the Indie genre has a lot of variation within it. These colours could represent this.

I could use many different tag lines to draw the readers attention to my magazine, for example I could use ‘the best Indie magazine in the south’ or ‘interview with famous band member inside’ I need to use things that will make everyone want to look inside and read. It will be published in the spring.

I expect to be putting an image of an individual or a band within a rugged area and I expect it not to be very tidy, but with some bright colours in it..

I would like my magazine to sell for £2.00 because normally magazines of the Indie genre are sold for a lot more in the shops, I would like to bring a cheaper option to everyone, and because it is cheaper maybe it will influence them to buy my magazine.

My magazine would be published once a month, because normally you cannot gather enough information to do one weekly.

My dimension will be A4.

I don’t have many ideas for cover lines, but I could use one about having interviews within my magazine. Also I could use cover lines like ‘free tickets to gigs inside!’ and stuff to really interest the readers. 

The Kooks - Naive

Wonderwall

Annotation of NME front cover 2

This magazine cover is very different to the other one because it has a lot more going on, a lot more information and the picture is central but it covers the majority of the front cover. The fonts on this front cover are all very much the same but all presented in different colours that go together pretty well, i think that the multi coloured paint splats that is behind the main article title is a very effective way of making the reader want to read on inside. There is a lot of puffs and plugs also on the front cover to make you read inside, and there all in bold colours. I think that this magazine cover is better than the other one, because it has more information on it.

Annotation of NME front cover 1

This magazine is a typical indie magazine, containing a close up of a singer with very individual make-up on. The text on the front cover is very bold and visible and there isn't much on the front cover to see, but the information you do see is relevant. The two colours for the text that are used are yellow and red, these both are two very bold colours and they draw attention to themselves - encouraging you to want to read inside the magazine. the layout is very basic, with the photo on one side and the information on the other, minus the barcode and the name of the magazine. This is a very simple design but its very effective in making the readers want to look inside.

Blogger Tutorial - How to Start Blogging with Blogger

this youtube video showed me how to start up using the blog.

10/12/2010 - The first day of my blog.

Today i was getting to grips with how to use the blog and trying different things to make my blog look the way i wanted it to look. I learnt how to make posts and to upload jpeg photos onto my blog. Next lesson i hopefully will be adding more of my work that i have already done onto my blog and get on with editing the appearance of it to the way i want it to look. :)

This is my final design for my front cover. I applied a technique of the lines forming in the image to make it look more professional. I also used indesign for my front cover and the fonts i used are to grab the readers attention and i believe that the word success for my title is a very appropriate title.

Flatplan for my front cover.

Preliminary Exercise

AS Media – Preliminary Exercise

·      Who are you aiming your magazine at specifically? I am aiming my magazine at students who attend college from the age 16 upwards.

·      What will your magazine be about? My magazine will contain information about learning, and things that are going on around college, informing students about the new things coming to college as well.

·      What are your ideas for cover lines? Student monthly, Pursuit to success, college life, etc.

·      What fonts do you want to use? I will be using fonts that will attract the readers attention, for example on my front cover I will have san-serif writing so it stands out more. The front cover will contain more urban fonts, so that it attracts the students attention, for example I could use arial black.

·      What are your ideas for taglines? I will probably use the taglines for interviews with students and informing students about new things going on so they will want to read the inside.

·      What kind of image do you expect do you expect to put on the front cover and how will you go about getting this image? I have been round college and taken many digital photos of people around college, but I expect to have a image that will make everything think it is a good magazine, and stereotypically for students who have college lives.

·      How frequently would it be published? Monthly.

·      What are the dimensions of the cover?

·      What images/colour would you use on the contents page? Unisex colours, not colours that will attract one gender more than the other, also I will probably use images of the college and people in college.

Media Front Cover Questions

Media Front Cover – Mollie Beale

 Student Magazine Title Task

What might a magazine for students here be called?

Pursuit to Success

Oh Happy College Days

College Life

La Vida De Estudiantes

What terms carry connotations of successful learning?

Achieve

Succeed

Cover lines and Language Use

Declaratives – She loves to learn (making a statement)

Imperatives – Learn That Knowledge (making orders or requests)

Interrogatives – Will you succeed? (asking questions)

Exclamatives – Learn! (expressing surprise)

Linguistic Tools

Rhyme – Learn, yearn, turn, burn.

Alliteration – Learn, love, life, live, lecturers

Assonance – Gay Mates

Superlative – The ultimate