Main Task: Production

Front Cover

Contents

Double Page Spread

Preliminary Task

Evaluation Q1. In what does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 1

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Q2. How does your media product represent a particular social group?

This YouTube clip will show the social group for my magazine, younger males and females who take an interest in modern music today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spc4SG2JQuA&feature=related

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Factfile

Name: Robyn Aldcroft
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Occupation: A-level Student
A-levels: Health and social care
Appearance: T-shirts, skinny jeans and converse
Job: Works in Nightclubs and bars
Lives: Wallasey
Lives with: Mum, Dad , Sisters
Siblings: Older sisters 24 & 21 and younger sister 17
Pets : Dog
Spare Time: Goes shopping, to gigs, the cinema, listens to music and goes out socializing
Favourite Colour: Red
Favourite genre of music : Indie
Watches Tv Programmes: Shameless, MTV Rocks & Hits, True blood and Glee
She shops in : Topshop, H&M, Schuh, Primark and Newlook
Favourite Artists: Ellie Goulding, Adele, The Killers & Florence and the Machine
Favourite Food: Chinese and crisps
Favourite drink: Tea and alcohol
Favourite possessions: Mobile, laptop converse and ipod
Hobbies/Interests: Boys , fashion and music

Name: Mathew Parnell
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Occupation: A-level Student
A-level subjects:  Media, Film studies, pshycology
Appearance: T-shirts, skinny jeans, checked shirts and converse
Job: Mcdonalds
Lives: Prenton
Lives with: Mum, Dad , brother
Siblings: brother 18
Pets : Dog, barn owl, 3 cats
Spare Time: Goes to gigs, listens to music, plays football and goes out socialising
Favourite Colour: Red
Favourite genre of music : Indie and rock
Watches Tv Programmes: Tool Academy, Music channels, Glee
She shops in : Topman, Schuh, Primark and Hollister
Favourite Artists: The Killers, Paramore & Florence and the Machine
Favourite Food: Cake
Favourite drink: Coffee
Favourite possessions: iphone, laptop and ipod
Hobbies/Interests: Girls, music & sport

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Well firstly, I created a questionnaire asking questions on what they might like to see in a new rock magazine and what their preferences were out of a list of answers that I presented to them, for example what their colour scheme preference was etc.

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Desk Top Publishing

There are so many different ways to access media, and my college displays a wide range of them. The modes of technology I used were : the 2 softwares – Adobe Photoshop and Quark Express, a Nikon D5000 photographic camera, computer/laptop, audio recorder and a picture editor website called ‘Picnik’.

It has been inspirational creating my product using the softwares Adobe PhotoShop and QuarkXPress. Both softwares allowed me to manipulate images to how I wanted them to look, for example: I used the Blending options to alter the text and make it look attractive on my front cover.

Personally I didn’t learn all too much in terms of creating the magazine within technology as I already had an excellent grasp of Photoshop, but during the process the new programme I was introduced to, that I haven’t seen before, ‘Quark Express’ which we used to create the contents page as well as our double page spreads, I personally didn’t enjoy using Quark as it was very limited in terms of features and found myself creating elements in Photoshop and importing them into Quark. The only useful feature I found was the guide lines within the programme.

I learnt how lighting can alter an entire image, so I experimented using a digital camera, creative photography to capture the best image. I also used my dad’s company ‘Picture This Event Photography’ photo studio to take my photos for my magazine in. here I learnt how to use proper lighting in order to create a professional looking picture.

However, it was the first time that I used QuarkXPress; it was really difficult to use to start but soon enough I felt at ease and my confidence built as I progressed with the software and went on to complete my magazine contents page and double page spread. Quark is the same software used in media professions; I have learnt that I can successfully create a product, using Quark, making it look to be of a professional standard. Also, I found that Quark restricted me when I wanted to resize my images (alter the size of a created shape), but even with this small problem, I managed to design a suitable magazine for my target audience, using the technology and applications I had around me.

Q7. Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q7

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Audience Feedback

Working Progress: Screen grabs - Double page spread

Screen grabs double page spread

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Working Progress Screengrabs: Contents Page

This image shows my contents page split into three columns with the inserted image of my magazine title.

This shows two of my images on the contents page with numbers on them to anchor them to the written article.

This is when I have inserted the content and altered the colours, font and rearranging the text around the images.

This screen grab shows my contents page with the new background and final images with all the written content.



Working Progress - Screengrabs Front Cover

This screen grab shows my front cover with just the main image, title and the start of the bottom strip.

This shows the shapes I added to present my coverlines and puff in you can see i have also added the positioning statement, price and issue date by the magazine title.

This shows my Cover after I added coverlines

This screengrab shows my front cover complete at a first draft. I later slightly altered this by making finishing changes such as, changing the name of my magazine from 'King of Strings' to 'Strings' to 'VERSE'.

This shows my altering the type size of the text in the strip at the bottom to make it smaller and adding another artist.

This shows me making small changes to the coverlines by adding effects. In this case I was adding a shaddow to make the coverlines stand out.