Additonal Audience Feedback - Evaluation

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

It is obvious that I have learnt a lot since my preliminary task by looking at my college magazine and my music magazine. The college magazine is basic with a white background, same fonts and a bland color scheme. However my music magazine has an image that fills the whole cover and a variety of different fonts and text sizes, as well as different colors and magazine traits. This is down to the skills I have learnt in Photoshop and InDesign this term.

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

ØWhen starting AS Media I had a very limited knowledge with the program Photoshop and I  had never I worked on producing a magazine before. I have learnt it takes a great deal of time and effort to put a magazine together.

ØI have learnt that with InDesign you can create many different layouts for your magazine. Indesign has probably helped me the most because without it I would not be able to of created my magazine. InDesign is what publishers use as it easier for mass production

ØI have found Photoshop very useful when editing my photos. I've learnt that using Photoshop doesn’t mean you have to change your images but you can render them and a  lens flare to make the image stand out.

 

How did you attract/address your audience?

ØI will attract my audience visually by using bright colours, attractive pictures and bold lettering throughout the magazine.

ØI will also  try to make sure that colours are consistent throughout my magazine.

ØOn my front cover I will have a strong, eye catching picture of my model.

ØOn the contents page I will keep the writing as simple as I can and use various pictures to keep my audience’s interest.

ØOn my feature page I will include a large picture and not too much writing so I can interest the reader as best as I can.

ØAfter doing all this, I am sure that my target audience will be attracted to this magazine and it will appeal to them

 

 

 

Who would be the audience for your media product?

 

ØMy new music magazine will be aimed at both male and females aged 16 – 25 who enjoy popular R&B music.

Ø Young people who enjoy reading features on upcoming and fresh talent in the music industry

 

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

ØAs I am using Vibe magazine for inspiration I  have looked into what media institution publishes them, InterMedia Partners.

ØAs my magazine will have many similar conventions of Vibe magazine

ØI am pretty confident that InterMedia Partners will be interested in distributing my magazine.

 

 

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

ØI plan that my magazine will represent young  people aged 17 – 25.

ØI want the representations in my magazine to be positive unlike many representations of young  people in media today especially in London.

ØMy magazine will represent a typical  celebrity magazine as being strong, independent, sexy and confident. I will portray this view  appropriate photographs and feature stories and quotations throughout my magazine.

 

 

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

ØI plan that the final outcome of my music magazine will relate to existing magazines such as Vibe magazine. My magazine will use certain conventions of Vibe such as the style, layouts and colours and will share the genre of the music and the way in which it is presented to their audience.

ØAlthough, my music magazine will challenge other magazines on the market, and forms of conventions of Vibe .

 To help make my magazine appeal to young I have researched other music magazines such as  Word-Up, Rap-Up, Complex and Blender

Front cover final draft



This is the final draft of my front cover. I asked some of my chosen target audience via Twitter for feedback so I could make the final adjustments to the cover. I asked them what they thought could be improved. But I struggled to resize the image .



Frontcover Template

This is a rough template of my front cover with just the cover lines. I will edit the image and place in on afterwards

Use of Photoshop Example 2

I used the tool magnetic lasso to edit some of my pictures and to also enchance my knowledge of the software,

Use of Photoshop - Example

I used Photoshop to edit some of the pictures I had taken

Production of DPS

I used indesign to produce my DPS and edit it aswell.

Using Photoshop to Manipulate My Photos

I didn’t want to change the first image drastically so I decided to make slight changes.

Firstly I cropped the image, cutting out things that weren't relevant such as the plugs and to make it fit better.

Secondly, I went onto image, adjustments and chose auto levels, auto contrast and auto levels

BEFORE

 

AFTER



Photography Planning - Part 2

ØFor my feature page I plan to take one long shot like the photo on the leftfrom Vibe magazine.

ØI plan to use a white background and for my model to stand in a similar pose Kelly Rowland or Ciara.

 

 

 

 

Photography Planning

ØFor my contents page I plan to use a variety of shots such as, close ups, mid shots and long shots of my model on stage to create  feeling that the reader is getting an exclusive concert photo’s from buying Encore.

 I used my camera to take these pictures so a could have a variety of pictures to choose from.

 

Ideas for my feature page layout

 

ØFor my double feature page I would like to include a large title in across middle of the two pages “Complex Simplicity”

ØWhen writing my own feature I plan to not include as much writing as the picture shown here.

ØI have chosen to do this because I believe it will keep the reader more interested and I will make for the lesser text with pictures .

 

 

Also, I plan to use other forms of the layout such as the “ NOW” at the top of the image.

 

Production of my contents page

This is the final production or It might be my first draft depending on the feedback I get back. I aim my contents page to have all the conventions of a typical r&b magazine so it looks as authentic as possible.

I also used a font size 12 for the majority of the words

I used a two simple fonts 'Minion Pro and Franklin Demi' As I thought this looked clean cut and professional. It creates a clear and organized and presentable looking page :-)

I used Photoshop to edit the picture for contents page but the red circles show some of the errors I made which I later corrected.

Ideas for contents page/ Analysing contents

Here is a contents page of a past Vibe magazine along with the front cover.

I think this contents page is very effective and works very well with the front cover ---->

It works well because:

As Vibe magazine is one of my main sources I have found a example contents page image. It's very simple with a picture of Ciara and her legs. Her legs are in the shape V like the v they touch and the V represent vibe magazine.

The publishers have used very simple fonts and not a mixture. I will take this into account when I finally produce a contents page. There are two subheadings which are just simply 'Features and Fashion.