Note to The Examiner,
I hope you enjoy looking and reading through my work as well as seeing what i have created this year as much as i enjoyed doing the work and having this experience.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
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Friday, 19 April 2013
Final Evaluation 5
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Final Evaluation 1
The title of my magazine is 'ALT' which is short for Alternative, the genre of music, so the target audience that is people who listen to alternate music and teenagers can quickly see what the magazine is going to be about. I used the font called 'Impact' to make the title stand out from other magazines and also so its visible to everyone and attracting people to magazine. The colour scheme i used is black white and some grey i did this because i wanted to give the music magazine a simplistic look, i also dressed my artist with a simple look where all you can see is the white top that she is wearing in all the photos. The text I have used on the front page apart from the title are simple fonts (Wicker Heavy SF, Accord SF) to keep the simple theme involved in the magazine they are also good fonts that link in with the artist and give her an even more of a simplistic but satisfying look and i have continued these fonts through to the contents page of my magazine. I changed the font of the article to 'Utsaah' to add more verity to the magazine and the font also keeps the simplicity involved in the magazine i also changed the colour of the text when millie was talking in the interview so you can tell the difference between the interviewers question and what her answers are.
I have laid out my front page so there is little on the front to keep to the simplistic look the way i have done this is by placing the name of the magazine at the top left in a large font 'Impact' to make the magazine stand out and noticeable and i have also made the featured artists name 'Millie Drew' large and centred so thats one of the first things you see when picking up the magazine but kept the artist name in a small simple font to mach here genre of music. the barcode and pricing are at the bottom right where they normally are on most objects and magazines and the 'Issue Number' is at the bottom left so that more attention is drawn to the top half of the magazine. The magazines slogan 'New Bands Great Music' is in small underneath the title to allow you to recognise its a music magazine and also so that you get a feel of whats going to in the magazine when you open it.
The contents page is laid out with the text on the left and featured artist on the right, i got this idea from the existing magazine 'Spin'. The reason i used this was because the layout fitted the style of the magazine and genre of my artist allowing me to make the image of my artist stand out more.
The double page spread is laid out in a way so it focuses on my featured artist, i started the text at the bottom left of the page and didn't go above her eye line as well i placed part of her name behind her so that you got the feel she was important and meant more than words on a page. I also placed a quote from the artist part way through the article so you got a better feel of how she felt about the artist.
I didn't use any props in my magazine because i didn't feel it was essential and that it wouldn't improve how i showed my artist in any way or the genre of the magazine i also thought that it might draw attention away from the artist wheres without the props i feel you can focus on the artist more. I thought that i would be able to show my artist and the style of the magazine just with the camera angles and pictures of the artist and the fonts and colours used in my magazine. I represented my artist with the simple look of her just wearing a plain white shirt and her standing with a serious face positioned differently each time but at the same time keeping the same feel for the artist and genre.
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Targets For Thursday 18th April 2013
Today i aim to finish 2 more of my Evaluations and to finish them to the level 4 band, i will try and do this by using different techniques and styles of presentations to represent my work.
Friday, 12 April 2013
Evaluation Questions
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)
As part of your planning and research you should have looked at Music Magazines and selected a particular sub genre (e.g. Indie, pop, r&b, dance etc) to re-create. Find an example of a pre exisiting music magazine which matches your magazine, paste it into your blog and highlight the key generic conventions of the magazine (the list of terminology can be found HERE)
You should go through the final version of your project and select elements which follow conventions and any which do not.
The aspects we would like you to consider across your nine frames are:
The title of the magazine
Graphology/page layouts
Costumes, props, iconography used to reflect genre
Camerawork and framing of images
Title, article, header etc font and style
Genre and how the magazine cover, contents and spread suggests it
How your artist(s) are represented
Colour scheme
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Pick a key image of your artist from your magazine (ideally the cover image). Take a screengrab of a reasonable sized image of them. Think of one or more recording artists/stars from other magazines with some similarity to them (but maybe some differences too!), find an image on the web of that/those stars and grab it as well. Drop the two into photoshop, as a split screen. Export this splitscreen image as a jpeg then drop onto your blog and write about the similarities and differences in terms of appearance, costume etc.
So for example if you have a female R&B star on your cover, look for other female R&B star to compare them with (remember to try and ensure that they are of a similar age, ethnicity etc)...
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 3
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
For this question, you are going to do a 'director's commentary' style voiceover explaining some of the key features of your magazine cover
You will need to script the voiceover which deals with institutional issues to include:
discussion of your production company name and logo and the role of such companies
What does a publishing company do?
the idea of a distributor and who that might be and why. start here
where the money might have come from for a magazine such as yours here
what your magazine is similar to 'institutionally' (name some magazines which would be released in a similar way)
You need to refer to actual company names and processes so you will need to maybe do a bit more research into magazine publishers like emap
When you have scripted, record the voiceover using iMovie, windows movie maker etc on a new audio timeline, then export to quicktime and embed on blog. (this is a good example of what you can do. It was created for A2 and a slightly different question but the style is correct).
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
You should have a drawing of your target audience member and an explanation of what kinds of taste they might have- where they would shop, what music they would listen to, what their favourite Tv programme would be, etc.
make sure you have taken a photo of it, post it on the blog and write a few notes on why they would buy your magazine.
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
Take a screen grab of your magazines cover, content and spread and place into iMovie, movie make etc. You will then use YOUTUBE's annotation tools to add NOTES, SPEECHBUBBLES, and LINKS to your magazine:
These annotations will highlight the ways in which your Magazine links to other similiar films in order to attract the particular Audience you have previously identified.
Your annotations will refer to genre conventions, use of iconography, similarities with other magazines and what you have identified as the Unique Selling Point of your imaginary film.
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In pairs, take a picture of each other holding the kit you have used. This might just be the camera and tripod, and your Macbook but there may be other things you want in the shot.
Drop the image onto your blog and annotate it, adding all the programs and other technology you have used as screengrabs and what you learnt about it/from using it. Your written text need only be minimal. You could include reference to all the online and computer programs you have used such as flickr, blogger, facebook, photoshop, vimeo, scribd, slideshare etc.
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 7
Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Concentrate on mise en scene and camerawork.
Grab some images from both tasks and put them on the blog and show what you know about shot types, magazine terms etc. Explain how you've improved.
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