Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Music Magazine Cover

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·      The picture of the musician on the cover, covers nearly the whole of the headline, this means the magazine feel that they are well established that people will know that its there magazine by seeing just part of the headline, because this is the sign people know from all the publicity the magazine gets.

·      The structure of the magazine is very simple, it has the picture of the musician, with her name simply written with a by-line underneath, it also puts all of the other articles on one side of the age which makes all the writing seem sparse and simple, they are all written in the same font, there all intertextuality linked. They do this as they like the theme to stick with the image of the musician.

·      The only plug is the article about Nancy Pelos and how she “hits back” with her first ps interview, looking like you would be getting an exclusive with this magazine.

·      This magazine, targets music lovers as a whole, because it has three different genre bands all mentioned on the cover, rock, pop and country.

·      Underneath the musicians name it says “secrets of a good girl”, as this star has a squeaky clean image, her fans might buy into this as they want to know more about her and people may find this a new side to her and buy the magazine.

·      The overall view of the magazine is too concentrate on Taylor swift as she has the main headline as her name and blocks out most of the title with her picture , also the articles also have simple fonts are quite small to not take away from the spotlight from her.

Final Pictures for school magazine

These two photos are the final photos that i have chosen for my school magazine.

Some of the final pictures for my school magazine

These are some of the photos I have considered for the front cover as they show the building and people of the school.

Friday, 23 September 2011

Photos

On Friday I plan to take pictures for my school magazine. I will need to get one of the school logo, and 2 shots of different parts of the school or i might get a shot of students working.

Sunday, 11 September 2011

Media Studies Coursework Diary

12 September 2011 - This week I have labelled  two magazines , vogue and a school magazine , also I have made a mock up of my school magazine front cover , which is what I will design.
29 September 2011 - I have learnt a few tips on how todo things on corel draw, this week i have designed my school magazine on corel, and will post it to my blog.
16 October 2011 - By now I have done my school magazine front cover and posted it to my blog, I made a mock up of my contents cover and posted it , also I made up a mock interview with my target audience, I also need made a mock up front cover which i need to post on my blog.
08 Novemeber 2011 - This week i have taken pictures for my front cover of my friend, she will be the main feature on my front cover , i have out the pictures from the photoshoot on to what will be my front cover on coreldraw , i am currently deciding wheter to do the colours in pink or green.
25 November 2011 - I have chosen to go with the colours of yellow and purple for my main front cover after thinking that this is the most appealing to my target audience.
6th December 2011 - I have looked at some double page spreads for music magazine and have decided on one and put the layout for it on my blog.
9th December 2011 - I've written about what people have thought my blog target audience was about and i've also planned my next photoshoot for my double page spread. 
6th January 2012 - I have taken pictures for my double page , woth lots of headshots and a long shot for the main photo , I also took pictures for a 'album cover' as well which i could feature on the contents page.
20 January 2012 -I have edited photos for my double page sread and have nearly finished it and just have to put some more interview text in and have also started my contents page.
26 January 2012 - I have finished my double page spread but i am still trying out differnt colours , i also finished my contents page but still also looking at differnet colours.
1 February 2012 - I added a few more pictures to my contents , i also intervied people on feedback for my front cover to see what they thought and will post the videos on soon.
20 February 2012 - I handed in my frontcover and double page spread but i'm still not happy with the contents page, i also started my media evalutation
06 March 2012- I need to change the pictures on my contents , i also did more media evalutation work
09 March 2012- I took two more differnt photos for my contents page today , i will edit them and put them on my contents
15 March 2012 - i have finished 3 questions of my evaluation and i am about to start on my fourth
30 March 2012 - i have finsished all my evaluation question and i have sent them in for feed back
5 April - I have finished updating my contents page and have used picnik to edit the photos and hanaded it in
20 April - I have recieved the feedback and will start to redo the questions where i have gone wrong.
26 April - I have finshed updating my  evaluation questions and handed them in along with my contents, DPS and Front cover!