7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Looking back at my prelimary task I feel I have learnt alot, and built on the skills I already had. My preliminary task actually helped me alot to produce my final magazine as I used some of the same fonts and the same sort of layout as I felt they worked well. I have also become more confident on the programme photoshop, as when I did my preliminary task I only knew the basics, however now I feel more confident with "playing around" on photoshop, using different effects to get a more proffesional feel.
I also feel that I am more creative and my ideas are now more individual, as I have created somthing more unique and specific than I thought I would.
I also feel that iv expanded my knowoledge on where to look for inspiration. Instead of just looking at famous main stream magazines, I tried to search for more unique less known magazines which gave me inspiration when creating my own.
I used the internet to also seach into peoples blog's for information on what works well in magazines, other than earlier on in the year when I just went with my own instinct.
Thursday 25 March 2010
EVALUATION QUESTION 6
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt alot about technologies during this media journey. At first I used online technologies such as google and google images to reseach similar magazines to the one that I was to produce myself. I found myself looking at other peoples blogs from websites such as Blogger, as well as creating and using my own blog to record all of my ideas and inspiration to show the journey of the production of my media product.
I used my own camera to take the pictures that are featured in my magazine, and then edited them on a programme called picasa, which is a photo editing programme created by google which allowed me to play around with the images and give them certain effects to make them look more professional.
The main programme I used in the process of putting together my magazine was Photoshop elements. This programme allowed me to make layers and bit by bit put together everything that is visual on my magazine. I particularly found the "magestic lassoo" tool very helpful as I had to cut the pictures alot and this tool was quick and easy and made it look professional.
When looking for fonts on the photoshop programme I found it difficult trying to find an interesting one that fit my genre. However I found a really good website called "myfont.com" Which had millions of fonts to choose from, making my work look more professional and interesting.
I have learnt alot about technologies during this media journey. At first I used online technologies such as google and google images to reseach similar magazines to the one that I was to produce myself. I found myself looking at other peoples blogs from websites such as Blogger, as well as creating and using my own blog to record all of my ideas and inspiration to show the journey of the production of my media product.
I used my own camera to take the pictures that are featured in my magazine, and then edited them on a programme called picasa, which is a photo editing programme created by google which allowed me to play around with the images and give them certain effects to make them look more professional.
The main programme I used in the process of putting together my magazine was Photoshop elements. This programme allowed me to make layers and bit by bit put together everything that is visual on my magazine. I particularly found the "magestic lassoo" tool very helpful as I had to cut the pictures alot and this tool was quick and easy and made it look professional.
When looking for fonts on the photoshop programme I found it difficult trying to find an interesting one that fit my genre. However I found a really good website called "myfont.com" Which had millions of fonts to choose from, making my work look more professional and interesting.
EVALUATION QUESTION 5
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
My magazine aims to attract an audience by the actual genre of it and what topics and issues it actually covers. However if my magazine was on a shelf in a newsagents, it would primarily attract by being very vibrant and colourful and interesting to look at. I have created this word document with speech bubbles describing exactly what would attract the reader.
audienceee
My magazine aims to attract an audience by the actual genre of it and what topics and issues it actually covers. However if my magazine was on a shelf in a newsagents, it would primarily attract by being very vibrant and colourful and interesting to look at. I have created this word document with speech bubbles describing exactly what would attract the reader.
audienceee
EVALUATION QUESTION 4
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
My Target Audience for my product would aspire to be like the people in my magazine and be interested in the genre and style of my magazine, and understand and be interested in the topics of the magazine.
The primary audience would be female, this is evident through the colour schemes being feminine colours, and the main topics being female musicians and female fashions.
However the secondary audience may be gay males as they may also enjoy the femininity.
Below is a collage I made of a typical buyer of my product.
My Target Audience for my product would aspire to be like the people in my magazine and be interested in the genre and style of my magazine, and understand and be interested in the topics of the magazine.
The primary audience would be female, this is evident through the colour schemes being feminine colours, and the main topics being female musicians and female fashions.
However the secondary audience may be gay males as they may also enjoy the femininity.
Below is a collage I made of a typical buyer of my product.
Who Would Be The Audience For My Magazine
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EVALUATION QUESTION 3
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
A production company "owns" the magazine and the company has various departments such as,
1. Editorial
2. Sales
3. Marketing
4. Circulation
5. Design/layout.
A Media institution that would distribute my product would be a publishing company that has distributed other media products of the same genre and style.
For example the magazine which I used alot for inspiration whilst creating my own product is distributed by its own company "Nylon Holding Inc" and its publishers are Marvin Scott Jarrett & Jaclynn Jarrett.
Another Magazine I studied in creating my own was "INDIE" magazine. This magazine is published by a company called "Plastic Media" however I could not find alot of information about this company as I believe it is forgin.
However I looked into other Publishers of similar magazines, so I looked at Dazed&Confused, their publishers are Waddell Limited, which are based in London.
Id have a company similar to this as my distributor as they work with similar magazines and have a good recodniseable reputation.
A production company "owns" the magazine and the company has various departments such as,
1. Editorial
2. Sales
3. Marketing
4. Circulation
5. Design/layout.
A Media institution that would distribute my product would be a publishing company that has distributed other media products of the same genre and style.
For example the magazine which I used alot for inspiration whilst creating my own product is distributed by its own company "Nylon Holding Inc" and its publishers are Marvin Scott Jarrett & Jaclynn Jarrett.
Another Magazine I studied in creating my own was "INDIE" magazine. This magazine is published by a company called "Plastic Media" however I could not find alot of information about this company as I believe it is forgin.
However I looked into other Publishers of similar magazines, so I looked at Dazed&Confused, their publishers are Waddell Limited, which are based in London.
Id have a company similar to this as my distributor as they work with similar magazines and have a good recodniseable reputation.
EVALUATION QUESTION 2
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ?
My media product aims to represent a particular type of female, who is into individual fashion and also individual, non mainstream sort of music. Who's lifestyle is going to gigs,hanging out in trendy cities in cafe's etc.
This is represented firstly through the picture on the front of my magazine, and the kind of things that the magazine is about.
The girl on the front of my magazine represents the indie style of fashion as she is wearing a modern jumpsuit from the clothing store Topshop, (known for being an indie shop), and she wears "geek" glasses and has alot of flesh on show, showing her femininity.
However the magazine represents a particluar "breed" of British female. For example celebrities such as Alexa Chung, Peaches Geldof,Daisy Lowe and Pixie Geldof. All young, have an individual way of dressing and are often pictured at gigs or festivals. They are recodnisable by being pictured wearing similar sort of clothing and looking sort of "messy", audiences that enjoy this genre would recodnise them by admiring their style/look. Here is a few pictures that help sum up this social group.
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The audience that look up to and admire this sort of social group would recodnise them as an "indie" sterotype and aspire to be like them as they are about the same age range.
Another recodniseable feature about my magazine is the text and what the magazines context actually is. My magazine advertises new music and maybe even unsigned music. This represents the same sort of social group that enjoys going to gigs and listening to new and interesting music and who are quite creative people.
My media product aims to represent a particular type of female, who is into individual fashion and also individual, non mainstream sort of music. Who's lifestyle is going to gigs,hanging out in trendy cities in cafe's etc.
This is represented firstly through the picture on the front of my magazine, and the kind of things that the magazine is about.
The girl on the front of my magazine represents the indie style of fashion as she is wearing a modern jumpsuit from the clothing store Topshop, (known for being an indie shop), and she wears "geek" glasses and has alot of flesh on show, showing her femininity.
However the magazine represents a particluar "breed" of British female. For example celebrities such as Alexa Chung, Peaches Geldof,Daisy Lowe and Pixie Geldof. All young, have an individual way of dressing and are often pictured at gigs or festivals. They are recodnisable by being pictured wearing similar sort of clothing and looking sort of "messy", audiences that enjoy this genre would recodnise them by admiring their style/look. Here is a few pictures that help sum up this social group.
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The audience that look up to and admire this sort of social group would recodnise them as an "indie" sterotype and aspire to be like them as they are about the same age range.
Another recodniseable feature about my magazine is the text and what the magazines context actually is. My magazine advertises new music and maybe even unsigned music. This represents the same sort of social group that enjoys going to gigs and listening to new and interesting music and who are quite creative people.
EVALUATION QUESTION 1
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My magazine uses some generic conventions of real magazines.However I wouldnt describe my magazine as being "mainstream" such as music magazines such as NME. This is because iv focused on a very specific genre that would only appeal to a particular sterotype. So I am going to compare my magazine with similar magazines that are also of the "young, electro indie" genre/sterotype.My magazine follows some typical conventions of these sort of media products.
Examples of these include, the way in which my front cover is setup and layed out. I took most of my inspiration for my own magazine from the American magazine "NYLON". The setup of NYLON is as follows;
-The large bold masthead located at the top of the page.
-The cover star/celebrity
-The main features around the cover star
-Different font types
-Modern typogrpahy
-Bright Colours
-Almost Always has a white background
-A female Cover star
-Female influences e.g Fashion tips, female colour schemes etc.
Here is a copy of NYLON magazine next to my own magazine.
There are many similarities between my own magazine and NYLON, however there is less writing on the page on the NYLON one, this makes it look more exclusive and more focus is on the picture. The white background also worked well to make the other features stand out. The other difference between my own work and NYLON is the colour I used for the background of my cover. Most backgrounds on the magazines I looked at were either white, or very pale. Whereas mine is a shocking pink colour. This challenges generic conventions of this genre of magazine.
Another Magazine I looked at in comparison to my own was the indie magazine called "INDIE"
This is a copy of an issue of the magazine,
My magazine is along the same genre as INDIE, as it is about "Cutting edge fashion and music". However the cover star is not recodniseable, there is little to no text surrounding the cover star. However the Mast head is big and bold at the top of the magazine- a generic convention of a magazine. Again making the magazine more exclusive and making the reader actually look inside the magazine to find out what it is about. However the image on the front of he magazine is very unique, almost selling the magazine through the style of the coverstar. This is what I wanted to acheive in my own work. Trying to make my audience feel asthough they wanted to be that person, or aspire to be like them.
In Conclusion I believe my magazine does follow generic conventions in magazines in general but also of other real magazines from the same genre. I think this works well as then to a consumer the product is recodniseable and sells as being formillia.
My magazine uses some generic conventions of real magazines.However I wouldnt describe my magazine as being "mainstream" such as music magazines such as NME. This is because iv focused on a very specific genre that would only appeal to a particular sterotype. So I am going to compare my magazine with similar magazines that are also of the "young, electro indie" genre/sterotype.My magazine follows some typical conventions of these sort of media products.
Examples of these include, the way in which my front cover is setup and layed out. I took most of my inspiration for my own magazine from the American magazine "NYLON". The setup of NYLON is as follows;
-The large bold masthead located at the top of the page.
-The cover star/celebrity
-The main features around the cover star
-Different font types
-Modern typogrpahy
-Bright Colours
-Almost Always has a white background
-A female Cover star
-Female influences e.g Fashion tips, female colour schemes etc.
Here is a copy of NYLON magazine next to my own magazine.
There are many similarities between my own magazine and NYLON, however there is less writing on the page on the NYLON one, this makes it look more exclusive and more focus is on the picture. The white background also worked well to make the other features stand out. The other difference between my own work and NYLON is the colour I used for the background of my cover. Most backgrounds on the magazines I looked at were either white, or very pale. Whereas mine is a shocking pink colour. This challenges generic conventions of this genre of magazine.
Another Magazine I looked at in comparison to my own was the indie magazine called "INDIE"
This is a copy of an issue of the magazine,
My magazine is along the same genre as INDIE, as it is about "Cutting edge fashion and music". However the cover star is not recodniseable, there is little to no text surrounding the cover star. However the Mast head is big and bold at the top of the magazine- a generic convention of a magazine. Again making the magazine more exclusive and making the reader actually look inside the magazine to find out what it is about. However the image on the front of he magazine is very unique, almost selling the magazine through the style of the coverstar. This is what I wanted to acheive in my own work. Trying to make my audience feel asthough they wanted to be that person, or aspire to be like them.
In Conclusion I believe my magazine does follow generic conventions in magazines in general but also of other real magazines from the same genre. I think this works well as then to a consumer the product is recodniseable and sells as being formillia.
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