Monday 26 March 2012
Thursday 23 February 2012
Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Since first making my college magazine at the start of the year to making my music magazine I can definitely see the improvement in my skills. In comparison my music magazine looks far more professional than the college magazine. I have learnt lots of skills involved in the production using the apple mac's. The photographs in the music magazine are much better quality, the page is more filled and it is much more detailed. Also my music magazine uses aspects of real life media where as the college magazine doesn't.
Since first making my college magazine at the start of the year to making my music magazine I can definitely see the improvement in my skills. In comparison my music magazine looks far more professional than the college magazine. I have learnt lots of skills involved in the production using the apple mac's. The photographs in the music magazine are much better quality, the page is more filled and it is much more detailed. Also my music magazine uses aspects of real life media where as the college magazine doesn't.
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Technologies I have used:
Blogger:
All my coursework over the past few months has been uploaded onto my own personal blog. The work here goes from the finished magazine all the way back to my first research and planning posts.
Prezi:
Using a programme called 'Prezi' I made my publication plan which was where I listed features of my magazine such as price, name, where it would be sold and regular content. On Prezi I made this plan as a sort of spider diagran that you can move along to each point.
Photoshop:
Adobe Photoshop was the key programme in making my magazine. All of my magazine production was done on this on this programme, the cover (shown on left), the contents page and the double page spread were all created using photoshop. My photoshop skills have advanced a great deal from when we first did the photoshop tuturials at the start of the year.
FlickR:
I used FlickR to talk about distribution. I uploaded images of my magazine and in the comment boxes I wrote about distribution of similar music magazines and how my magazine would be distributed.
InDesign:
I used Indesign to first make my college magazine cover at the start of the year, I also used it for the text in my double page spread for my music magazine.
Technologies I have used:
All my coursework over the past few months has been uploaded onto my own personal blog. The work here goes from the finished magazine all the way back to my first research and planning posts.
Prezi:
Using a programme called 'Prezi' I made my publication plan which was where I listed features of my magazine such as price, name, where it would be sold and regular content. On Prezi I made this plan as a sort of spider diagran that you can move along to each point.
Adobe Photoshop was the key programme in making my magazine. All of my magazine production was done on this on this programme, the cover (shown on left), the contents page and the double page spread were all created using photoshop. My photoshop skills have advanced a great deal from when we first did the photoshop tuturials at the start of the year.
I used FlickR to talk about distribution. I uploaded images of my magazine and in the comment boxes I wrote about distribution of similar music magazines and how my magazine would be distributed.
I used Indesign to first make my college magazine cover at the start of the year, I also used it for the text in my double page spread for my music magazine.
SLR Camera:
For my magazine pictures I used an SLR camera to take them. I think the quality was very good, and they looked quite professional. My skills with using the SLR cameras has improved from the start of the year.
Evaluation Question 4
Who would be the audience for your media product? Why?
The audience for my magazine would be a teenage boy who is 16/17 years old. This is due to my audience research being carried out on people of this age group. Also stereotypically the people who are fans of the indie/rock genre are teenage males. Typically they have long hair with sweeping fringes and wear chequered shirts and skinny jeans. This is the type of clothes worn in my drawing.
The audience for my magazine would be a teenage boy who is 16/17 years old. This is due to my audience research being carried out on people of this age group. Also stereotypically the people who are fans of the indie/rock genre are teenage males. Typically they have long hair with sweeping fringes and wear chequered shirts and skinny jeans. This is the type of clothes worn in my drawing.
Evaluation Question 3
Evaluation Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Both photographs are from the same angle and are also a similar shot type, my photo is a medium close-up and the one I'm comparing it to is more of a mid shot. The costumes are very similar, both people are wearing black leather jackets, quite the stereotypical look for artists of the rock genre. Also they have similar hair styles, blonde and wavy and also they both have bright red lipstick, however the artist on the right has darker eye make up. And they both have things round their necks, in my photograph she has a bandana and in the other she has a necklace. The facial expressions in both photos are alike, they both have a kind of dark feel to them and a quite stern look in their faces. The posture they have both used are similar with their shoulders tilted slightly forward. The backgrounds used are different, my photo is taken against a red background where as the photo in comparison is against a white background. The other photo uses more light and is a brighter photo and mine is more darker with a blue tinge to it which is an effect I purposely used on the SLR camera. The blue tinge on photographs is often used in music magazines of the indie/rock genre.
Both photographs are from the same angle and are also a similar shot type, my photo is a medium close-up and the one I'm comparing it to is more of a mid shot. The costumes are very similar, both people are wearing black leather jackets, quite the stereotypical look for artists of the rock genre. Also they have similar hair styles, blonde and wavy and also they both have bright red lipstick, however the artist on the right has darker eye make up. And they both have things round their necks, in my photograph she has a bandana and in the other she has a necklace. The facial expressions in both photos are alike, they both have a kind of dark feel to them and a quite stern look in their faces. The posture they have both used are similar with their shoulders tilted slightly forward. The backgrounds used are different, my photo is taken against a red background where as the photo in comparison is against a white background. The other photo uses more light and is a brighter photo and mine is more darker with a blue tinge to it which is an effect I purposely used on the SLR camera. The blue tinge on photographs is often used in music magazines of the indie/rock genre.
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