Music Magazine

In the 'Music' magazine task i had to create a front cover and a double page spread. This idea meant that i had to decide upon the colour scheme, Font style, Font size, photography, transparacy settings and much, much, more.

At a first glance, my magazine reflects the usual traditional conventions of a music magazine, using a masthead, coverlines and background image. However to give the magazine an 'original' edge on other competitors, i have included the use of enticing special 'features' that are original to the magazine. The use of the original image which i took of the band shows the three coloumn rule and is an exceptionally good photograph. Also the way i have edited the lighting seems to give the photo a greater and far more powerful effect. Also the use of coverlines spread out across the magazine front cover helps to immediately show the target audience that there is a variety of articles in the magazine.

I feel that my school magazine represents not only the children of the school, but also their parents and also the teachers. I have tried to ensure that my magazine provides both the adults and the children an unbiased insight into both views from the students and teachers. Also the fact that i have not aimed the magazine at a particular social group within the students merely adds to the potential profit that could be made from the magazine.

From looking at the magazine front cover it is easy to see that the magazine is generally aimed at the students yet with a sub-target audience being parents of the students and perhaps even teachers. This would hopefully be of use for them and will help with profit. I aim to be able to attract the audiance by publicising the subjects that they want to know more about, or the general intrests of the students and writing about them in my magazine.

Constructing this magazine was mainly about discovering the technologies within the software and finding out how they work, what they can do and how i would be able to interpret this and include them in my magazine. I used Adobe Photoshop for this magazine and used many of its tools. This will also help me in the future when making other magazines.

I have learnt many skills and techniques in this task, such as cropping, editing, ree-styling and even re-lighting. I am glad with my overall effort, however it is clear to see that there is still room for improvement.

Prelim Task

In the prelim task, we had to create a 'school' magazine using our own original photograph and tools. This idea meant that i had to decide upon the colour scheme, Font style, Font size, photography and much, much, more.

At a first glance, my magazine reflects the usual traditional conventions of any magazine, using a masthead, coverlines and background image. However to give the magazine an 'original' edge on other competitors, i have included the use of enticing special 'features' that are original to the magazine. One key factor that is highly visible to the eye is the fact that on the front cover of the magazine there is indication of price. I have decided to leave the price on the back cover, in order to not take the attention from what i have on the front cover.

I feel that my school magazine represents not only the children of the school, but also their parents and also the teachers. I have tried to ensure that my magazine provides both the adults and the children an unbiased insight into both views from the students and teachers. Also the fact that i have not aimed the magazine at a particular social group within the students merely adds to the potential profit that could be made from the magazine.

From looking at the magazine front cover it is easy to see that the magazine is generally aimed at the students yet with a sub-target audience being parents of the students and perhaps even teachers. This would hopefully be of use for them and will help with profit. I aim to be able to attract the audiance by publicising the subjects that they want to know more about, or the general intrests of the students and writing about them in my magazine.

Constructing this magazine was mainly about discovering the technologies within the software and finding out how they work, what they can do and how i would be able to interpret this and include them in my magazine. I used Adobe Photoshop for this magazine and used many of its tools. This will also help me in the future when making other magazines.

I have learnt many skills and techniques in this task, such as cropping, editing, ree-styling and even re-lighting. I am glad with my overall effort, however it is clear to see that there is still room for improvement.

Media Studies AS Level

So far in the AS media course, I have done the following tasks:

• Magazine front cover and double page spead analysis - In this task i had to analyze the front cover and double page spread of a music magazine. I had tpo comment on the layout, colours used and whether or not it would appeal to the target audience.
• Picture critque - In this task i had to take 6 original photographs and then analyze them, talking about framing, composition, sharpness, focus and the clarity of the meaning of the picture.
• Website Analysis -In this task i had to compare two music magazine websites and comment on the layout, colours, appeal to the target audience, what content the website had that was not inclded in the magazine, etc.
• Preliminary task - For this task i had to create layout designs for the front cover and double page spread of my school magazine. I also took original photographs of the school and students to fit into my magazine.