Evaluation: Task 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?

Double Page Spread: in the preliminary task we didn't do a double page spread but i can imagine that my final one would be much better than one i created at the start of the year

Overall i mainly learnt about the different things that go to make a magazine and why they do them, i think my biggest improvement from the prelim to the final is the contents page as you can easily see each thing and what part of the magazine it belongs to whether the usual items or reviews.

Evaluation: Task 6

Websites: and the internet in general, being always connected to the internet meant that if i had a sudden rush of insperation i could look it up using something like http://www.google.com/ and then even post it to my blog.

Blogger: This was the most important website I used in creating my magazine, this was where I posted all of my work and progress to share for the class and teacher to see, with blogger you can include images, sound and videos in your posts along with other things that you can embed. I didn’t find using the website was a big problems as I had a blog with blogger previously so all the basic features I knew how to use. The problem came when I needed to change the date or time a post was posted but as an increased my posts and the use of changing the date became more frequent I soon learnt how to do it effectively.

Sribd: This is a useful website that I used in conjunction with my blog, this website allowed me to upload a word document I had created and then gave me an embedding code I then would put on my blog, and it was very useful in saving time. With anything there were problems with the uploading, if I was to upload a document with tables or images in then commonly they would move around and cover the text so I found in the end it was just as easy to put images on the blog when I needed text and images side by side.

Slideshare: This was similar to Sribd in that it let me upload a document from my computer and then embed it to a post but unlike it using a Word document it took a PowerPoint document.

Software:

Photoshop: For creating the magazine I only used one piece of software Photoshop, this is primarily an image manipulation programme so the obvious choice when it came to editing the photos. It has a vast range of tool which meant I could do things like cut out a person from the background to changing the colouring on a piece of clothing or the vibrancy of face colour. It also uses layers which mean that you can place things on top of each other and edit them independently. I had used Photoshop a little before but only to manipulate photos the first chance I came across to make anything like a magazine was in our preliminary task which only took a couple of lessons to complete so I was worried when it came to adding texts to the page however looking at my final magazine I feel that I got the hand of this. Another good thing came when finally saving my finished item you could save it as a JPEG file which meant it could easily be sent and printed as well as been put on my blog.

Equipment:

Camera: For taking the photos i used a Sony NEX-5 camera with a 18-55mm lens, i used a DSLR rather than a point and shoot style as it gave me more control over the shutter speed which i needed when taking the photos with the fire, I did use a point and shoot on my prelim but I felt when it came to editing them I should use a camera that had a better picture quality. I didn’t have many problems with this but one that I did come across is that the flash that came with the camera was poor and therefore I had to use an extra light to brighten up the scene.

Tripod: I attached the camera to a Velbon Stratos 480 tripod so i could keep the photos straight in and reduce shake from my hand it also meant i could keep the camera in the same position whilst i sorted out my models

Laptop: I used this for everything, because it had Photoshop already on it meant that I could use it in school to edit them at home and because I brought it in school it meant that I could maximise my time and carry on with work in free periods. Because I was using a MacBook Pro there was very little delay in opening and editing on Photoshop which reduced the waiting around time.

Evaluation: Task 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation: Task 4

Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?



Target Audience Profile

Name: Joe Chamberlain
Age: 17

Gender: Male

Occupation: High Grade Student 

Lifestyle: Social goes to parties, quite wealthy, shops allot and listens to music

Ambitions: 

• to have a job in the media but really wants to be a manager of an magazine company
• Live in London
• Have multiple homes

Likes: 

• towns and shopping centers 
• music to be shared 
• Parties 
• Individuality 
• Socializing (eating out ect)
• Opinionated people
• Looking and sounding up to date
• Technology 

Dislikes: 

• messy people
• Fake people (people that hide allot of what they think)
• Unreasonable people 

Musical Preferences:

• pop music 
• Less mainstream music 
• dubstep 
• not affraid to go against the grain and listen to music that other people (peers) dont like

Media Consumer Habits:

• magazines 
• Social networks (blogs, twitter, facebook ect) 
• Uses the internet regularly 
• Downloading music 
• Owns iPod 

This is how i would feel my audience would spend their

time when thinking about media.

Disposable Income 

• spends money on clothes and shoes
• shops in H&M, Topman and Wellgosh
• likes to wear brands 
• shoes is a big part (Nikes)
• shops in towns and online to find a bargain

Hobbies

• go out with friends to cinema, eat, town
• watches movies

Evaluation: Task 3

When It came to thinking about who would publish ‘ECHO’ there was only one choice and that would be IPC Media. This was because in it portfolio of magazines it has the biggest music on (in my opinion) NME and with such a powerful music magazine in the same publisher as mine would not only show that IPC believe ‘ECHO’ is a good magazine but it is also possible to easily print an advert for ‘ECHO’ in NME and to some extent “ECHO’ could become a subordinate of NME that mainly focuses on the electronic side of the magazine. Not only is it that IPC has NME as a name in its portfolio it has other major popular brands art NUTS, Now, TVTime and Marie Clair. As a company ICP began in 1963 and produce over 60 media brands and they claim that through print they reach ‘almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men – almost 26 million UK adults’. Which would mean with the backing of IPC Media my magazine would get a wide circulation that would give allot or profit allowing the magazine to grow bigger and get a huge reputation for being on the forefront of music.

Evaluation: Task 2

When creating my group for the magazine i thought instead of trying to come up with a group and have to make allot of the information up i decided to copy an existing group, this meant that focusing on every part about them meant I was able to come up with an outstanding and relatable group. To do this I went for a group in my genre and one that I knew would be easy to recreate with the time and resources I had; this is why I chose Magnetic Man. The obvious similarities are they both consist of 3 males; this was one of the reasons of choosing said band as I knew three males would be easy to get for my photos. One other thing that are the same but only by coincidence is the base colour of the outfits are black, I would of done this weather they not be wearing black in the press shot of MM as it gave me a strong and versatile base in to add text to. Where I did draw exact influence from the photo on the right as Skream and Joe are both wearing a tie, this adds the formality and sharpness I wanted to put across in the group – however I did change the colour of it in post production as I needed the colour scheme (black, white, purple) to be in the photo somehow. Another direct copy of the right photo is that Skream is standing slightly forward in the shot and so is Joe in mine, although in MM there is no leader as such I wanted there to be one in my group and seeing as Joe is the one doing the vocals I figured it should be him. It is purely by coincidence that they both similar hairstyles but this does a good job of strengthening the bond.

Along with allot of similarities I did feel that there needed to be something that made my magazine and the group on the cover independent. My group are an all white group, this was by intentions but I also don’t think that it detracts from the genre or overall feel of the magazine. There was one thing I dint like with the press shot of Magnetic Man and that was that all of three of them are wearing different expressions I thought I doesn’t show good unity between the members of for my group I made sure that all of them have the same expression on their face and were looking straight at the camera. Finally as I just mentioned I have all of my models facing the camera unlike in MM where they are slightly facing the middle man.

Evaluation: Taks 1

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