Saturday, 26 March 2011

EVALUATION Q6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

EVALUATION Q5- How did you attract/address your audience?

EVALUATION Q4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who would be the audience for your media product?
This is my 'Reader Profile' for my music magazine which lists my audiences interests, character traits and general statistic. In order to reflect that of a professional reader profile such a 'NME' ( as dispayed below) I have tried to make my own one continue the colour scheme illustrated within my entire magazine to exemplify my brand identity as well as making it visually attractive.

EVALUATION Q3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?

EVALUATION Q2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION Q1- In what ways does your media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

AMENDED DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD

DRAFT DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD

Saturday, 19 March 2011

Feedback

Kalise you have made excellent progress with all aspects of the foundation production. Your magazine front page needs very little in the way of improvement. I would suggest smooting the cropping of your model's hair on the front page and consider repositioning some of the copy / cover lines. Your contents page is impressive - you just need to do a bit of airbrushing of some of the images.

Monday, 14 March 2011

Rejected images






 
Here the model wasnt ready for the photo and seems to be laughing during the shot.

                        I was really fond of the image initially, as I liked the composition using  the
 keyboard and the models firm pose and facial expression, however, I decided
 not to use this in my final magazine as I found that my chosen image was
significantly more effective.
                                                        




Within this photo I found that it just didnt look professional enough and after analysing real music magazines, realised that the pose was quite ordinary and deposited no sense of individuality or originality and so this image was dismissed. Furthermore, I found that the model looked too young and her clothing was not appropraiate as well as the act that the detail on her top was not visible.







I found that this pose was a bit awkward and wouldnt work very well within my magazine. In addition the keyboard becomes the main focus of the image, in effect, diverting attention from the artist herself. Similarly, her facial expression was slightly dull as if she hadnt been ready for the photograph.





I liked this photo as it is quite edgy, which is ultimately the image that I aim to portray however, after some contemplation, I found that it was slightly too provocative, in terms of the artists pose with her hands between her legs and her tense facial expression.-I aimed for a more light-hearted yet fun sense.





Here the photograph came out blurry as the model 'producer' was moving during the shot.






 I found here that a high angle shot did not work very well and together with the adopted pose, would not reflect the professional camera work generally seen in authentic magazines.

Production Log

I am now in the process of completing my contents page. The image above displays how my contents page looks at the moment where I am experimenting with different layouts, texts and colours in order to find my desired composition of the page.