Christmas Holiday Task

Tasks:

Research: 10/11^th December to end of term

1.    Collect some evidence of current music magazines: NME, Kerrang, Q

2.    Analyse how they construct meaning for their audience – Front page, contents, double page spreads

3.    Establish a set of rules (codes and conventions they use) / guide to creating a effective music magazine – for each page

4.    Keep a record of your research

Planning: Xmas holidays, for presentation to class 9^th January 2012

5.    Decide what type of music magazine you are going to design – what is the purpose of your magazine?

6.    Decide who is the audience (who is it aimed at?) – this will affect your design

7.    Draft sketch what you want on your front cover: colour, images, title, text, etc. – explain why (follow your rules)

8.    Draft ideal contents

9.    Photograph appropriate images for each page: stage a band / artist – consider locations, costume, props, makeup

10. Draft interview for double page spread – consider language used appropriate to genre and audience

11. Keep a record of your planning

This Week in Media

This week in media we had to do a presentation to the rest of the class. In the presentation we was presenting our post 16 magazine front cover and contents page. Where I had to talk about why I used the style that I did, why did I use the colours that I did. Then the rest of the group had to give me feedback on how they think it went, what was good about my magazine design and what could be improved.

Feedback:

What went well?

• Good use of colour- use the Harris Academy Beckenham colours (red,blue)
• front page set out well. Also the contents page
• An attractive front cover and contents page
• Use the same colour for front cover and contents
• The front cover theme match's contents page

What could be improved?

• The text used is not big enough on the front page. Increase the size
• Use more key words and talk about what I learnt from my research
• Made the text more clearer and larger
• Make the sell point the main focus and stand out from other subheadings

My Conclusion:

I think that the feedback that I was given by my class mates was helpful, as they noticed the areas where I went wrong and the way I could improve it ,for an example they talked about the size of the font that I used and next time I should make the font bigger and more clearer, they said the ways I could do this is by printing the front cover out to see what It would look like close up as a magazine with this help I will take into account the feedback when im doing my next task. I think next time when I have to start making my music magazine, I have to do more reasearch before hand and spot out the key aspects that magazines use to drew in their target audience with this help I could make my magazine look even more professional. I also feel in my Christmas holiday I should do reasearch on the computer or even reading a magazine and just get the main details that the magazine uses.

This week in media:7th December

What did we do in this week's lesson:
This week in media I had to finish off and improve my post 16 news magazine front and contents page. I had to make any last minute improvements to it, add any extra things that I felt I need to improve in order to get the best possible magazine.
Why was this lesson helpful?
I felt this lesson was helpful because this was the last lesson to make the magazine the best it can be because it was the last chance I would get before I had to present to my class and give them feedback on what I did and why I did it.
The improvements made:
The improvements that I actually made to my magazine was how the writing was laid out on the contents page and what colour it would have around the writing. I also change the background colour to navy blue as I wanted to firstly make it more 'Harris Academy Beckenham' theme and as well make it match the front cover more as I wasn't quite happy with the link between the two as I felt they was too different.

My last Front Cover and Contents page:

Post 16 Magazine

What I had to do this week:
This week in media, I had to start making my own magazine front page and contents page for Harris Academy Beckenham sixth form. Firstly I had to take my own photos for the magazine and make up a name for the magazine, Then I had to use what I learn in class in In-Design and ideas from other professional magazines to make my own one.
The colours I used I tried and match the HABE theme which is red and blue as well I used white.

The problems:

The problems that I occurred during this task were the program that I had to use to make this magazine. The problems I had with In-Design is knowing where the tools were and what each one does and how it can make my magazine better. The other problems I had was trying to get the right blend with the type of writing and the images that I took with the colour that I was going to use for the background and the writing

The front Page;my first attempt:

The Contents Page:

 As well as making my front cover for the magazine I also made a contents page for it. On this you will see  pictures that I took as well as information of all the topics that's going to be on each page. Again I tried to keep to the same colours that I used which was blue,red and white.

The problems with creating the contents page:

The problems that I had with creating the contents page was the layout of the page, as I struggled to know where I should put the information and what sort of style it should be, as well as the colours being used on the page as I wanted to link it to my front page. I also had problems with what images that I should use as I wanted to refer back to what my actual magazine is about and trying to fill up the space that I had lefted

Contents page below: