Media Studies Timeline

7^th January 2012: Done research for my music magazine and start to make a PowerPoint to present to my class

18^th January 2012: I presented to my class what I will be making my music magazine on and what research I did.

20^th January 2012: Put my presentation on my blog

25^th January 2012: Start to get organised with my work and start planning for my magazine

27^th January 2012: Start to take at least 5 photos for my music magazine (Jerome)

30^th January 2012: improve my skills on In-Design

1^st February 2012: Practice make of my music magazine

Resources:

·        Model(Jerome)

·        Music Headphones(dr beats)

·        Camera

·        Music studio

·        CD’s?

Camera Shooting:

I will be using my model (Jerome) with his head phones on his head posing seriously (my research shows my genre magazine uses this) I will make him pose like his just done an important interview.

Front Cover:

The colours that I will be using will most likely be red and black but with a plain white background to make the image and the text stands out. I will have the image in the middle of the page so it stands out with the masthead behind the images head. I will have the key features text slightly bigger than the rest of the text like mini sub headings.

Planning Timeline

• Using the coursework brief (Student Drive: Media: As: Portfolio) design a time line for your production.  Working back from the deadline (using a calendar) work out your production schedule.
• Equipment:  What resources do you need to complete this brief?
• Shooting:  Who is your model?  Where will you shoot?  When?  Costume? props? Lights?
• Frontcover:  What will it look like?  Fonts, colours, text, images?  Sketch and a#scan your design ideas
• Content / Double page (as above)

Christmas Work:Magazine 1

2.  This magazine above is a well know music magazine. However this is a Christmas special as it says "Massive Christmas double issue" so this appeals to the audience who buy it every week because it’s a Christmas special so they think it going to be more music features inside.
Furthermore on this edition they got a well know music icon in Simon Cowell, they done this because it’s a special edition to the magazine and also because people who don't read 'NME' they will still get drawn in because they will know who Simon Cowell is so they might buy that magazine. As well it will make them want to read on to the contents page to see if there's more about Simon Cowell as his the main focus on the front of the magazine.
Furthermore on this edition they got a well know music icon in Simon Cowell, they done this because it’s a special edition to the magazine and also because people who don't read 'NME' they will still get drawn in because they will know who Simon Cowell is so they might buy that magazine. As well it will make them want to read on to the contents page to see if there's more about Simon Cowell as his the main focus on the front of the magazine.
3.  NME uses a Christmas theme in the background with the snow over the heading 'NME' and Christmas ball balls with the special inside editions that will be inside, this shows this is a one off Christmas magazine and they won’t use the same theme for every edition. The background colour of grey gets the reader to focus on this picture and helps the title, subheadings and the image stand out more to the reader. To extend the colours used are Christmas colour for an example red and white, the white is representing the snowy theme. The main image used of Simon Cowell is representing the whole music industry, so the audience may want to buy it as they will have feature of their sort of music, so it's not aimed at just one type of music. Lastly the word 'Grinch' is used as it's a well-known Christmas film, so the image of Simon Cowell posing seriously so he reflects his image as an harsh, scary and bossy person similar to Grinch, i also feel with the word 'Grinch' being used it shows that Simon Cowell is rare to be speaking out on a magazine like this similar to the Grinch being quiet character.
4. The research that I done so far is all about this magazine as I read the magazine and then went on to reading the other editions, it is different to this one as it don't use the image in the same way and the background is completely different, also the text box's used are different to this one.