Sunday 18 January 2009
Questionnaire
This is my questionnaire in which I handed out to survey for decisions on my magazine.
Question 5 asked opinions on price limits. It showed that most people surveyed had a price limit of ranging £1.10 and £2. This will be useful to know when applying a price to my own music magazine. Those located at the lower and high end of the price scale accumilated less people. The results showed that most people would not pay more than £3 for a magazine and most people would pay around the £1.10 - £2 price range.
Question 6 asked an opinion on a font colour and style, as an example of the type of style that might be used for the front cover's masthead. Results showed that people would have a pink outline to the font.
Question 7 was a follow on question, from question 6, and asked if the previous font's outline colour should change with each issue. This type of masthead variation has been adopted by other magazines such as 'POP'. The results concluded that the title should change according to issue.
Question 7 was a follow on question, from question 6, and asked if the previous font's outline colour should change with each issue. This type of masthead variation has been adopted by other magazines such as 'POP'. The results concluded that the title should change according to issue.
Mood Board
Here I have created a mood board. A mood board is a collection of pictures and ideas for a project. In my mood board, have focused on artists who are classified as electro/hiphop/pop genre. Artists can range from newer artists, such as Lady Gaga, and older artists, for example Madonna. The background was a series of different coloured lines. This signifies the electro side of the magazine and the neon colours of the clubbing scene. This mood board also features famous djs and rap artists, such as niyi and jme. These artists were chosen due to their fashion style and influence on the type of music that will be features in this magazine.
Sunday 11 January 2009
Evaluation
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Using forms and conventions from existing media products, I have created a front cover and a contents page. On the front cover, I have chosen a brightly coloured masthead; this is to make it more recognisable to the reader. The mast head also has a play on words, the capital “U”, is meaning it is addressing the audience, making it more personal to the reader. Below it, the strap line reads “promising the best sixth form educational news”, this is a persuading technique which is short and memorisable by the reader and it also could be considered as a buyer promise, which is used to reassure buyers of the quality they will be getting. Below the strap line is the issue number and the month of issue, this means readers can keep track of how many issues they have and if, in chance, they are missing an issue, a reference can be used via the issue number. The use of kickers on the front cover expose to the reader to what is featured in the magazine. On my cover, I have only chosen to include two kickers with accompanying explanatory text. If I were to do a similar task in the future, I would include more kickers, to give the reader a bigger incentive into the magazine. The lack of a main kicker is also a convention that should be included in my magazine. The cover also doesn’t have a bar code, as I felt that it should be a free educational magazine to inform students on sixth form life.
I have also created a contents page, using existing media products as a basis for my designs. I have used images, text and page numbers to create the page and show the reader, to a full extent, what is inside the magazine. I chose to edit the images i had taken, i duplicated the image on then left so it would mirror onto the opposite page. This gave the magazine a high class design aura, which is appropriate to the topic and sophistication of universities.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The front cover represents those who are attending sixth form. The cover shows different aspects of sixth form life such as music, current affairs and ongoing debates.
My contents page could represent the more art centred students, due to the design and high contrast. It seems more creative based than the front cover. The contents page shows the editorial in the magazine, which includes being a current sixth form student and life afterwards.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
In terms of distribution, it would be given out to students in a sixth form college/ school. This may be given in morning registration or sent to the students address. This is so students and parents of students may keep up to date with the type of events occurring in their sixth form.
What would be the audience for your media product?
The audience of my media product is aimed at current sixth form students and parents of these students. The language and topics, specific to this audience, are not to complex or simple for either spectrums of the audience to feel patronised or threatened.
How did you attract/address your audience?
On the front cover, I used appropriate fonts and colours, which complimented the type of magazine image, I was trying to portray and the use of persuasive techniques, such as the strap line, to draw the readers’ attention. The use of a current student, as a model, shows a representative connection between the magazine and the audience.
My contents page uses high contrast colours to attract attention, the use of editing first hand images edited to fit the purpose of the magazine, portrays the style in which the sixth form students in a retrospect. Instead of just being studious teenagers, they are also fun living and young.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Throughout the implementation of this product, I have learnt to expand my knowledge of Photoshop and Microsoft publisher. In Photoshop, the use of the magic background eraser tool became most useful to me, as it removed the cloudy sky, in my image.
Using forms and conventions from existing media products, I have created a front cover and a contents page. On the front cover, I have chosen a brightly coloured masthead; this is to make it more recognisable to the reader. The mast head also has a play on words, the capital “U”, is meaning it is addressing the audience, making it more personal to the reader. Below it, the strap line reads “promising the best sixth form educational news”, this is a persuading technique which is short and memorisable by the reader and it also could be considered as a buyer promise, which is used to reassure buyers of the quality they will be getting. Below the strap line is the issue number and the month of issue, this means readers can keep track of how many issues they have and if, in chance, they are missing an issue, a reference can be used via the issue number. The use of kickers on the front cover expose to the reader to what is featured in the magazine. On my cover, I have only chosen to include two kickers with accompanying explanatory text. If I were to do a similar task in the future, I would include more kickers, to give the reader a bigger incentive into the magazine. The lack of a main kicker is also a convention that should be included in my magazine. The cover also doesn’t have a bar code, as I felt that it should be a free educational magazine to inform students on sixth form life.
I have also created a contents page, using existing media products as a basis for my designs. I have used images, text and page numbers to create the page and show the reader, to a full extent, what is inside the magazine. I chose to edit the images i had taken, i duplicated the image on then left so it would mirror onto the opposite page. This gave the magazine a high class design aura, which is appropriate to the topic and sophistication of universities.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The front cover represents those who are attending sixth form. The cover shows different aspects of sixth form life such as music, current affairs and ongoing debates.
My contents page could represent the more art centred students, due to the design and high contrast. It seems more creative based than the front cover. The contents page shows the editorial in the magazine, which includes being a current sixth form student and life afterwards.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
In terms of distribution, it would be given out to students in a sixth form college/ school. This may be given in morning registration or sent to the students address. This is so students and parents of students may keep up to date with the type of events occurring in their sixth form.
What would be the audience for your media product?
The audience of my media product is aimed at current sixth form students and parents of these students. The language and topics, specific to this audience, are not to complex or simple for either spectrums of the audience to feel patronised or threatened.
How did you attract/address your audience?
On the front cover, I used appropriate fonts and colours, which complimented the type of magazine image, I was trying to portray and the use of persuasive techniques, such as the strap line, to draw the readers’ attention. The use of a current student, as a model, shows a representative connection between the magazine and the audience.
My contents page uses high contrast colours to attract attention, the use of editing first hand images edited to fit the purpose of the magazine, portrays the style in which the sixth form students in a retrospect. Instead of just being studious teenagers, they are also fun living and young.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Throughout the implementation of this product, I have learnt to expand my knowledge of Photoshop and Microsoft publisher. In Photoshop, the use of the magic background eraser tool became most useful to me, as it removed the cloudy sky, in my image.
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