Evaluation

Media evaluation!


For my media project I had to produce a music magazine which consisted of making a front cover, a contents page and a double page spread. We also had to do research and planning for this which we had to present on our blogs. My blog is amy-clunie.blogspot.com. on this blog I did textual analysis of everything from what I researched.
Firstly I researched other music magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads to get ideas for different layouts and also to get ideas on how to make it look appealing to my target audience. My target audience is 13 -19 year-olds, both boys and girls and anyone interested in pop and R&B music. My magazine name is Fusion, the idea behind the name is that it is a fusion of two different music genres. I did some drafts before starting to make my magazine using publisher just to get an idea of what it may look like. I also done a mood board to get a feel of what my magazine will be like.
I then started my front cover, I done this using adobe Photoshop. I found it easier this time to use Photoshop as we had already had the chance to get use to it when we made our college magazine front covers for practice. Although it was easier I still found it a little difficult to put everything together and also to put things such as barcodes on the cover.
To do this I got ideas from magazines such as Q magazine, vibe magazine and NME magazine. For this we had to take our own images using a digital camera then Photoshop them in. I used my friend Kat as my model for this and took a variety of images, most where close-ups as this is what we were told do in the brief. I think the close-up shot also looks more effective and stands out more to the customer.
On my front cover I have my image as the main focus, the masthead at the top of the page, which is fusion, this also had the date and issue number underneath, then I had small captions around the image of things hat were also going to appear in my magazine. The colour scheme I have decided to use is black, red and blue. The reason I have chosen to use these is because they stand out to most age groups and they look most effective on my cover. The only thing I would have changed is that I would have used different shades of the colours to maybe stand out a little more.
After I had done my front cover I handed it in to get feedback on what I could improve on it to get a better grade, I then improved my cover and now think it looks a lot more effective.
On the front cover I have used the main conventions that music magazines use such as masthead, cover lines, images, date, barcode, captions etc.
Secondly I made my contents page also using Photoshop, I found this the easiest out of all the three things we had to do in the magazine as it was a bit simpler and I done a lot of research for this to get ideas to produce it.
I put the masthead at the top of the page which was F contents with also the date and issue number again. On the left hand side I had the text, which basically had all the contents of the magazine on and on the right hand side I had another image that I had taken of Kat and edited using Photoshop. This was a full length shot that I had taken. I think this image works very well as it stands out and lets the reader realise that this is the main story in the magazine. I have carried throughout the magazine the same colour scheme as I think it works well and it also looks quite classy and I think it would appeal to my target audience.
My double page spread was probably the most difficult to produce as there was a lot more information to put on and also there was a lot of editing on the images that I had to do make them fit properly and look good. Again I have used the same colour schemes throughout the double page spread to fit in with my magazine. To get information for this page I had to interview Kat.
I think if I had to do anything differently on this page it would have to be spending more time on it to improve it and get a better grade.
Overall I have really enjoyed making this magazine as it has been really interesting and fun to do. Out of everything I have enjoyed most making the front cover and have probably spent most time on this. If I had to change anything it would be to have done more research and planning on my blog as I feel I could have got a better grade for this.

Amy Clunie.

Double page spread

This is my double page spread!
My double page spread was probably the most difficult to produce as there was a lot more information to put on it and also there was a lot of editing on the image that I had to do make it fit properly and look good. Again I have used the same colour schemes throughout the double page spread to fit in with my magazine. To get information for this page I had to interview Kat. i asked lots of questions about the music industry and about her character. such as "what do you enjoy most about being a recording artist?" and "when is your new album going to be released then?". i have used half of the double page to feature my image, the image i have used is similar to the front cover image. i have also used similar props and the same location as i did for my front cover so that it fits in with the design of my magazine. i used microsoft publisher to create this double page spread, i found this alot easier than using photshop as it was alot simpler to find things and import my image.

Contents page

To create my contents page i also used Adobe Photoshop, I found this the easiest out of all the three things we had to do in the magazine as it was a bit simpler and I done a lot of research for this to get ideas to produce it.
I put the masthead at the top of the page which was F contents with also the date and issue number again. On the left hand side I had the text, which basically had all the contents of the magazine on and on the right hand side I had another image that I had taken of Kat and edited using Photoshop. This was a full length shot that I had taken. I think this image works very well as it stands out and lets the reader realise that this is the main story in the magazine. i used the same location to take this image, my friends house, only i had my model stand against a blank canvas so that my image stood out. i also used similar props in this image only i had my model wearing a different colour dress. this colour of dress, bright red, was also to fit in with the colour scheme of the magazine.
I have carried throughout the magazine the same colour scheme as I think it works well and it also looks quite classy, also i think it will appeal to my target audience.

Front cover

This is my music magazine front cover!
the target audience for my front cover is 13 -19 year-olds, both boys and girls and anyone interested in pop and R&B music.
to create my front covern i used adobe Photoshop. I found it easier this time using Photoshop as we had already had the chance to get use to it when we made our college magazine front covers for practice. Although it was easier I still found it a little difficult to put everything together and also to put things such as barcodes on the cover.
To create the front cover i got ideas from magazines such as Q magazine, vibe magazine and NME magazine. For this we had to take our own images using a digital camera then Photoshop them in. On my front cover I have my image as the main focus, the masthead at the top of the page, which is fusion, this also had the date and issue number underneath, then I had small captions around the image of things hat were also going to appear in my magazine. The colour scheme I have decided to use is black, red and blue. The reason I have chosen to use these is because they stand out to most age groups and they look most effective on my cover.
I used my friend Kat as my model for this and took a variety of images, most where close-ups as this is what we were told do in the brief. I think the close-up shot also looks more effective and stands out more to the audience. i took the images at my friends house, as we did not need an outdoor loctaion or many props to to create my iadea for a good main image. i had my model stand in front of a unique designed mirror that looked glamourous this was to reflect the model and the brand within the magazine. although i didin't use spectacular props in my image the ones i did use, i thought were very effective. i had my model dressed in a blue party dress, not only because the colour stands out, to fit in with the colour scheme of my front cover. i had lots of jewellery e.g pearls and diamonds, and ribbons drapped on the mirror to reflect the glamour. i also done her makeup quite extravagant as most celebrites, especially when doing photoshoots, have this. the bow in my models hair was purposely put there, so that when my image was incorporated onto my front cover it would cover a small section of my masthead, i think this makes the cover look professional and effective.
The only thing I would have changed is that I would have used different shades of the colours to maybe stand out a little more.
After I had done my front cover I handed it in to get feedback on what I could improve on it to get a better grade, I then improved my cover and now think it looks a lot more effective.
On the front cover I have used the main conventions that music magazines use such as masthead, cover lines, images, date, barcode, captions etc.