This is now the beginning of my music magazine task. I will update my blog with new work and I will update and add pieces of work in progress giving you, the examiner an insight into my production steps.
I will also post developments of work and post stages of my work in process to show the production stages.
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Evaluation.
Evaluation:
In my magazine, I tried to make it look as professional and expensive as possible, by conforming to the idea of a convention magazine. All the magazines in which I have looked at have a mast head that is at the top of the magazine. This is a typical feature of a magazine so; I decided that I would also do this as this makes the magazine look professional.
I also noted that most magazines have barcodes on them, usually on the left hand corner or sometimes even on the back but because I felt that my mast-head had something missing so I decided to place in on the side of my title. This is unusual for a magazine but considering I had no space in the bottom left hand corner, I decided to place it in a more convenient place for me. This also broke a convention of the past as usually, barcodes are situated in the bottom left hand corner so this change was good.
Another convention, in which I conformed to, was placing most of my text onto one side of the magazine. I decided to do this because I felt that it made the magazine look more professional and organised. By putting the text and topics in which were going to be discussed in the magazine onto ONE side, I felt that it was a more tidy way of doing things.
Usually, text does not overlap on the cover person’s face but because I had to go by the guidelines of having only one person on the shot, I felt that by placing text over the other person’s face would make the person irrelevant. I didn’t want to crop the photo because I felt that having two people in it would make the photo look as if it is in a friendly community.
By having two people in the shot shows that they are in a homely and friendly environment. The fact that both of the people were Asian doesn’t necessarily mean that they have their own specific cliques. It shows friendship and reassurance that people any race and any ethnicity can come to the college. It also shows that if you feel comfortable being within a certain social group, you can be accepted into that group with no problems at all. I followed a key convention of other magazines by making the two girls look happy. I wanted to depict a friendly and fun environment.
I didn’t make the girls dress in any particular way. By doing this, I feel that I showed the diversity of clothing and free will to wear what you want (as long as it is acceptable) to college.
By placing my text in different fonts and colours, I felt that this would catch the audience’s attention and would hopefully make someone want to pick it up. I used subtle and calm colours so that it isn’t too striking but, I also used some eye-catching elements. I put the title in bold and gave it a white shadow. By doing this, I feel that it makes the title a bit more attractive. I decided to use Standard English for my magazine because I felt that by using slang, it would limit the audience of the magazine to people who speak slang. This is not what I wanted to do, I wanted my magazine to appeal to everyone so bearing that in mind, I decided to use Standard English.
The girl in the photo with the blue scarf is dressed in an ordinary manner. She is wearing clothes in which anyone could wear. She has a white t-shirt on with what seems to be a heart on it, which a grey unzipped hoodie and a blue scarf. In college, you are bound to see many other people with the same dress sense and you will probably see someone wearing similar clothing. I feel that this depicts that students can wear what they want. Also, the student’s hair is not so neat. I did this deliberately to show that however you look, you can still join the college community and that people are not singled out because of the way they dress. It shows free-spirit and also shows that other students needn’t be conscious of the way they look.
In my magazine, I tried to make it look as professional and expensive as possible, by conforming to the idea of a convention magazine. All the magazines in which I have looked at have a mast head that is at the top of the magazine. This is a typical feature of a magazine so; I decided that I would also do this as this makes the magazine look professional.
I also noted that most magazines have barcodes on them, usually on the left hand corner or sometimes even on the back but because I felt that my mast-head had something missing so I decided to place in on the side of my title. This is unusual for a magazine but considering I had no space in the bottom left hand corner, I decided to place it in a more convenient place for me. This also broke a convention of the past as usually, barcodes are situated in the bottom left hand corner so this change was good.
Another convention, in which I conformed to, was placing most of my text onto one side of the magazine. I decided to do this because I felt that it made the magazine look more professional and organised. By putting the text and topics in which were going to be discussed in the magazine onto ONE side, I felt that it was a more tidy way of doing things.
Usually, text does not overlap on the cover person’s face but because I had to go by the guidelines of having only one person on the shot, I felt that by placing text over the other person’s face would make the person irrelevant. I didn’t want to crop the photo because I felt that having two people in it would make the photo look as if it is in a friendly community.
By having two people in the shot shows that they are in a homely and friendly environment. The fact that both of the people were Asian doesn’t necessarily mean that they have their own specific cliques. It shows friendship and reassurance that people any race and any ethnicity can come to the college. It also shows that if you feel comfortable being within a certain social group, you can be accepted into that group with no problems at all. I followed a key convention of other magazines by making the two girls look happy. I wanted to depict a friendly and fun environment.
I didn’t make the girls dress in any particular way. By doing this, I feel that I showed the diversity of clothing and free will to wear what you want (as long as it is acceptable) to college.
By placing my text in different fonts and colours, I felt that this would catch the audience’s attention and would hopefully make someone want to pick it up. I used subtle and calm colours so that it isn’t too striking but, I also used some eye-catching elements. I put the title in bold and gave it a white shadow. By doing this, I feel that it makes the title a bit more attractive. I decided to use Standard English for my magazine because I felt that by using slang, it would limit the audience of the magazine to people who speak slang. This is not what I wanted to do, I wanted my magazine to appeal to everyone so bearing that in mind, I decided to use Standard English.
The girl in the photo with the blue scarf is dressed in an ordinary manner. She is wearing clothes in which anyone could wear. She has a white t-shirt on with what seems to be a heart on it, which a grey unzipped hoodie and a blue scarf. In college, you are bound to see many other people with the same dress sense and you will probably see someone wearing similar clothing. I feel that this depicts that students can wear what they want. Also, the student’s hair is not so neat. I did this deliberately to show that however you look, you can still join the college community and that people are not singled out because of the way they dress. It shows free-spirit and also shows that other students needn’t be conscious of the way they look.
Contents
This is my contents page. I didn't want to put photos it because I felt I would go against the typical conventions of a contents page.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Final front cover piece.
This is my final front cover piece. I feel that it looks better and can now appeal to more people both females and males. Making the colours and texts different from the other pieces of text on the front cover reminded me of how a real magazine would look. I looked at a real magazine front cover and tried to base my work around that.
My first draft for my front cover.
This was my first draft for my magazine front cover.
I used several texts and colours to try and catch the readers attention. I also thought that the fonts were too bright and distracting so I have decided that in the next one, I will make the colours more subtle and calm so that it is eye catchy but yet, not too distracting.
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