JOHN WOODMEDIA EVALUATION

IN WHAT WAY DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE

FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OR REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS: FRONT COVER

My Music Magazine follows many codes and conventions like any

other magazine that is being sold today. The first code and

convention I have used is the ‘Mast Head’ which is the ‘T10T’ title

at the top of my page. It is very important when creating my Mast

Head because it gives my magazine its identity. I had to make it so

it is eye catching yet simple so that people will remember it the

next time they see it. To test and see which ‘Mast Head’ looked

best I tried different fonts. The type of fonts I used where Arial but I

felt it wasn’t bold enough for my mast head. I also tried Calibri

which also looked to thin. I then spotted the ‘Franklin Gothic

Heavy’ text and felt that this worked best as it is easily readable, it

looks good and it is very bold and stands out. I have used the

‘White’ colour text for my Mast Head as It stands out from my blue

themed background of the image. I took inspiration from the

‘VIBE’ magazine as shown above (top left of this slide), As the

white text worked really well against the blue theme setting and it

looks very good and it will attract the teenage age audience as

of which I am trying to achieve. I also took inspiration from it as I

have made the person in my image ‘black and white’ as It looks

good and it also stands out from the blue background.

I have used another code and convention when

creating my magazine front cover, this is a thing called

‘Lure’ this means that I have put something on my page

that will persuade people to buy the magazine, for

example on my magazine I have added ‘Lisa Rankin

Give Us some inspirational tips’ this may then persuade

people to buy this. An example of where this has been

used is in the NME magazine shown below, it tells us that

there are 6 free posters in this magazine, this is slightly

different to what my magazine is offering but it is still

selling you something and my text on the front page will

persuade the person to buy the magazine.

Another convention that I have used when creating my magazine

is that I have added a barcode and price at the bottom ride

hand-side of the page, this is so that the shop keeper can scan it

to check how much the magazine is when a customer is buying it

off them. An example from a magazine who also put the bar

code in the bottom right-hand side corner of the page is the VIBE

magazine shown above.

IN WHAT WAY DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE

FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OR REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS: FRONT COVER

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions or real media products: Front Cover

I have followed another

convention when creating my

magazine and that is I have not

put any text on the person’s face

on my magazine. I stuck by this

convention as I think it looks better

to do it this way and looks much

more professional.

I have also added artists names

down the side of the page, I got

the inspiration of this from the

magazine on the bottom right of

this page as I thought it would be

suitable as I am creating a ‘chart

music’ magazine and it is

basically informing the buyer of

who is inside this magazine. I

chose the black colour text as it is

a different colour from everything

else on the page and it makes it

stand out from everything else so

the buyer may spot it easily due to

this.

I have added a website link to the front

page so that the reader can visit the

website if they need to find out any extra

information on my magazine, I have used

a slightly glowing texting to catch the

readers eye so it is easy to find.

My magazine also has a main cover line

which is ‘R-Jay & Waz-T Return’ I used this as it

sounds really interesting to readers and will

instantly make them want to buy this if they

like the sound of this main cover line whereas

if it was really boring they would be put off

buying the magazine. I have created this text

using photo shop CS5, this is to first of all give

the top line a glow affect, and then to also

make the bottom line ‘return’ to make it very

bold so that it stands out, I chose the colour

white and blue to match my colour scheme

as they both go really well together.

I tried facing the girl in the image the opposite way as theories say that it is meant to look better but I felt that facing the person in the image this way look a lot better. I took inspiration of this from a magazine with Taylor Swift on facing the exact same way. Shown on the right is the magazine cover that I used to get this inspiration.

IN WHAT WAY DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND

CONVENTIONS OR REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS: CONTENTS PAGE

• My Contents page theme is very similar to my main magazine theme, I did not make many changes to the colour scheme but I did add more colour such as ‘red and pink’ due to that on a grey background these colours stood out really well and felt that they worked better than the blue’s or black colour text.

I have followed codes and conventions of other magazines by adding the

page numbers to each contents to inform readers where everything is in the magazine so that they can navigate themselves around it easily.

I used other conventions in my contents page such as the ‘Chart list’ down the side of the page, I took inspiration from the magazine NME where they have a band index down the side of the page, but since I am creating a chart music magazine I

have replaced that for a ‘chart list’ instead as I think it would be more suitable for this magazine.

I have also added a ‘subscribe’ box to make this contents page seem more realistic, I took the inspiration from the NME magazine on

the left, I have made it look very similar yet using my colour scheme so that it fits in with my magazine.

IN WHAT WAY DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND

CONVENTIONS OR REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS: DOUBLE PAGE SPREADOnce again I have kept my

colour scheme when creating my double page spread also, this is to make it seem very professional throughout. I have used conventions in this magazine as I have put an image of the left hand side of the page and I have put mostly all of the text on the other side. I took inspiration from the Kerrang magazine shown below.

I have used conventions of a

real magazine also by adding a

‘main heading’ on this page to

inform the readers what all of

the text on this page is going to

be about, I haven’t used that

much text for my article as I

didn’t want to bore the reader, I

have given them enough

information to keep them

interested.

I have used a drop capital which indicates the start of

my article, I used this as it makes the magazine seem most realistic and professional. I asked media students in my class and there opinions of this was that it made it look very

professional.

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT DIFFERENT SOCIAL GROUPS?

• My magazine is aims at the younger audience of people who are interested in all the different types of music in the charts. Roughly the young teenage audience to the young adult audience so around 11-22 year olds. For my front cover I have tried to make the person in magazine look like Rihanna or a typical famous female singer. I have tried to give the whole magazine a new modern look, as the charts are always producing the newest and best songs up-to-date so I have tried to keep up with this. I have tried to make the person in my magazine look as good as possible as it will fit in with the chart music genre as on most magazine such as ‘vibe/billboard’ they have also done the same thing to impress the buyer.My magazine clearly proves that the genre is ‘chart music’ as for start it mention all artists on the front page who are in the charts and secondly on my contents page it had a ‘top of the charts’ top 10 list which makes it pretty obvious that it is a chart music magazine.

WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MAGAZINE PRODUCT AND

WHY?

• The media institution I would like to publish magazine would have to be Intermedia as they also own the magazine ‘Vibe’ which mine is quite similar to. They also own radio stations which they show on their website. They advertise the vibe magazine on there website giving people offers to encourage them to buy the magazine. They also advertise it to many shops. This would be good for me as the more advertisement I can get the better as I am bound to sell more copies of it and build a wider audience every day and end up having a world wide audience. When this starts to happen ‘T10T’ magazine will go from just being a magazine to a brand, this means that it is a very world wide known magazine and everybody will know what it is, like the magazine ‘Vibe’ most teenage magazine readers will know what this magazine is.

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

• The target audience for my media product will 11-22 year olds aimed at both males and female as they both tend to listen to chart music. I have created a colour scheme that will be liked by both gender’s but also matches the new modern chart music theme. The genre as stated many times is chart music so I looked at many bands to find inspiration such as; one direction, Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and Rihanna etc. This gave me an idea on what type of people I wanted for my magazine. The price of magazine is going to be £3.99 as I think this is a very suitable price, it is not cheap but not to expensive, it believe it’s a price that gives it a value and makes it seem like it is worth more than it is. The name of my magazine is going to be called ‘T10T’ as I feel that it very easy to remember and links to chart music as it is short for ‘top 10 tunes’ and I feel that it is a very clever idea using that as the name.

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT AND ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

• As the front cover is the first page of the magazine it has to be eye-catching and look really good so that the reader will want to instantly buy this magazine. I have purposely chosen a good looking girl for my front cover as if it was someone not so good looking they may be put off buying it. This can be linked to attracting males as if I used an ugly girl/woman for my front cover they may not want to buy it. But since I have used this girl for my cover they will hopefully be more attracted to it. I have made the girl on the front cover in black and white to make her stand out completely from by blue themed background, I feel this was a good idea as apart from the mast head, this is one of the first things that they will see when buying this magazine.

I have also used quotes

on my front cover to

persuade females to buy

this magazine. This is

because on the quotes I

put on it, it will make girls

think that hey can make

themselves look better

and get tips from famous

female singers. This will

instantly persuade them

into buying this magazine

as it is giving them

exactly what they want

to see in this magazine.I have also included the main heading ‘R-JAY & WAZ-T

RETURN’ which may make the audience very interested into reading more about the magazine reading the new latest gossip.

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT AND ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

I also attracted my audience by picking a good price for my magazine which is not to cheap, but not to expensive so it is affordable for most people to buy and so they do not think that it is a ‘rip-off’ and give it bad reviews, this all took a lot of thinking through… I have done this to try and give my magazine a good value for its music and make it seem like it is worth something so that people will actually buy my magazine.

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT AND ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

It wasn’t till looking at my second draft of my magazine that I realised, will people know what ‘T10T’ actually stands for? I thought it through and came up with an idea. The idea was that at the top of my front page I should write at the top of magazine somewhere ‘Top 10 Tunes’ so they will know what it means. As you can see on my draft of my front cover I never did this, but on my final copy I did and I believe it looks far better. I realised that my opinion wasn’t enough though, so I asked media students in my class what they thought of it and they all thought it looks far better and much more professional.

DRAFT ^^ FINAL COPY ^^

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES

• As mostly all of my project was created over the computer I used many different programmes and tools to create my final over all front cover, double page spread and contents page magazine covers.

The first programme I used when creating

my whole project was blogger. Blogger is

the place will I will be posting all of my

work so I feel this is most important. It will

help show throughout my work my

introduction, my research and

planning, my final outcome and now this

evaluation which I will be posting on when

it is finished. It allows me to post anything I

want that will help me with my final

product in the end which have no been

completed.

ANOTHER PROGRAMME I HAVE USED IS ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5

• I have used this programme to basically edit all of the images used in both my prelim task and my final magazine covers. We were taught how to use Photoshop in our media lessons in school so that we new how to use all of the tools when it came to editing our photo’s so that they looked as good and professional as possible. This software lets me use the type of following tools:

• The tools I used to edit this image was firstly the polygon lasso tool where I would highlight around the person in the image then I would then go to image then click black and white and would give that affect. I would then go to select and click on inverse to it would then instead highlight the background which I then went on to image then colour balance and change the background to this blue colour. I tried other blues but I felt this was the best.

• I also used the crop tool which I used to crop off any unnecessary parts of the image off for example anything else in the background of the image.

• Also the ‘text tool’ which is the ‘T’ button, when clicking on this then clicking on the age allows you to write text on the page, this involves editing the text in size, colour and style that you want it in for your work. You can do this by selecting the its tab then edits what it looks like on there.

• I also used the ‘move’ tool which is a cursor that you click on which allows you to move things around on your document such as images and text into a position which you think looks best etc.

LASTLY, I HAVE USED ‘PUBLISHER’

• Publisher is a programme in Microsoft Office. It allows you to create leaflets, posters, magazine and booklets etc. It is used by many business to create leaflets etc. for advertising their business and many, many other things. I have used Microsoft publisher to create my magazine. It was a main tool in the whole process as I create my mock ups, prelim task and now my final magazine covers. I felt that it was very easy and simple to use and is very easy to get the hang of. I did however have to use Photoshop when creating the text for my magazine but when creating the layout and everything else this is the programme I used. I feel that it went very well as it has helped me to produce my over outcome of the 3 magazine pages. As shown on the right is an example of me using publisher when using it to create my contents page.

LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION TO THE

FULL FINISHED PRODUCT?

• I feel that since my preliminary task, I have learnt many new things. Since creating my Deyes High School magazine I have had more experience editing images on Photoshop. This experience helped me to understand how much time I needed to spend on my overall product in order to make it look professional and good enough for people to buy.

I felt that my preliminary task was extremely basic and looks like I

didn’t have a clue what I was doing when creating the product. So

before creating my final product I had a bit more practice and

have ended up producing a magazine cover of a much higher

standard. I have used a lot more of Photoshop that I used for my

preliminary task, I feel that this was a good idea as I got to explore

and have a look at many different text ideas to produce my over

text for my pages, that’s including giving my texts a ‘glow’ or even

just making it really both, like my mast head on my front cover.

I also referred back to publisher a lot using the guides on the page

to make sure everything was very tidy and looked professional when

on my preliminary task I never did this, I think now my overall

outcome it far better as it has proven to look much more

professional than my first task.

After researching more magazine getting tips and ideas it helped

aid my final overall outcome of my 3 pages of my magazine. When

I created my magazine I did not really do much research, I

analysed another school magazine cover but that was also very

basic and did not give me many tips when it came to creating a

new modern music magazine.

MORE PROGRESSION FROM MY PRELIMINARY TASK TO MY FINAL MAGAZINE

• When creating my preliminary task I used a very basic mast head created on publisher. For my final magazine front cover I created my mast head using Photoshop, I used the text tool then picked the text style ‘Franklin Gothic Heavy’ and made it extra bold and white and a perfect size whereas I could not do this on my preliminary task. I think that my overall mast head looks professional and really good and will now give my magazine its identity of a new modern up to date ‘chart music’ magazine. I also learnt that it looked better to put my mast head in the middle of the page in bold writing instead of squashing it all on one side like my preliminary task. I have made it seem like it is a world wide known magazine by putting the image over my mast head where as I did not do this on my preliminary task.

A suggestion was given to me by my class mates that I should have an image covering my whole background of my magazine as I did not do this on my preliminary task. I have now done this with my final front cover and it looks very professional and really good.

MORE PROGRESSION FROM MY PRELIMINARY TASK TO MY FINAL

MAGAZINE Another suggestion was given to me to have quotes on my

front page as I did not do this on my preliminary task. I have

added 2 quotes on this page to show what people are

saying inside my magazine to attract them to buy it so that

they can read what is inside.

Another suggestion to me was I should have a big bold

heading on my front cover that will instantly catch the

readers eye and want to make them buy the magazine as I

did not do this on my preliminary task. On my final front

cover I did this and gave it s glow affect using Photoshop

tools to make it look very professional etc.

My last suggestion for my final outcome was to add a

barcode to my front cover. I did not use one on my deyes

high magazine as I felt that it was not needed, but I have

gone and put one on my magazine and it looks very

professional like a real magazine. I have put it in the bottom

corner of the page as that is where most magazines would

put there barcode.

MORE PROGRESSION FROM MY PRELIMINARY TASK TO MY FINAL

MAGAZINE • The difference in creating these to

magazines was that with my preliminary task I only used publisher to create it whereas on my music magazine contents page I used Photoshop as well which I believe has made it look much more professional than my deyes high version of the contents page. For example of the mast head I only used the publisher font creator, whereas on the music magazine contents page I used Photoshop and gave my mast head ‘THIS MONTH’ a bit of a glow to make it stand out and clear enough to know what page you are on. To make sure my final product was professional I used the guides on publisher to make sure that everything was net and tidy.

MORE PROGRESSION FROM MY PRELIMINARY TASK TO MY FINAL MAGAZINE

• When looking back at my preliminary task with other media students we both decided that my ‘Deyes Magazine’ contents page was quite boring and not had much on the page apart from a bit of text and a few images. When creating my drafts of my contents page I had to take this into consideration and make sure it was detailed and to make it look as realistic/professional as possible. I feel I achieved this as I have spoken to other media students once again and they think that this is far better and looks much more professional than my deyes high magazine.