QUESTION7-Compare, Contrast & Evaluate

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to full product?

In this post, I'll be discussing my progress in editing and creating a magazine, comparing and contrasting my 'Art & Fashion Academy magazine' and ‘Music magazine'. Then comparing and evaluating them.

When I started creating my magazine, I has some experience with Photoshop but I had never tried creating a magazine, for this project I used Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Photoshop CS5, and Adobe Photoshop CS6 to create my magazines because I was creating them at various locations, at home, in the school-study room, class, and art room. Throughout the process of creating the magazines, I can say I have definitely learnt a lot more from Photoshop, the process of creating and designing a magazine, the considerations, design, contents, layout, and various other elements, I have really improved in my designing, thinking & conceptual skills overtime.

Here is a presentation  which I created using slideshare to answer the question:

Looking at both front covers for my magazine, I would say I have produce high quality standards of work, both totally different from each other, I was able to achieve what I was aiming for in both of them, it wasn't an easy process, but I can say it was worth all the stress, and I am definitely proud of both designs, that's the end to my music magazine project, was stressful but fun, loads of fun, especially creating a magazine that was true to myself and based on what I would want my music magazine to be like. :D

Comparing & contrasting a magazine:Question 7 from sewa18

QUESTION 6

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Websites
Before starting this project, I had never used any of this websites-slideshare, prezi, or blogger, so at first it was quite difficult to use but with time I got hand over it and found it easy to use. Blogger.com would have to be one of the easiest website I knew how to handle, it makes my work easy to present and look organized, it's quite user friendly, and also allows me to check previous AS media coursework-this helps me to ensure that I'm doing the right thing or for support with any task I find confusing.

With blogger.com I’m also able to insert pictures, embed links-prezi, slideshare, and insert YouTube videos. Using prezi was quite fun as it’s a more interesting and exciting way of creating presentation that’s more interactive. It allows me to creatively design the presentation to my taste by adding, moving and editing videos, images and text. For my evaluation I had to broaden my knowledge by using Slideshare, A.nnotate & Screencast-O-Matic. With Slideshare I was able to embed my PowerPoint presentation on my blog so as to show different ways in which different multimedia could be used on one blog, and my blog becomes easier to read by users. A.nnotate is a website in which I was able to add notes/comments-annotate my magazine front cover, it was confusing at first but with more practice I understood how to use it, the only drawback of this website was, I wasn't able to export my annotations as an Image so I had to change my file to a .pdf file and do the annotations again before I could export it, and even after doing that I had to use a file converter online which would allow me to convert my .pdf file to a JPEG-so I could upload my annotations as an image, however, one benefit of this website is that it allows my work to look organized.

Screencast-O-Matic was a website which I used to add a voiceover to match in with what I was recording on my computer screen and then post it on YouTube.

Creating & Editing

Question 6 what have you learnt about technologies from from sewa18

QUESTION 5

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

I created a prezi presentation to answer this question:

The titles were made to be simple so as to contrast well with the gold frame and to blend in with the image of my models which I made sure were dressed formally so as to show power, and that rappers could also be entrepreneurs. My motto "BACK TO THE ROOTS" is to represent the fact that my magazine is sticking to the originality of music, especially Hip Hop and R&B music, rather than doing what everyone does which is one of the reasons my magazine can be said to be unconventional, I wanted it to be different from any other music magazine out there, stand out for itself, respected for its originality, subtle, but yet stylish and attractive to look at. I placed "Watch The Throne" on the front cover of my magazine as it is to attract my target audience who all know about the album and tour which was rated No.1 on the Billboard charts previously, I used "The Kings Are Back" so as to attract my target audience into buying the magazine as they would want to find out more information on whether my artists are planning out a new album.

My contents page for my music magazine was created to be simple and subtle with just one image, my magazine inspirations were-RESPECT, VIBE, THE SOURCE, the gentlewoman & ELEPHANT Magazine.

The features on my contents page were designed to attract my audience-the subtle, unique, stylish and originality, the male and female are both catered for with my magazine:sports, fashion, music, artists of interest, style, lifestyle, business, etc.

I chose a simple, bold, sans serif font so as to match with the style which I was aiming for, the text were placed differently in some situations, like with my magazine title which was right-aligned, also the magazine's slogan/motto "BACK TO THE ROOTS" was placed in my magazine title so as to make interesting, different,and quite contemporary. 

As I stated earlier, I went for a more narrative interview so as to not lose my audience interest, and for them to be able to relate with the artists, this was inspired by THE SOURCE magazine-their interview with the artist Big Sean.

QUESTION 4

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who would be the audience for your media product? from sewa18

Example of the type of music My ideal reader would listen to:

QUESTION 3

QUESTION 3: WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?

Here i'll be explaining some of the INSTITUTIONS in which would distribute my media product and why they would, THEN I'LL DECIDE WHICH WOULD BE THE BEST FOR MY MAGAZINE. THE INSTITUTION IN WHICH THE MAGAZINE DECIDES TO SELECT FOR DISTRIBUTION OF THEIR PRODUCT MATTERS A LOT AND COULD DETERMINE THE PROFIT IN WHICH THE MAGAZINE MAKES.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? from sewa18

QUESTION 2

Question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Social groups are important to creating a magazine as they help to consider the contents of my magazine, and I have created this Prezi so as to backup certain reasons for creating a unique music magazine, I also placed the annotations to my magazine front cover which I made earlier to support this question:

QUESTION 1

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Here I was influenced by the contents page for THE SOURCE to create a bold title for my contents page and to create a name for my contents page; "THE SOURCE-MASTER PLAN, 808-THE SCHEDULE", also with my contents page, I centre aligned my text and made the main heading of each page bold just like that of THE SOURCE magazine, I liked the simplicity of the text and followed it through on my contents page.

Just like with THE SOURCE MAGAZINE, I was inspired by RESPECT. magazine to give my contents page a title; "RESPECT.-Order of Operations, 808-THE SCHEDULE."