Front Covers I have progressed a lot from my college magazine to my music magazine. For a start, The pictures on the front cover are no longer stretched and out of shape, this makes the magazine look much, much more rpofessional and means that people will actually look at it in a shop and not just laugh at it and pass it by. The bar code is in much better proportion to the rest of the things on the page and the writing is a much better colour that is more appealing to the eye and links to the genre of the magazine. The main headline is also much more styleised and appealing to the eye as well as the fact that it has jumped off of the page to the consumer's eye. I have developed many, many skills along the way of making the fron cover, specifically learning how not to use the burn tool way too much like i did on my college magazine. I learnt how to make things look sharper and how to use the blending options properly. The fonts, i learnt how to choose which one to use on which page and why and I have also lwarnt how to add noise and most of all refine the edges of pictures and items that I want to cut out nice and smoothly without using the magic brush tool and deleting half of the model's head. I have discovered how to make my own mastheas and how to use a colour scheme efficiently. I have also learnt that in some cases less is more as if the front cover is too busy, the magazine can look messy and disorganised. Contents Pages Here, I have once again learnt how to use all of the tools mentioned in the above paragraph. I now have a proper boarder and layout on my contents page as well as a well thought out colour scheme and a leaf theme that really fits the genre of what I was creating. I have used fonts that work for the job that they are needed for and have put plenty of stories in chronological order onto the page. I have added quotes and have learnt how to efficiently incorperate pictures into my contents page instead of just using them as a bacckground. This is the Double Page Spread and you can really see here how my skills have improved. I even decided to tone the creativity down a bit because I feel as though in this genre, less is more.
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What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Creating This Product?Here Is a list of the technologies mentioned and what I used them for: Facebook- Getting Audience Feedback
Photoshop- Editing/ Making Magazines Emaze- Creating presentations (evaluation, Question 5) Powerpoint- Making Powerpoint Presentations Word- Writing long bits of text that needed to be written separately and making to do lists. Paint.Net- Editing Weebly- Blogging and posting work Slideshare- Making and sharing presentations OBS- Screen and voice recording for the podcasts Prezi- Making presentations ( Eval Q4 and Target Audience) Youtube- Uploading Podcasts and interviews InDesign- Writing in columns SLR Camera- Taking Pictures DSLR Cameras- Taking Pictures Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge- Taking Pictures Movavi Video Editor 10- Editing podcasts and interviews Microphone ( Tonor BM-700)- To record sound Voice Recorder on Windows- To record sound
The Below is a link to my construction page. If you scroll down, on the right hand side of the screen where categories are, there is a category saying "Audience Research" which is where my audience research and interviews are.
What kind of media institution might distribute your magazine?Distibution: The action of sharing something out among a number of recipients. The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area. In this case, the sharing of magazines. There are different types of distribution for magazines: Paid Circulation- This is where a magazine has a specific price that is either paid per each issue sold or by a subscription where the customer pays a monthly or annual fee and has the magazine posted to them. An example of this is in a newsagents or supermarket where a variety of magazines will be stocked and displayed at one time. Non- Paid Circulation- This is where magazines are given away for free but the company that makes the magazine earns money from the bulk orders that are purchased by the people that give away the magazines for free. An example for a newspaper would be the metro on stagecoach busses and in train stations. the companies the own the train stations and the busses will buy the newspaper in bulk to give away to the people travelling as a convenience. Anther example of this would be street vendors in America. Self- Distribution- This is where you market the magazine and give it to people to sell yourself, thus making it your own self- reliant business. This is good as you don't have to pay extortionate prices for a distributor, who would do the work for you and find places to put your product. However, it means that you won't have a very wide reach for your audience and not many people would see the product in order to buy it, you then would not have contacts in the industry who could help to sell your magazine. For self-distribution, one could use online services to make and sell the magazine. online magazines are good because they mean that you don't have to pay printing costs but they once again mean that you cannot reach a wide target audience and you won't have contacts to help you sell it, also not everyone goes online, even in this age which is ruled by technology. Some of the options for my distributors are: - Frontline - Market Force - Warners Group I think that I will use Frontline to do paid circulation in newsagents and supermarkets because although there will be much more competition in these places, there is a larger chance that people will see my magazine and want to buy it, I will also get a larger percent of the profits than if I used non-paid circulation. Frontline seem reliable and prestigious as they have distributed titles such as 'Take a Break', ' The Radio Times', 'Okay!' and 'Kerrang!'. To find out all of this information, I used Google chrome to search. I got the information from the websites of the distribution companies and the information about different types of circulation from reliable sources. The technology involved in my research was my laptop (an HP) my desktop ( An HP Pavillion) and my mobile phone ( a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge). Technology Used:
Posture- The poses and the way that the bands are stood is very much the same. there is one person at the front ad two at the back with them all having blank facial expressions and staring straight into the camera. The only real difference here is the fact that on my magazine, the two at the back are slightly turned to the left/right whereas in the NME magazine, the band members at the back are facing forward. Shot type & angle- It is exactly the same shot type and angle as the NME magazine, an eye-level mid-shot. Lighting- The lighting on my magazine isn't as good as it could be as the filler light had broken so I only had the two lights to work with, thus causing shadows. This was however, unavoidable and there was nothing we could do about it. Costume- The costume in both of the magazines is very indie genre and dark colours with the clothing on my magazine even matching the colour scheme of the magazine in some places. The technology to make this question was a good old pen and paper to make notes and Photoshop to make the split of both covers. To create the similarities, I used a DSL Camera and Lights in a photography suite with a white background. Technology Used:
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Sasha BloreI'm just a random 17 year old girl Originally from Luton, England with an irresistible passion for anything creative, fun and inspiring. Archives |