Evaluation

This is my powerpoint evaluation for my finished project. =D


Question One


The usage of clour house style and clothing were very important for my magazine. the colours i used had to suit the whole sterotypical rock style so had to be aware the colours that i use. i had to make sure that it fited into the whole dark theme. the house style for my magazine was also very important because it showed a sense of indivifualism for my magazine, it makes it stand out from other magazines. clothing was an important factor fo my magazine because rock bands usually have their own individual taste in clothing that makes them stand out from other rock bands. How rock bands dress makes an impresion on the type of music they play and gives them an image that fans can follow. my rock band has their own individual style of clothing but it has the whole sterotypical dark theme to their clothing.
Most male rock bands usually have long hair , which is another sterotype. the male member in my rock band has long hair and falls into this sterotype but also makes himself stand out like other rock bands with his stlyle of fashion.


Some of my ideas for my magazine came from the Kerrang! magazine. I have circled in different colours the similarities and differences of my magazine to the Kerrang! magazine as you can see from the slide. As a difference, instead of having a barcode in the front cover of my magazine like i have seen in most music magazine i have just put a price on the magazine to make it easier for consumers to know the price and to make it look different then other music magaznes.


Question Two


My media product represents the whole rock genre social group. My Band has done this by having long hair, wearing dark clothing. They use colours that associate with the whole rock genre. Because the band is young and new they would appeal to the young market of the target audience and this way present a whole new rock social group.


Question Three


Two types of media institutions i looked at were Bauer media and IPC media. Between them i would want to distribute my magazine through bauer media as it is a nationalised company and it gives my magazine a greater advantage to come out in the market. IPC media would give my magazine less competiton as the only other rock magazine they distribut is NME. Bauer Media is an international company and it has higher competition for my magazine as it disttributes popular magazines such as Kerrang!. If i choose Bauer media to distribute my magazine it would make it difficult for my magazine to last into the market.

Question Four

My magazine is aimed at Males and Femaes aged between 15-25+. Because rock magazines usually uses inappropriate language if the target audience were any younger it would be a bad influence on younger children. other than that my magazine is aimed at anyone who take an interest in Rock music, Fashion, Instruments and technology. my magazine is for anyone within any age range from my target audience.

Question Five

Appealing to your audience is hugely important for a music magazine. to attract my audience i have put in free posters inside the magazine, used images, bold heading, eyecathing colours and quizzes to win prizes to get audiences attention.

Question Six

Some of the technologies that i have used were difficult and easy. Things like using microsoft powerpoint and cameras were quite easy, but with the camera i had to be aware of camera angles. Blogging was easy to do but it was quite time consuming and keeping a constent blog update was sometimes difficult because of the lack of internet access. Sometimes the blogger website didn't really work the way i would have like it to. I found it very difficult using photoshop for the first time. i had no experience with the programme and found it difficult to manage. it often was very irratating as i wasn't able to do what i wanted during the preliminary task. By the time i had began the main task i have managed to gain more experience with the programme and could use it more easily.

Question Seven FINAL QUESTION!!

By doing the preliminary task i was able to grasp concept of how to use different technology and it had helped me gain experience with photoshop. The preliminary task has helped me learn how important keeping to hose style, fonts style and layout style was important. I was able to improve my work greatly from doing the preliminary task. you can see the difference in my work from the slideshow.

when i did the cntents page for my preliminary task it was quite terrible as i had grammer mistakes, my contents page didn't keep to a similar house or font style as my front cover and the coulours were also very different. I have managed to improve a lot from doing the preliminary task. My preliminary contents page had no images and looked vey dull. my main task contents page keeps to the house style, the similar fonts and contains an image on it. Its not the best contents page but it is a lot better than my prelimanry task contents page.

We had no experience in doing a double page spreasd and so i had to look at other magazines double page spreads in order to get an idea of how to layout my work. i am very happy with my double page spread. The double page spread is quite different to other music magazine double page spread and i am happy with it. my double page spread follows the house style of my magazine and has its own individualism from other magazines.

Ovewrall looking at my finished product i have done a summary of the things i thought that i could have done better.

These are the good things that i thought that i have achieved from looking at my finished work.

Overall i thought that i have done pretty well on my work and if i were to do this task again then i would fix the things that i could have improved on.

Music magazine Mock Up

My first mock up of the music magazine was not scanned onto the computer and i have left it at school. I have redrawn the mock up exactly the same as the previous one but with a little diference in colours.

the scanner did not scan the image properly, it cut of the rest of the orange colouring at the bottom. the colouring where there is blue was completely black in my previous mock up, and the clouring under the blue on of the image was completely red in the previous mock up. other than that everything else is exactly the same. I have redone the mock up because my previous mock up could not get scanned on the school computers in time for the deadline, and because i left the mock up at school i had to redo it at home so that i could put it up onto my blog.

As it can be seen from my finished front cover i have kept most things similar to my mock up. the masthead is the same as my mock up. the colours are also very similar. i have also kept the part with the free poster. The layout of the magazine is a little bit different from my mock up, and the part with the exclusive interview. i have added more things into the actual front cover which i did not have in the mock up such as the extra text, the pricing and i have made little change of colour.

22nd April 2009

I have now completed my Double page spread, contents page and the front cover of my music magazine.

This is what they look like:

This is the front cover of my page. I am really happy with the way it turned out. It is pretty much the same as my mock up which i am pleased with because when I did my preliminary task I didn't follow my mock up. I have added a few extra things to my magazine which I don't have in my mock up. When I did my preliminary task i had difficulties in laying out my magazine to make it look better. I had a better idea of a layout for my magazine from looking at the kerrang! magazine. The Kerrang! magazine gave me ideas about layout and types of things to include in my magazine. Overall i am reallyhappy with my front cover, and i feel that it is much better than my preliminary task.


This is my contents page. It is a big improvement from my preliminary task. My preliminary task did not have images in the contents page at all, and i had grammer mistakes. When i did my preliminary task there was a lot of yellow on my contents page and it looked really plain. I have checked my work for any spelling errors and such and I have fixed any errors. I am really happy with my contents page because it looks good. My pages have a house style and it can be recognised as my work, where as in my preliminary task my contents page and my front cover was really different and it did not look very good. My music magazines content page has image on it and includes more text. it does not look plain like it did in my school magazine contents page.


This is my doble page spread. During the preliminary task we did not make a double page spread so i ahve no experience in doing a double page spread. For my double page spread i have looked at diferent types of rock magazines to give me an idea of what to include in my double page spread. I looked around in the internet for ideas also.
My double page spread keeps to the house style and has similar font of writing all the way through which makes it look good. I have used images, text and shapes to fill up the spaces. Overall i am pleased with my double page spread. I thought that it turned out well. It took a lot of time to do the double page spread as i had difficulties in chooing a layout and finding things to put into the double page spread. Some images i put on there were really bright and it didn't look very good so i used photoshop to tone down the bright lighting.
Overall i think my double page spread has turned out well.

I think that my main task has turned out a lot better than my preliminary task and i am really happy with it.

Now that i have finished everything I am now continuing on with doing my evaluation.

20th April 2009

In this lesson we looked at a checklist to see what we need to do and what we haev done. we also talked about how to do our evaluation. we will be doing our evaluation as a powerpoint and we will post up on the blog what we will actually say with each slide. My powerpoint slides will have bullet points for each pont that i will discuss on the blog. for the rest of the week we will be finishing up our music magazines and will be completing our evaluation.

3rd April 2009

In this lesson we looked at the foundation portfolio again and thought about what questions to ask ourselves when doing this work.

some questions we talked about were things like, How did you manage you?,How did you aproach ther two tasks which make up the portfolio?, are your images as you would have liked them to be? I am finding it difficult to manage time with this work and also my images did not turn out as well as i iked them to due to time and location problems, but i am able to work with them to make the turn oout better using photoshop to edit images.

Mrs Howlett gave us tips on what questions to ask ourselves when doing this work in order to make it turn out better. she also gave us tips on things that we could include in our blogs.

We have also looked at evaluation questions in class and breifly wrot down the types of answers we would give for each one when evaluating our work. Below is a scan of the type of things that i would answer for each question answered.

Other Images

Using the photos of oblivion would make my magazine look a bit boring, and as all images have to be original i could not get existing images from other sources. I decided to take more photos with different people and decided to make another band eith it and make it seem llike it already exists. I thought of using these images in my contents page.

These are some of the pictures that i have taken:

I thought about having a solo rock artist and so i asked a freind to pose as a solo rock artist. To make her look like a rock artist i have got her to wear a black wig, as most rock artist have a dark style hair or clothing.
I thought about having instruments with the pictures but it didn't really work out as well as i hoped it would. instead of making an advert for my contents page i thought that i would use an image to make an album cover.

Out of the images above i have chosen to use this image as an album cover.

I really like the pose of this image and thought that it would work well as an album cover. At first i liked the background of the image, but later i realised i wasn't quite happy with it. I changed the background of this image to a scenery background image.

I used the magic wand tool in photoshop to cut around the shape and to get rid of the background. Then i selected the cut image and took it to a different background in photoshop.

There were no red eye in the image, which i am really happy about.
After editig the background of the image i added the text onto the album cover and this is what it looks like:

I have decided to give the name KT to my solo artist and i have named her album Everlasting Memories. The background of this image looks a lot better then a plain wall background. I am happy with this Album cover. I will be using this image on my contents page of the music magazine. I have enhanced the colour of the background and the image of this album cover using photoshop. I have made it darker than its original shade.
The difference can be seen from looking at the original image of my model and the edited image.

27th March 2009

In this lesson we had looked at 2 different publishers of magazines.

One publisher we looked at was Bauer Media. Bauer is the largest privately owned publishing group.
· they are a newly established worldwide publisher. They were established in 2007. They offer over 230 magazines in 15 countries as well as online, TV and radio stations.
· Their turnover from their first year was 1.8 Billion Euros.
· They employ 6,400 people
· their main aim is to appeal to their audiences in every way possible (radio, magazine, TV, Internet etc)
· They own Kerrang magazine, FHM, Magic FM, Q, Kiss FM and empire (and many more...)
· Over 40% of people watch their music channels and 1/4 of all Londoner's listen to a Bauer radio station Monthly.
http://www.bauer.co.uk/

This is a printscreen of some of the magazines that Bauer media owns.

The second publisher we looked at was IPC media. IPC is the leading UK consumer magazine publisher
· They have been established longer than Bauer and some of the magazines they own include Guitar and Bass, HiFi News, NME and UnCut.
· IPC publish only in the UK and 66% women and 44% of all men read magazines published by IPC (26 million adults)
it diverse print and digital for everyone.
http://www.ipcmedia.com/
This is a print screen of the homepage of the IPC media website.

If i had to go with one of these publishers out of the two i would pick IPC because my magazine is new and it is better that it grows out into the market. IPC is better because there would be less competition for my magazine because the fact that bauer magazine own Kerrang and Q could be off putting as it would cause increased competition for another rock magazine. with IPC the greatest competition for a rock magazine like mine would be NME, but there would still be less competitiion as IPC does not own so many music magazines like Bauer which would allow my magazine to grow into the market.

25th March 2009

In this lesson we went back to E3 to work on our magazines. I had added the finishing the finishing touches to the front cover of the magazine and have completed the front cover.

I am happy with the front cover of the magazine and i think it is much better then my preliminary task. I think the front cover of the magazine looks like a music magazine.
This what my front cover looks like:

For the cover i have added other band names to show that the magazine will contain stories on them too.

At first i wasn't going to use this picture, but because i required morew things to put on the front cover i ended up using it. I edited the background of this image because there was unecesary things in the background.

As it can be seen from the zoomed print screen shot of this image the background has unecessary things, so to get rid of it i first clicked on the eyedropper tool in photoshop to select the the similar black background of this image.

I then used the brush tool in photoshop to brush over the posters and things in the background.


I noticed that this image also has alot of red eye, and this made the image look bad. To get rid of the red eye i used the red eye remover tool in photoshop inorder to get rid of the red eye.

This is what the finished picture looked like when i was done. i have made the whole background black.

Now that i have finished the front cover of the music magazine i am now moving onto the double page spread and the contents page. For this magazine i am going to be keeping a constant house style throughout these pages.

23rd March 2009

On Monday, Mrs Howlett wasn't in so I went to E3 to continue to create my music magazine (Tune On!). I have started devolping the magazine front cover. At first when i started to edit the front cover image for the magazine i had a lot of difficulties, especially with editing the background. Editing the background was taking a lot of time and i didn't find it easy to cut around the image using the tools. i was finding it really diffcult to use photoshop and became irratated.
Later i got more used to the tools and had managed to change the background.
there were rough edges in the picture and it looked like it was cut aound so i had to smooth it out in order to make it look good.

For the background i couldn't get the exact colours as i had in the mock up but i had quite similar colours to how i wanted it.
It was difficult to t6hink of the text to put with the images for the front cover in general. i couldn't find a suitable layout to put the text in but after working with it a little i managed to make the front cover pretty good.
looking at the Kerrang! Magazine has helped me layout the front cover of the magazine in a suitable way.