Original Images

Double Page Spread

Contents Page

Cover Page

Target Audience

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I believe these images represent my target audience as they are young and of both genders, and don’t look as if they are the sort of people who listen to rock music as they are not wearing stereotypical rocker clothes. They both look like fashionable young teenagers, or like the male he looks like he is between 19 and 21, which falls into my target audience age range. They look like the sort of people who would shop in popular, fashionable places like River Island and Next. They look like they are the sort of people who listen to popular music, and club music. They don’t look like young people who break the law and that means that they are probably working class people, from working class backgrounds and are not of the lower classes. 

Skills Development

Looking back at your preliminary task (the college magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Form looking back at my preliminary task I have learnt the best ways to present a cover of a magazine, in my preliminary magazine the cover lines were all spread out with a big gap between lines of the same cover line. This makes it harder to determine where one cover line ends and one starts. In my music magazine I have made the lines on the same cover line closer together. I have also made the fonts easier to read and the colours of the cover lines are easier to see compared to the background. On the cover lines and the masthead I have created a stroke effect around the words making it easier to read. I have also linked colours from the masthead and cover lines. When it comes to the image on the cover of my music magazine, I have made the subject of the image the only thing in the shot on the cover. On my college magazine I have made a corridor the background with lots of things in the shot to draw the eye away from the person. In my music magazine I have made it so there is nothing else except the magazines contents to look at. I have also made the cover lines bigger in my music magazine to make them easy to see and it will draw the audience to read them. With the cover image I have used on my music magazine, I have used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the image of the person and then I have put it onto a blank white background which I used a gradient tool to create a coloured background onto it. I have also used the gradient tool to create a light to dark colour on the cover lines are the masthead.

On my contents page, I have improved a lot. On my college magazine, there are no images, and there isn’t a very strong structure to it with just the words in the middle of the page. For the music magazine I have created I have added images, a structure, features and regulars. This separates different sections of the magazine and makes the audience want to read it more as it is more appealing. On my college magazine the numbering of all of the contents is consistent which means the audience know exactly what is in the magazine and can just scan to see the exact page of what they want to see. This means that the audience will not read all of the way through the magazine and contents will not be read. For the image I have used for the album artwork on my music magazines contents page, I have used a contrast and brightness effect to change the colours for it making the colours more vivid and clear compared to the dark background. 

What ive Learnt about the technologies used

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

The technologies I have learned to use through the completion of my media product have been Photoshop, the camera I have used and blogger online. By using Photoshop for making my magazine I have learned new techniques for doing things on there for example creating a background colour behind an image, and layering up different sections and creating boarders through the stroke method. I also learned the best ways to take sections from one image and placing it on another, by either using the magic wand tool to quickly highlight an area, or by using the magnetic lasso tool to go around the bit you would like carefully and then cutting it out of that image. With my camera I have learned the best ways to make a portrait image of a person, and I have also learned how to take a light trail photograph like the one I have used as an album cover on the contents page. You can do this by using a long exposure time for the image while light sources move in the framing. Before I started the music magazine and all of the research I have done, I had never used logger before, but now I know how to upload work, edit work once it is on there, change background images on the blogger sight and change sizes of sections. Blogger creates the chance to upload work to be marked without paper making it impossible to lose work as it will be on your blog. It also means I can edit it from anywhere.

The advantages of using Photoshop compared to other editing programs is that you can use lots of different tools to create different effects, like the layer mask and gradient tool to make the image go from black and white to colour. A disadvantage to Photoshop is that if you have never used it before you might not know how to use it properly and some of the stuff you create might not be as good as it potentially could be.

An advantage to using a site like blogger is you can upload from anywhere and then you can edit work from anywhere. This means that you can finish work that you don’t quite get done in lessons, once again a disadvantage is that blogger does take a bit of getting use to and you might not know how to organise work properly so it becomes quite difficult to find work at the beginning if you have never used it.