Friday, 8 May 2009
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
1. My magazine has many forms and conventions of a real magazine, a form and convention is something that you will find on most magazines, such as a masthead (the name of the magazine you will find on the front cover- in the two magazines above that will be mixmag and sensation). The forms and conventions of a real magazine that you will also find on mine are,
Masthead
A house style (uses of colours and fonts that will run throughout the magazine)
The word ‘win’ is stood out in order to attract the reader.
Images
Headings for what to find inside.
I have included mine and the magazine I chose to resemble to prove what I have been saying.
2. My media product uses certain things to give a representation of certain peer groups such as; at the top of the magazine it says massive dance guide 2009, this gives of the image that my audience enjoy to dance and will also enjoy dance music. There is also a sub-heading which says that there is a ‘nation wide rave guide’ this suggests that my audience may have a lot of money and spare time to be able to go around the nation to attend raves, there is also a lot of alcohol consumption during raves therefore the reader may enjoy alcohol whilst they are attending raves.
3. The type of company that would make and distribute my magazine would be an independent, the reason I say this is because it has a smaller target audience than what a conglomerate would, therefore it would be easier to start the magazine on a small budget and build it up. During the course of making the magazine known the circulation figures will be small, but after the magazine gets more recognisable the circulation figures will rise. Another reason for the rise in circulation figures is because I will use synergy and cross media ownership to bring out other things to promote the magazine such as adverts on TV and radios, after a short while I would also use the two to bring out a ‘sensation music’ channel this will also bring up the circulation figure.
4. I have drawn a picture of what I expect my target audience to look like.
6. I have learnt many things in technology whilst producing my work, such as;
Blogs- How to use them and upload on them.
Photoshop- I used many things on Photoshop; magic wand tool, lasso tool, magnetic lasso tool, how to upload images onto Photoshop, how to upload Photoshop work onto my blog, backgrounds, the basics of using Photoshop, how to edit and image in the correct way and the importance of font. The advantages to using Photoshop, is it is generally easy to understand and can give a good piece of work at the end. The disadvantages of using Photoshop are that it can sometimes be very stressful trying to achieve a look you want and time consuming.
Quark- The things that I used on Quark are; text boxes, picture boxes, jabber and drop shadow. The advantages of using Quark are that it is quick and easy to use, and jabber is a good way of filling space for a draft. The disadvantages are that it is very basic and you cant achieve a lot of detail.
7. I will do this on a voice recording for this and upload it on a separate post.
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Treatment (head up with name of your Magazine (in capitals with the names of Production team beneath).
Synopsis: A sentence that summarises your piece of work
Detail of target audience: Audience profile – age, gender, etc.
Photography Design: To indicate locations/characters and actors/ costume and props. You MUST identify whether the photographs are for front cover/contents/main article needsInterview/Article: To indicate what you are writing – do you have to interview anyone?
Research: into article layout and style?
Initial Recce considerations: Health and Safety Notes, possible locations.
Production Schedule: Your production schedule is a timetable detailing what tasks you need to complete in order to finish your final production. A blank template for this is available on Moodle. If you are taking photographs in M236, for example, the evacuation assembly point in the event of fire or other emergency is the Front Football Pitch and the nearest First Aider is Vicky Rowntree in M138 or one of the Sports Staff in SD3.
Sensation
Emma louise Wilkinson (me)
Sean Timmins
Dale Haddrick
Hayley Copeman
Ricky Snodgrass
Zanib Malik
Stacy Duty
Synopsis: my magazine will be a dance magazine therefore it will be aimed at a niche Market.
Detail of target audience: The target audience for my magazine will be between the ages of 16-24, they will be people who are interested in going out to clubs (I realize that 16 year old is a young age for this magazine but 16 year olds still go out drinking no matter whether they are old enough or not). It is aimed at a mix gender. They will be people who are into music therefore they may want to know about the latest albums out and music kits, therefore these things will be advertised within the magazine.
Photography design: The location I will be doing my photography in is the media room in TRC, this is a room where I could fit a backdrop in. The characters I will be using to photograph will be, Sean Timmins, Dale Haddrick, Hayley Copeman, Ricky Snodgrass, Zanib Malik and Stacy Duty. For the front cover I will use Sean Timmins, he will be wearing a bright coloured top with a white jacket over it, this is so that I can put writing over his body and still beable to see it (making the body less busy with colours). The other charecters will be used for the contents page and front cover, they will be wearing clothes that you would expect to see people out of this town in (such as dresses etc.) The double page spread will be wrote as an interview.
Research: to research for my magazine I went on the internet on a website for mixmag which is a dance magazine. These are the images I found to base my magazines on.
I also researched my 2 initial ideas of magazines on my blog to see which one people felt it was best that I did.
Safety: To make sure that whilst I am taking my pictures everyone within the production is safe I have researched and know where the nearest first aiders are to the room I will be using. In the event of a fire or any other emergencies is the football pitch at the front of the college. The nearest first aiders are in rooms M138 and SD3
Production schedule:
01.04.09- Make sure all draft contents page, double page spread and front cover are done and uploaded onto moodle.
24..04.09- make sure all images are taken for the drafts and upload them
30/04/09- add the images and texts to my drafts.
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Monday, 30 March 2009
contents page
This is a basic image of how my contents page will look, there will of corse be more colours, and images added in the empty boxes.
