Brief for music magazine

1.    Collect some evidence of current music magazines: NME, Kerrang, Q

2.    Analyse how they construct meaning for their audience – Front page, contents, double page spreads

3.    Establish a set of rules (codes and conventions they use) / guide to creating a effective music magazine – for each page

4.    Keep a record of your research

Planning: Xmas holidays, for presentation to class 9^th January 2012

5.    Decide what type of music magazine you are going to design – what is the purpose of your magazine?

6.    Decide who is the audience (who is it aimed at?) – this will affect your design

7.    Draft sketch what you want on your front cover: colour, images, title, text, etc. – explain why (follow your rules)

8.    Draft ideal contents

9.    Photograph appropriate images for each page: stage a band / artist – consider locations, costume, props, makeup

10. Draft interview for double page spread – consider language used appropriate to genre and audience

11. Keep a record of your planning

last week in media

This week in media we had been focusing on the preliminary task as we had to look at everyone’s front page and contents page and give them analysis on what went well and what went bad.

What went well for me:

¨       The main point for me was that I meet the preliminary requirements!

¨       Made the target audience clear and precise.

¨       Colour scheme was good and was continual.

¨       Layout was uncluttered and was structured well.

What improvements may be made next time:

¨       Make the front cover more like a magazine by adding a barcode, ear piece, ect.

¨       Proof reading.

¨       Make the research and planning clear in the presentation.

My conclusion

I believe in order to improve my grade I must take on board all the positive criticism given by my teacher and my fellow class mates and add this to my final product. I think I also feel I need to research in longer detail my next task so I have a clear understanding about what I need to create and how I can improve from my first task onto my new task. I will also type all of my work in word to make sure it is grammatically correct and all spellings are correct also.

This weeks media work

This week we have been making sure our preliminary task is ready as in tomorrows lesson we will have to present our work to the class and explain out ideas behind it. I have also been making slight adjustments to my front page so that it looks up to the standard I can do at the moment.



The adjustments I have made are just adding a few minor details and also making my contents page look like  contents page. I have also I changed some parts of my background on the front page and contents page to make the pictures not look streched.

Peliminary task

For my prelimanary task i was told to create a front page and a contents page which was all about a school magazine. I decided to create the whole magazine around sixth form life as in how people are coping with the change from GCSE to AS and the change from AS to A2.



Magazine front cover:

This is the front cover I think I coped well with the design of it but I did struggle with using In-design as I am new to this software I found it difficult to cope with the layout and tools of it but as I have a vague understanding of Photoshop.

 

Contents page:

This is the contents page for my magazine this was much easier to make but the hard part was working out what points and text in it as I would need to fill empty spaces. When I got stuck on this part of the task I would use a real life magazine as guidance to see what else I could add without copying its every step.

last weeks work

Last week for part of our preliminary task we had to produce school magazine won in-design. I must admit that in-design is not second nature to me yet so it may not be the best product.