Media timeline

Media studies timeline:

7^th of January 2012: presentational work + research for my final music magazine

18^th of January 2012: showed my presentation in class and received feedback

25^th of January 2012: creating timeline

27^th of January 2012: start the photo taking

30^th of January 2012: improving InDesign technique

1^st of February 2012: mock creation of magazine cover

3^rd of February 2012 onwards: creation of magazine

Resources needed:

1.       Models (Billy, Danny and Connor)

2.       Camera

3.       2 guitars

4.       Drum kit

5.       Music studio

Shooting:

Models are listed above as well as the props needed and where the shooting is going to take place but for the lighting I’m going to have some lighting in the room and the effect I am going to go for which is through the glass of the recording studio will hopefully work as I think it will create a very good picture for the front cover.

Front cover:

For my front cover I do not know which font I will use yet but I will have a look at what fonts will go best with my design I have decided to go for a use of mainly black and white but also have tint of red in certain places to make the text or image stand out more from the back ground. The image I will hopefully be using will be the one of just the band playing but not the shot through the glass as I am hoping if it works to use it for my double page spread.

Contents and double page spread:

For my contents page I will use the codes and conventions page of my presentation to help me create this piece and I will use some of the photos I will take for both the contents and double page spread as I will have different shots of the images I am going to take. I will stick to the same clours from the front page as well as the text!

What to do...

• using the coursework brief (Student Drive: Media: As: Portfolio) design a time line for your production.  Working back from the deadline (using a calendar) work out your production schedule.
• Equipment:  What resources do you need to complete this brief?
• Shooting:  Who is your model?  Where will you shoot?  When?  Costume? props? Lights?
• Frontcover:  What will it look like?  Fonts, colours, text, images?  Sketch and a#scan your design ideas
• Content / Double page (as above)

This week in media...

This week in media we had to present our presentations to the rest of the class which consited of all of the research we had put together for our christmas task which will help us create our final piece. The presentations consisted of around 4-5 slides which would be about initial research, target audience, codes and conventions, fonts and a conclusion about how this task will help me create a music magazine. I have not been able to upload my powerpoint presentation yet but when I get back to school i will try again.

christmas work

1. The reasearch I have done is all about this one magazine NME. I did this because I have read and still do read this certain magazine so I know a lot about how a music magazine should be and look. I think this will help me a great deal so that i can get the bet possible marks available.

2. For the way in which NME ntise the readers is by having a main picture on the fornt of an icon of rock and roll as well as some smaller boxes with other stories which then lead people to read the contents page. This is where they see what stories are in this edition of NME which would then make the reader go to the exact pages they want to read.

3. The rules used by NME are effective so I will probably base my creation of my music magazine on them as well as using colours that reflect the type of music i decide to use in my music magazine.  The music magazines I have looked at NME used a lot of text boxes on the contents page and have columns of mini stories and sub headings. On the front page they have a main picture on the front cover then several smaller boxes that contain main stories and also have advertisement on the front cover.

4. So far the research I have done is just to see what I could include in this homework and I get a better understanding of the task that is ahead of us.