My Three Final Products

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

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

How did you attract or address your audience?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

How does your media product represent particular social groups and what kind of media institutions might distribute your product and why?

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Evaluation

This is my second draft of my contents page. I was happy with the layout of my first draft, so I decided to stick to that, with the way the pictures were set out etc. I changed a lot of things, as the first draft was boring and there was nothing really interesting to look at. I repelaced the pictures from the internet with my own images, but I chose pictures that fitted the 'typical' stereotype of the indie/rock genre. Instead of having the competiton at the top right hand side of the page, I decided to move it to the bottom in a black box, and change the font to bold in a red font so it stood out and that people would not be able to not look at it before turning the page. One thing I like about my contents page is the font of the masthead. The font looks very professionalk and suits the indie genre and I also like the placement of the masthead, because I think it makes the page look neat and tidy looking.

This is my second redraft of my double page spread. From my first draft, I felt that the page looked boring because nothing really stood out on it to catch peoples eyes and also, there wasn't enough pictures on it for people to look at. On my second redraft, I have inclduded more pictures at the bottom of the page, and added a caption above the picture in a bright red box to draw the audiences attention to look at it. One thing that I am happy with about is the masthead. The font represents her personaltiy as her being rebellious, and gives her to look of being a rockstar, refferring back to the genre of my magazine. I am also happy with the main photo that I have used on the page because I think it looks like a professional photo shoot, making my magazine look professional also.

This my first draft of my DPS. I tried to stick to the colour theme of the DPS picture, tieing in the greens. I am happy with the article I have wrote as I think that it is something that you may read in a rock magazine, about rebellion and individuality. I used one of the pictures from my first photoshoot because, from looking at the front cover, people are going to know that this is the main DPS article of the magazine. One negative about my DPS is that the font is very oversized and I'm not able to fit any more pictures in the magazine. I will be re drafting this DPS to fix it all up.

Double Page Spread Analysis

This is my second redraft on my music magazine front cover. I took on all of the feedback that I was given from my 1st draft. I added a strapline mentioning the indie rock band Kings Of Leon so the audience will know what genre my magazine is. I added a photograph of from a concert underneath the headline 'Leeds Fest 2013' and lastly I changed the colour of some of my text so it was easier to read but also I added shadows and more effects to some of the text so it doesn't look plain and stuck to the page.

Contents Page Photos

1st Contents Page Draft

This is my first draft on my contents page. What I am happy with on this draft is the fonts that I have used. I think that they really suit the rock genre and look very professional. I also really like the layout of my magazine, which was inspired by one of Q Magazines contents pages. One negative about this draft is that I don't think it is colourful enough, and it looks a bit bland and boring. Also, It looks slightly bare. For my next contents page draft I am going to add more images onto the page with more feautures. The feedback that I got from my teacher is that I should add page numbers, and maybe possibly fit in a web address. Also that there needs to be more clear reference to the genre, so to do this I could add a competition to win tickets or something that relates to my genre such as a guitar, Leeds Festival tickets, a drum set etc.

Feedback On First Front Cover Draft

The feedback suggestions: - Some of the text is hard to read against the background, I can improve this by choosing better colours for the text. - Use a strapline to identify what the genre of your music magazine is. - Include a few inset images

This is a mood board of different contents pages that I have been looking at. They are from a variety of different magazines as I wanted to look at different varieties of each contents page and their stereotypes. Most contents pages have a similar layout, with whites and blacks and one other colour which is usally a colour that suits the genre of their magazine for example, the magazine Glamour, had white, black and oranges on the contents page which connotes vibrance and happiness, relating to a girls magazine. And the Q magazine has a colour layout of white, black and reds which is teh usual colour for magazines and red can conote danger which is usually related with the rock music. The layout that i like the most is the Q magazine contents page and NME magazines contents pages.