Diary: 20/02/13

Transcript: today because it's half term this week I haven't been able to access the programs that we've usually been able to use at school to develop our magazines such as InDesign and Photoshop. So instead I've just been working on my blog and making sure that it looks a lot better. I've been especially changing my presentation techniques, changing the programs that I've used for documents. So for example for my diaries I've mostly just been writing my production logs down on text and putting them on my blog, but now I've transferred a lot of them onto different documents now such as Word document, a Powerpoint, Prezi etc just so that there's a lot of variation of the programs I've used to make my diaries. Also I've just been changing all of my presentation techniques because before everything was made on Powerpoint on my blog, but now I've changed some documents to Prezis, Adobe Premiere Pro videos, Word documents, Edexcel etc.. Just so that there is a lot of variation of programs used. Aswell as this I've made two videos of me giving a tutorial of how I've edited two photos on Photoshop, and I've given a voice-over to these so I uploaded these to YouTube and added them to my blog. So today I just improved on my blog really and I will continue to do this throughout the week to make it look a lot more appealing to the audience as I cannot work on my magazine.

Diary: 14/02/13

Transcript:
In today's lesson I worked on some of my magazine to make it look more professional, so I especially focused on my double page spread, for example I used the text wrap tool just to import images and fill in any spaces or gaps that were left. And I also just wanted to make sure that my blog has a variation of different presentation techniques so I re-did any of my powerpoints and changed them to Prezis etc just so that there was different types of presentation methods on my blog. Also I changed my contact sheet into an online flip book just so that it was a lot funner and easier to look at and there was a lot of unique different things on my blog. One easy thing I found about this lesson was that I already knew what I wanted to do with my magazine so it wasn't hard for me to grasp the concept of what I wanted to do for my double page spread. One difficult thing I found about this lesson was probably just trying to work out the flip book and how it worked but in the end I grasped the concept of that.

Evaluation 6: "What have I learned about the technologies from the process of constructing my magazine?"

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Question 6 Evaluation by hannahalley

This is my evaluation question about the technologies I have learned how to use since creating my magazine. This includes me elaborating on programs such as Photoshop, InDesign, Voki, camera and photoshoot equipment and Blogger.

Diary: 13/02/13

Diary: 13/02/13

Transcript:

In my lesson today I changed some of the font on my double page spread to font size 11 so that it looked more professional and I changed the layout of my contents page and moved some of the text onto the other page so that there were less spaces and I filled these up with pictures etc. So I just worked to make my magazine look more professional and I also worked on some more of my coursework for my evaluation.

Question 2 evaluation: "How does your media product represent particular social groups?" evaluation question, made with Adobe Premiere Pro

Question 2 evaluation: "How does your media product represent particular social groups?" evaluation question, made with Adobe Premiere Pro & a voice-over

This is one of my evaluation questions I created with Adobe Premiere Pro which I downloaded a trail version of at home and then recorded myself doing a voice-over for all of the text involved, just to make it seem more presentable. 

At first I just made my evaluation question with Powerpoint, but then I figured I wanted to use more of a variety of programs with my evaluation questions to make it more interesting, so I print screened each slide I'd made and imported these one by one onto Adobe Premiere Pro. Then, after recording my voice-over for the movie, I imported this audio file and cut it up carefully so that unneeded parts were deleted and that they were measured up correctly with the right slides for the right amount of time. Then, I watched over the movie one last time and once I was satisfied I finally exported it and published it to YouTube. I'm glad I used Adobe Premiere Pro as this furthers my knowledge and skills of different programs, not just Powerpoint or Windows Movie Maker.

Transcript:

The type of magazine I was looking to create was of a similar genre and style to the magazine ‘Vibe’ but with more of a focus on R&B music that is not always shown as mainstream nowadays. I lead my magazine down this route as I find that mainstream music is too popular nowadays and that R&B music is underrated and not played enough. I gathered that this is a market that can appeal to many people’s needs as the market is unique and may satisfy those who agree that R&B is not played enough nowadays. My magazine will also include the latest album and gig reviews which will include the type of artists that are going to be expected in my magazine by the audience.

Firstly, the house colours of my magazine are purple, black and white. I believe that the colour purple holds not only connotations of royalty, but it gives the magazine a quirky feel too. Aswell as this, the black and white colours give my magazine a smart and sophisticated look to it, too. This clearly relates to the social group as these are characteristics that my audience are most likely to have as a person. However, the colour black also hints that my audience are mature, however the colour white suggests that they are still young innocent, representing the age I have chosen in my target audience and how it varies. The readers will also choose to read my magazine out of their interest in R&B music, therefore the use of loud, bold fonts will instantly stand out and appeal to them as perhaps they are likely to be different from the crowd and unique, which is exactly what my magazine is. I chose these house colours over colours such as yellow and pink because I feel that darker colours represent a clearer view of the music genre my magazine is about.

Next, on my front cover my model makes direct eye conact with the camera lens and looks confident with her arms crossed behind her head. The camera placement is at eye level with the model, suggesting that both the model and the magazine are friendly and approachable, and that they are the ‘same’ as the readers. Furthermore, my model is of a similar age to the reader as my target audience is young, so my model represented this successfully therefore more appealing to the reader. Aswell as this, my model’s confident pose and firm eye contact with the camera, plus a colourful floral top represents confidence and strength. Aswell as this, her curly bouncy hair could portray joy and fun, and all of these features may lure the reader in and perhaps make them look up to her as a strong R&B role model, wanting to be like her. Aswell as this,  I did make sure that my model’s clothing was common for the R&B genre as the social groups viewing my magazine are more than likely going to want to look to my magazine for fashion tips and clues on what to wear.

Because my magazine is aimed at people within the social classes of B, C1 and C2 I have made sure to use simple English so that the reader is able to understand and read through it swiftly. Furthermore, I have made sure that my magazine is written fun and witty throughout so that it has a positive tone and the reader knows that the magazine has a good, positive attitude. However I have made sure its tone isn’t too laid-back and sarcastic or else it may come across as negative and mocking, therefore putting the reader off.


This is an evaluation question which elaborates on how I have presented my model and how this represents particular social groups.

Tutorial of me using Photoshop to edit a photo of my model for my R&B magazine.

Tutorial of me using Photoshop to edit a photo of my model for my R&B magazine. 

This is a video showing me using Photoshop to edit a photo of my model for my R&B music magazine. I go through the editing of my model's skin such as fixing any blemishes/spots, aswell as blurring out the skin slightly to give it a more smooth and clear effect, plus making facial features such as the eyes and lips brighter and bolder with more contrast, aswell as adjusting the picture making the contrast and brightness higher, aswell as the colour. At the end of the video I present a before and after photo just to represent the differences within the picture after editing it.
I used 'CamStudio' to record me editing the photo, and then put this into a program named 'Windows Movie Maker' to start cutting up the clip, removing any unimportant parts and making sure some parts of the clip are fastened up (the 'fixing blemishes' part) as it is too long. Then, I watched through the whole clip and recorded myself doing a voice-over for this at the same time on my phone, uploaded this to my computer and added the audio clip onto my movie. After making sure the movie was complete and ready, I published it onto YouTube.

Audience feedback for my magazine by Rag'e

This is a video of my peer Rag'e giving me feedback on my magazine. This included the strengths and the improvements I needed to make. The feedback he gave me really helped me because it made me realise the good things about my magazine but also the features I should improve on to make sure that it is the best it can be and up to full professional potential.

Sketches/drafts of my magazine

Sketches/drafts of my magazine

Front Cover

I will make sure the house colours are purple, black and white.

Contents page

Double page spread

The sketches in which I have designed here are my initial ideas of how I wanted my magazine to look; - layout, text, etc.. I was inspired by some other magazines I'd already seen such as Vibe magazine and more, so I used some ideas from these. I wasn't sure if I was definitely going to use all of these ideas I'd put down on paper, but I really benefitted from it because it meant that I had an idea of where abouts I was going with my magazine and how it would look, saving time in the process.

Diary: 06/02/13

Diary: 06/02/13

Today I continued working on my magazine. I worked to make sure it looked more professional and took off drop shadows etc.. I haven't been in recently so I made sure to catch up on any work I've missed out on. I'm planning on coming in on my free periods to finish off my magazine and start writing my evaluation. A difficult thing I found about this lesson was knowing where abouts to put certain features on my magazine in order to make it look professional enough and organised. However, a good thing I found about this lesson is that I was really starting to get a feel of what exactly I aim to change and do on my magazine to make it look better.

Typical Reader Profile

REDO Typical Reader Profile by hannahalley

This powerpoint presented what the typical reader of my magazine would be like, as in their name, age, occupation, likes& dislikes, reasons for reading R&B magazines and their all time favourite artist. All of this personal information helps indicate exactly and specifically what sort of target audience I am aiming my magazine at and how to develop my ideas for features in my magazine etc to suit this target audience..

Target Audience

This is a powerpoint presenting what the target audience for my magazine will be and what sort of person will read my magazine. This inclues every detail from social class, hobbies, appearance, interests, likes, dislikes and more.

Sell Lines and Contents Ideas

REDO Sell Lines and Contents Ideas by hannahalley

This is a powerpoint which presents my sell lines and contents ideas for my magazine. This planning has helped me a lot because it has prepared me for the sort of features I should include in my magazine and how I should word these.

Proposal

This powerpoint presents the proposal of my magazine. So this planning includes everything from the genre of my magazine, the frequency, possible content/stories, mood, unique features, target audience, key images, main features, institution and representation.

Location Ideas

REDO Location Ideas by hannahalley

This is a powerpoint which presents the location ideas I have for my magazine. So this is such as outside like graffiti walls and also naturistic locations, professional canvas photos with photoshoot equipment and more. I have also explained what will be the effects of using these locations too.