Vibe, which is an existing Rap/RnB magazine uses most of the colours that i am going to use, the colours go well with eachother because they stand out from eachother, attracting the audience because it will catch their eye easier.
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Colour Scheme
Vibe, which is an existing Rap/RnB magazine uses most of the colours that i am going to use, the colours go well with eachother because they stand out from eachother, attracting the audience because it will catch their eye easier.
Preliminary Task
Front Cover
Contents Page
Evaluation of Preliminary Task
Front Cover
On my front cover I have used the colours red white and black. These colours all reflect each other and stand out, hence catching the audience’s attention. The masthead is very big and bold, to reel in the readers. The full bleed image on my magazine covers the whole page and is an image of new AS students in the school. As the audience of this magazine is people that go to the school, whoever picks up the magazine might know the people on the cover or even just seen them around school and feel encouraged to read the magazine if they know the person on the cover. I have faded the image out a bit in order to keep the focus on the masthead and sell lines, this way the youth audience won’t get too distracted and be able to retrieve the information they need quicker. I haven’t included many sell lines throughout the front cover; this is because of the youth audience. Youth audiences tend to get distracted easily, therefore for a magazine like this a lot of words on the front cover could make them feel bored and not feel encouraged to read the magazine. Most of the sell lines are short and sweet, keeping the audience encouraged to read the magazine. I have used sell lines such as ‘Mr Jones doesn’t like the new and improved school?’ I have used this sell line because most teenagers love a bit of gossip especially about the head teacher of their school. Most of my sell lines also include rhetorical questions to keep the audience on their toes and want to find out more about the article that is being advertised. At the bottom of the page I have used a strap line including another sell line for an article but this time have made it much bigger than the rest of the sell lines, this highlights to the audience what is perhaps the most important article to read in the magazine and encourage them to read it.
Contents Page
In my contents page I have carried on the house style; using the same colours and fonts. On my contents page I have used different categories, this makes it easier for the audience to navigate their way through the magazine without any difficulty and retrieve the information they want. An image is covering most of the background of the page, I have also faded this image as well, in order to not take the attention away from the information that the audience wants. The image in the background is just a plain image of the school building however the image would be recognisable to the audience therefore it wouldn’t be boring to them. The different categories I have used throughout the contents page ‘On the cover’ ‘Competitions’and ‘Puzzles’ these categories appeal to all ages of the target audience, whether its year 7 or year 13, even teachers throughout the school, for example if the younger target audience don’t want to do a lot of reading they can enjoy the puzzles in the magazine and the older target audience can enjoy the gossip in the magazine, and as for competitions, well everybody loves them.
Improvements
To improve my magazine I could include;
-More interactivity e.g. twitter, website, facebook.
-More information throughout both pages.
-Colours relating to the school e.g. navy blue and yellow.
-Using images with high quality.
-Using more strap lines.
-Maybe include a pull quote on the front cover.
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Project Log Week 7
Project Log 12/10/13
In this lesson i was finishing off my key concepts presentation, codes and conventions, audience, representation and institution. We also got our targets back after Mrs Baker read through our blogs, i had to touch up my analysis' on front cover, contents and double page spread, and also analyse my names/masthead ideas.
Project Log Week 6
Project Log 5/10/13
In this lesson i was carrying on with my coursework, looking through other peoples blogs and seeing what i had to catch up with. i realised that i did have quite a lot to catch up on, i finished off my target audience presentation and then started on my key concepts, ensuring i included the Uses and Gratification Theory.
In this lesson i was carrying on with my coursework, looking through other peoples blogs and seeing what i had to catch up with. i realised that i did have quite a lot to catch up on, i finished off my target audience presentation and then started on my key concepts, ensuring i included the Uses and Gratification Theory.
Project Log Week 5
Project Log 24/09/13
In the lesson today we started sketches for our preliminary task. We have to produce a front cover and contents page for a school magazine. I called my magazine 'Haydon Daily'. After creating the sketches of my two pages, we went onto the computers to create them in InDesign. After I had learnt how to use InDesign, because it was our first time using the software, I started creating my front cover and contents page. Ensuring my work was catching the audiences attention and making it clear to read, whilst keeping the house style e.g. colours and fonts.
Project Log Week 4
Project Log 1/10/13
In this lesson I had finished my Preliminary Task and posted it onto my blog, later in the lesson I made my mood board for my magazine after I had thought about what genre to choose and how the target audience will feel encouraged to read the magazine. I have chosen the genre rap/Rnb for my magazine as it a target audience of people around my age so I know will know about what people my age look for in a music magazine. I also started doing front cover analysis of 3 different music magazine.
Project Log Week 3
Project Log 8/10/13
In this lesson I finished off my front cover analysis and also analysed 3 contents pages, I started to analyse 3 double page spread pages but didn’t quite finish it. I am now starting to tidy up my blog and add things on their that need to be added, for example, key concepts, surveys etc.
Project Log Week 2
Project Log 16/10/13
In this lesson I am carrying on from my last lesson and finishing my double page spread analysis. I am also looking through peoples blogs and seeing what I have to catch up on, I am starting to make a survey and do a presentation on keyconcepts.
Project Log Week 1
Project Log 23/10/13
In this lesson I had Ms Baker look over my blog and give me feedback on what I had to do better and what I can add. After that I improved on what I got told to, such as adding more detail in my analysis’ and my mood board. I have also added my target audience presentation, which highlights the age, gender and social class of who I am targeting my magazine at and what they are interested in, for example, hobbies.
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