Final Double Page Spread

Final Cover

Final Contents

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 6

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

Throughout the process of creating my media product i gained the ability to use many different technologies. Before doing this actual product i had never touched Photoshop before so it was like a brand new experience. At first i wasnt confident at all with using Photoshop, however eventually i managed to be a lot more confident and i succesfully completed my main product with full confidence that i did a pretty good job. I also got a chance to use the Apple Macs, learning to control an Apple Mac computer was difficult at first because it was so different from using a normal computer and i have only really had a slight experience in using them in the past, this slowed me down at the beginning of the process, but after a couple of weeks of using the technology it gave me many advantages,  mostly because of the easy use of taking printscreens and the way it displays Photoshop.

Photoshop was the main technology I worked with over the creation process of my media product. This program was hard to use and get used to at the start and was very stressful throughout the whole process but without it the creation of my media product wouldn't have been possible. All the possibilities that Photoshop opened up to the creation of my magazine such as: the ability to edit my photos, add text and vital information and create my whole magazine! Overall the Photoshop tool came in extremely useful in the construction of my media product and was the most handy tool we were provided with.

We got to work with many other tools whilst constructing our product; cameras, Prezi, Animoto, Slideshare and other physical forms of technology such as video cameras, these are things thta i never knew existed before i started doing this course. The use of cameras (FinePix HS10 HS11) was huge in the production of my media product. The digital images i captured using the cameras we were provided with were the backbone of my magazine and helped me create a very proffesional approach.

Overall, throughout the construction of my media product i have gained the ability to use many different technologies which are helpful in the media industry, all of which came in unbelievably handy in the production of my magazine and will help with other things over time also.

Evaluation Question 5

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Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my magazine Image are 18-30 year olds. I am attempting to cater for a gap in the market, where people want to hear about music especially my genre of music as it has managed to find its way into mainstream music and has made it onto the charts in recent years making it a valuble genre that hasnt been touched yet. Which is why on the Front Cover and Contents Page I have included sell lines that could be potentially prove to be very popular with these readers, smart short and effective sell lines and main sell line all lead to attracting interest as the main attraction is the imagery itself, if you look at my cover that is a prime example of this.

Furthermore with my demographic, fashion is a key factor in a lot of their lifestyles, so the design of the magazine is essential in fitting with the audience as many of these people are electronic music fans. I have attempted to dress my artists in this way as sort of the everyday man that is quite fashionable as most electronic artists are everyday people who create the music as a hobby making my model very relatable to everyday people who may read the magazine. I created my work with a very set standard as if the magazine doesn't look good then the audience won't buy it, as looking good is just as important as a high quality magazine.

Though not stated on the magazine itself, my magazine is also available on a digital format since, my target audience are a little younger they would be more in touch with the newest technologies.

Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

 Ideally I would like Bauer Media group to publish magazine, a lot of electronic DJ's are all european and seeing as Bauer Media is based in Germany it would appeal more to european fans who love the genre and magazine just as much as us in the UK.  I have Researched Bauer Media and it is an institution that has a broad range of magazines including Q and Kerrang which were very good at inspiring me while creating the magazine they only publish two very disctinctive genre magazines, which is great because all publishing houses that music magazines (except with women magazines) are the biggest sellers and if I was to introduce my magazine to Bauer Media there is a decent probabilty they might accept it because music magazines are a huge seller and  they only have 2 magazines thatr they publish in the category of music that both have their own distincitve gnere and they dont cover my genre.

I also thought that if my magazine were to be published nationally, the better option would be a publishing house that is UK based, since they would have more information about here, rather than a publishing house that are not UK based for example IPC Media.



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Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation 1 - Question 1

Creating My Main Products

How I made my cover

Creating My Contents Page

How I made my DPS by Dirt94

Time Management- 24/3/13

I am in the process of creating my actual work now and i have succesfully used photoshop to create a mask for my work that will be used on all three of my main products which if you asked me at the start of the year to do i wouldnt have a clue as to what to do.

I am currently editing togethr my work and it is going pretty well hopefully the images taken with a very highlighted shade will put accross the theme i am trying to convey.

Photographs which ones used, which ones I haven't

 Double Page Spread Images- there was 3 images considered in the process of my DPS all where a very professional looking which is something that i wanted for my actual DPS as it gives you something different than the cover and the contents. The first image i actually liked but seeing as this is the DPS and i have already featured my model in a different style that has him looking away in my contents page making this shot not very good.

The next image i feel like he is looking far too arrogant for the theme that i want to convey, his pose is also very out of sync with what i want to do. His character is supposed to be mysterious and likes to keep to themselves not cocky.

This image was used in my final DPS as i felt like it was a very good image as it has everything i want for the page and more. I also really like his posture in this image as it really makes him look quite innocent.

Cover- These are the images considered for my cover. The first image you see is quite good, however i wanted my cover to be impactful and him not looking directly at the audience is what made me not like this photo.








This image is a lot  better than the previous image, the only problem with this image was the fact that it his head is a little slanted and i want something more central and something a lot more basic.







This image was the one used for the actual cover, i really liked his facial expression and the way he is just standing normally it gives the appearance that he is just an ordinary guy making him very relatable from the audiences perspective.

 Contents- These are the images that were all in contention in being my image on my contents page. The first picture i actually really like as he is standing pretty straight and it gives the impression that he serious, unfortunately i wanted the contents page image to be a lot more animated as it will differ from the cover.

I really liked tis image as well as he is a lot more animated than the previous image, the only thing stopping me from using this one however is i founda much better imag

 This final image is my favourite by far which is why it was my actual contents page image. it shows him in a very determined state that i really like.

 

 

Fonts with commentary

For my magazine i am going to use 3 different fonts that will help me stay with the overall theme of my work and make it a lot more in sync with all of the pages as they will all correlate with a similar font.

For my masthead and things like that i will be using the Slant font which is from the website dafont, it is a very cool and very suggestive for my genre.

I wanted something very generic ad pretty standard that would highlight key words from the cover which is why i will be using the Arial font as it will allow me to use the ordinary Arial font for important information and things like that but also it would let me use the Arial Black version to make it bolder in places if need be.

The final font that i will be using is Thyssen J which is also another dafont font, it is very stylish and gives my work an identity as well as reflects back to my overall  genre of electronic music.


So in conclusion I will be using the Arial font as it is edgy yet readable for most of my work including the text in the DPS as it is nice and chunky and very easy to read. I will also be using two other fonts from the dafont website to help me portray my theme.

Creating My Bands Logo

Artists Logo

Time Management- 20/3/2013

I have now taken all of my photographs needed for my work and am now in the process of creating my actual work which im actually excited for. I should hopefully have it completed pretty soon as i have created a couple of flat plans involving what i want o d and what my work will look like. I have also now created a draft of the article featured in the double page spread which saves me time later especially considering m trying to meet the deadlines for the work. I am a little bit more confident with Photoshop so my work should be pretty good.

Draft of Double Page Spread

Double Page Spread Draft

This is basically the draft for my double page spread i have seen this type of article before in other magazines such as NME,  it is basically just an introduction to the artist for the audience who maybe haven't heard of them before which features quotes by the artist but is packed full of information about them to give you a better insight.

Skeleton Boy is a new wave noise maker who keeps a certain level of mystery about himself all at the same time attracting a very big and positive fan base. Can the king of underground electronic music really be that good?

Skeleton Boy is new on the scene of electronic music, his catchy beats and soothing lyrics have been shuffling around many ravers iPod and has been played over 6 million times on YouTube and is still going strong. But how can someone with no record label and no from of advertising gain this kind of recognition.

"I like to think that my music represents something bigger than just your normal kind of electronic music, my music really speaks from the heart." This was the first thing we heard the Sunderland born DJ as he likes to keep to himself and not take part in any form of interview or promote his music like many others in the genre have. Not to mention the fact that he carry's his logo everywhere there's not one picture of him  that doesn't feature half of this mans face covered in some sort of white skeleton like outline that has had everyone wondering why. "The reason behind the lines is that i felt like just an ordinary guy, in my field you need to have something different that makes you stand out, Daft Punk has the various astronaut like Helmets, SBTRKT has his various tribal masks, the least i can do is show how they inspire me and continue the trend."

The song 'Fires Friendly' is now being called this decades next big summer anthem with all of the big electronic pioneers all endorsing this as being the culmination of the next big thing to hit electronic music since Daft Punk's Around the World. There is  no stopping this man from reaching the very top of electronic music and who is really going to stop dancing to complain about it.

 

Masthead Designs

For my masthead I want something traditional but something that also represents what the magazine is about, i had to go onto the dafont website which has a lot of various different fonts available for all kinds of different purposes. This where i managed to find a couple of different fonts that i thought would go well for my magazine. The title i finally decided on was TE which stands for Total Electronic which helps define the genre of the magazine a lot more.




This is the first font that i looked at and i at first really liked it but it is quite hard to understand the actual letters themselves so it ruined y opinion of it and i chose to loo for something else.



For this font i wanted to try something different but it just ended up looking like something you might see on an energy drink so i didn't really consider this font it was just something to experiment with.

For awhile this font was my final font as i really liked how space age it looked but i would eventually find another font that was a better as i felt this font was good it was just lacking something unique.


I eventually came across the Slant font which isn't too crazy and is actually pretty professional but with a nice edge too it just enough to convey he theme of my magazine which is ofcourse electronic music. This font also reminds me of the font used by a lot of artists that i like so that is an added bonus for the font itself. 

                                                                         

Email Organisation

This is me sending an email to my friend to see if he is available for when we are to take photos for my magazine.

Front Cover, Contents and DPS Flat Plans Rationale

Layout and Font

I have gone for a typical magazine layout where the masthead is in the top left hand corner and the main sell line is found in the middle of the page with a sub heading just below it this is just to convey the fact that this is a pretty generic layout similar to other magazines. My magazine cover will also feature selling points running down the side of the page then finally the barcode and essential information which is located at the bottom right hand side of the page.The font however will be the same for everything on the cover and the magazine as it makes my magazine stand out, the only font that will be different will be the main sell line and the masthead everything else will be the same to create a level of  continuity.

Text Usage
I will use a mixture of quotes and first person language to try and grab the attention of the audience so they feel like i am like one of them with the use of rhetorical questions that maybe them themselves are thinking or wondering.

Image Usage
There will be one image portrayed on the cover and that is my main image which will be the main focus of the cover becuase of its 3D style and choice of image also the editing that will go into designing and creating it. The model will wear just vey generic street clothing as that is what the generic electronic DJ would wear as they are just like everyday people which would also make people more inclined to buy it as they can come from a similar perspective as my artist.

Colour Usage
The colour scheme for my cover will be mostly blacks greys white and red the colour scheme will reflect the actual genre as it will be really gritty sort of like how the music is itself, there will also be a 3D element to it that will make it very distinctive and will reflect the genre of my magazine that being electronic music.  I want the reader to take notice when they look at my cover which is why I wont be doing the normal bog standard colour scheme.

Layout and Font

 The layout of my contents page will be pretty generic as it will only just be a way to display which page has what on i will be going for a Q like layout with the use of quite big images and small amounts of text to give the reader the idea that i want them to go straight towards the actual content in the issue

Image Usage
 There will be a variety of different images all having something to do with other articles featured in the magazine each image will be unique and different.

Colour Usage

The colour schceme will be mostly dull colours like blacks and whites and greys and maybe uses of red, I want the contents page to have  a different type of style than the cover, i want the contents page to be very neutral in terms of colour.

Text Usage

For my list of contents I will be pulling out article quotes and then just maybe trying to place statements that could be considered funny to the reader, all of which will be in the same font.



Layout and Font

 My double page spread will follow the codes and conventions of a normal double page spread the layout will consist of text on the left side of the page then an image on the right side, the only thing that I will be doing different is that I will have a different style font that is reflective to my artist bigger than the font just above it that will make it look a lot more in touch with the theme of the article. The main image will be featured on one side of the page which can be seen in many different types of magazines.

Image Usage
 I will only have one image on my dps which will be used on the right hand side of the page. I want to have something different with this image some sort of editing technique that makes it stand out and also reflect the style of music.

Colour Usage
 The colour scheme for my double page spread will be a mix of bright and dull colours so its the best of both worlds from the cover and the contents page.

Text Usage
The text that I will include in my double page spread will feature infomative discriptions and an interview with the person that will be featured in my magazine, I will try to have a joking side as well when writing this text.