Researching The Market Place

NME Media Pack: http://www.ipcadvertising.com/resource/6dcz2moj66wp0swdpyx5rv3o.pdf

The Fly Media Pack: http://static.the-fly.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Fly-Media-pack-2012.pdf

MAIN TASK: Initial Ideas

Genre:
I want to produce an Indie magazine.

Target Audience:
I want it to be produced for Indie music fans, between the ages of 16 - 25

Evaluation Of School Magazine

What Way Does My Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real Media Products?

Front Cover

Contents Page

The text on my contents page was bigger than 11pt so when I make my Music magazine I will need to ensure that it is correctly sized.

How Did I Use New Media Technologies In The Construction Of My Media Project?

To create my Front Cover I used Adobe Photoshop. I had never used this programme before and I found that it wasn't that difficult to use. I imported the image for my front cover onto Photoshop and made sure it was the correct dimensions for a magazine front cover. I used the text tool to add text to the cover and typed on the title, the cover lines and the sub lines. I then changed the text to an appropriate colour and imported a bar code into Photoshop to add to the front.

To make my Contents Page I used QuarkXPress, which is another programme that I had never used before. I made a new file and set the dimensions up correctly and I made sure that it had 3 columns to make sure it was conventionally correct. I wrote all my text into a text box before resizing it all to fit into the columns correctly. After that I inserted images onto the page and correctly placed them onto the Quark file.

I finally added the page numbers onto the photos and then the page number at the bottom of the page.

What Are The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Both The Product And My Use Of New Media Technologies?

STRENGTHS:

• As Quark is designed for the production of magazines and print, it was good that I was able to use it as it meant i was able to produce the contents correctly with the right dimensions and meant that everything could be placed correctly.
• Photoshop allowed me to layer text and the barcode onto the cover image with ease.
• Both my front cover and my contents page follow most of the codes and conventions of a magazine cover and contents page apart from a few minimal amendments that would need to be made when I produce my next magazine.

WEAKNESSES:

• My font size needed to be correct as on both my contents page and my front cover, the font was the incorrect sizes and would need to be resized.
• My main cover image needed to be more of a close up than it was  there was a large amount of background space which wasn't needed and it left gaps where there was no text placed.
• My contents page needs more articles on it as it doesn't have as many as it could have done on it/as many as a real magazine would have.

Production Of School Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page

Front Cover:

Contents Page:

Final Images For School Magazine

These are the photos that I took for my magazine.

Rough Layout Of Contents Page

Planning Contents

I need to think of articles which are regular to the magazine and some feature articles which will just be in this one issue.

Feature Articles:

• Time For A Change
• Just Beyond The Stars
• Want To Go Global?
• !Muy Bueno!
• Star Pupils
• Curry Chaos
• Welcome To Weatherhead
• Meet The Team
• Open for business
• Dripping Wet

Regular Articles:

• Word Search
• how Can You Help?
• What's Going On?
• Final Word

Rough Layout Of School Magazine Front Cover

PRELIMINARY EXERCISE: Plans For Front Cover

Title:

• Marks
• Teacher
• Life
• Education
• Lesson
• Result - This is the title I am choosing.
• Community

Cover Image:
I want a picture of a student in the newly decorated common room. I want it to be a medium close up of the student sitting at one of the tables in the room.

Coverlines:

• Time For A Change
• Just Beyond The Stars
• Muy Bueno!
• Want to Go Global?

Camera Angles Exercise