Models Excepting

Audience Feedback

This is a link to my video that i have recorded when I was collecting feedback from my magazine draft I had created. I held a focus group which I felt would give me the best possible feedback for the magazine to make improvments as well as what was good about the magazine.


http://youtu.be/NgYqPwWo2is 

Final Magazine

Production Log

I have looked over my blog and the criteria and ensured that i have uploaded everything that is excepted i have also began to edit parts of the blog to be more detailed within my planning and research ensuring it links back to the target audience and genre.

Chosen Images

I have made a decision of what images i have chosen to use as well as how i have edited them to ensure i have recieved the best quality images for my magazine as well as represented the genre of soft rock clearly through slightly dark images or colour overlays which i feel allow the images to look authentic and unique to the magazine article.

Production Log

I have nearly completed everything that is expected of me. I have recently uploaded numerous pieces of work sure as last minute images, many drafts for my magazine as well as presentations I have used when making feedback groups to collect information. I am currently working on the last pieces of work to pick up my grade, however i have now completed my magazine and evaluations and have therefore uploaded them on to my blog.

Magazine #5

Magazine Draft

This is my final magazine that i have created using the program of Indesign as well as the program of issuu to make sure i can upload it to my blog. This is my final copy with the last edits i have made to the magazine to make sure that the magazine is a professional as possible as well as successful in reaching out to my target audience i have chosen to aim the3 magazine at. I have made sure that the magazine represents the genre of the magazine being soft rock as clearly as possible and made sure that the colours and images were not gender specific as well as the information included in th3e magazine contents page itself was using the uses and gratification theory to make sure that the magazine is as informative, entertaining and as well as creating relationship's with the magazine and the artists included in the magazine.

Q5) How did you attract/address your audience?

Q7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When looking back at my first task iwas given to complete back in septemeber as well as looking back on my GCSE work i feel that i have imporved greatly when looking at the magazine i have created. When making my premilinary task magazine I used the programme of Photoshop yet when creating my music magazine I used Indesign which I felt has enabled me to improve in the design of my work. With the use of the priliminary task i was able to identify my strenghts and weaknesses and allowed me to understand what i need to do to make sure my work is to the best ability.   

When editing images i still used Photoshop due to its sole purpose being to edit images, yet for the designing of the magazine i used Indesign as its purpose is to design magazines and so had the best layout and guidlines avaiable. When using these programes they had a variety of tools which at the beginning of the project i was only and aware of a few yet looking at my music magazine i have used mnay tools to create the best possbile magazine i am able to make.

When looking at the images i took at the beginning of the project and i end i felt that they are alot stronger, breing my magazine together and creating a consistent theme throughtout; soft rock. The images are alot better quality with some even involving edits i was unaware of at the beginning of the coarse such as colour overlays. The images i used vary due to the locations and reasoning behind the chosen images taking more care and consideration in my final magazine images.

When comparing my two front covers I am aware that the preliminary task is unrealistic and so can be seen as unprofessional and rushed due to the many colours used with little housing style and theme throughout. Furthermore I didnt relate my magazine to the target audience and so some decisions when makaing the magazine could have been better. My magazine I feel is realistic and so relevant for my target audiences with eveyr decision made having them in mind.

 

I felt that the planning stage of my magazine was extremely helpful and so enabled me to have a structurte to my magazine before i had even created it. This allowed my ideas to be layed out appropriatly and so made sure that every decesion was the right one to make sure my magazine was professional and to the best i could possible make it. When making the Preliminary task i was not given enough time to prepare and so highlighted to myself the time needed to take when planning in order to make my magazine successful.

 

To conclude, i have improved within the process of making my magazine and so have been able to make a better finished product due to my knowlegde of the programs expanding.  

Q6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?