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Monday, 29 April 2013
Evaluation 5 & 6
What have you learnt about technologies throughout this process and what new things have you learnt?
Throughout the process of working towards my final music magazine, I have learnt the importance of new technologies such as; InDesign and Photoshop, within the world of media. It is imperitive to being able to create products like music magazines, or indeed, magazines in general. It allows us to be able to create and put to life new and fresh ideas.
I have also learnt the importance of using things such as rulers/guidelines and also layers when working with such technologies. Layers are especially important as without properly laying out your deisgns they become easily confused and mixed up, making it very hard to edit the smallest of things quickly. Rulers and guidelines are important as it gives you the ablity to be able to lay things out acurately, for example ensuring an image is central to the page, or that there is equal space both sides of something.
Font, and font colours are something that I have learnt how to use adequately. Throughout this process I have had to try and push myself to use fonts or colours that I would normally try to avoid, in order to make a title, or piece of text, stand out more. I have learnt how important it is to have something (especially on the front cover) of which is sure to attract an audience and give them a reason to pick up the magazine. If the text/font is boring and bland, with no effects, for example; stroke, then it is likely to be ignored.
One very important thing that I have learnt in this process is the importance of time-keeping, and creating/sticking to a schedule. I have learnt that it is so important to lay out a project and stick to it as much as possible, especially when you have a specific deadline, as if you over-run on one thing for example doing drafts then you are then likely to run behind schedule for the rest of the project, making it extremely hard to meet the final deadline.
Throughout the process of working towards my final music magazine, I have learnt the importance of new technologies such as; InDesign and Photoshop, within the world of media. It is imperitive to being able to create products like music magazines, or indeed, magazines in general. It allows us to be able to create and put to life new and fresh ideas.
I have also learnt the importance of using things such as rulers/guidelines and also layers when working with such technologies. Layers are especially important as without properly laying out your deisgns they become easily confused and mixed up, making it very hard to edit the smallest of things quickly. Rulers and guidelines are important as it gives you the ablity to be able to lay things out acurately, for example ensuring an image is central to the page, or that there is equal space both sides of something.
Font, and font colours are something that I have learnt how to use adequately. Throughout this process I have had to try and push myself to use fonts or colours that I would normally try to avoid, in order to make a title, or piece of text, stand out more. I have learnt how important it is to have something (especially on the front cover) of which is sure to attract an audience and give them a reason to pick up the magazine. If the text/font is boring and bland, with no effects, for example; stroke, then it is likely to be ignored.
One very important thing that I have learnt in this process is the importance of time-keeping, and creating/sticking to a schedule. I have learnt that it is so important to lay out a project and stick to it as much as possible, especially when you have a specific deadline, as if you over-run on one thing for example doing drafts then you are then likely to run behind schedule for the rest of the project, making it extremely hard to meet the final deadline.
Evaluation 3
What type of institution would distribute your product?
I feel that an appropriate institution would be a medium-large scale distribution company, perhaps one that distributes nation-wide. An appropriate company would be one such as;
Bauer Media Group - BMG reaches over nineteen million adults (16+ years of age) every week. The company owns extremely well known brands/other companies recognised nation and worldwide such as;
- Kerrang!
- FHM
- Q
- Kiss.fm
- Magic
I feel a company such as this would be appropriate as it deals with a large range of magazines/companies (big and small) from fishing to motoring to almost all types of muisc. The company is renown for its well known music companies, and therefore people may trust my product more. It also reaches the correct target audience, of anyone in the bracket of 16 years of age and up. BMG also already contains magazines/music companies of similar music genres, whilst this could potentially rivial my product it could also help it fit in with the already well established audience.
I feel that an appropriate institution would be a medium-large scale distribution company, perhaps one that distributes nation-wide. An appropriate company would be one such as;
Bauer Media Group - BMG reaches over nineteen million adults (16+ years of age) every week. The company owns extremely well known brands/other companies recognised nation and worldwide such as;
- Kerrang!
- FHM
- Q
- Kiss.fm
- Magic
I feel a company such as this would be appropriate as it deals with a large range of magazines/companies (big and small) from fishing to motoring to almost all types of muisc. The company is renown for its well known music companies, and therefore people may trust my product more. It also reaches the correct target audience, of anyone in the bracket of 16 years of age and up. BMG also already contains magazines/music companies of similar music genres, whilst this could potentially rivial my product it could also help it fit in with the already well established audience.
Final - Music Magazine
Above you can see my final music magazine pages. As is shown in earlier blog enteries, I have reached this stage through research, peer and self feedback, and on-going editing.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Second Front Cover and Contents Page
On retrospect, this attempt also lacks conventions such as puffs and tag lines however the change of layout dramatically affected how the cover looked, by removing the vertical red bar which served no purpose, making the top bar one continous white bar and playing the cover feature in a better way making it stand out. The contents page continues the house theme of black and red, and contains common conventions such as; an editors note, stories/features, page numbers and sections. Feedback from peers suggested that it was easily understood and easy to find things, both important positives for a contents page.
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