Question 7 evaluation: Looking back at my preliminary task, what do I feel I've learnt in the progression from it?

Question 7: Progression from preliminary activity from emilymediaas

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Question 6 evaluation: What have I learnt about technologies in process of constructing my product ?

Question 5 evaluation: How did you attract/ address your target audience?

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Question 4 evalutation: Who would be the audience for your media product?

 My magazine is aimed at young adults/teenagers, the age group of 16-20 years old, usually students. My magazine is aimed at both males and females that have a deep interest in music, my target audience would fit into the JIGNAR scale as C2DE this is usually students or people with a low pay. I have aimed my magazine at students because of the artists I’ve featured for example young artists like Crystal castles.

I have asked several members of my target audience questions relating to where they are on the JIGNAR scale by this I’ve asked them what job they have. Most of my audiences are unemployed because they are students however some of them have part time jobs for example Eve Foran works at McDonalds.

 I have interviewed each person and asked them these questions:

What type of job do they do? How do they dress? Where do they shop?  What type of house/ flat do they live in? What do they value in life? Where do they go when they socialise? What types of things do they spend their money on? How do they spend their free time?, What car do they drive or aspire to drive? What phone do they own? How do they listen to music, online, CDs, spotify/ sound cloud etc.?

I first interviewed Eve Foran she is an ideal reader this is because she fits the target audience, Eve is 16 years old and works and McDonalds.
This clip is of our discussion:

https://soundcloud.com/emily-b-28/media-as-question-4 - EVE FORAN

My second interviewer was Max Ward also an ideal reader, Max fits perfectly with the target audience again a 16 year old student however Max is unemployed.
This is a clip of the interview:

My third interviewer was Temi A perfect ideal reader, she works a topshop but is also a student. Temi is 17 years old and also follows the key conventions of my target audience.
This is a clip of the interview:
https://soundcloud.com/emily-b-28/media-as-question-4-temi TEMI

My fourth interviewer was Natasha Morley, Natasha is a 17 year old student that is currently unemployed. She is an ideal reader and she as many other fit the requirements of the target audience. 
This is a clip of the interview:
https://soundcloud.com/emily-b-28/media-as-question-4-natasha NATASHA 

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Question 3 evaluation: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 3 Media

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Question 2 evaluation: How does your media product represent social groups?

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Question 1 evaluation: In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?

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Final front cover / contents / double page spread

Attempt 3 at DPS

This is another attempt at double page spread, I have used several different photos of the model to make it look like (the line of images are from a photo booth) developments. I did this to make the DPS look different and interesting also this makes the page more full instead of it being crowded with text.

Attempt 2 at double page spread

With this attempt I experimented with two photos making the both fade into one and other, I like this because it looks shuttle and different which matches with my theme. Using nude colours to make the DPS suit the rest of the magazine, this makes the magazine look more realistic and professional when I did research I found that many established magazines only used their colour scheme when doing headlines.

In this I used a very large focused image of my model from the side of the page I thought this  was very interesting because it looked as if she was doing that on purpose which would capture the audience as she does look very different, almost creepy with blood from her nose but I think it makes the DPS look fascinating and full instead of too much text that would make the audience bored. I believe it suits my target audiences because when I asked them if they liked little or a lot of text the majority said little and preferred large images because it's more attractive and pleasing on the eye.

Starting to create double page spread

This is my first attempt at creating my double page spread, I like the idea that my focus model is in a C this emphasis the focus towards her. From researching double page spreads this is an idea I found, I think C looks different as I personally haven't seen it in any magazines I've read which makes the magazine look more unique and stand out above other magazines that haven't used or tried this style in showing off the featured artist.
After making the C with different combinations of photos I put the text in and started to make it look more realistic, I added other photo ideas I had stolen from the research images I have found to make the DPS look interesting and creative instead of being dull and loaded with too much text.

research and ideas into how I might layout my double page spread

I think these ideas would work well with my magazine house style as they are shuttle, which goes well with my nude colour theme through out the contents and the front cover. I find these dps interesting as they are quite minimalistic but different and unique, I'd like to try this kind of editing with my own images of chloe to focus on when I create my double page spread this is because she is the featured artist and it will look more eye catching if the magazine stood out above the others because of it's original unique edits.

double page conventions

A large image- of artist who has been featured. 

 A pull quote - taken from the interview with the celebrity.

 Bold text – important names.

 A stand first – introduction to the article/feature.

Text – size 11, same size used throughout.

Drop cap – usually bold, tells reader where to start reading.

Columns – usually 2-4 to keep an organised structure.

By-lines – put under images to credit photographer.

Short headline- Usually just 1 or 2 words to state what the feature is about.

Usually follows same colour scheme.

 Informal tone - Quite chatty, especially if it's an interview.

Allow title to bleed onto the other page to show the pages are linked.

Page furniture:

•       Pull quote
•       Crosshead
•       Opinion Box
•       Boxouts
•       Folio and slug
•       Reader interaction
•        Information Bar
•       Drop Cap
•       Header sell/strap
•       Byline
•     Caption/Caption header 

Planning the double page spread

In my double page spread I want to talk about the main focused image on my front cover (CHLOE) this is essential the front cover is meant to draw people in. I want the double page spread to again follow the theme that I have created on my other pages, I want to use the nude color palate to make the artist look more interesting and innocent as she is portrayed in the front cover making her look unique.

Which content I want to use and why

I think from the contents pages I have created so far that this one is most suited to my house style and looks more professional and has an order to the layout as the others seem crowed and messy. For example 3rd one that has two very enlarged images of both Tom and Chloe, I was trying to play around with the editing but found the more I played with the photos the page began to look more tacky and more unprofessional as the photos started to look pixelated.

second attempt at contents page

These are some photo's I took when I went to see Kate Nash to use in circles 

First attempts at contents page

Incomplete copy of my possible contents page to experiment using different text and images

Why I decided to keep my original final front cover

I thought that the end final front cover was boring and lack color and I wanted it to be more unique and different so I experimented with other photos that I had already taken,  so I asked people of my peer group suitable for the audience what they thought. I went through each individual photo and asked them which one they thought had a better image and looked more realistic, I was surprised to find that everyone preferred the images with our the blood and preferred them my original finished cover. I've came to the conclusion that because of what my target audience agreed it's important that I pick that cover, although I think the others are more interesting the audience thought the blood was weird and unusual.

Final front cover

One of the attempts

As you can see from these two (2nd image is an example of one other attempt) there is an obvious differences, I wasn't sure which one I preferred until my target audiences decided for me. 

These are the reasons why they may have suggested they preferred the image, they highlighted that they liked the use of photography in the original front cover because it made the magazine look shuttle instead of gothic and it suited better with music style and the house style. 

Also as you can see the text suits and fits a lot better with the first photo because the colour from the image is matched appropriately and it looks less gory. The photos with the blood may offend someone people because they dislike blood or because they find the image disturbing, however others might think its interesting.   

changing front cover image to see what works better

Planning the Contents page

These are layouts as to how I may have my contents page, I've tried different ones to experiment and see all possible ways I could have either my photos or pages numbers. I did this to see if I could find interesting layouts and make my magazine look different.