AS Media Project

1. Skills audit of AS coursework (Foundation Portfolio)
Name: Angharad Evans Name of production: RUMBLE Date:11/06/15
What did you do?
Specifically, what did you use / look at / read /
do? Details matter here so be precise: what
equipment? Software? Websites? Magazines?
Articles?
How did this contribute to your
CREATIVITY?
(How did your before and after
stages make the product better?)
Audience
How did you use your target audience
in the different stages of production?
Social media? Focus groups?
What were your strengths and
weaknesses in this area? (what went
well and was useful vs. what was not
really done or used at all)
Research and
planning
• Looked at past magazines to collect and
understand what works well and what doesn’t
• Main Focus: NME, Q and Keerang
• Blogger Tools within the website to present my
work
• Faststone Capture to screenshot past magazines
• PowerPoint to help analyse my screenshots from
the magazines before putting them on my blog
• Magazine Terminology
• Questionnaires
• Comparing my first work at the start
of AS f the school magazine to some
in the industry to understand how
the magazine is set out and what I
placed incorrect/ correct
• Looking at names of the magazines
and being able to see that having a
simple name is the most effective
way of looking at things
• Questionnaires to my target audience
on the name of the magazine
• Made the genre suited for the target
audience and looked at magazines
based around a similar outcome such
as NME
• Showed a plan of my magazine seeing
if anything needed changing
Strengths:
• Looked at a rang of magazines before
focusing of the top three
• Researched a range of genres and how
successful each one was
Weaknesses:
• Didn’t involve the target audience as
much as I wanted
• Need to document more on my
blogger to create a each aspect of my
project
Conventions of
real media texts
• House style was linked closely to the style of of
NME
• Red, Yellow, White and Black
• Kings of Leon Cover (band ideas)
• Positioning of Texts
• Squared Layout of Headlines
• Colour schemes used throughout
both medias and how the
compliment each other
• Positioning of my magazine, such as
fonts, front cover images and how
important my double page spread
story and layout is
• Contents page involves a range of
multimedia, overall outcome of the
magazine and what is featured inside
• Target Audience helped to pick the
name of the magazine
• Target Audience helped to pick the text
style of the magazine
• Looked at past magazine covers
Strengths:
• Looked very closely to other magazines
and compared each one to get the best
outcome
• Adapted the style of the magazine to
what worked well in past work
Weaknesses:
• Should have wrote down more of my
work on blogger
Digital
technology
• InDesign to create my magazine
• Photoshop
• Prezi
• IMovie
• Interviews
• YouTube Account
• Dafont
• Voice Over in Garage Band
• Using Dafont to pick a text that I feel
will fit with my genre as well as catch
my audiences eye
• InDesign to combine layers of my
magazine so I was able to include
things such as a header and cover
stories
• Power Point to create a table so they
were able to chose and compare the
texts I had given them
• DaFont for the chosen texts
• Publisher to create magazine
templates
Strengths:
• Used Prezi to present my evaluation
• PowToon to present my evaluation
• IMovie and Garage Band to present my
evaluation
Weaknesses:
• Didn’t use blogger
• Photoshop could have been used more

2. Skills audit of AS coursework (Foundation Portfolio)
Name: Angharad Evans Name of production: RUMBLE Date:11/06/15
What did you do?
Specifically, what did you use / look at / read /
do? Details matter here so be precise: what
equipment? Software? Websites? Magazines?
Articles?
How did this contribute to your
CREATIVITY?
(How did your before and after
stages make the product better?)
Audience
How did you use your target audience
in the different stages of production?
Social media? Focus groups?
What were your strengths and
weaknesses in this area? (what went
well and was useful vs. what was not
really done or used at all)
Digital
technology
• InDesign to create my magazine
• Photoshop
• Prezi
• IMovie
• Interviews
• YouTube Account
• Dafont
• Voice Over in Garage Band
• Software was easy to understand
• Layering my work took a long process
• Only being allocated to one computer let me
down
• Using Dafont to pick a text that I feel
will fit with my genre as well as catch
my audiences eye
• InDesign to combine layers of my
magazine so I was able to include
things such as a header and cover
stories
• Power Point to create a table so they
were able to chose and compare the
texts I had given them
• DaFont for the chosen texts
• Publisher to create magazine
templates
Strengths:
• Used Prezi to present my evaluation
• PowToon to present my evaluation
• IMovie and Garage Band to present my
evaluation
Weaknesses:
• Didn’t use blogger
• Photoshop could have been used more
throughout my work
Post
Production
• Contrast change of front cover photo
(Photoshop)
• Dafont for specific font linking to my magazine
• Cut outline of front cover image
• Overlap of black background of double page
spread
• Colour Scheme for texts in Contents Page
• Showing the target audience my work
throughout the process, accepting
feedback to help improve my work for
example the front cover photo was
chosen by the target audience to be
cut out ad placed onto a white
background and produced a better
outcome
Strengths:
• Using different media in my evaluation
• Using Complex functions from IMovie
Weaknesses:
• Should have spent more time on
blogger