2. Influence
My genre, primary and secondary
research influenced my work and
made me want t strive to be
professional-like with my own
product.
Through this I also gained a lot more
knowledge of the forms and
conventions of a magazine.
Developing my skills benefited my
work by allowing me to work to the
best of my ability; a professional
standard. By learning about the
forms and conventions it allowed my
product to be more in line with real
media products.
3. Organisation
During my production I tried to
keep track of all my work,
making folders for specific
things so that they wouldn’t get
lost in the mx of files.
I also made my self a check list
for every task and set a deadline
to have certain tasks completed
on time to improve my work
methods from the Prelim task.
5. Photography Composition
I was able to develop my skills within this
area using a better camera and the studio
within college.
The lights that were available in the studio
enabled me to create the shadowing
affects that I wanted to create in my
front cover image. I learnt how to use a
light meter and set the aperture and
shutter speed setting on the camera in
order to ensure that my photograph
wasn't over or under exposed. This is
clearly evident in my final production as
compared to my prelim task. I was also
able to find the exact environment
needed for my shot rather than just doing
it in the classroom.
6. Page Layout
As I developed my skills in Photoshop
and InDesign I was able to place
guides on my work to be able to Aline my sell lines to the left r right
hand side of my magazine. This gave it
a clean cut look leading it to being
more professional looking.
I could use tools on the tool bar at the
top of both Photoshop and InDesign
to cure and lead my sell lines which
allowed me to group certain words as
a topic on he page. On Photoshop I
could also us stroke to allow words to
stand out against the background so
they can be easily read.
7. Fonts
Instead of using the fonts within
Photoshop and InDesign, as I did in
the Prelim task, I searched, myself to
find the exact fonts I wanted to use
as they had a purpose e.g Masthead
having to look cracked to give the
image of not being pristine.
I used Dafont.com to find the fonts I
was looking for and uploaded them
to the software.
8. Use of Models + Mise en Scene
For my Prelim task finding models was
only about availability, hence my prelim
didn’t have much of a genre.
Whereas for m final product I needed the
models to suit the genre that I had
chosen ‘Indie Rock.’
Therefore I used models that fit to the
description of the Indie Persona and feel
(casual, un-planned and energetic) so my
target audience could identify better
with my magazine. This is different to my
Prelim as there wasn’t a need behind the
project to actually sell my magazine to an
audience.
9. Content
Instead of the content being
generalised and just quick ideas, my
content for the main product was
thought through to be able to catch
the target audiences attention.
For example, it needed to have
musicians advertised in the magazine
needed to be of the Indie genre, the
colour used needed to be unique and
individual against other real media
products , the offers/deals needed to
be suitable for the younger
generation hence info on new beats
available and upcoming gigs.
