Analysis of a students blog
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The document analyzes and summarizes Holly Etty's 2014 blog that was created for an AS Media course. It praises the design, layout, and organization of her blog. Specifically, it highlights how she used consistent colors and formatting across sections. It also notes how she presented her work in different formats like images, videos, and text to keep things interesting while still being easy to navigate. The analysis concludes that Holly created a well-designed, thorough blog that showed her progress and demonstrated her media skills.
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- They incorporated more elements found in researched magazines, like headers, footers, cover lines, and contents features
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Question 7- Evaluation
The document summarizes the learning and improvements the author experienced from their preliminary magazine cover task to the full magazine product.
In 3 sentences:
The author felt they improved their knowledge of magazine conventions and design software. Their preliminary covers showed basic magazine elements but lacked refinement, while their final product demonstrated mastery of techniques like overlays, filters and consistent house style. The progression showed how the author gained skills in magazine layout, editing, and creating a professional final product.
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Evaluation 7
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3) Including an interview quote with a blurred white background to make it stand out.
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5) Including another interview extract in a light purple box in the column middle.
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Since completing the preliminary task and final product, the student learned several things:
- Their skills with PhotoShop and InDesign improved, allowing them to create more professional-looking pages that followed magazine design conventions
- They incorporated more elements found in researched magazines, like headers, footers, cover lines, and contents features
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Question 7- Evaluation
The document summarizes the learning and improvements the author experienced from their preliminary magazine cover task to the full magazine product.
In 3 sentences:
The author felt they improved their knowledge of magazine conventions and design software. Their preliminary covers showed basic magazine elements but lacked refinement, while their final product demonstrated mastery of techniques like overlays, filters and consistent house style. The progression showed how the author gained skills in magazine layout, editing, and creating a professional final product.
Magazine design evaluation
Cesca Haig conducted research for a magazine design project by distributing a questionnaire to gather information on preferences. Results showed people were more likely to buy magazines that offered free items and had more photos than text. For her product, Cesca compared magazine covers and elements like cover lines, title formatting, double page spreads, and contents pages. She designed a magazine targeted at ages 14-35 featuring different film genres. Cesca created designs for the cover, contents page, and a double page interview spread, and gathered feedback through an online survey.
Evaluation 7
Between their initial and resubmitted AS media products, the author has improved in several key areas:
1) The design and layout of elements like the front cover, contents page, and double page spreads show more creativity, originality, and attention to detail.
2) Color schemes and formatting choices make text and images more visually cohesive and easier to read.
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4) Increased experience with software and editing skills allow for a more polished and "professional" final product overall.
Evaluation Activity 7
- The document discusses improvements made from the preliminary magazine draft to the final draft.
- Styling of the model, camerawork techniques, directing poses, font choices, and page layout showed better understanding of conventions and targeting the intended audience.
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The student provides a detailed self-reflection on creating a broadsheet, tabloid, and fanzine for a class project. They received feedback that helped improve their work, such as removing a black outline around a box and making the title larger to fill white space. The student discusses the tools and techniques used in InDesign and Photoshop to lay out pages and edit images, including grids, fonts, adjusting image sizes, and adding shapes in Photoshop. They reflect on time management challenges and lessons learned about taking progress photos to improve their work.
Evaluation 5
The document discusses gathering feedback from peers and a Facebook group to help design a magazine. It describes including a large sans serif masthead based on feedback and using bold lettering and a sans serif font was suggested to attract male readers. Pictures of music instruments were also used based on feedback saying they made the magazine look professional.
Evaluation 5
The document summarizes how the magazine addressed and attracted its target audience. It did so through an eye-catching magazine cover featuring a cool artist looking directly at readers. The cover used bright colors and fonts to stand out visually. Inside, the contents page followed a familiar magazine layout and provided previews and descriptions to entice readers. Throughout, the language was simple and relatable to the target 16-25 age range without slang or complex words.
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Maddie is a 16-year-old music fan from London who enjoys discovering new indie artists. She spends her disposable income on vinyl albums and attends free local shows frequently. Maddie uses her knowledge of upcoming bands to influence her social circle and enhance her social life through hosting Spotify listening parties with her friends. An open-minded experience seeker, she enjoys both large arena concerts and small, individual shows, and attends the Reading music festival annually.
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Proposal
My music magazine will focus on up-and-coming singer-songwriters in genres like folk, indie, and light rock. This demographic of 16-23 year olds enjoys discovering new artists in small venues. My weekly magazine will be unique in targeting this audience by promoting free local shows and profiling independent artists, filling a gap in the current magazine market. It will appeal to both female and male readers and feature attractive photographs while focusing on intellectual content like artist profiles, concert listings, and music reviews.
Magazine names
The document analyzes magazine names and how their names convey meaning. It discusses how names use phrases, connotative words, compound words, and acronyms to appeal to audiences. For example, it notes that Q's magazine name is an acronym that looks like a record, NME is also an acronym that sounds like "enemy" to emphasize competition, and Rolling Stone uses a compound word from the band name to appeal to alternative rock fans. The document examines how magazine names create impressions through linguistic elements.
Article analyse
The document analyzes the layout, images, and conventions used in magazine articles. It summarizes three magazine double page spreads, noting the main article, title, images, and layout used. Key elements included a main image to grab attention, organized layout in columns for easy reading, pull quotes from interviews, and adherence to magazine codes like logos and page numbers. Images were relevant to the topic and used lighting/poses to stand out. Overall the document examines how magazines effectively utilize design and visual elements to engage their audience.
Front cover
This document analyzes the cover of a music magazine. It discusses several key elements:
- The masthead is the large logo at the top in red to stand out. It signifies the importance of the magazine brand.
- The cover lines in bold text advertise the main stories inside to entice readers. Red is used to match the masthead and draw attention.
- The main image is of singer Jesse J, prominently displayed in a revealing outfit to attract mostly male readers. A band called Muse is shown smaller behind her.
- Additional elements include the barcode with date and price, and an advertisement banner contrasting in yellow to promote a story inside.
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- Looking through Geeta's blog provided ideas for how to structure and present work effectively through different media on the author's own blog.
Evaluation - Question 4.
The student used WordPress as their main blogging platform to organize and display their work over the course of the year. Key features used included categories to organize work, embedding videos, photos and powerpoints, and polls to gather feedback from teachers and peers. Google was the primary search engine used to conduct research, while YouTube and Trailer Addict were helpful sites for analyzing movie trailers. The student's WordPress blog, along with other class blogs on Medi@chs, helped facilitate sharing work and receiving feedback.
Past Blog Evaluation
1) The blog created by Alfie Green caught the author's attention due to its modern, mature, and visually appealing design.
2) Alfie Green demonstrated success through his use of different media like video, voice recordings, and images to make the blog more interesting and professional.
3) The author concluded that Alfie Green's blog is an excellent example of a successful blog due to its unique design, evidence that Alfie is passionate about the subject matter, and inclusion of original ideas like a dedicated social media account.
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The document discusses how the author used various media technologies during the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages of their work. This included creating a WordPress blog to organize and display work, using categories and embedding videos, photos and powerpoints. The author also used polls on their blog to gather feedback and used Google, their WordPress blog, Medi@chs and YouTube to conduct research. They took location photos during planning and practiced with video editing software to develop skills.
Evaluation question 4
The document discusses the various media technologies used by the author at different stages of constructing and researching their magazine project. In the planning stage, the author used Blogger to organize research, YouTube for tutorials on software, and Facebook to conduct audience research. Photoshop skills like removing backgrounds were developed to enhance images for the website. Prezi, Emaze, and Slides.com were used to create engaging presentations. A Canon 70D camera captured high-quality images and videos. The final website was created using Wix and hosted content from PowerPoint, uploaded via SlideShare.
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How did you use media technologies in the construction, research and planning, and evaluation stages?
Evaluation question 7
Through the process of creating her final magazine product, the author feels she has improved in several key areas from her preliminary task:
1) Her research and planning skills are stronger - she understands what to look for in professional magazines and how to plan her own magazine accordingly.
2) Her technical skills using software like Photoshop have grown - she is more comfortable with the tools and understands layout and design principles better.
3) While the contents page layout remained similar, she enhanced it by adding social media details, based on research of what appeals to target audiences.
Overall her work reflects incorporating research insights, technical skills, and focus on target audiences - showing progression from her earlier preliminary task.
Evaluation. question four
The document discusses how the author used WordPress and the internet for research, planning, construction, and evaluation of their work. Some key points:
- WordPress categories allowed the author to easily organize and access different sections of their work.
- Individual posts on WordPress provided a clear progression and documentation of decisions. This helped the author and viewer understand the work.
- YouTube and other sites provided access to film trailers for research and analysis of editing techniques.
- Google Images and magazine sites allowed research of magazine covers in different genres.
- The internet provided a wide variety of examples from different time periods and countries.
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