The document provides feedback on the design of a magazine spread. It notes that the color scheme gives a classic style but that the red is a bold contrast. The font and picture are praised but it is noted that the image overpowers the article and there is not much text. The overall spread is described as boring and not catching the reader's eye due to the dull colors and small amount of text compared to the large image.
The document summarizes the results of a survey about preferences for a proposed rap music magazine. According to the survey, most respondents thought the cost of the magazine should be £2.50, the most popular rap artists to feature were Eminem and A$ap Rocky, and the best name options were R3al or R3ality with black, white and grey as preferred colors. Most said they would buy the magazine online and listen to music regularly.
This document analyzes the content page layout of two magazines - Q and NME. It summarizes key aspects of each content page design in 3 sentences or less:
Q's content page features a large picture of the main article to draw attention, uses gold text to highlight important stories, and includes smaller subheadings to easily locate content. NME includes a band index to find articles, excerpts from featured pieces to entice readers, and subheadings to make content accessible. The analysis evaluates visual and organizational elements used to effectively showcase and navigate magazine stories.
The document provides feedback on the design of a magazine cover and interior pages. It notes that the cover does not look professional or eye-catching, with blurry writing, inconsistent fonts and colors that do not match. The feedback also suggests leaving less empty space around photos and text, using proper lighting for photos, establishing a color scheme and dressing appropriately for the magazine's genre.
The document discusses how the author attracted and addressed their intended audience for a rock music magazine. They aimed the magazine at the middle class by setting the price at £2.70 and avoiding swearing or slang. They chose to focus on rock music because there were established magazines in the pop genre already. The author designed the logo and front cover with dark colors like black and red that they felt would attract fans of rock music and "emo" styles. They conducted interviews that confirmed people associated these dark colors with rock music fans based on their appearance and fashion styles.
This document analyzes and summarizes several photos being considered for a magazine spread about punk rock culture and rebellion against social norms.
The first photo shows a model on a half pipe at a skate park and is being considered for the front cover due to its eye-catching nature of breaking rules.
The second photo depicts a frustrated model holding a whiskey bottle, meant to illustrate the pressures on teens today and how some use alcohol to cope. This photo is being considered for the double page spread.
After review, the second photo was selected for the double page spread as it highlights the themes of the article around school, partying, and punk views.
The third photo was originally considered for the
Ubisoft is a large French video game publisher and developer with over 5,000 employees across 17 countries. It is the 3rd largest publisher in Europe and 4th largest in America, with annual sales of 871 million euros in 2009-2010. Some of Ubisoft's most successful franchises include Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (23 million sales), Assassin's Creed (19 million), and Prince of Persia (16 million). Ubisoft also publishes dance games for the Wii like Just Dance and Just Dance 2, which have sold over 9 million copies combined and helped make the Wii the best-selling console of its generation.
This document annotates a magazine cover and interior pages to show how different design elements were used to attract and address the intended audience. Bold colors and fonts on the masthead and cover were used to catch readers' attention and convey an aggressive vibe. Red and black text and spiky writing within articles portrayed the dark themes of metal and punk music. Larger images and varied image sizes throughout illustrated importance and grabbed readers' attention. Clear bold page numbers and red headings also aimed to easily engage the audience.
The document provides feedback on the design of a magazine spread. It notes that the color scheme gives a classic style but that the red is a bold contrast. The font and picture are praised but it is noted that the image overpowers the article and there is not much text. The overall spread is described as boring and not catching the reader's eye due to the dull colors and small amount of text compared to the large image.
The document summarizes the results of a survey about preferences for a proposed rap music magazine. According to the survey, most respondents thought the cost of the magazine should be £2.50, the most popular rap artists to feature were Eminem and A$ap Rocky, and the best name options were R3al or R3ality with black, white and grey as preferred colors. Most said they would buy the magazine online and listen to music regularly.
This document analyzes the content page layout of two magazines - Q and NME. It summarizes key aspects of each content page design in 3 sentences or less:
Q's content page features a large picture of the main article to draw attention, uses gold text to highlight important stories, and includes smaller subheadings to easily locate content. NME includes a band index to find articles, excerpts from featured pieces to entice readers, and subheadings to make content accessible. The analysis evaluates visual and organizational elements used to effectively showcase and navigate magazine stories.
The document provides feedback on the design of a magazine cover and interior pages. It notes that the cover does not look professional or eye-catching, with blurry writing, inconsistent fonts and colors that do not match. The feedback also suggests leaving less empty space around photos and text, using proper lighting for photos, establishing a color scheme and dressing appropriately for the magazine's genre.
The document discusses how the author attracted and addressed their intended audience for a rock music magazine. They aimed the magazine at the middle class by setting the price at £2.70 and avoiding swearing or slang. They chose to focus on rock music because there were established magazines in the pop genre already. The author designed the logo and front cover with dark colors like black and red that they felt would attract fans of rock music and "emo" styles. They conducted interviews that confirmed people associated these dark colors with rock music fans based on their appearance and fashion styles.
This document analyzes and summarizes several photos being considered for a magazine spread about punk rock culture and rebellion against social norms.
The first photo shows a model on a half pipe at a skate park and is being considered for the front cover due to its eye-catching nature of breaking rules.
The second photo depicts a frustrated model holding a whiskey bottle, meant to illustrate the pressures on teens today and how some use alcohol to cope. This photo is being considered for the double page spread.
After review, the second photo was selected for the double page spread as it highlights the themes of the article around school, partying, and punk views.
The third photo was originally considered for the
Ubisoft is a large French video game publisher and developer with over 5,000 employees across 17 countries. It is the 3rd largest publisher in Europe and 4th largest in America, with annual sales of 871 million euros in 2009-2010. Some of Ubisoft's most successful franchises include Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (23 million sales), Assassin's Creed (19 million), and Prince of Persia (16 million). Ubisoft also publishes dance games for the Wii like Just Dance and Just Dance 2, which have sold over 9 million copies combined and helped make the Wii the best-selling console of its generation.
This document annotates a magazine cover and interior pages to show how different design elements were used to attract and address the intended audience. Bold colors and fonts on the masthead and cover were used to catch readers' attention and convey an aggressive vibe. Red and black text and spiky writing within articles portrayed the dark themes of metal and punk music. Larger images and varied image sizes throughout illustrated importance and grabbed readers' attention. Clear bold page numbers and red headings also aimed to easily engage the audience.
This document describes a storyboard that was updated with new ideas. The original storyboard used yellow post-it notes while the updated version used green post-it notes to represent new scenes that were added. The following four slides show the edited storyboard with green post-it notes indicating where changes were made.
This document provides information about the structure and requirements of part of an exam on media representations of youth. It outlines the learning objectives, marking scheme, and level 4 criteria. The level 4 criteria emphasize developing a coherent argument, using a range of examples that integrate history and future, and demonstrating command of theoretical language. It also provides sample essay paragraphs comparing the representations of youth in the films "if..." and "Fish Tank".
The document analyzes and provides pros and cons for the design of several magazines. For the first magazine, it notes there is a lot of information but the photo looks casual. For the second, it praises the amount of information but criticizes the excessive colors as too childish. For the third, it suggests adding another color for variety and notes not all photos have subjects looking at the camera. It gives highest praise to the fourth magazine for its professional look, balanced text and images, and engaging layout.
The student created both a school magazine and a music magazine. The school magazine lacks professional qualities like using columns correctly and has an amateur design with pictures placed randomly. In contrast, the music magazine makes use of columns to organize text and pictures, has a coherent color scheme, and looks polished overall. Specifically, the music magazine contents page employs multiple columns, consistently sized pictures, and includes standard elements like page numbers, whereas the school magazine contents page lacks structure and professional features.
The document discusses the videogame industry and how it is structured. It covers the roles of publishers, developers, and distributors in bringing games to market. Publishers are responsible for obtaining rights and concepts for games, as well as marketing and distribution for large companies. Developers create the actual games, which are sometimes contracted work. Distributors help market, package, and distribute games for smaller developers. The document also outlines different sales channels like traditional retail and digital distribution, as well as some major companies in the industry.
This document summarizes several examples of citizen journalism:
- Salam Pax was an Iraqi blogger who chronicled life in Iraq during the war and anti-Saddam regime, at great personal risk.
- Mahmood's Den criticized the Bahraini government and is now facing legal action.
- African Eye promotes HIV/AIDS awareness in Africa.
- Zola and the Nailhouse was one of the first Chinese citizen journalists, focusing attention on local issues not covered by traditional media.
- Global Voices Online translates and shares citizen media and blogs from around the world.
This document discusses how online media has changed the study of media from media 1.0 to media 2.0. It outlines David Gauntlett's view that media 2.0 allows for faster, more collaborative creativity and that creativity is linked to a desire for connection. It defines media 1.0 as focusing on finding information, while media 2.0 emphasizes filtering information. It also discusses how new media is transforming culture by shifting from consumers to "prosumers" and giving audiences a more active role.
This document discusses several YouTube channels whose creators have been able to make a living from YouTube. It describes Epic Meal Time, which started posting fun videos and grew so large that the main creator was able to quit his teaching job. It also discusses the gaming network Machinima, which sponsors gamers and helps them create and submit videos as a career. Finally, it mentions Smosh, which began as two friends making silly videos for fun and is now one of YouTube's biggest channels, allowing the creators to support themselves through videos and merchandise.
The document analyzes and compares the websites of three indie bands: Catfish and the Bottlemen, Twenty One Pilots, and The Neighbourhood. For Catfish and the Bottlemen, the website prominently features the band's logo and images of their albums for sale. Twenty One Pilots' minimalist website uses intriguing graphics and colors consistent with their album artwork. The Neighbourhood's site immediately draws attention with background images and prominently features their new album for purchase or download.
The document discusses conventions used in horror media products and how the author has developed and challenged some of these conventions in their own horror magazine cover, film poster, and trailer. For the magazine cover, the author uses bold text and red and black colors which represent blood and death for horror. The film poster features a dark and sinister background with a creepy house in the center and smudged tagline. The trailer uses unsettling old-fashioned music and only features one character instead of many to make it unique.
Luke Beckess created a trailer, poster, and magazine for a horror film project. He shared these on Facebook and survey monkey to collect feedback. For the trailer, feedback indicated that volume needed adjusting during loud scenes. For the poster, people suggested making the house photo darker and more sinister. For the magazine, feedback noted the font colors needed to be red and black to better convey the horror genre. Luke took this critical feedback and made improvements, resulting in products that were more clearly identifiable as horror-related and better suited the audience.
Kendall Jenner is interested in dating Chris Brown now that he and Karrueche Tran have broken up. Nicki Minaj's new album "The Pink Print" is out now. An article questions if Kendrick Lamar can top his acclaimed album "GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY" now that he has worldwide attention.
Kendall Jenner is interested in dating Chris Brown now that he and Karrueche Tran have broken up. Nicki Minaj's new album "The Pink Print" is out now. An article questions if Kendrick Lamar can top his acclaimed album "GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY" now that he has worldwide attention.
Kianne is a 17-year-old singer and actress who is achieving success in multiple areas at a young age. She has had a hit single on her debut album, starred in her own MTV series, and is rumored to be the youngest contestant ever on Dancing with the Stars. Though she finds the success and stress difficult to cope with at times, she makes self-care a priority by taking time to relax and zone out. Her message to fans is to follow their dreams and try their hardest.
The document discusses how the creator of a music magazine addressed and attracted their audience through design elements. Key points include:
- Using a consistent font throughout to make the magazine look professional and easy to read.
- Incorporating colors like red, white and blue to target a UK audience where much indie music originates.
- Including distant, edgy cover model photos and contest prizes to engage readers.
- Organizing content in a way that looks new but is still useful.
- Maintaining branding elements like impactful fonts and a red banner across pages.
- Using a three-column layout and section headings to help readers navigate efficiently.
- Continuing the red
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses design elements for the cover of a horror/thriller magazine. It suggests that a dark, creepy font will attract the target audience and that a picture of a zombie as the main image tells viewers what to expect inside. It also recommends including a creepy subtitle in blood red, along with a relevant image. Descriptions of similar movies and actors down the left side provide more information. An attention-grabbing title in big, bold letters will draw in fans of the action/thriller genre. The makeup and costume of a character pictured can give the impression of a villain through appearing pale and in war-like clothing.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
This document describes a storyboard that was updated with new ideas. The original storyboard used yellow post-it notes while the updated version used green post-it notes to represent new scenes that were added. The following four slides show the edited storyboard with green post-it notes indicating where changes were made.
This document provides information about the structure and requirements of part of an exam on media representations of youth. It outlines the learning objectives, marking scheme, and level 4 criteria. The level 4 criteria emphasize developing a coherent argument, using a range of examples that integrate history and future, and demonstrating command of theoretical language. It also provides sample essay paragraphs comparing the representations of youth in the films "if..." and "Fish Tank".
The document analyzes and provides pros and cons for the design of several magazines. For the first magazine, it notes there is a lot of information but the photo looks casual. For the second, it praises the amount of information but criticizes the excessive colors as too childish. For the third, it suggests adding another color for variety and notes not all photos have subjects looking at the camera. It gives highest praise to the fourth magazine for its professional look, balanced text and images, and engaging layout.
The student created both a school magazine and a music magazine. The school magazine lacks professional qualities like using columns correctly and has an amateur design with pictures placed randomly. In contrast, the music magazine makes use of columns to organize text and pictures, has a coherent color scheme, and looks polished overall. Specifically, the music magazine contents page employs multiple columns, consistently sized pictures, and includes standard elements like page numbers, whereas the school magazine contents page lacks structure and professional features.
The document discusses the videogame industry and how it is structured. It covers the roles of publishers, developers, and distributors in bringing games to market. Publishers are responsible for obtaining rights and concepts for games, as well as marketing and distribution for large companies. Developers create the actual games, which are sometimes contracted work. Distributors help market, package, and distribute games for smaller developers. The document also outlines different sales channels like traditional retail and digital distribution, as well as some major companies in the industry.
This document summarizes several examples of citizen journalism:
- Salam Pax was an Iraqi blogger who chronicled life in Iraq during the war and anti-Saddam regime, at great personal risk.
- Mahmood's Den criticized the Bahraini government and is now facing legal action.
- African Eye promotes HIV/AIDS awareness in Africa.
- Zola and the Nailhouse was one of the first Chinese citizen journalists, focusing attention on local issues not covered by traditional media.
- Global Voices Online translates and shares citizen media and blogs from around the world.
This document discusses how online media has changed the study of media from media 1.0 to media 2.0. It outlines David Gauntlett's view that media 2.0 allows for faster, more collaborative creativity and that creativity is linked to a desire for connection. It defines media 1.0 as focusing on finding information, while media 2.0 emphasizes filtering information. It also discusses how new media is transforming culture by shifting from consumers to "prosumers" and giving audiences a more active role.
This document discusses several YouTube channels whose creators have been able to make a living from YouTube. It describes Epic Meal Time, which started posting fun videos and grew so large that the main creator was able to quit his teaching job. It also discusses the gaming network Machinima, which sponsors gamers and helps them create and submit videos as a career. Finally, it mentions Smosh, which began as two friends making silly videos for fun and is now one of YouTube's biggest channels, allowing the creators to support themselves through videos and merchandise.
The document analyzes and compares the websites of three indie bands: Catfish and the Bottlemen, Twenty One Pilots, and The Neighbourhood. For Catfish and the Bottlemen, the website prominently features the band's logo and images of their albums for sale. Twenty One Pilots' minimalist website uses intriguing graphics and colors consistent with their album artwork. The Neighbourhood's site immediately draws attention with background images and prominently features their new album for purchase or download.
The document discusses conventions used in horror media products and how the author has developed and challenged some of these conventions in their own horror magazine cover, film poster, and trailer. For the magazine cover, the author uses bold text and red and black colors which represent blood and death for horror. The film poster features a dark and sinister background with a creepy house in the center and smudged tagline. The trailer uses unsettling old-fashioned music and only features one character instead of many to make it unique.
Luke Beckess created a trailer, poster, and magazine for a horror film project. He shared these on Facebook and survey monkey to collect feedback. For the trailer, feedback indicated that volume needed adjusting during loud scenes. For the poster, people suggested making the house photo darker and more sinister. For the magazine, feedback noted the font colors needed to be red and black to better convey the horror genre. Luke took this critical feedback and made improvements, resulting in products that were more clearly identifiable as horror-related and better suited the audience.
Kendall Jenner is interested in dating Chris Brown now that he and Karrueche Tran have broken up. Nicki Minaj's new album "The Pink Print" is out now. An article questions if Kendrick Lamar can top his acclaimed album "GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY" now that he has worldwide attention.
Kendall Jenner is interested in dating Chris Brown now that he and Karrueche Tran have broken up. Nicki Minaj's new album "The Pink Print" is out now. An article questions if Kendrick Lamar can top his acclaimed album "GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY" now that he has worldwide attention.
Kianne is a 17-year-old singer and actress who is achieving success in multiple areas at a young age. She has had a hit single on her debut album, starred in her own MTV series, and is rumored to be the youngest contestant ever on Dancing with the Stars. Though she finds the success and stress difficult to cope with at times, she makes self-care a priority by taking time to relax and zone out. Her message to fans is to follow their dreams and try their hardest.
The document discusses how the creator of a music magazine addressed and attracted their audience through design elements. Key points include:
- Using a consistent font throughout to make the magazine look professional and easy to read.
- Incorporating colors like red, white and blue to target a UK audience where much indie music originates.
- Including distant, edgy cover model photos and contest prizes to engage readers.
- Organizing content in a way that looks new but is still useful.
- Maintaining branding elements like impactful fonts and a red banner across pages.
- Using a three-column layout and section headings to help readers navigate efficiently.
- Continuing the red
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses design elements for the cover of a horror/thriller magazine. It suggests that a dark, creepy font will attract the target audience and that a picture of a zombie as the main image tells viewers what to expect inside. It also recommends including a creepy subtitle in blood red, along with a relevant image. Descriptions of similar movies and actors down the left side provide more information. An attention-grabbing title in big, bold letters will draw in fans of the action/thriller genre. The makeup and costume of a character pictured can give the impression of a villain through appearing pale and in war-like clothing.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document promotes a new music service called TheReaLMusic and their new RAW album. It advertises 20 top songs that can be downloaded for £1.89 from the RAW album and TheReaLMusic service which features the motto "Iftheskyisthelimit thengothere."
Kendrick Lamar released the acclaimed album GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY in 2012 to critical acclaim. Now that he has established himself, his new album will be highly anticipated to see if he can surpass his previous work. The magazine also profiles several other artists, including a debut album from Kianne, the rising boy band Y&F, and Nicki Minaj's new album The Pinkprint being released. Chris Brown is reportedly interested in dating Kendall Jenner now that he has split with Karrueche Tran.
The document discusses a priory dish and canteen specials. It mentions a priory, dishes, and meals available from a canteen. The brief document seems to be listing the name of a publication and noting the topic of the first issue is options for meals at a communal dining area.
Kianne is a 17-year-old singer, songwriter, and actress who has found success in music, television, and publishing at a young age. She discusses her busy career pursuing music, television, and writing. While it can be stressful, she finds making time for herself and zoning out to be important. For Kianne, music is the easiest way for her to communicate how she wants and it is very important to her and others. Her goals are to have amazing experiences collaborating with others through her music and career, and to continue writing songs and putting them out while traveling with her music.
The document summarizes the progression of skills learned from an initial magazine project to a subsequent, improved magazine project. Key skills learned include using Photoshop to improve image and font quality, implementing a cohesive color scheme, choosing a close-up main image, and layering elements in Photoshop for a more polished, professional appearance.