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The document discusses how a media product uses conventions of real magazines. It notes the use of a clear heading, the main artist as the attraction, and other stories alongside. Color schemes are described as simple but effective, with the focus on a powerful main image to draw attention. The designer started simply but added more to advertise additional stories and entice readers.
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Question one media of the media evaluation
The document describes the design choices made for a magazine cover and article. For the cover, a central image of a model was used with direct eye contact to create a personal connection. Natural lighting was chosen to portray natural beauty over artificial enhancements. The article features features a model in a white top with crochet details and black leggings to show different sides of her personality and appeal to different audiences. Minimal props are used to focus on the model, who leans casually on a door to seem relaxed and relatable. Mainstream artists like Ed Sheeran and Drake are featured to attract a wide audience aged 15-24. Informal language is employed to build a friendly relationship between the reader and the magazine.
Photography work sheet 1
Tim Walker is a fashion photographer known for fantastical images that move beyond mainstream fashion photography into storytelling. His photographs feature feminine, quirky models in interesting surroundings, with an emphasis on both the background setting and the subject. Walker composes his shots from a distance, capturing additional details around the main focus to create the impression of an onlooker watching beautiful scenes. He enhances the colors in post-production to further increase the magical, fantasy feel of the finished images. While the imaginative backgrounds are a strength, they could potentially distract from the main subject.
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Tim Walker is a fashion photographer known for fantastical images that move beyond mainstream fashion photography into storytelling. His photographs feature feminine, quirky models in interesting surroundings, with an emphasis on colorful backgrounds and props that enhance the fantasy element. Walker composes his shots to capture both the models and their detailed settings from a distance, creating the impression of an observer watching beautiful scenes unfold. He enhances the colors of his images in post-production to further magicalize the atmosphere. The strengths of his work lie in the intriguing fantasy worlds and post-production effects, though excessive background details can distract from the main subject.
Question 1 front cover
The document describes the layout and design conventions used in the student's magazine cover. It discusses placing the main image in the center to attract attention, using effects on headlines to make them stand out without covering the image. The largest headline is intended to attract readers to the primary article. The masthead is placed prominently in the corner like professional magazines. The barcode and date are placed in typical locations for magazines.
Evaluation q5
The document describes how the magazine attracts and addresses its audience through various design elements. The cover uses a striking image of the cover girl with direct eye contact, a bold masthead, and a black and white color scheme. The contents page includes pretty images of artists to attract both male and female readers. Numbers listing contents are in red to catch the eye. A double page spread features another pretty image of an artist along with an attention-grabbing headline and quote. Additional elements like "Exclusive" banners and revealing text about the artist provide intrigue for readers.
Contents page analysis 1
The document discusses the layout and design of a magazine contents page. It notes that the layout is both cluttered with everything squashed together, but also orderly with the headline at the top and page numbers down the side. The sans serif font, bold headline, and color-coordinated page numbers and standfirsts contribute to a professional look. Images are mainly mid-shots and close-ups from an eye-level angle to show faces and emotions. The bright colors and coordinated design aim to attract readers and convey a happy, upbeat tone.
Question two
The images in the magazine represent the target audience of younger readers. The model used is the same age as readers to help attract them. Most photos are in black and white to create a simple, dramatic look that will appeal to younger people. The front cover features the model making eye contact to grab attention. Professional practice was reflected by initially planning outdoor photos but switching to a white indoor backdrop due to weather. More outfits and photo editing skills would improve future issues.
Analysis of front covers
The magazine cover uses a color scheme of red, yellow, pink, black and white. Different fonts, font sizes, and colors are used for different elements like the artist's name to make it stand out. The central image features the artist looking directly at the camera. At the bottom is a rhetorical question to engage readers. The background fades from white to gray, linking to the artist's white outfit. There are different colored, sized, and styled texts and shapes used to draw attention and emphasize certain elements.
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The document describes the design choices made for a magazine cover and article. For the cover, a central image of a model was used with direct eye contact to create a personal connection. Natural lighting was chosen to portray natural beauty over artificial enhancements. The article features features a model in a white top with crochet details and black leggings to show different sides of her personality and appeal to different audiences. Minimal props are used to focus on the model, who leans casually on a door to seem relaxed and relatable. Mainstream artists like Ed Sheeran and Drake are featured to attract a wide audience aged 15-24. Informal language is employed to build a friendly relationship between the reader and the magazine.
Photography work sheet 1
Tim Walker is a fashion photographer known for fantastical images that move beyond mainstream fashion photography into storytelling. His photographs feature feminine, quirky models in interesting surroundings, with an emphasis on both the background setting and the subject. Walker composes his shots from a distance, capturing additional details around the main focus to create the impression of an onlooker watching beautiful scenes. He enhances the colors in post-production to further increase the magical, fantasy feel of the finished images. While the imaginative backgrounds are a strength, they could potentially distract from the main subject.
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Tim Walker is a fashion photographer known for fantastical images that move beyond mainstream fashion photography into storytelling. His photographs feature feminine, quirky models in interesting surroundings, with an emphasis on colorful backgrounds and props that enhance the fantasy element. Walker composes his shots to capture both the models and their detailed settings from a distance, creating the impression of an observer watching beautiful scenes unfold. He enhances the colors of his images in post-production to further magicalize the atmosphere. The strengths of his work lie in the intriguing fantasy worlds and post-production effects, though excessive background details can distract from the main subject.
Question 1 front cover
The document describes the layout and design conventions used in the student's magazine cover. It discusses placing the main image in the center to attract attention, using effects on headlines to make them stand out without covering the image. The largest headline is intended to attract readers to the primary article. The masthead is placed prominently in the corner like professional magazines. The barcode and date are placed in typical locations for magazines.
Evaluation q5
The document describes how the magazine attracts and addresses its audience through various design elements. The cover uses a striking image of the cover girl with direct eye contact, a bold masthead, and a black and white color scheme. The contents page includes pretty images of artists to attract both male and female readers. Numbers listing contents are in red to catch the eye. A double page spread features another pretty image of an artist along with an attention-grabbing headline and quote. Additional elements like "Exclusive" banners and revealing text about the artist provide intrigue for readers.
Contents page analysis 1
The document discusses the layout and design of a magazine contents page. It notes that the layout is both cluttered with everything squashed together, but also orderly with the headline at the top and page numbers down the side. The sans serif font, bold headline, and color-coordinated page numbers and standfirsts contribute to a professional look. Images are mainly mid-shots and close-ups from an eye-level angle to show faces and emotions. The bright colors and coordinated design aim to attract readers and convey a happy, upbeat tone.
Question two
The images in the magazine represent the target audience of younger readers. The model used is the same age as readers to help attract them. Most photos are in black and white to create a simple, dramatic look that will appeal to younger people. The front cover features the model making eye contact to grab attention. Professional practice was reflected by initially planning outdoor photos but switching to a white indoor backdrop due to weather. More outfits and photo editing skills would improve future issues.
Analysis of front covers
The magazine cover uses a color scheme of red, yellow, pink, black and white. Different fonts, font sizes, and colors are used for different elements like the artist's name to make it stand out. The central image features the artist looking directly at the camera. At the bottom is a rhetorical question to engage readers. The background fades from white to gray, linking to the artist's white outfit. There are different colored, sized, and styled texts and shapes used to draw attention and emphasize certain elements.
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The student created an indie/pop music magazine that challenges conventions of real media magazines. It uses techniques like bright colors and headlines on the cover to attract readers. The magazine represents 16-25 year olds interested in various music genres and festivals. Bauer Media would be suited to distribute the magazine given their experience with music magazines. The target audience was addressed through appealing images and stories about artists and music trends they follow. The process taught the student editing techniques and how to better design for their target using tools like Fireworks. Feedback from a preliminary task helped improve the final magazine.
Mediaprogresion
I have learned how to improve the production quality, layout, and overall conventions used in my music magazine compared to my preliminary task. Specifically, I have learned how to use fonts, colors, images, and layouts that better appeal to the target audience and are more similar to existing music magazines. I have also gained skills in photo editing and magazine design using software like Photoshop that allow me to create higher quality images and page layouts. Overall, my knowledge of magazine production conventions has increased, allowing me to construct a more effective and appealing music magazine.
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This document evaluates the student's media product of a rock music magazine. It summarizes how the magazine represents the rock genre by using conventions from existing magazines like Kerrang. The intended audience is rock music fans, especially students, attracted through bold fonts, exclusive headlines and addressing the reader directly. Producing the magazine taught the student Photoshop skills to edit images and how to design for a target demographic.
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This document evaluates the student's media product of a rock music magazine. It summarizes how the magazine represents the rock genre by using conventions from existing magazines like Kerrang. The intended audience is rock music fans, especially students, attracted through bold fonts, exclusive headlines and addressing the reader directly. Producing the magazine taught the student Photoshop skills to design eye-catching covers and the importance of organization and color schemes.
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The document discusses how the author's media product follows conventions of real pop magazines for their target young audience. The author researched various magazine genres and pop magazines specifically to identify common styles and layouts to incorporate, such as direct addressing of the reader, medium close-up shots, and bright colors. The author aimed to closely follow typical magazine conventions to make their magazine familiar to the target audience while adding some unique elements like a blue background color.
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The document describes how a media product challenges conventions of real magazines. It summarizes how various elements of the media product, including its title, images, written content, and focus on mod music, develop or challenge typical magazine conventions. For the title, the font and background match but are bolder than usual. Images use eye contact and casual poses rather than typical magazine shots. The written content follows standard interview formats but enlarges letters and uses bolding techniques atypical for magazines. The mod music genre focus and inclusion of bands like Paul Weller provide specificity rather than a broad range of music.
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- 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of Real media products? The use of a clear heading The name of the Main artist who The other stories is the main attraction of the magazine being the most obvious along the side Barcode thing
- 2. Masthea The Focus d Point Many of the music magazines seem to have the red and white colour scheme, I also used this The colour schemes are simple but colour scheme affective and are used in the right way. The focus point of the powerful shot of the woman being the main attraction I think is used quite often and usually draws in a lot of attention and a good audience
- 3. Original ideas At first I started with trying to have a really simple picture with minimalistic style. But then I needed to make room for my stories to be advertised to entice the reader