Natasha learned several technologies from creating a contents page for her music magazine. She used a DSLR camera to take professional-quality photos of bands to include on the page. Natasha positioned the images together and included details like page numbers to make the page look like a real media product. She also improved her skills in layout and design, adding elements such as a banner, front cover screenshot, and issue date to make the page visually appealing and follow industry conventions. Natasha organized the written content into columns and used formatting techniques like bolding, fonts, and colors to draw attention and engage readers.

1. Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
By Natasha Tandy

2. Using a camera:
When it came to taking my photographs for my music magazine contents page I used a DSLR camera to ensure my images were
as professional as they could be. I took 4 images in total and positioned them together on the right hand side corner of my
contents page as I wanted to make my magazine look like a real media product, therefore by adding a variety of images I will be
able to easily achieve this. The first image I took at The 1975s concert as my magazine features many articles involving this band
as they appeal to my target audience. The other 3 images feature new and upcoming bands/solo artist as I want to bring
recognition to these talented people and allow my audience to discover new music. When taking these photographs I wanted a
plain white background so the main focus could be of the subjects featured. In two of these images the solo artist are holding a
guitar as this conveys my genre pop punk and allows attitude to be created. In my final image it shows a band called The violets
who are stood back to back and looking directly in to the camera, I asked them to do this as I wanted to show the relationship
between the two and convey confident.

3. When creating my music magazine contents page my skills had improved
significantly since I made my college magazine therefore I found it easier to
create my contents page and make it professional and visually appealing to
the public eye. To begin with the first step I did was add a banner at the top
of the page in red to fit in with my colour scheme, I then added a headline
which says ‘Contents’ in black bold font which I put in a unique font which I
felt conveyed pop punk. The reason I did this is because I want it to stand
out and be the first thing customers spot when looking at my contents
page,
I then added a screengrab of my front cover in the corner of the banner as
this is something which my preliminary task lacked on therefore I wanted to
ensure I followed all the steps of a real media product in my music magazine.
The reason I did this was simply just to show of my front cover so its visible to
the audience as much as possible.
Beside this I added the issue date and the month which my magazine was
released in. This is something which a real media product follows therefore I
added it to my contents page as I want it to be as professional as possible.

4. The next step was adding my images which as shown I positioned together
on the right hand side of my contents page. I made the images large so they
stood out and caught the customers attention as when conducing my survey
I asked the audience what attracted them to a contents page and one of the
commonly chosen options was images. When It came to taking my images I
wanted them to show a variety of different things to make them interesting,
therefore I added one of a popular well known band The 1975 performing at
their gig, two images of new and upcoming solo artist and finally one of a
new duo. I ensured the subjects were all doing different things to once again
create a large variety and to also convey the genre which they perform and
allow the audience to see what they are like. As shown in the screengrab, at
the bottom of each image I added large font which shows the number page
which the artists are featured on as this is a real media convention.

5. The final step which I followed when creating my contents page was
adding the regular and feature content in 3 different columns. This
was the easiest step to follow as its very simple and straightforward
therefore I didn’t find myself struggling. As shown I once again
continued my colour scheme and made the feature content titles
green and the regular content titles ed. This overall makes my
contents page look more visually appealing and bold. When coming
up with the captions underneath each title I ensured that I made
them interesting and intriguing to compel the readers to read the
articles. Although I also kept them very vague as I didn’t want to give
away too much information. As in my preliminary task I didn’t do a
good job at this as I felt that they were boring therefore I wanted to
make sure that with my music magazine they were perfect.