Evaluation Question 7
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The document compares the author's preliminary magazine cover design project from earlier in the academic year to their current music magazine cover design project. The author notes several improvements in their abilities and in the design quality between the two projects. Specifically, the author's first cover had an amateurish and unprofessional finish due to their inexperience, while the music magazine cover has a smoother and higher quality design. The author has also improved their skills using software like InDesign and Photoshop which helped improve the quality of the music magazine cover design over the initial school magazine cover.
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Question 7
The document compares the author's preliminary task magazine cover and contents pages to their final music magazine product. Some key differences noted are:
- The main image on the preliminary cover was not centered and placed too low, while the final image was professionally edited and positioned.
- The text layout on the preliminary pages was not sectioned or aligned consistently, unlike the final magazine.
- The preliminary colors were not as eye-catching, while the final magazine colors matched the target genre and audience.
- The preliminary contents image did not have a clear focus, whereas the final image showed details of a recognizable person making direct eye contact.
Evaluation q 7
My preliminary school magazine contents page and cover lacked planning and attention to detail, containing errors and an unorganized layout. For my music magazine, I conducted research on magazine design conventions to understand how to structure pages effectively and attract audiences. This led to a vast improvement where the music magazine contents page and cover were more visually pleasing and used typography, color, and images purposefully according to their intended impact. The quality of my work increased as I learned to plan shoots and utilize the page space efficiently to tell a story through my magazine's presentation.
Task 7
The document discusses the key differences between a school magazine and music magazine projects. It notes that the school magazine showed limited photo editing skills originally, but over time the author learned to improve image quality through techniques like editing photos and logos. The target markets and language usage are also very different between the magazines due to their distinct purposes and audiences. While the school magazine was basic originally, the music magazine employed a black and white color scheme to make it look more professional and match its genre.
7
The author created a preliminary magazine cover and contents page as a first attempt at magazine design. For their final project, the author created a music magazine cover and contents page. While the preliminary designs showed promise as a first effort, the final music magazine designs demonstrated significant improvements in areas like photography, layout, color scheme, and use of design elements to create a more polished and professional looking product. The author's skills in Photoshop and magazine design conventions improved noticeably from their initial to final designs.
Presentation1
The document discusses the key differences learned between creating a school magazine and a music magazine. For the school magazine, a single consistent font was used to maintain a formal tone, while the music magazine varied fonts to appear more appealing. Images in the school magazine were similar, while the music magazine included different models and shot variations. The tone of the school magazine had to remain formal and sophisticated, while the music magazine could incorporate humor and a more casual voice. The document contrasts the simplistic design of the school magazine with the visually cluttered and vibrant design of the music magazine.
For my as coursework i had to produce a form of print media
For an AS coursework project, the student produced print media items for a music magazine, including a front cover, contents page, and double page spread. They researched the layout conventions of magazines like Q and Kerrang to inform their design choices. This included placing the masthead at the top of pages and using sell lines across images. The research led the student to select a red, white, and black color scheme commonly used in music magazines. For the front cover, they edited a studio photo shoot in Photoshop to remove the background similar to magazine covers. Working individually improved their creativity, time management, and ability to take full responsibility for the project.
Looking back at your prelimnary task
The author learned several important lessons from improving their preliminary magazine pages project. They learned that image quality and editing are vital to ensure images stand out. Comparing old pages to new ones, the author sees they improved image brightness, contrast and filtering. Fonts and colors were also improved to look neater and more professional. Feedback showed the new pages better represented magazine codes and conventions while looking more realistic. Choosing appropriate, vibrant yet cohesive colors that flow with layouts and images was also an important lesson for grabbing audience attention effectively.
Media Evaluation tom standen
My media product is a magazine about rock music aimed at an audience of 16-25 year olds. It uses some common magazine conventions like the title placement but also challenges conventions by using only black and white imagery. The magazine represents its target audience of rock music fans in that age group. It could potentially be distributed in music shops, supermarkets, or online on music festival or band websites to reach its audience. Through creating the magazine, I learned new skills in Photoshop and about designing magazines for the digital age.
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The document compares the author's preliminary task magazine cover and contents pages to their final music magazine product. Some key differences noted are:
- The main image on the preliminary cover was not centered and placed too low, while the final image was professionally edited and positioned.
- The text layout on the preliminary pages was not sectioned or aligned consistently, unlike the final magazine.
- The preliminary colors were not as eye-catching, while the final magazine colors matched the target genre and audience.
- The preliminary contents image did not have a clear focus, whereas the final image showed details of a recognizable person making direct eye contact.
Evaluation q 7
My preliminary school magazine contents page and cover lacked planning and attention to detail, containing errors and an unorganized layout. For my music magazine, I conducted research on magazine design conventions to understand how to structure pages effectively and attract audiences. This led to a vast improvement where the music magazine contents page and cover were more visually pleasing and used typography, color, and images purposefully according to their intended impact. The quality of my work increased as I learned to plan shoots and utilize the page space efficiently to tell a story through my magazine's presentation.
Task 7
The document discusses the key differences between a school magazine and music magazine projects. It notes that the school magazine showed limited photo editing skills originally, but over time the author learned to improve image quality through techniques like editing photos and logos. The target markets and language usage are also very different between the magazines due to their distinct purposes and audiences. While the school magazine was basic originally, the music magazine employed a black and white color scheme to make it look more professional and match its genre.
7
The author created a preliminary magazine cover and contents page as a first attempt at magazine design. For their final project, the author created a music magazine cover and contents page. While the preliminary designs showed promise as a first effort, the final music magazine designs demonstrated significant improvements in areas like photography, layout, color scheme, and use of design elements to create a more polished and professional looking product. The author's skills in Photoshop and magazine design conventions improved noticeably from their initial to final designs.
Presentation1
The document discusses the key differences learned between creating a school magazine and a music magazine. For the school magazine, a single consistent font was used to maintain a formal tone, while the music magazine varied fonts to appear more appealing. Images in the school magazine were similar, while the music magazine included different models and shot variations. The tone of the school magazine had to remain formal and sophisticated, while the music magazine could incorporate humor and a more casual voice. The document contrasts the simplistic design of the school magazine with the visually cluttered and vibrant design of the music magazine.
For my as coursework i had to produce a form of print media
For an AS coursework project, the student produced print media items for a music magazine, including a front cover, contents page, and double page spread. They researched the layout conventions of magazines like Q and Kerrang to inform their design choices. This included placing the masthead at the top of pages and using sell lines across images. The research led the student to select a red, white, and black color scheme commonly used in music magazines. For the front cover, they edited a studio photo shoot in Photoshop to remove the background similar to magazine covers. Working individually improved their creativity, time management, and ability to take full responsibility for the project.
Looking back at your prelimnary task
The author learned several important lessons from improving their preliminary magazine pages project. They learned that image quality and editing are vital to ensure images stand out. Comparing old pages to new ones, the author sees they improved image brightness, contrast and filtering. Fonts and colors were also improved to look neater and more professional. Feedback showed the new pages better represented magazine codes and conventions while looking more realistic. Choosing appropriate, vibrant yet cohesive colors that flow with layouts and images was also an important lesson for grabbing audience attention effectively.
Media Evaluation tom standen
My media product is a magazine about rock music aimed at an audience of 16-25 year olds. It uses some common magazine conventions like the title placement but also challenges conventions by using only black and white imagery. The magazine represents its target audience of rock music fans in that age group. It could potentially be distributed in music shops, supermarkets, or online on music festival or band websites to reach its audience. Through creating the magazine, I learned new skills in Photoshop and about designing magazines for the digital age.
Looking back at your prelimnary task
The author learned several important skills from improving their preliminary magazine pages project. They learned to ensure images are high quality and properly edited for brightness, contrast and filters. They also learned to use consistent fonts and tight layouts to make the text more readable. Feedback showed the improved pages better represented magazine codes and conventions with their neat appearance and use of eye-catching colors that flowed well together.
Evaluation
The document describes the design choices made for a music magazine called Alive. It explains that the magazine name and masthead were designed to stand out against a black background, taking inspiration from Kerrang magazine. Two fonts were used throughout for consistency. The content was written informally to appeal to a young audience. The genre chosen was rock and the layout drew from the conventions of magazines like Kerrang and NME. The featured band, Vintage Collection, was photographed in dark clothing against a dark background to make them stand out on the page.
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The author redesigned their music magazine to better suit the hip hop genre. They replaced images and props with baseball caps and altered the front cover by stripping the background and replacing the main image. This made the magazine appear more professional. The color scheme was reduced to mainly dark red and white throughout to add continuity. The layers and separated titles on content pages made the text more readable. The double page spread now had a faded background image and main title, unlike the previous version. Overall, the redesign with a consistent color scheme and planned composition created a professional magazine adhering to hip hop characteristics.
Evaluation
The author redesigned their music magazine to better suit the hip hop genre. They replaced images and props with baseball caps and altered the front cover by stripping the background and replacing the main image. This made the magazine appear more professional. The color scheme was reduced to mainly dark red and white throughout to add continuity. The layers and separated titles on content pages made the text more readable. The double page spread now had a faded background image and main title, unlike the previous version. Overall, the redesign with a consistent color scheme and planned composition created a professional magazine adhering to hip hop characteristics.
Evaluation of Music Magazine
The author redesigned their music magazine to better suit the hip hop genre. They replaced images and props with baseball caps and altered the front cover by stripping the background and replacing the main image. This made the magazine appear more professional. The color scheme was reduced to mainly dark red and white throughout to add continuity. The layers and separated titles on content pages made the text more readable. The double page spread now had a faded background image and main title, unlike the previous version. Overall, the redesign with a consistent color scheme and planned composition created a professional magazine adhering to hip hop characteristics.
Question Seven
This document summarizes the improvements made between two magazine covers and a contents page created at different times. For the first cover, minimal Photoshop skills were used and magazine conventions were not followed. The second cover showed more research into common magazine conventions and greater use of Photoshop tools. Similarly, the music magazine contents page demonstrated increased Photoshop skills through coordinated images and text arranged in a professional order.
Magazine presentation
The proposed music magazine is called "Live, Love Music" and will feature pop artists like Justin Bieber, Rita Ora, One Direction, Emile Sande and Professor Green in each issue. The target audience is 16-21 year old female students passionate about music, and it will provide career advice while also including contests to win concert tickets. The magazine will be published by Future PLC and have a brown, red and green color scheme, with a price of £1.99 per issue.
Jay Kee-Pinner's Music Magazine Evaluation
This document evaluates a music magazine called Roar Music in comparison to similar magazines like Kerrang and Rock Sound. It analyzes aspects like layout, design, target audience, and distribution. The target audience of Roar Music is described as alternative people who dress differently and listen to less mainstream music. Bauer Media is proposed as the best company to distribute Roar Music since they already publish the competing Kerrang magazine. The document also reflects on what was learned from the process of constructing the magazine prototype about technologies, design, and making the content more appealing to readers.
Lewis Merle and Daniel Riley AS Media evaluation
This document provides an analysis of a mock House music magazine created by the author for a media studies assignment. It examines the front cover, contents page, and a double-page spread and how they use conventions from an existing magazine called Mixmag. The target audience is identified as 20-35 year olds interested in underground artists. The author learned new skills using Photoshop and other programs to create a professional-looking magazine that effectively addressed its target demographic.
Evaluation
- The document evaluates a media product created by Emily Noble which is a magazine targeting fans of heavy metal music
- The magazine uses common conventions of music magazines such as band photos, interviews, reviews and advertisements seen in other magazines of the genre
- Costumes, fonts, and color schemes were chosen to represent the target audience of 20 year old heavy metal fans into the associated styles and aesthetics of that social group
- The magazine would likely be distributed by a record label and video platform company like Brightcove which owns a similar magazine, allowing sharing of content between publications
Reflection on Planning Process
The document reflects on the planning process for a music magazine. While some documents like a diary PowerPoint took longer than expected, the mockups were created in Publisher and the real magazine was produced in InDesign. Photos for the magazine were taken by the author's sister, who was the focus of the magazine. Two photos required a backdrop and lighting since they were closeups. A mood board was easy to create since the author knew they wanted a formal, classic look inspired by Vogue magazine. Therefore, only a few colors were used to maintain consistency across the photos and text. The overall layout was in Vogue's style but the contents focused on music, aiming to attract the target audience that prefers fashion magazines.
Reflection on Planning Process
The document reflects on the planning process for a music magazine. While some documents like a diary PowerPoint took longer than expected, the mockups were created in Publisher and the real magazine was produced in InDesign. Photos for the magazine were taken by the author's sister, who was the focus of the magazine. Two photos required a backdrop and lighting since they were closeups. A mood board was easy to create since the author knew they wanted a formal, classic look inspired by Vogue magazine. Therefore, only a few colors were used to maintain consistency across the photos and text. The overall layout was in Vogue's style but the contents focused on music, aiming to attract the target audience that prefers fashion magazines.
Question 1 evaluation
This document discusses how the media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media products. Specifically:
- The front cover uses conventions like font, color scheme, and language typically seen in indie magazines. However, the bright colors challenge stereotypes.
- The contents page and double page spread use conventions seen in magazines like clearly labeled sections and professional wording.
- Elements like the cover design, images, and layout of columns mirror conventions of real magazines. However, challenges include removing backgrounds and having images without props atypical of music magazines.
- Journalistic techniques are used to engage readers, like bolder text and a vibrant tone, but slang and relaxed terms also target younger audiences.
Music magazine pitch
This document outlines a pitch for a new music magazine targeting 16-21 year old students. The magazine would feature articles on new pop music and charts as well as reviews and interviews of unsigned artists to promote up-and-coming talent. The magazine wants to stand out visually with bright colors, unusual fonts, and a design that appeals to its target audience and conveys pop music. It also aims to have an informal, chatty writing style that is still engaging and broken up with relevant pictures.
Music magazine pitch
This document outlines a pitch for a new music magazine targeting 16-21 year old students. The magazine would feature articles on new pop music and charts as well as reviews and interviews of unsigned artists to promote up-and-coming talent. The magazine wants to stand out visually with bright colors, unusual fonts, and informal yet captivating writing style supported by relevant pictures to engage the target demographic.
My Evaluation
This document contains a student's evaluation of their media production coursework for a music magazine. The student discusses how they used and challenged conventions of real music magazines in their design. They summarize how they incorporated elements like colors, layouts, and features typically seen in magazines like NME and Q. The student also reflects on what they learned about technologies like Photoshop and how their skills have progressed since their preliminary task.
Evaluation part 1
This document summarizes how the student's media product challenges conventions of real music magazines. It uses a colorful neon font and four colors throughout the magazine as its brand identity, rather than the typical single color. It also incorporates those colors into the masthead, double page spreads, and contents page in colorful lines. Feedback was positive on the uniqueness of this approach compared to magazines like Vibe and NME that use only a couple colors. The student aimed to make the magazine stand out from typical magazines like Q that only use a few colors on the front page with more text than photos.
Question 5
The author tried to attract their audience with eye-catching design elements for their magazine, but realized they may have distracted from each other. The color scheme and layout did not resemble a magazine in the intended genre. In retrospect, familiarizing themselves with examples of magazines in that genre would have provided better ideas than designing independently. The article layout needs improvement to look more professional as the text lines were improperly measured. Overall, the author recognizes more research on magazine design conventions is needed to strengthen the layout and professional appearance of the magazine.
As media studies coursework presentation
This document outlines the process and work completed by Ibrar Tariq for their AS Level Media Studies music magazine portfolio. It includes sections on time organization, initial research, resources used, photography, drafts, and an evaluation. Over 3 weeks, Ibrar researched existing music magazines, took photos, learned Adobe Photoshop skills, and designed a magazine cover, contents page, and double-page spread. They evaluated how their magazine fits conventions while targeting a younger audience, and discussed what they learned about magazine design, photography, and using Adobe Photoshop through this project.
Evaluation
The document discusses the evaluation of a media product created by Matthew Winfield. It summarizes how the product challenges some conventions of magazine layout by placing articles on the right page instead of left. It represents social groups like younger music fans through the choice of bands featured. As a hardcore/metal magazine, it could potentially be distributed through social media sites or a music publisher. The intended audience is teenagers and young adults interested in this genre of music. Features like dark colors, band imagery, and fashion styles are used to attract this target demographic. Through creating this magazine, Matthew learned skills like photo editing, font design, and magazine construction.
Question 7
The author learned several skills in progressing from their preliminary school magazine to their final music magazine. For the music magazine, they gained more experience using InDesign and Photoshop and learned to edit images to make them look more professional. They also conducted more research on their target audience's preferences. As a result, their music magazine front cover had a cleaner background, more appealing layout, and higher quality images compared to the school magazine. The author felt they were more creative and produced a magazine that looked more like professional music publications.
Q7
Looking back at the preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product.
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Looking back at your prelimnary task
The author learned several important skills from improving their preliminary magazine pages project. They learned to ensure images are high quality and properly edited for brightness, contrast and filters. They also learned to use consistent fonts and tight layouts to make the text more readable. Feedback showed the improved pages better represented magazine codes and conventions with their neat appearance and use of eye-catching colors that flowed well together.
Evaluation
The document describes the design choices made for a music magazine called Alive. It explains that the magazine name and masthead were designed to stand out against a black background, taking inspiration from Kerrang magazine. Two fonts were used throughout for consistency. The content was written informally to appeal to a young audience. The genre chosen was rock and the layout drew from the conventions of magazines like Kerrang and NME. The featured band, Vintage Collection, was photographed in dark clothing against a dark background to make them stand out on the page.
Evaluation
The author redesigned their music magazine to better suit the hip hop genre. They replaced images and props with baseball caps and altered the front cover by stripping the background and replacing the main image. This made the magazine appear more professional. The color scheme was reduced to mainly dark red and white throughout to add continuity. The layers and separated titles on content pages made the text more readable. The double page spread now had a faded background image and main title, unlike the previous version. Overall, the redesign with a consistent color scheme and planned composition created a professional magazine adhering to hip hop characteristics.
Evaluation
The author redesigned their music magazine to better suit the hip hop genre. They replaced images and props with baseball caps and altered the front cover by stripping the background and replacing the main image. This made the magazine appear more professional. The color scheme was reduced to mainly dark red and white throughout to add continuity. The layers and separated titles on content pages made the text more readable. The double page spread now had a faded background image and main title, unlike the previous version. Overall, the redesign with a consistent color scheme and planned composition created a professional magazine adhering to hip hop characteristics.
Evaluation of Music Magazine
The author redesigned their music magazine to better suit the hip hop genre. They replaced images and props with baseball caps and altered the front cover by stripping the background and replacing the main image. This made the magazine appear more professional. The color scheme was reduced to mainly dark red and white throughout to add continuity. The layers and separated titles on content pages made the text more readable. The double page spread now had a faded background image and main title, unlike the previous version. Overall, the redesign with a consistent color scheme and planned composition created a professional magazine adhering to hip hop characteristics.
Question Seven
This document summarizes the improvements made between two magazine covers and a contents page created at different times. For the first cover, minimal Photoshop skills were used and magazine conventions were not followed. The second cover showed more research into common magazine conventions and greater use of Photoshop tools. Similarly, the music magazine contents page demonstrated increased Photoshop skills through coordinated images and text arranged in a professional order.
Magazine presentation
The proposed music magazine is called "Live, Love Music" and will feature pop artists like Justin Bieber, Rita Ora, One Direction, Emile Sande and Professor Green in each issue. The target audience is 16-21 year old female students passionate about music, and it will provide career advice while also including contests to win concert tickets. The magazine will be published by Future PLC and have a brown, red and green color scheme, with a price of £1.99 per issue.
Jay Kee-Pinner's Music Magazine Evaluation
This document evaluates a music magazine called Roar Music in comparison to similar magazines like Kerrang and Rock Sound. It analyzes aspects like layout, design, target audience, and distribution. The target audience of Roar Music is described as alternative people who dress differently and listen to less mainstream music. Bauer Media is proposed as the best company to distribute Roar Music since they already publish the competing Kerrang magazine. The document also reflects on what was learned from the process of constructing the magazine prototype about technologies, design, and making the content more appealing to readers.
Lewis Merle and Daniel Riley AS Media evaluation
This document provides an analysis of a mock House music magazine created by the author for a media studies assignment. It examines the front cover, contents page, and a double-page spread and how they use conventions from an existing magazine called Mixmag. The target audience is identified as 20-35 year olds interested in underground artists. The author learned new skills using Photoshop and other programs to create a professional-looking magazine that effectively addressed its target demographic.
Evaluation
- The document evaluates a media product created by Emily Noble which is a magazine targeting fans of heavy metal music
- The magazine uses common conventions of music magazines such as band photos, interviews, reviews and advertisements seen in other magazines of the genre
- Costumes, fonts, and color schemes were chosen to represent the target audience of 20 year old heavy metal fans into the associated styles and aesthetics of that social group
- The magazine would likely be distributed by a record label and video platform company like Brightcove which owns a similar magazine, allowing sharing of content between publications
Reflection on Planning Process
The document reflects on the planning process for a music magazine. While some documents like a diary PowerPoint took longer than expected, the mockups were created in Publisher and the real magazine was produced in InDesign. Photos for the magazine were taken by the author's sister, who was the focus of the magazine. Two photos required a backdrop and lighting since they were closeups. A mood board was easy to create since the author knew they wanted a formal, classic look inspired by Vogue magazine. Therefore, only a few colors were used to maintain consistency across the photos and text. The overall layout was in Vogue's style but the contents focused on music, aiming to attract the target audience that prefers fashion magazines.
Reflection on Planning Process
The document reflects on the planning process for a music magazine. While some documents like a diary PowerPoint took longer than expected, the mockups were created in Publisher and the real magazine was produced in InDesign. Photos for the magazine were taken by the author's sister, who was the focus of the magazine. Two photos required a backdrop and lighting since they were closeups. A mood board was easy to create since the author knew they wanted a formal, classic look inspired by Vogue magazine. Therefore, only a few colors were used to maintain consistency across the photos and text. The overall layout was in Vogue's style but the contents focused on music, aiming to attract the target audience that prefers fashion magazines.
Question 1 evaluation
This document discusses how the media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media products. Specifically:
- The front cover uses conventions like font, color scheme, and language typically seen in indie magazines. However, the bright colors challenge stereotypes.
- The contents page and double page spread use conventions seen in magazines like clearly labeled sections and professional wording.
- Elements like the cover design, images, and layout of columns mirror conventions of real magazines. However, challenges include removing backgrounds and having images without props atypical of music magazines.
- Journalistic techniques are used to engage readers, like bolder text and a vibrant tone, but slang and relaxed terms also target younger audiences.
Music magazine pitch
This document outlines a pitch for a new music magazine targeting 16-21 year old students. The magazine would feature articles on new pop music and charts as well as reviews and interviews of unsigned artists to promote up-and-coming talent. The magazine wants to stand out visually with bright colors, unusual fonts, and a design that appeals to its target audience and conveys pop music. It also aims to have an informal, chatty writing style that is still engaging and broken up with relevant pictures.
Music magazine pitch
This document outlines a pitch for a new music magazine targeting 16-21 year old students. The magazine would feature articles on new pop music and charts as well as reviews and interviews of unsigned artists to promote up-and-coming talent. The magazine wants to stand out visually with bright colors, unusual fonts, and informal yet captivating writing style supported by relevant pictures to engage the target demographic.
My Evaluation
This document contains a student's evaluation of their media production coursework for a music magazine. The student discusses how they used and challenged conventions of real music magazines in their design. They summarize how they incorporated elements like colors, layouts, and features typically seen in magazines like NME and Q. The student also reflects on what they learned about technologies like Photoshop and how their skills have progressed since their preliminary task.
Evaluation part 1
This document summarizes how the student's media product challenges conventions of real music magazines. It uses a colorful neon font and four colors throughout the magazine as its brand identity, rather than the typical single color. It also incorporates those colors into the masthead, double page spreads, and contents page in colorful lines. Feedback was positive on the uniqueness of this approach compared to magazines like Vibe and NME that use only a couple colors. The student aimed to make the magazine stand out from typical magazines like Q that only use a few colors on the front page with more text than photos.
Question 5
The author tried to attract their audience with eye-catching design elements for their magazine, but realized they may have distracted from each other. The color scheme and layout did not resemble a magazine in the intended genre. In retrospect, familiarizing themselves with examples of magazines in that genre would have provided better ideas than designing independently. The article layout needs improvement to look more professional as the text lines were improperly measured. Overall, the author recognizes more research on magazine design conventions is needed to strengthen the layout and professional appearance of the magazine.
As media studies coursework presentation
This document outlines the process and work completed by Ibrar Tariq for their AS Level Media Studies music magazine portfolio. It includes sections on time organization, initial research, resources used, photography, drafts, and an evaluation. Over 3 weeks, Ibrar researched existing music magazines, took photos, learned Adobe Photoshop skills, and designed a magazine cover, contents page, and double-page spread. They evaluated how their magazine fits conventions while targeting a younger audience, and discussed what they learned about magazine design, photography, and using Adobe Photoshop through this project.
Evaluation
The document discusses the evaluation of a media product created by Matthew Winfield. It summarizes how the product challenges some conventions of magazine layout by placing articles on the right page instead of left. It represents social groups like younger music fans through the choice of bands featured. As a hardcore/metal magazine, it could potentially be distributed through social media sites or a music publisher. The intended audience is teenagers and young adults interested in this genre of music. Features like dark colors, band imagery, and fashion styles are used to attract this target demographic. Through creating this magazine, Matthew learned skills like photo editing, font design, and magazine construction.
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Question 7
The author learned several skills in progressing from their preliminary school magazine to their final music magazine. For the music magazine, they gained more experience using InDesign and Photoshop and learned to edit images to make them look more professional. They also conducted more research on their target audience's preferences. As a result, their music magazine front cover had a cleaner background, more appealing layout, and higher quality images compared to the school magazine. The author felt they were more creative and produced a magazine that looked more like professional music publications.
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Looking back at the preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what
Meg Allard reflects on improvements made from her preliminary magazine to her music magazine. She believes the music magazine looks more professional with a sophisticated masthead font using effects like embossing. The central image is more stylized and interestingly angled. Layout and design refer back to magazines reviewed for better structure. Colors suit the target audience of girls. The contents page uses thinner, varied fonts allowing more space. Images stand out against a white background. Vibrant purple with black and white provides good contrast and visibility. Doing the preliminary task helped identify strengths and weaknesses to incorporate into the stronger music magazine.
Question 7
Looking back, the author feels their early school magazine lacked detail and quality compared to their later music magazine. They rushed the school magazine, but learned for the music magazine to take time for research and planning to achieve the best results. Small changes to color and tone can significantly impact a product. The contents page and double page spread of the music magazine were better structured and laid out than the school magazine, showing improvement in publishing skills from experience and learning photo and software skills.
Question 7
Looking back, the author feels their early school magazine lacked detail and quality compared to their later music magazine. They rushed the school magazine, but took more time researching and planning for the music magazine. This allowed them to incorporate technical elements, better layout, and an overall more professional appearance. The author has learned the importance of planning and small design choices for creating a high quality final product.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what
- The author believes their main task music magazine is an improvement over their preliminary student magazine. The main task magazine has more suitable colors that appeal to both genders and a more eye-catching banner, whereas the preliminary magazine had bland colors and only appealed to one gender.
- The contents page of the preliminary magazine lacked conventions, had too much white space, insufficient details and articles, and images that were not neatly ordered. In contrast, the main task contents page looks more professional with quality images, articles relevant to music, and a clear color scheme and text.
- The author's skills in Photoshop and InDesign have improved, allowing them to enhance images and text for the main task magazine, making
Looking back at your preliminary task, what
Meg Allard reflects on improvements made from her preliminary magazine to her music magazine. She believes the music magazine looks more professional. Key improvements include using a more sophisticated font and effects for the masthead to make it eye-catching. The central image in the music magazine is more stylized and from an interesting angle. The layout, colors, and images were chosen to look more like other magazines. While some elements like direct address remained the same, overall the music magazine better achieves a professional look.
Task 11 question 7.
The student magazine preliminary task helped the author learn important skills for the full music magazine product. For the music magazine, the author improved the masthead design by using bolder colors and fonts, created a more professional-looking front cover with complementary colors and effects, and structured the contents page better with more organized layout and matching of text and images. Overall, the progression from the preliminary to the final project resulted in a more polished and visually appealing final music magazine.
Evaluation Question Seven
The student learned several key skills from designing a preliminary college magazine to a final music magazine:
1) Skills using Photoshop and InDesign improved, allowing for more professional designs.
2) An awareness of layout, spacing, and using color and fonts effectively developed.
3) The music magazine design incorporated these lessons, having a cleaner layout that drew attention to the key elements like the artist, with improved editing of images.
4) Creating the initial college magazine helped gain experience that made the final music magazine design higher quality and more conventional.
Evaluation Question 7
1) Looking back at their preliminary college magazine task, the author feels they have improved various skills from gaining experience creating a full music magazine product.
2) Specifically, the author notes improvements in using Photoshop tools, capturing higher quality images, including more content, and following magazine design conventions better in the music magazine compared to the preliminary task.
3) Through the process of researching music magazines and improving various skills, the author concluded they have gained valuable experience creating professional-looking magazine products.
7 progress – comparison
The student compares their school magazine cover and contents page created for an induction task to their rock magazine cover and contents page created later. They note significant improvements in their understanding and application of conventions for the rock genre. For the school magazine, they did not conduct research or properly consider elements like colors, images, fonts and layout. However, for the rock magazine they did extensive research into conventions for music magazines and rock style. As a result, their rock magazine better incorporates conventional colors, images, fonts, layout and inclusion of typical sections. They also improved their photo editing and design skills.
Evaluation q7
The student learned several new skills when progressing from their preliminary college magazine to a full music magazine product. They learned to use Photoshop and InDesign tools more extensively to improve layouts, cover designs, and image editing. Specifically, they learned how to use effects like outer glow, use the magic wand and lasso tools, and transform images. They improved at incorporating codes and conventions to better suit the target audience. Overall, their skills with design software and understanding of professional magazine production improved.
Prelim to Music Magazine
The document summarizes the improvements made from the author's preliminary magazine task to their actual music magazine. Some key improvements included adding more effects like drop shadows to the masthead, using stronger colors on the cover that stand out better, including more imaginative images, making text sizes larger and clearer on pages like contents, and addressing weaknesses identified in the preliminary task. Overall, the author felt they progressed significantly and learned valuable lessons that allowed them to create a stronger final music magazine.
Evaluation Question 7
The document reflects on the learning from creating a preliminary student magazine to a subsequent music magazine. Key lessons learned include sticking to a consistent house style, layout, and limited fonts/colors to appear more professional. Additional coverage and well-sized images/text on the music magazine helped fill space and engage readers compared to the student version. Following magazine design conventions like the rule of thirds and researching the target audience were also important factors in progressing to a higher quality final product.
Question 7
- For their preliminary task, the author created a basic magazine front cover and contents page without defining an audience or doing research.
- For their final individual magazine, the author conducted research on target audiences and magazine styles, which helped them design a magazine tailored to their defined audience.
- The author's skills in using design software like Photoshop and layout tools like Quark Express improved, allowing them to create a more polished final magazine compared to the preliminary version.
Question 7
The student summarizes the key differences between their preliminary college magazine cover and their developed music magazine cover. For the college magazine, the text layout was misaligned and unclear, and the image was poorly cut out. In contrast, the music magazine had neatly right-aligned text, a more professional-looking masthead, an effectively photographed model representing the genre, and overall greater development to appeal to the target audience. The student learned to pay closer attention to text layout, imagery, and properly representing the intended social group.
Question 7
1) The document discusses the learning and improvements the author has made from an initial preliminary magazine project to a final magazine project.
2) Key skills and techniques learned include magazine layout, InDesign proficiency, photo editing in Photoshop, and using terminology correctly.
3) Planning and research into genre-specific elements, like cover fonts and imagery, helped make the final magazine more professional and representative of its genre (metal music) than the preliminary version.
Question 7
The author summarizes the key differences between their preliminary college magazine cover and their developed music magazine cover. For the college magazine, the text layout was misaligned and unclear, and the image was poorly incorporated. In contrast, the music magazine had neatly right-aligned text, a more professional-looking masthead, an intentionally photographed image representing the genre, and a model pose depicting a musician. Overall, the author learned to better represent the target audience and make the design look more polished and like existing media examples in their developed music magazine cover compared to the preliminary college magazine cover.
Question 7
The student learned several important lessons from creating a preliminary school magazine that helped them improve their final music magazine. For the music magazine, they conducted more research on their target audience and took inspiration from professional magazines. This helped them create a more polished, professional product at a higher standard. The front cover of the music magazine was edited to a higher quality and featured more catchy, creative text compared to the school magazine. The additional time spent on the music magazine allowed for more editing and improvements.
Q7
The student learned several important lessons from creating a preliminary school magazine that helped them improve their final music magazine. For the music magazine, they conducted more research on their target audience and took inspiration from professional magazines. This helped them create a more polished, professional product at a higher standard. The front cover of the music magazine was edited to a higher quality and featured more catchy, creative text compared to the school magazine. The additional time spent on the music magazine allowed for more editing and improvements.
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Evaluation Question 7
- 2. I have unquestionably learned a great deal since my preliminary task. My preliminary task was a clear insight into my working knowledge of magazine and page design at the start of the academic year. Albeit I felt by producing an initial front cover, it helped me understand the conventions and mechanisms of a magazine. By partaking in a preliminary task, I think it has benefited me, in my preparation for my music magazine
- 3. I feel there is palpable difference between the two magazine covers. The school magazine cover can now be looked upon as an amateurish production. This is down to a number of different factors. One of the biggest being, the inexperience of creating a magazine front cover. Despite the layout of the school magazine cover being similar, The nature of the design has a much more unprofessional finish. The colour on the cover of the magazine’s are also different. With the school magazine, the colours consist of mainly red, black and yellow. Another major enhancement of the covers; is the picture quality. The school magazine main image is a great deal poorer in quality compared to the more professional image displayed on the music magazine cover. This can be show by the way the photos’ we edited. The school magazine looks a lot more rough edged, compared to the irresistibly smooth music magazine image.
- 4. These are my two contents pages from my school magazine and music magazine respectively. Again, I feel that there is a blatant difference it quality and design between the two magazines. Many of the same imperfections that occurred on the front cover of my school magazine reoccurred on the contents page of my school magazine. The colour pallet of the school contents pages is still dominated with yellow; unlike my music magazine is mostly dominated with a more conservative black. Again with my music magazine contents, I have incorporated the same red and black stroke style header. I felt by continuing themes throughout the magazine would resemble a more conventional magazine. The picture quality (again) on the music magazine is poor compared to the more professional pictures taken on the music magazine.
- 5. Since my preliminary task, I feel that my knowledge for the music magazine industry has dramatically improved. My use of software such as Adobe Indesign and Adobe PhotoShop, has significantly improved also. As I expected, the more further I used certain software, the better at using it I would become.