Weekly Journal 31/10/14

This week we have been focusing on our exams, we aren't really going to work on our blogs too much. We have been looking at stereotypes and portrayals of different types of people. This week we have been focusing on the representation of males and females especially.

However, I have been improving my blog a little. For example, I have added extra annotations on some of my analysed magazines. I will be adding some more content on my blog in a few weeks or so too, this will be the

In a few, weeks we will start to look at planning for our magazines. I have been asking around to find some models to be in my magazine. Adil has offered to be in my magazine as long as I get in his.

Audience Questionnaire Analysis & Findings

Weekly Journal 24/10/14

This week I have finished off my final draft for the questionnaire I intend to give to my target audience. I will be sending these out to at least 7 or 8 people that are my target audience so I know what to include in my magazine. I will get to know vital information relating to my magazine by getting answers from my questionnaire. Fore example, one of my questions are "How much money do you make per month?", this is important because through the answers I can see what the optimum price my magazine should be.

Its also important for me to get answers back because it will allow me to know what is appealing  to my audience; it will help me when it comes to making my magazine because I will know what people like and what they don't like. For example, I am stuck between two names for my magazine, either "Rap Attax" or "Non Stop Hip-Hop"; when I get the answers, I will see which one is more popular and why then I will choose it.

I expect to get my answers back very soon, due to printing problems however I cannot give out physical copies, I must use other methods to give the questionnaires. I could use WhatsApp to send an image and get the answers however, that would be bias since I need the person's number which means that I know the person. This is not helpful for me since I want to get feedback from all kinds of people, not just the ones I know. 

2 more questionnaires filled out

These are two more of my questionnaires filled out. This is very useful for me since they are quite different to the other answers, which means that the input I have received is gained from all types of people with different opinions. This is good for me since if I that once I follow the answers from the questionnaire when I do my magazine, it will appeal to more than one type of audience. 

3 more questionnaires filled out

I have just received these from my email. I now have enough answers to aid me when I make my actual magazine. 

5 Questionnaires filled out

These are filled out questionnaires that I have received through my email. I am expecting to get a lot more. These will seriously help me when I plan to make my own magazine because I have opinions on how to make  a good magazine before I even start.

Questionnaire

This is what my questionnaire looks like. These will be filled out with answers once I get replies back from the people I emailed. It is intended to help me understand what features will make my magazine be better. For example, I have asked what colour the front cover should consist of, this is important because I can know for sure which colours would suit from a vast range of people.

Masthead Moodboard

As you can see, most of these are behind the main image. Mine will also do this since it shows that the magazine is well known. Its a convention I will definitely add.

The slogan is usually on top of the masthead too, I will be implementing this feature once I have finished organising where every feature will go.

Weekly Journal 17/10/14

This week I have made a table of conventions for music magazines. I will use this table and look at the popular music magazine conventions and add them to my own.

I have done a case study on a magazine which relates to my own. I have looked at and analysed VIBE magazine and looked at the convention, prices, stories etc.

I have also created a questionnaire for my target audience. It includes basic questions about themselves, questions about what magazines they read, what they like in a magazine and opinions on a few features I would like to add in my own. I will have gotten at least 10 questionnaires filled out by next week.

MoodBoard

I had chosen the first eleven magazines that came up when I typed "Music Magazine" on google. This is because they are the most popular magazine issues on the music genre.

Weekly Journal 10/10/14

This week I have improved the front cover for my preliminary task. I was given feedback from one of my peers and he suggested that I should do something to fill in the lower middle of the page since it was "missing something". A normal magazine should be packed fully and there shouldn't be any blank space; I then thought of adding a little "button" which displays information in a new style. I was quite hard to make since it had to match with the colour scheme but also be big enough to have space for text. It couldn't be too big though otherwise it would become the focal point.

My Contents Page has been finished too, I had to fix a few things so that's why it took a little longer than expected. I had added page dividers since I ran out of ideas on actual content for my magazine, it just takes a little more space up so it looks fitting. I made a 3D look to the magazine too since the foot is overlapping the text box, this is not really conventional but it made the magazine look a lot more professional.

I had edited an old post to add a little more information. This was the "Magazine Article 2"; I just re-organised it and added a little more information. 

Magazine analysis number 2

This is not fully finished. I can add more to this.

I know that its not fully a music genre magazine cover but there are music elements to it. It can suit my own magazine when I start to do it.  

Finished contents page

I have finished the contents page features and have changed the font to match the one on the front cover. This keeps a continual flow, keeping everything matched. The colour scheme is the same too.

My image is the same as Adil's because we were given a video camera which only shoots videos rather than an actual camera for still images. We decided to use a phone instead and ended up working together and use a phone camera instead. We only got a few usable images from the shoot and we decided to use the same image. Except his is the front cover and mine is the contents page

Improved version of my magazine

I have added the star with the "10 tips" because the lower centre of the magazine was empty

Contents page

the contents page is not fully done. There are two more articles to write about.

Finished Magazine

Weekly Journal 03/10/14

This week we are all starting our preliminary task so I had to choose my masthead; it took a lot of time to decide since I had to make it appealing for the sixth form students but I couldn't make it too "extravagant" since it would look a lot less professional. The colour scheme chosen is red and green, this is because they both contrast each other very well and are unique colours which are not seen that much in the main image. 

I have started Photoshopping with the pictures we took last week. Since my magazine is aimed at the students, I will make it look a lot more relaxed and have humorous contents on the front page. I have chosen the image with the three students studying as my front cover since the sixth form students can relate to it a lot more. It seems a lot more relaxing and natural, showing that the magazine is made for them by someone who knows about what they like and how they are.

The only problem is that it seems a little plan, there isn't much space on the sides for me to do loads of sell lines, I can probably fit in two or three. The space between the students seems empty, I might add some books or a bag in between them to fill up the space, I could even write something on the walls.

Start of photoshopping

I used the image on the left and transformed it to a half done magazine. More will be put on once I am finished