Question 6

Over the construction of my magazine I think I have learnt a lot. When I say a lot I mean in the way to construct a magazine, the simple conventions to make a magazine, the technology to create the magazine and I moulded creativity to produce it.  The most important thing I have learnt is that a magazine will never look good without clear, great looking images. They are what make the magazine look appealing to they eye of the audience.

(the original image)

This professional image took by a very good photographer who I got permission off to use it shows exactly how vital an image is to the overall look of the magazine. You want the images to reflect the quality of its contents.

I will then show you how the image complimented the contents of my contents both the font and the article itself. Another thing I have learnt through this was how to corporate other software into Photoshop such as the website ransom note generator that allowed me to create the font I dreamed of to then put onto my magazine by uploading it to Photoshop.

With the help of a patience teacher I got to know the software Photoshop a lot better. I learned how first impressions are never right when it comes to technology with some practice I developed skills that made the software simple to use.

Tools like the wizard tool allowed me to blend an image upon an image to blend perfectly and not look messy. Adding professionalism into my work was key to pick up the marks, especially when I needed to blend the barcode upon the front cover but not make it look unprofessional and not affect the overall theme and look of my magazine.

I learned how to create boxes and effects upon my text to make them stand out from my colour theme of black, that was important to learn because it allows the audience to clearly read my text. It created a theme that could attract my target audience.

(The image with an invisible box, 4 different fonts, software from a ransom note generator. The Outer glow effect on by sub heading. These are all things I had learnt through making my magazine)

I also learned how to cooperate other sites into one magazine, in a sense that I could bring social sites into a physical magazine.  I was diving into many genres with the technology at my disposable, my magazine was both online and in your hands.

Question 5

http://masher.com/myMashes.jsp

For question five I decided to answer it by making a movie slide on Masher.com in which i made a video with a music file on it. This would allow me to develop my skills and create a nice viable presentation. I answered the question 'How did you attract/address your audience?' I simply took an informal writing approach to build calm and laid back relationship between the reader and writer, to try and gain their trust and loyalty so they would come back. As my age group is young adults I used certain lexical choices they could relate to a semantic field they would acknowledge as their own. In doing this, they will end up thinking the magazine is somewhat cool, by using swear words. the swear words makes a younger audience unable to read and older generation to be applaud by it but teenagers seem to have a unique approach to life and I believe they won’t be effected by my lexical choice.

 

The fonts and colours relate to the topic rock with very dark colour theme mainly black, white and grey. These colours represent the music my magazine is covering but as well covers the readers and for that they will be attracted to the magazine as these colours to do interest them and everyone who likes rock.

 

The images captures live gigs, in which are very much populated by a young audience, therefore these images will appeal to my rock young adult’s targeted audience.

 

Competitions will make the audience more interactive because you have to go online to enter with links to social networks in which the majority of people who are online are advanced young adults and teens. Therefore this perfectly appeals and gets the reader to interact with the magazine.

Question 2

 

I answered this question by doing a presentation on Microsoft PowerPoint with many effects on to show a range of skills, however I could not upload it to Blogger so i tried to upload it to slide share again I was unsuccessful. So I decided to use the snipping tool then save each image of my presentation to display. Although the readers will not get the effect of my presentation affects you can still see I intended to do a presentation.

Question 7

Question 7

When I started in September on my preliminary task I was new to Photoshop I had never used the equipment so I was just picking up the skills which I was not good in. I had little experience and it was clearly evident as my images didn’t show any professionalism as well, I was also new to the camera. Couple months on and still not good at using a camera I had to get permission from the bands themselves luckily they allowed me after I told them what it was for. Now with great images I couldn’t ruin the look like my preliminary task which was not used great the colours did not match as I didn’t have a colour pallet plan. Learning by my mistakes I knew what not to do to my main magazine. I learnt how to corporate online websites to my magazine. I also learnt how to pick up simple marks such as; adding links to social websites, a masthead, slogans, and quality images. Creating my magazine meant I could focus on a type of music I like, and as I knew the genre well I knew what images, lexical choice and colours would reflect the magazine better. The preliminary task, I did not know who my target audience was or what the contents of it were. Through my main music magazine I learnt how to blend, the wizard tool, the invisible box, how to convey colours together well and most importantly adding fonts to the system.

Final double page spread

Question 4

http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/texttospeech_output_files/0619281001398947382/1918869.mp3

The audience of my magazine would be ages based in the teenage category, an age in which my magazine can use explicit text and views but also not too graphic, this also stretches to young adults then to anyone who likes music and reading. The ideal audience is a group of people who like underground, unsigned music and want to discover something new, with interests in music and reading would be very vital as my magazine brings the two interests into one. My magazine does not discriminate but does heavily rely on peoples interests on the genre rock, as most of the bands featured in my magazine there will be of such genre. I think any age; any person should be able to read my magazine. But, to be successful I need to shortened my audience to strictly point out exactly the people I’m trying to attract and with rock I think this does allow me to focus on a group of people who would enjoy my magazine and keep buying it.

Defining a target audience allows my magazine to stick to themes of colours that suits the genre rock, so I do not have to change any format or colours each week. Distinguishing a target audience that is centred on the look of my magazine will attract the audience I want and the audience I want would have to enjoy music.

I created this voice note by using the website www.fromthetexttospeech.com

Media Evaluation Question 2

I decided to create an image that would act as a poster to answer question 2 to evaluate. For this I had to upload images from the internet as well as using a font generator to get certain fonts. i used the software Photoshop to create all of this because i know it very well after using it for my magazine. I also though creating a poster in which shows elements of creativity and contents used from other software’s onto one showed my skill range.