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In the process of creating, researching, and portraying my intended narrative the work of my music magazine, I have learnt and developed many new transferrable skills. For example the skills I have learnt are:
From completing my drafts for my pop music magazine. I’ve learnt many new design skills and production techniques in the process of improving my drafts to make them successful. Although there were still some skills I would of loved to perfect, I am still happy with the ones I have developed as I believe they are adding to my magazine and making it as best as possible. I used many tools from the image below including:
A new tool I used to add some features to my magazine was the rectangle tool (shown in image above). I used this to make certain areas that looked empty on my magazine more interesting to fill the space. In these rectangle boxes I included quotes and captions to make them more bold to the reader. To make these boxes look more subtle I turned the opacity of them down so the images underneath were still visible, which made them fit in as they looked apart of the shot.
A skill that would of been good to develop would be how to remove shadows from the models faces. This is because from my original shoot I had an image that I wanted to use for my front cover, however there was a shadow on the model’s neck and face from the jacket she was wearing. Even after trying many methods to remove it because there was too many shades in that area that I had to match, I was not successful on making it look perfect and decided to use another image. But I am still pleased with the image I used for my front cover as it portrays the star image successfully, similarly to the image I originally chose.
Overall, I believe that all my new skills and techniques have helped me in the productions of my magazine. From these skills I have managed to create my successful star image of confident models and portrayed the music genre of pop to my target audience.
From creating my front cover for my magazine and starting to design my double page spread, I have taught myself many new skills using Photoshop and InDesign to begin to create a successful magazine. From learning these skills I have created my magazine to fit my genre and portray it effectively however I would of liked to learn some more complex skills as well.
Some examples of new skills I have made on Photoshop include:
This tool helped me when making my front cover so I could remove the background from my image and create a new one without the model being affected. This means I could create a new background to fit my genre of pop and attracting my target audience.
Both these tools enabled me to clear any blemishes/imperfections on my model to give her the perfect star image being youthful, and lively.
These tools helped me to perfect my image by enhancing some features of my models to help give her that young energetic, bubbly star image.
Mission Statement
‘Simply Pop is one of the top magazines for those who have a love of pop music. It’s a fresh and interesting magazine written for teenage girls that see everything to do with pop as a part of their life. We provide our readers with the chance to keep up to date with all the chart music and artists that interest them. This magazine will recognize the great success of pop artists, and celebrate the fact that pop music is one of the most popular music genres today. Our big objective is to engage our audience with the magazine and include the artists that they love and recognize to ensure our audience has a sense of belonging and interest.
My Brand Values
The aim for Simply Pop is to create confidence for young teenage girls through music and interviews with popular stars who teenagers may relate to. We interview young artists to inspire the younger generation to become more fearless and work hard. Also by providing the readers with the chance to keep up to date with all the chart music and artists that interest them aiming to keep on top of trends and feature the popular artists that are looked up to most recently.
I learned about…
Music which is:
I will encode all the elements my audience wants to see on the cover as they will then decode it in order to make my magazine perfect for the target audience and not be the opposite to what they are looking for, therefore not being successful.
I will use all of my knowledge to create a successful photo shoot where my model is using mise-en scene to portray her character of a female fearless star. My knowledge from my camera will help me to create the perfect lighting using flash photography as well as the settings:
This will give me the best lighting focused on my model as well as manually using the focus on my model.
From researching and looking into ideas regarding camera, mise-en-scene, layout, typography, AIDA, Bulmler and Katz, I know that including all these elements will create a successful music magazine for me in the future. Also through practicing using different software such as InDesign and Photoshop which I can now successfully use and create many different types of designs from. Another element, I have learnt is the process behind producing the magazine and how each component links to make the magazine effective, for example the use of targeting a specific audience and creating the magazine around that audience.
The components I need to think about when making my own music magazine are:
Since studying the different elements of media so far I’ve seen how camera framing and mise-en-scene can represent individuals, groups, events or places. We studied two videos and looked into both the camera framing and the use of mise-en- scene which were combined for representing the elements. We looked at a scene from Downton Abbey to see the different uses of Mise-en-scene and created an essay to analyse each element which helped develop our understanding and consideration for how important these aspects are.
Mise En Scene is an essential element of how meaning is made in Media. Every costume, hair style, lighting state, location, prop, accessory, posture, gesture, facial expression is there for a reason – to tell a story, convey an idea and an image. The essential components for Mis-en-scene are:
I discovered how important these elements were when portraying the individuals, groups, events or places because without them the emotion and story would be hard to follow and unclear to the audience. Each of these aspects work together to portray the intended narrative, such as if the character was smiling and in bright clothing it would have the connotations of a happy individual. However if the character was dressed in dull clothing and within a dark environment, as an audience we would assume the character is sad. From studying this and seeing how effective mise-en-scene is, I’ve seen how they all link to create a successful story and represent the characters as well as conveying the setting and place.
The camera framing is also essential when representing the individuals and event to convey the intended narrative of the scene. Examples of these angles, distances along with their roles are:
These elements portray that it is important to plan and keep in mind different angles and distances because it helps to represent different meanings to the audience. This also clearly shows the denotations as well as the connotations to the audience from the camera framing to portray a clear story and narrative to the audience.