To answer this question, I created an infographic using the website Piktochart.
Component 1
CCR3 – HOW DID YOUR PRODUCTTION SKILLS DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THIS PROJECT?
This is my response to the Creative Critical Reflection 3. I wrote a draft of the script first and then I created a slideshow as well to illustrate my response. I then combined the two to create a slideshare for future A level students in helping them to choose their subjects.
CCR2 – HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT ENGAGE WITH AUDIENCES AND HOW WOULD IT BE DISTRIBUTED AS A REAL MEDIA TEXT?
This is my response to Creative Critical Reflection 2 in the form of a Screencastify.
CCR1 – HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT USE OR CHALLENGE CONVENTIONS AND HOW DOES IT REPRESENT SOCIAL GROUPS OR ISSUES?
COMPLETE MAGAZINE DRAFT 3
WHAT’S NEW:
Rotated the pug
Made the star image and the masthead larger
Moved barcode to the right
Added saxophone logo
Capital I for issue
Moved main cover line
WHAT’S NEXT:
Capital N for November
Bring star image down – out from under masthead
Move ‘Jazzfest’ coverline down
Make 100 bigger
Add a price
Add another smaller coverline
Bevel and emboss ‘Joey Jazz Jr’
WHAT’S NEW:
Added editor’s note
Added page number
Moved inset image to the bottom right
Added a caption to the inset
Added another bold yellow caption
Added another cover line
Changed font of title
WHAT’S NEXT:
Work on coherency between cover lines
Fix the top coverline
Bigger editors note box
Page 3 on the other side
Remove inset image
Add drop shadow to contents
Changed the font of the quote
Made the main image bigger
Made the song names bigger
Centered the numbers
Page numbers in the right place
Fixed the layout of the introduction
Made inset image smaller to fit the layout
WHAT’S NEXT:
Move orange quote off of image.
Make sure page numbers are the same as contents page
Center questions and answers
Try justifying text boxes to the left and the right
Work on coherency of numbers
Experiment with inset size
Make ‘elliots favourite hits from 2020’ box bigger
Put Dark October in the final paragraph in a different colour
Drop shadow on the orange box
This is the screencastify which outlines my targets for my final draft of my magazine.
Chosen advert
Even though I won’t be marked on it, I decided to select some adverts to go in my magazine as I recognised that they are a conventional feature of a magazine. I have chosen this advert for my magazine because Frank Sinatra is heavily associated with the jazz genre and the readers of my magazine are at an age and have interests which will allow them to recognise him. I also believe that my target audience are of an age and demographic that they will drink whiskey and own lots of whiskey and by combining the two I can attract their audience and potentially attract them enough to buy some of the whiskey upon reading my magazine.
I chose this tour poster as another advert to be featured in my magazine because it promotes a jazz festival. This poster is very relevant to my magazine as it is for a jazz festival and this will succeed in attracting my audience and making sales for the company running the festival. I also chose it because I feel like the poster fits the cartoon jazz aesthetic which will appeal to the jazz enthusiasts who will be reading the magazine.
2ND DRAFT DPS
This is my second draft for my double page spread. I used the feedback given for my first draft and made changes to make it more conventional and appealing.
WHAT’S NEW:
- New star image and edited it to fade out
- Changed background colour
- Changed layout of article numbers
- New article font
- Added a small list to fill space
- Moved standfirst and flipped it
- Made ‘Dark October’ all orange
- Changed page numbers
- Added a quote onto the star image
- Put whole article on the right side of the DPS.
- Added photography credits
- Put the conclusion in it’s own box
WHAT’S NEXT:
- Enlarge the main photo
- Italics for the quote
- Look at copy line spacing in the standfirst – justify to right and left?
- Centre the quotes?
- The gap in the middle?
- Add some depth to the box at the bottom
- Are all the numbers the same opacity
- Inset photo feels too wide?
- Make some of the hits names slightly bigger
- Page numbers are usually at the bottom left and right
2nd draft contents page
This is my second draft for the contents page of my jazz magazine ‘Lounge’. I used the feedback from my first draft and made some alterations to improve the quality.
WHAT’S NEW:
- Added a piano keys theme to portray the genre more
- Used a photo of another model in the inset image
- Changed the white in ‘must see’ and ‘exclusive’ to yellow
- Changed the colour of the background from white to pink
- Added a shadow to the star image
- Made the ‘contents’ title bigger
- Changed the interviewee from ‘Joey Jazz Jr’ to ‘Dark October
WHAT’S NEXT:
- Look at line spacing as no coherancy
- More coverlines
- Caption the inset…who is he? make slightly smaller? – add a filter?
- Caption the main image?
- Numbers bigger?
- Dont mask his sax as that is important
- Another yellow sub heading to make it 3
- Bold 100 to make it stand out and a different font?
- Contents page needs a number?
- Editors note?
2nd draft front page
This is my updated draft of my magazine front page. I made changes from the feedback I received to create a better front page as it is crucial that my front page attracts the attention of potential customers.
WHAT’S NEW:
New cover star image which includes a new background colour
New masthead font and centered the masthead
Added another cover line to fill blank space
Edited pug to center the text more to look more professional
Slightly altered the shape of the pug to be more circular
Changed the colour of ‘hall of fame’ from light blue to white
WHAT’S NEXT:
Angle the pug
Numbers in pug a different colour
Coverlines move to the left a little
Make masthead bigger
Make him larger
Is the photo manipulated enough in photoshop
Try the typewriter font for some of the smaller lines
Something at the bottom
Move barcode to the right and pug to the left
Capital I for issue
what about a sax logo somewhere?
DPS FIRST DRAFT
This is the first draft of my double page spread. I am trying to embody the jazz genre in this double page spread for my magazine and I chose different features and conventions to make my magazine portray the genre successfully.
These are my targets for my second draft of my double page spread.
- Make it clear that it is his top 10 pieces advice in the stand first
- Make the silhouette photo bigger and more dominant and make an inset out of the bench one
- Make the numbers in the article bigger and different colours to stand out
- Change the colour of the standfirst for colour blind readers.
- Make the page numbers further into the magazine (page 12-13)
- Give credits to the photographer
- Need to add another quote to make it more conventional
- Put a caption with my image and inset
- extend the kerning to make the headline fit around the staples otherwise it won’t work in the magazine
- Change the sans serif font to make it easier to read.