My info-graphic of technology I integrated into my music magazine project:
CCR3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
CCR3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
CCR1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
CCR1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
Adverts
I selected these two ads for my genre, using previous research and our dating profiles we made. Fashion and jewellery is a big part of the rap genre, more specifically showing off expensive clothes and jewellery.
I chose the ‘Nike Air’ design because these shoes are generally seen as fashionable to many people in the genre. Fashion and shoes in particular are a very popular in the rap scene, basketball shoes are seen as fashionable with the leading companies being Nike and Jordan.
I chose this Rolex advertisement because jewellery, more specifically watches,chains and rings, are very popular in the rap genre. People like to show off their wealth through their jewellery so I though an ad for a prestigious and well-known watch brand was fitting for my magazine.
Complete Magazine Draft
My Complete Music Magazine Draft:
My Teachers Feedback:
Improvements I need to make:
Front Page:
- Fix Masthead from changing when exported into Google Drive.
- Some empty space above and below the ‘Exclusive Tyler Q’ part.
- ‘Tyler Q’ could stand out more from the rest of the text (could be achieved with the use of effects and colours.)
Contents Page:
- Could possibly add some white to the page.
- Need more than 6 articles on there.
- Black clothes from Jacob and Tyler on the black background needs to change, (could be achieved by using glow effects or strokes).
Double Page Spread (DPS):
- Must write my article urgently. (No.1 Priority).
- Could widen my columns.
- Page Numbers.
- Must make my pull quote smaller than my headline.
So… How’s it going?
A transferable skill I have learnt through out this process is time management, we have had to properly manage our time throughout the entire project to make sure we keep on top of everything. Our time management is one of the most important skills we have learnt to use. Time management can be transferred to any line of work and much more.
Another transferable skill we have learnt is communication skills, communication between our peers was essential during our tasks such as our photoshoots planning sheets such as our PMA’s greatly helped with the communication between work. Communication is not only important in a working environment but also in other things such as sports. Communication skills are important in almost every line of work.
A third transferable skills we have learnt is research, we had to research our target audience and to do this we had to do proper research instead of a copy and paste job. Research skills can not only be applied to media studies but also other subjects we do, in my case research is particularly useful in business studies.
I think the design of my contents page went very well, as it was the last page we did I had already picked up lots of skills throughout this project already and could put them into action on my contents page.
Design Skills 2
At this point of our project we are almost done with production, so we had picked up many new skills in many different areas such as InDesign, Photoshop, camera equipment and much more. I think the InDesign skills we have learnt throughout this experience have been the most useful, more specifically the drop down menu of different effects and text manipulation. I found the way you can utilise and manipulate all of these different effects together to ‘personalise’ your work particularly useful in making my magazine feel like it is a part of my chosen genre. These effects have a near infinite amount of ways you could use them in a combination together so you aren’t limited to what you can do with them, I found that the text manipulation was very quick and easy to pick up.
All of the different text manipulation settings.
All of the different effects, each individual setting has a page like this, this page is just for drop shadow.
A New and Improved Contents Page.
My Contents Page Before:
My Improved Contents Page:
Improvements I made:
- I had to add white around my images to make them more visible.
- I added the issue number, page number and date.
- I changed the scale of the page number to make it more realistic.
- I added in the article names.
- I added a stroke to the text to make it easier to read.
- I re-cut out my bottom image in photoshop because part of the shoe was missing before.
Draft of Contents Page
My first Draft of a Contents Page:
There are a few changes that I plan on making to this contents page:
- I want to add more articles to the actual content part because six articles isn’t enough to persuade someone to buy your magazine.
- I want to use some sort of brighten or glow effect around my images because with the black background you can’t see them very well.
- I want to play around with the positioning of my images a bit more, it might not be permanent but I still want to try and see how I can change it.
- I would also like to change the size of the text and page numbers.
What is a Contents Page?
We learnt all about the conventional features of a contents page, knowing these features will be extremely useful when I make my own contents page for my music magazines. We put our knowledge of the conventional features by sketching our own design of a contents page and came up with our own headlines. The reason for having headlines that use specific words such as ‘secret’ and ‘exclusive’ is to draw the consumers attention and hook them into the article, once the reader is hooked it is easy to keep them attracted to the magazine with a good article. People use clickbait titles to draw in the consumers which is when your title uses words and sentencing that isn’t all true to the content in the article or it can be very exaggerated. Creators have to be careful with how bad the clickbait in their media is, if it is completely unrelated to their actual media people will make it a concerned and will be negative toward the creator.
