Photos

Took photos for the front cover this week and started editing them for my magazine. Found photo shop alot easier to use after practising with my pre-lim task.

Feedback 26/3/09

A good prelim task Sam!
You need to do more research to get the marks! See the previous post!
You also need the results of your questionnaire on here and some analysis of these.
Keep blogging each week - put your progress on here.
Also you now need to scan and upload your mood board and rough plans for your pages.
Miss McNulty

Evaluation

For my preliminary task i designed the cover and contents page of a college magazine. I think that the picture for the front cover was good but i think i will use a longer shot next time. I also think that choosing the library for a background gave a realistic effect. The most difficult thing was trying to position the text around the picture as you have to get enough information on but there is not a lot of space for it. I also think my title was too small and my contents page looks too plain, these are things i will change for my next task.
From this task i have learnt how to use photo shop and in design more effectively and how to upload onto my blog.

Contents

Preliminary task

Feedback - 10/3/09

Good Sam but you need a little more detail in this research...
- include an age range for your target audience
- Explain your USP in a little more detail - not sure what you mean here!
- Include similar products!
- You need to prove the sucess of these magazines - long running? audience/circulation figures etc...

After this you need to upload a cover, contents page and double page spread of a music magazine and analyse them in relation to the conventions of maagazines - follows them or deviates from them (same but different?) Also how they are targeting their audience? Who is the target audience? (you can find these online or we can scan these in.)
Miss McNulty

Research

Completed reader profile and questionnaire.

Will get questionnaire filled in during the week as need to ask 8-12 year olds so it cant be done in college.

Photo shop

Used photo shop for the first time, made a mock up magazine front cover. Found the photo shop application quite hard to use at first but it got easier once i knew what all the icons were.

1st entry

The project I have chosen is a music magazine. I have chosen this option because i hope to do script-writing at university and this links in with that.

My initial thoughts and ideas for the project:

• Genre - pop.
• Target audience - pre-teen girls
• Unique selling point - no music magazines for this age group exist anymore.
• Similar products - Smash hits! Which had great success and ran from 1978-2006
• I think my product will be successful because young girls are very interested in pop music and other magazines of this genre have been successful.