Production Log - 28th September 2012

Today I finished analyzing 3 front covers, 3 double page spreads and 3 contents pages. I analyzed everything that was on the page including headlines, pictures, sub-titles, and the colour schemes. It also gave me ideas about my own magazine and how I should make it the best I can.   

Furthermore I also made a contact sheet with all the pictures from the photoshoot and in the upcoming week I will be making a video on movie maker with all the pictures and  putting a sound to it to make it more effective. Having said this I also started doing the key concepts part of the course which also adds towards giving me a lot of ideas about my own magazine and make it the best I can. I have successfully created my name ideas and colour connotations page for the plan for my magazine. Some of the name ideas that I came up with are:

• Broken Records
• Base
• Backstage Beats 
• Sound
• Radar 
• BRE (Broken Records Express)  

Production Log - 20th September 2012

Magazine Photoshoot 1

Model Release

These are the model releases I got my models to sign in order to allow me to take pictures of them and use them on my magazine.

Double Page Spread Analysis 3

Double Page Spread 3 by

Double Page Spread Analysis - 2

Double Page Spread Analysis - 2

Double Page Spread Analysis - 1

Music Magazine Double Page Spread Analysis - 1

Representation

RepresentationThis  is a presentation about the way in which R&B music magazines has been presented. This includes: Attitudes towards R&B music e.g. negative or positive and how people see it, Clothing of R&B artists (what kind of clothes females and males wear and why), Key Artists and a bit about them and how their music makes them R&B artists and finally the places R&B artists have their concerts at. Having done this really helped me decide what I want my magazine to involve and which genre of music I wanted to do.

Codes and Conventions

Contents Page Analysis - 3

Contents Page Analysis 3

Contents Page Analysis 2

Contents Page Analysis 2

Contents Page Analysis 1

Contents Page Analysis 1

Front Cover of Magazine Analysis 3

Front Cover of Magazine Analysis 3

Front Cover of Magazine - Analysis 2

Front Cover of Magazine Analysis 2

Preliminary Task Evaluation

During the first few weeks of Year 12 we were asked to design a magazine front cover and contents page for the students who attend Haydon School. We were allowed to pick our target audience and I picked the 6th formers as they are the newcomers to Haydon School and in addition I picked the whole school as I also had a picture of a new girl to Haydon outside in the field which portrays 'students at Haydon looking after their school environment'.

On the contents page I tried to make it as simple as I could as it was also aimed at year 7's so therefore they should be able to find what they are looking for as quickly as possible. Additionally we did not have enough time to make anything too good as we only had a few days to complete the whole task.

We used Photoshop to complete this task and I had to edit a few thing such as make the colour of the grass a lot lighter and edit the model's face as she was not very happy with the way it came out to look. The things I included on photoshop are:

• Adding text to covers 
• Magic wand - removing backgrounds and replacing it with another
• Colour replacement tool
• Brightness/Contrast tool - for the grass 

As I was making this I had to make a few changes as I was not happy with the front cover picture so I had to remove it and replace it with another which did take time so therefore I had to complete that part in my free time as I wanted to put my total effort into it. 

The finished product was adequate to fulfilling the task and I realised that I have not forgotten to use Photoshop at all and I will be using it to make my final magazine for my Media Coursework!

Front cover of Magazine - Analysis 1

Front Cover of Magazine Analysis 1

Preliminary Front Cover - Step by step video

                                                  

Above is a video which I created to demonstrate the different steps to make the front cover for the preliminary task. This also portrays that I made the front cover on photoshop and tried my best to make it look as good as I could.

Preliminary Task - Front cover and Contents page

Production Log - 10th September 2012

In today's lesson we carried on with the preliminary task that we began last lesson. As soon as we got in class we were given instructions by Mr Fisher to carry on and we got on the computers and began our work. I had a few initial ideas for my contents page and I asked Neha, a friend of mine for some feedback and she agreed that they were very good ideas so therefore I used them and the final product did come out to be very pleasing. Additionally as we had a double lesson we also began speaking about the exam and got a few ideas about what we should be doing when it comes to doing the mock exam and spoke about the 4 primary things we should be mentioning which are: Camera Angles, Editing, Mise en scene, and Sound.

Production Log - 7th September 2012

Today we started our lesson by talking about the course in general. Secondly we got put into 3 groups and we were given a camera for each group so we could take pictures as our task was to create a school magazine, front cover and contents page only. Furthermore we all processed with our task and took most of the pictures outside due to them looking much better. We all had a lot of ideas for the front cover which included: "Greeting new students", "New 6th form common room", "Eco friendly school", and "best exam results". As soon as we were done with the pictures we went back to class got on the computers and started creating our front cover on Photoshop. Some people who did not study media before did have a bit of trouble getting on as they were not used to working with Photoshop but overall we all did fine however we did not manage to finish the whole task in time. As the task was a preliminary task and we only had to have some initial ideas the magazines we made did not have to be to the best of our ability however for the students in my class this did not mean much as most of us did make great effort and made a great start.