Planning Writing articles, Tittle and Logo!

In The last few lessons i have been Organizing and writing my double page spread.
After getting started and completing my magazine mock up, my basic idea created and i then could Concentrate on details.
For my double page spread i decided to have one page focused on a real life story-
and the other page dates on performing artists (at 02 arena like britney spears) and major club dates (Matter (02) & fukny Budah). In the next lesson i will write up the entire article.
Mean while i choose the title of my magazine to be called "APA" - All pop Access! After a long time of thinking of title name this name seemed the most appealing and catchy for my pop music magazine. i will now create a magzine logo.

Mock up of main task!

I was given a homework task to produce a general mock up of my magazine.
I had to think about images, words, the information included, title, price ect...
I found this task a little hard, i knew everything i needed to know it was just a matter of being creative and putting all my knowledge together.

PowerPoint - mixmag

Over the last few lessons we have been creating a microsoft Powerpoint slide presentation.
- I choose an online magazine (which had to be different from my homework task NME) and make up a presentation.
I decided to focus mine on a dance magazine called "MIXMAG" the magazine is fairly popular and includes a major range of subjects.
In my presetation i included:

• readership
  
• circulation
  
• bright colours
  
• grovey backgrounds
  
• images
  
• facts

I enjoyed this task as i felt it was not boring and was a different way of learning. I learnt alot from this magazine and will be using particular aspects in my own music magazine.

Major plan For main task !

In the last few lessons we have, finally started the planning for the main task. which very exciting as i have been waiting to do this one.
Within this main task i need to include:

• front cover
• contents page
• double page spread

This sounds simple but there is alot more that goes into producing a music magazine. I have now researched music magazine and know what is expected.

I need to think about the music genre, the audience profile (what each one has in common), their lifestyle.

I need to provide a picture of the audidence what they want, what they expect, tarket auidence, what inspires them, their interests, LINKS.

I need to think about who i am trying to attract, Their identity - clothes, buying, music. (Group belongings). What gigs, concerts they liek to attend. (escapisum).

I will consider colours, fonts, image, style, the shots to use, effects, props, mise en scene, costumes and wildness.

Homework task - research

As an homework task we had the Essay question "Discuss the different ways music magazines attract their audiences by print and online versions"
This homework tasks involved me researching different online and print music magazines, and comparing one. I chose to compare "NME" - a popular music and online magazine that is widely reconized.


When i get back to school i will transfere the homework task back from my pen drive onto my blog.

Introduction to main task

In the last few lessons we have began moving onto our main task!...
after learning from the preliminary task that planning and sticking to your plans is important i will doing everything in detail.
As a basic start we looked at Differnt music genre's!

• Pop
• Rock
• Dance
• Hip-hop/R n b

These were the main genre's i focused on. In pairs we had to write down on coloured paper anything and everything we knew about these.. then sharing with the class gave them ideas as well as giving us other ideas.

In following lessons we have focused on: auidences, language, lyrics, steorytyping bands or artists, colours, attractions, style, youtube background knowledge and Links! which after we found was an very imporatant asspect of a music magazine.

The Preliminary Task final

This is the cover for my school magazine.

Overall i am happy with the outcome- the effects of photoshop have really helped me gain the image i was trying to create. Now i have the skills i need for my main task it should become easier now.

Planing and Taking the right photographs!

After carefullly and in detail plan what photos i wanted to have in my school magazine front cover, I had a few lessons to indepently take photographs of which i wanted/needed.
However with this task i found a problem. I wanted an image of a single child medium shot in school uniform... this became a problem as all the students were in classes and at lunch/break were busy. I therefore decided that it would be much more easier to complete the task at home. As i have a younger bother and sister, who wear uniform for school. Other photos i chose to take were background photos such as fields, trees, art work, school buildings, school work, teachers and the playground. I relised that when completing my main task that PLANNING is CRUCIAL and taking 50 photos is much better than having 5 even if not needed. - here are a few i took around school.

Preliminary Task basic - Photoshop tutorial

To begin the planning for the school magazine, our teacher told us that we would be using a software called "Photoshop" to create and design our front covers for both preliminary and main tasks.
For a lesson we were given a photoshop tutorial, which helped the class understand Basic and complex skills needed for this task. Photoshop is a sotware that allows to you add effects on your image. For example cropping, saving basic layers changing backgrouds, colours, shades ect. This tutorial was crucial as it was needed for both preliminary and main tasks and would be majorly benefical.