Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Before starting our music magazines we did a preliminary task to help us practise and create a school magazine for students either in sixth from or just starting school. This was to help us improve certain skills needed to make a good conventional music magazine. I choose to do a school magazine called ‘starting school’ for our practise task, now looking back on it I think it looks very basic and needed a lot more detail than I actually included in it but helped me advance the skills that I learnt and therefore applied them to my music magazine. I think I have learnt how to pay attention to detail to make certain things stand out like the masthead, exclusives and lures for example. By doing small things like including the issue number, date and making things bigger then it helps look like a conventional magazine which is important to tie in with a specific genre.
Before starting our music magazines we did a preliminary task to help us practise and create a school magazine for students either in sixth from or just starting school. This was to help us improve certain skills needed to make a good conventional music magazine. I choose to do a school magazine called ‘starting school’ for our practise task, now looking back on it I think it looks very basic and needed a lot more detail than I actually included in it but helped me advance the skills that I learnt and therefore applied them to my music magazine. I think I have learnt how to pay attention to detail to make certain things stand out like the masthead, exclusives and lures for example. By doing small things like including the issue number, date and making things bigger then it helps look like a conventional magazine which is important to tie in with a specific genre.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The preliminary task made me test with different programs and documents such as paint and Photoshop to get rid of backgrounds that were not needed or fitted in with the theme of the magazine. Comparing my school magazine in September to my music magazine that I have just finished, I can straight away see the difference. The music magazine looks more of a professional standard with nothing going on in the background and you can see certain things looking clearer like the masthead and the exclusive features, I also think the main image draws your attention to it due to the strong positioning of the band which fits perfectly in the centre of the front cover. In addition, you can see a brand identity that represents that certain genre in relation to my school magazine that has many colours but doesn’t have a certain style that might make someone recognise with that magazine so that’s why I made sure there was a clear house style.
By using a camera for my own photography I developed more skills and changed some effects on the camera to define more things like the lighting for example.
I discovered photobucket on the internet which allowed me to access several effects and test with edits that it provided. I used this when I was editing my front cover image to which I filled the background with a black colour to disguise the background and fit it in with the 'Indie'/'rock' genre I was aiming to target.
This was my practise magazine before i started my music mag.
Here, you can see the difference between my preliminary task (school magazine) and my final outcome for my music magazine. It looks a lot more advanced and you can see how I have improved by using new programs and paying attention to small details that give it that overall proffesional magazine look. I think research that I did on other 'Indie' genre music magazines like 'NME' helped me develop a more in depth understanding of what is needed.
How did you attract/address your audience?
For my final result I wanted to make sure it had that appeal to my target audience which I aimed at teenagers to young adults that were into the rock/indie genre of music. I thought that the main image should be something that is strong and catches people’s eye and therefore draw them into reading more about it, I think the main image also shows a ‘rebellious’ side to the band as they look kind of crazy and almost like they don’t care and are just having a good time.
For my final result I wanted to make sure it had that appeal to my target audience which I aimed at teenagers to young adults that were into the rock/indie genre of music. I thought that the main image should be something that is strong and catches people’s eye and therefore draw them into reading more about it, I think the main image also shows a ‘rebellious’ side to the band as they look kind of crazy and almost like they don’t care and are just having a good time.
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