Welcome to my blog

My name is Joseph Whitbread and my candidate number is 9154 this blog contains
information about my Media AS level task of creating a magazine through photoshop.
This blog contains my final piece,my preliminary task and my evaluation.

I  hope you enjoy reading through my blog

Evaluation (prezi)

The evaluation hyperlink: http://prezi.com/j2j3-altgy6e/as-level-media-magazine-evaluation/

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Final piece big noise magazine

This is my Final big noise magazine

Preliminary Task evaluation

This first task of a school magazine was a struggle to complete as I have had very little experience with photoshop in the past, I felt that I knew what I wanted out of this first piece of work I had a basic idea of how I was going to plan the layout of my magazine but it fell short when coming to create my magazine. Overall I feel i could greatly improve the quality of my piece, music magazine.

The front cover of the preliminary task looked close to what I wanted it to be but it didn't look as well as it could of done, I fell that I will greatly improve on this with my final music magazine piece because the preliminary task front cover looks boring and uninteresting.

The contents page, looks ok but it looks extremly dull in the way that I had presented it, the pictures seemed boring and uninteresting and the colours used in this piece were quite dark and there was nothing paticularly interesting about them. I feel that with my music magazine the presentation of my contents page needs to be different I feel that I could add more colour to the piece.

Preliminary piece school magazine

Learning Process

Throughout this exercise, I feel that I have learn't alot throughout both planning and creating my products both preliminary and final posed and interesting challenge. I feel that I understand photoshop alittle more than I did before although I had to struggle through my photoshop work as I had diffcultys learning about photoshop, it was not untill later on which I started to understand photoshop I was advised to look at youtube tutorials to improve.

I feel that I will use blogger again at some point as it is quite a good program to use, it is also quite a simple program to use seeing as it works as an online diary of sorts.

Prezi, is another program which I feel that I have learnt from. I feel that is a better system for showcasing information than powerpoint and its definatley something I will consider working on in the future.

Further research into the music magazine industry

Music magazines are extremly profilic UK and there are quite a few around covering various genres of music, the genre covered most is mainstream/pop music although there are various branches of 'music magazine' which depends what you want such as some magazines being based around certain instruments.

My magazine product would come under the nostalgia magazine genre as it is focused on people who are intrested on artists from 50s/60s, there are also hints of trying to modernise the genre of music im focusing on with the introduction of new upcoming jazz artists.

The music magazine industry, is also willing to change directly to what is popular/unpopular at a certain time for example magazines would move from lady gaga to Adele quickly to suit what people want.

evaluation will be done on prezi

The evaluation of my music magazine will be done the next few weeks on a website called
prezi which I feel give my final evaluation a more dynamic look.

Final piece upload Written summary

The Front Page

I tried to make the front of this magazine look like the Jazz uk magazine I had analised, allthough the final result didn't look in anyway similiar to what I wanted it to be I gave it the best  shot that I could given I had been lacking any previous experinces with Photoshop before this exercise.

The Contents page

There was to much text on my contents page but it fit a quite simplistic view of what a contents page should be written. In terms of Image I think I should hve put more than one but I didn't have any that would relate to what was written in my piece also no one I asked wanted pictures taken of them for my piece.

The Double page spread

There was some changes that I had made to the double page spread due to Mrs Howlett telling me that the text boxes seperate the articles and how that didn't look good. I felt that the images on this piece should not be cropped as other double page spreads  have similiar photograph layouts.

pricing on front page

The magazine price is on the front page.

Comparision beetween rough draft and new

The front page has had more added to it since I had made the draft for example I added the barcode plus the new piece of text about the Las Vegas competition. I had increased the size of the mast head on the front page of the Magazine and I swapped the location of the text and the picture around.

The contents page of my magazine Had only some minor changes added to it in terms the big black textbox being removed as I felt it was sectioning the contents page similar to the double page spread

being sectioned. The page was also centred directly in the middle to focus the audiences attention on the contents of the magazine. There was also a small amount of text added to the bottom of the page which fills in the gap due to decreasing the font size of the text.

 

 

 

The double page spread when comparing them to each other looks like nothing had changed but I had decreased the text size and also got rid of the coloured text boxes separating the articles from each other, the piece now looks less segragated.

Editing an image

This image of the front cover is in the middle of the final stages of editing,my plan is to get the magazines pricing put into the corner of the page and then the front page of my media magazine will be finished.

The pricing of my magazine will be done with a similar colour pallet and font to the rest of the front cover of my piece.

Barcode is on my front page

I put the  Barcode on the front cover of my piece.

Double page spread analysis

• I had changed my design of the double page spread to make it look and seem more interesting I got rid of the text boxes because it made my magazine seem quite seperated in terms of the content I wrote.
• I feel that I could make more change to my double page spread because at the moment it just looks quite bland and quite simplistic its not asteticly pleasing which I feel I could edit to make it more so.
• The pictures I feel could be changed around to  because I do not really feel they are in the right size for my double page spread.

Contents page Analysis

• There appears to be quite alot that can be done with the contents page on my piece It just seems bland.
• I had centred the text on my piece so it was directly in the middle, it was my intention here to catch the reader of this magazines eye straight away but I feel that Icould make some last minute adjustments to this to make the text clearer e.g. a clearer font.
• The image in this piece did not seem well place I feel that I could crop it to make it seem better in terms of the display of the contents page
• The brief text about the Editor performing a Ronnie scotts was to fill the space to try and make the piece seem interesting.
• I choose a simplistic design for my contents page because as shown in my magazine Analysis it seems to look well in design terms.

Update on my Front cover

• There where some Changes made in terms of the pieces layout for example I moved the picture to the right side of the front cover so a potential customer is more likley to buy the magazine if they are interested in its content.
• I have changed to text to the left handside of the magazine so the text on the piece looks authentic for a music magazine.
• I have added a advertisment for in magazine content for example the competition to win a trip to Las Vegas is being advertised.
• My Barcode for this piece is yet to be added in