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in what way does your media product use develop or challenge forms and convenctions of real media products.?
from the front page you should have noticed that the images whicjh hold a caption have been extracted from there background and placed in areas to conform to the mood of the background.and also the banner below has been modified to look as a croud wheras in many magazine they are even atimes invlicible but known to be there due to the text being alined to the area.
apart from these features i have ensured that my magazine uses yet develops the codes and conventions by being similar but adpted to the theme (jazz- classizal- RNB)

for example within the contents page where the main image is actually at the top.

Deadline

Today is the deadline for my media magazine and so i decided to checkup on all of my work, forexample any areas in which the text cut off such as my heading in my contents page.
the rest of my questions are on the other pages.

Finished Version, Evaluation video,

today i managed to capture my whole scene in image and recording so that i can edit them. thursday i will modfy each of them into the actual animation and then take them home to convert each into a full lenghth animation on vegas.

Progress

Today i have created the first few minutes of my animation which simply was the intro tmorrow i will be createing the characters. and the following day animateing them to there speech positions.

Plan

i will now beging to spend an hour each they upon the story board and creationg of my magazine and due to my last experience such animation even with such simplicity took 3 hours each day to create to perfection by the end of the week, hopefully i will be able to create a full lenght climp which i have never realy done before in such time and like before adding characters to the scene...
Tmorrow i will also have to gather a cast the cast will beging to performe each audio by thursday - friday :D.

from creating logos at my workplace i learnt on the need of presicion and was more able to draw acurately as well as using a grid, working with layers

WorkExperience

This week i had work experience, and it has helped in developing my creative skills which link with animations and generaly creation, i have learnt the need for precision when creating- for before i would simply have ghuessed the coordinates for point in my art workbut such precision should be captured within a grid and by a ruler.
seeing i also created a lenthy animation this has improved my knoledge on flash and i could be creating my last animation within the next evaluation i may be doing.
most importantly for the first time ever i spent two days on the littlest of cartoons just to get it to perfection so hopefull my forth coming creations are of a better quality.
Also just so you know i spent two days on simply drawing the animations and another 2 days on createing the first logo and the 3rd day both creating the 3d effects and creatinh the secon logo which was completed on thursday and today friday createing a duplicate of the second logo... unfortuantely i will not be able to create a video showing my proceses i do not have any gadgects to capture each sne nor a device.

1. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I have learnt both the uses of Photoshop, InDesign and illustrator and the specific uses; I have learnt the difficulty in creating an organised magazine and the advanced techniques needed to create so (shortcut keys). Also I have gathered a more specific knowledge on magazines and social tribes, and within my evaluation the need to create videos rather than just using slideshows or plain text as it could be interpreted more clearly…hopefully; also I have noticed magazine common mistakes and avoided similar mistakes which almost occurred but of course met new challenges within InDesign and illustrator.

1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt how to operate Photoshop to a more advanced manner and also why Photoshop is a photo editing tool rather than a magazine creating software, InDesign though hard and occasionally needed to edit with is very complex and also I have learnt on how to create an organised magazine in InDesign with columns to keep structure.

1. How did you attract/address your audience?
By the formatting within the magazine, bright colours and internet link, young faces, characters gender, scenery, text. The format is relatively simple so both sex should still have no negative effect upon this feature the background shows elegance and is quite a sophisticated to attract the older audience but this is accompanied by extremely bright colours to attract the young audience also though the main page is filled with images of girls the articles show that males are also the audience.

1. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The target audience for my magazine is very obvious, adults, adolescents of both genders (male & female) from the ages 14-20+ of a social tribe of both jazz or classical groups & rnb groups; it is made clear in my magazine by its content effects and also because of the level of literacy within the article and for the younger audience as an alternative source of information if failing to comprehend or gain interest an internet link is stated within the front page.
The audience within the magazine are supposedly from the age of 16 + making both age groups gain interest because of feeling of relation, also with the range of colours both audience are also attracted.

1. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
National magazine company as they do not have a music magazine and target mostly fashion and beauty, accepting my magazine would be a chance to target the audience as well as widening the range of audience, there magazines as well as mine target young adults and adults.
Titan magazines also for similar reasons but understand this is a film magazine, it is unusual that I have picked these rather than just selecting the more identifiable company’s like ipc media but I found that most jazz magazines are self distributors.
But as my magazine includes RNB it could be distributed by companies that hold similar qualities such as..Vibe magazine, though like most of Quincy Jones magazines blacks are priority this not so in my magazine but our audience is similar and too targets the urban group.

1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My magazine targets 2 different similar groups of people….
• Jazz/ classical music. Within the characters wear, for example the casual wear seen in the front page and the jewellery as well as the feminine attire and hairstyle which is very sophisticated and neat and the class exposed through the posture… this changed within the article to something for relaxing to attract the other audience/ relate to them and to show young adults feeling of connection. The character within the bottom of the page is very serious and this relates to the adult themes. Though the background of the pages can seem quite boring there are bright colours that explode out and will be a big wow to the young audience.
• And the RnB through the contents page where the character is quite hip and is actually close to the audience even though in a jazz/ classical music set and this is only seen in concerts when the singers associate with the audience with physical interaction as seen and also the very fun effect all around the magazine from the invisible ribbon which is almost like a halo around the stars and the bubble transition. The characters on the front page at both sides of the main text are very colour full and within the contents page are in very exotic locations/ bright sets. The website of the magazine can be see and it is evident that young teems lurk around the internet much more than an older audience so this is a big booster. In the contents page the background is red and red is usually an alerting colour which young teens are attracted to. this may be a steryotype but young teens do not love to read as much as a megority and so within the article the interesting areas/ qotes are highlighted in a blue tint.

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1. In what way’s does your media product use, develop or challenge form’s and convention’s of real media product’s?
Box-out – A small part of the page shaded in a different colour.
Caption – typed text under photographs explaining the image.

Crosshead – this is a subheading that appears in the body of the text and is centred above the column of text. If it is se to one side then it is called a side-head.

Exclusive – this means that newspaper and no one else solely cover the story. The paper will pay their interviewees, buying the story so it cannot be used by another paper.

Feature – not necessarily a ‘news’ item (current affairs), but usually with a human-interest angle presented as a spread.

Headline – this is the main statement, usually in the largest and boldest font, describing the main story. A banner headline spans the full width of the page.
Kicker – this is a story designed to stand out from the rest of the page by the use of a different font (typeface) and layout.

Lead Story – the main story on the front page, usually a splash.
Lure – a word or phrase directing the reader to look inside the paper at a particular story or feature.

Masthead – the masthead is the title block or logo identifying the newspaper at the top of the front-page. Sometimes an emblem or a motto is also placed within the masthead. The masthead is often set into a block of black or red print or boxed with a border; the ‘Red-tops’ (The Sun, The Mirror, The News of the World) are categorised by style and the use of a red background in the masthead.

Menu – the list of contents inside the paper.

Pugs – these are at the top left and right-hand corners of the paper and are known as the ‘ears’ of the page. The prices of the paper, the logo or a promotion are positioned there. They are well placed to catch the reader’s eye.
Secondary Lead – this is usually only a picture and headline, it gives a sneak preview of a story that you might find inside the paper.
Splash – the splash is the main story on the front of the paper. The largest headline will accompany this, along with a photograph.
Spread – a story that covers more than one page.

Stand first – this is an introductory paragraph before the start of the feature. Sometimes it may be in bold.

Strapline – this is an introductory headline below the headline.

Tag – a word or phrase used to engage a reader’s interest in a story by categorising it e.g. ‘Exclusive’, ‘Sensational’.

EVALUATION

Peer Evaluation Questionnaire
It is important that I received feedback from my audience because if I was to simply analyse my work I am bound to find greater positive qualities than the unpleasant features and here are the additional results I gathered from my audience I was unable to upload for ethic considerations reasons; As you have probably already established/ guessed , the feedback of my peers has been extremely important and beneficial to the production of my magazine also, and to fulfil the past research’s I must check to see if I have created the magazine I first began to dream off and also acknowledge the changes that have made. I have compiled a list of questions so that I could find out exactly what my target audience thought of my magazine; unfortunately I only created two possible answers so that the amount of outraged customers would be clear…if I was a professional distributor, unfortunately the people I asked where inconsistent on answering all the questions.
1. What were your first impressions, on this magazine, and if was to be sold in a newsagent or other conventional magazine stores what would be your reaction?
• WOW...what a magazine, this magazine is targeting me
I am aged 12-14 (16)
15-18 (19)
19+ (5)
• What is this doing here…put this in the rubbish, this magazine has failed!/ or simply it is not for me. Reasons
Boring (2)
Old audience (3)
Feminine (7)
Bad music choice (3)
2. What is your favourite page of the magazine?
Front page (27)
For it is very attractive (13)
Images (1)
Other reason (3)
The double spreads (18)
For its literacy (4)
Article is very interesting (12)
Great photography (2)
Other
3. Now that you have established that the magazine is multi genre, do you feel that it lives up to its expectations?
YES…..and what a great hybrid name it has (37)
No….What do you think about the design and format of Practice magazine? (6)
4. Do you think the house style has remained? (42)
No (3)
5. Do you think the colour scheme is suited to the magazine and its purposes?
Yes (37)
No (6)
6. Is all the text in this magazine legible to you? (31)
No (14)
7. Did the magazine, its images, text and cover lines catch your attention?
Yes (15)
No (30)
7. Does the contents page give you clear navigation into other articles in the magazine?
Yes (29)
No (17)
10. What possible improvements could you give to my magazine in the instance of me redesigning ? Here are some of the interesting feed back which was reputedly said, but of course in another form of way which closely resembles each other.
Change hose colour to maybe purple….yet masculine with the shade of blue.. and definitely add textures
Erm. I dunno this is pretty good
I like this magazine very good dinaka!
Wow….
Erm mabey add more males in the front page
Feature a male character!
Add more colour its too plane
Look at jazz time tho boreing emotions are emoted
Try an extreme closeup lol lots of emotion!

1.Do you read magazines often?
No (31)
Yes (8)
2.If you saw a magazine in the shop, what would convince you to buy it?
Yes (6)
No (33)
What do you think about the content of The Square magazine? Lots of negative comment so here is just three.
I never knew it was possible to mix all genres
Erm, you kinda missed out R&B
Hmmm looks simple like a jazz and classical music the characters need a prop but overall great attire.
What would you like to see more of in The Square magazine?
Nothing (19)
Improvements on all areas for it is an average magazine missing codes & conventions (27)
What do you think about the design and format of Practice magazine?
Great (21)
Bad-ish (15)
After completing this questionnaire, I am quite disappointed for at first I expected great responses though with a good start I feel I could have achieved greater but still with the occasional pros from some students that enjoy the genre of my music the response was greater for the negatives were from the character that enjoyed music such as grime & Rock , which hugely reassured me on the effectiveness of my magazine, and I am extremely pleased with how well the age of my target audience has received it! Definitely a success within the audience I started but loosening its male audience.

The following double page spread though ideally perfect for its audience it seems we share similar text and as you may have guessed this article must be depression for it lacks light and the characters are moody and are even wearing a hood to hide certain features also giving a negative impression in some extent, we share the same text and this shocks me for it tells me that the text I used is boring and is even used to show so and next time I am to create I should do a typography research to find the perfect text! Also again this page holds page numbers which I fear I may have missed.

Now again I am comparing my double page article to again another immensely sophisticated magazine, this magazine teaches me a thing or 2 about how to create a successful magazine and in this case it seems my text is too large and child like for it seems we have a lazy writer, and I must stress how the border makes this image very boring! But I must say well-done to such useful background gradient which is nicely done and realistic to some extend, great text but could have been bolded to an extent of making it more prominent this I have failed through out my magazine.
Apart from that I have enjoyed the extra features which this writer/ editor has added truly sophisticated text and realistic and great how the text has conjured around the text leaving the image fresh though amateur this photographer is great in capturing emotions and expressing them with simple effects.