My final magazine with some editing

 

This is my final finished magazine. I have edited a few things about each page. I made a new barcode from scratch on paint instead of taking a picture of one because I decided it looked more proffesional than a blurred picture of a barcode. On my contents page I moved the articles up and made the bottom picture of the hand longer so it didn't look so squashed. On my double page spread I checked my spelling and grammer and changed the way I put certain things to make it make more sense or just sound more proffesional.

Barcode

This is my barcode that I am going to put on the front cover of my magazine:
I used paint to make the barcode and tried to make it as real as I can by using a picture of a barcode found on google that I then used as a draft for my barcode.

Changes I need to make to my Double page spread

First paragraph:
Move "quite frankly I love it over" and change sentence to "I listened to my favourite singer Demi Lavato and it inspired me to follow my dreams because of the things she had also been through and quite frankly I love it"
Second paragraph:
"As well as losing my dad which made me go off the rails"
Last paragraph on the first column:
"Words cannot describe it"
First paragraph second column
"I've"
Second paragraph
"follow my dreams anyway!"
Fourth paragraph
"make a new album"

How my video feedback helped me make changes to my magazine

My first set of videos I did the two girls told me what they liked best about my magazine. This helped me because when I then went to make changes I made sure I kept the things they said they liked best, for example I made sure I carried on the use of bright colours throughout the magazine as my target audience said that it worked well and made the star on the front cover bigger and brighter as they commented on the fact that it caught their eye and made the front cover look better. The feedback from my videos also made me make improvements to the pictures used in my magazine because the girls said they were important and caught their eye so I wanted to make them look even better and add more pictures because the girls emphasised that pictures that are well edited and look good make the magazine look a lot better. I also used the feedback to give me the confidence to stick with my original ideas, especially in the contents page. I wanted my articles to be spread out on the page with just a line of information about them underneath and although a lot of people said it wouldn't look right or it wouldn't look professional I liked it and thought it did and went well with how I wanted my magazine to look and feel and by one of the girls commenting on the fact that she likes the way the articles are spread out and there isn't many made them feel more individual and she knew what ones were important and what ones to look for at first when she brought the magazine. Doing my second set of target audience helped me make sure that the things that were said in the first set of videos were still good in the second set, for example the bold writing and pictures were said again and the pictures were said they were better.

Question 6: speech

Target audience videos

Question 6: Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt in the progression to your full product? - PLAN

*PLANNED SPEECH*
This is my preliminary task and this is my finished full product. As you can see they look completely different which you can tell from just looking at them without even looking into detail and reading everything. The main reason for them looking so different is I learnt how to use Indesign which I was very unsure about when I started the first task - obviously this helped a lot because I learnt how to use the software I needed and didn't just make it up.
First of all I learnt that having a lot of pictures on one front cover does not look good and the way the writing is all over the pictures does not look good or professional so I decided to change this on my full product.  I went for one main picture with nothing over her face apart from her name over her body, which was nothing to important. As you can see this looks a lot better then having the writing all over the pictures and more professional as this looks like it was rushed and had no thought put into it. I also learnt how to take professional pictures from a proper camera and not a rubbish digital one which made my front cover look a lot better. I learnt how important white spaces was when doing my full product and decided that I would spread things out more and have different things going on on the front cover but still make it look sophisticated.  From my preliminary task I also learnt how important colours and and titles were so that I then used on my front cover as making my titles bold and bright.
My contents pages look completely different to each other because by doing the preliminary task I learnt how to use Indesign to produce a contents page that looks similar to a real contents page. I did this by having less white space and less articles because I felt they were all cramped together. I also learnt that having less articles on the contents page and a little bit of information about them looked a lot better then having lots of articles together. The white space I knew made my contents page look very rubbish so that's when I decided to add the directors letter because my preliminary task also looked very plain and boring so the letter made it look more interesting.
Although I did not do a double page spread for my school magazine it helped me decide what to do for my double page spread. It helped me because I had learnt about white spaces and taking pictures so when making my double page spread I knew I didn't want any white space and wanted a whole page to be taken up by a professionally taken picture with pull quotes to make the whole double page spread look more interesting.
Overall doing my preliminary task helped me a lot especially with learning how to use the software that of course was important to be able to finish my full product to a high standard but also with learning what looks good and what doesn't.  This was important for me to know what I wanted it to look like as I then knew what looked good and what didn't.

Question 5: How does your media product represent social groups?

Final front cover edited a bit

Although I have finished my magazine I just wanted to change the barcode on my front cover. I decided not to make my own barcode because I didn't think it looked as good so I took a picture of a barcode and edited it to make it look good on my own front cover. I changed it from my other one because that didn't look very professional.

Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product? How did you attract your audience?

Question 3: What have you learnt about technologies from constructing your product?

Question 3 - What have you learnt about technologies from constructing your product? from bethanydimmock

Question 2: What kind of media institution might distribute your product and why?

The insitution I would want to distribute my magazine is Bauer Media Group. It operates in 15 countries worldwide and the music magazines Bauer Media Group publish are Q, Mojo and Kerrang. I would chose this institution because the three music magazines they do publish are very popular and well known. Q Magazine is known as the UK's biggest music magazines.  It has music news, reviews and world exclusives with the most important bands on the planet and Kerrang is known as the worlds biggest selling weekly rock magazine. They also operate in 15 countries so my magazine would not just be published in the UK and would sell better and be known worldwide so would do better as a music magazine. The fact that they also publish 2 of the most well known magazines means that a lot of people have heard of without even necessarily being interested in music magazines or buying them shows that they are very popular and advertised very well so they most probably do better.

I do not think my magazine would suit being published by international publishing company (IPC) because they specialise more in gossip or men and women's life style magazines. Although they publish NME and Guitar and Bass before I was interested in Media I had only heard of NME whereas I had heard of Q, Mojo and Kerrang.  Therefore their advertising and sales may not be as good and are better at other types of magazines instead of music magazines.
I also don't think the National magazine company would also be best to publish my magazine because they publish a lot of woman magazines, including health, fashion, gossip and housekeeping magazines. Although they publish some men's magazines they do not publish many. This would not be right because my magazine is for females and males and for the younger generation so the National magazine company who publish magazines for older people may not publish my magazine very well.
Future publishing would also not be the best to publish my magazine because although they have some music type magazines, for example computer music and future music, a lot of their magazines are based on technology. Even the music magazines they do publish are technology based. My music magazine is for younger people and Future publishing is for older people especially males interested in technology so the magazines they publish are very different from mine.

Question 1: In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My final finished draft of my magazine

This is my final magazine. I changed the layout of things on my front cover, for example the words "FT Skye" were diagonal  over her and I changed them to be straight as well as being bolder. I also added the price to take up some plain space and moved things around slightly but overall my front cover has not changed too much. I changed a lot about my contents page to make it look like a real magazines contents page by adding more articles and pictures and having the layout similar to a real magazine,  I picked out the most important articles and have them going down the page in lines with a little bit of information about the article. I tried to make that little bit of information seem interesting and different. I also put pictures from the most important articles with bold writing next to it, to add affect and as my contents page looked boring and unfinished before.  By doing this it also took up all the white space on my contents page. I didn't change much about my double page spread because I felt when comparing it to a real magazine they looked similar. I just added something at the end of the interview about a competition that I saw some teenage magazines had which I thought worked well. I learnt more about what real magazines had and tried to put some of those ideas into my finished magazine.

Second draft of magazine

This is the second draft of my magazine. I completely changed the layout of my magazine as I did not like the colours or the lay out anymore. I changed the colours to pink and blue trying to keep the idea of the magazine being for both boys and girls. I have changed my contents page and added more articles but still have a far way to go with my contents page as I feel it does not look like a real contents page at all. I also changed the writing, especially the size because when I did more research on magazines I learnt that they have  big titles and headings to stand out. On my double page spread I learnt that they are plainer then I originally thought so I decided to stick with a white background to keep it subtle and sophisticated instead of a green background that made it look dull and boring.
I still need to improve things on all aspects of my magazine but especially by adding more to my front cover and the contents page and going back and looking at more magazines to compare them to mine.

This week

This is my final contents page:

Videos of people saying what they like and dislike about my magazine

What I have learnt recently/over the holidays

Looking at other peoples blogs and music magazines I have learnt more about what to include in the next draft of my magazine. I need more different things on my front cover as I only have one picture and I also want to look at the colour scheme because it is quite in your face.
Over the holidays I looked at other magazines and it gave me a better idea of what things I should include in my next magazine. Including what different types of articles to include next time and what types of things music magazines do include.
In the last few lessons I have learnt how to use Photoshop and indesign better including the different tools. For example on Photoshop I learnt how to use the tool that removes spots and bags under the eyes and make them look clearer. I also learnt on indesign how to make writing better and make it look interesting.

Up to date publication plan

Publication Plan

Name of magazine: Superbass

Font of name: Impact

Positioning statement: "First ever interview"

Frequency of publication: Once a week

Price: £2.50

Distribution: BBC worldwide

Rationale: There is not many magazines that offer things about music and artists that also get deep into there personal lives and gives big stories to there fans about what is happening in there lives. Not many music magazines that are also gossip and real life.

Style: real life music magazine

Regular content: Reviews, gossip, real life, pictures, free gifts

Feature content in your issue: 2 page double spread about the life of my singer, reviews, gossip, upcoming concerts, pictures, free posters, real life stories about celebrities

House style: My font size and style will change for the different things I use. The headings and captions of pictures will be bolder and bigger then the writing underneath that explains more or less important things.

This week

This is my finished double page spread:

This is the start of my contents page: