Friday, 22 March 2013
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Question 6: Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt in the progression to your full product? - PLAN
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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.
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.
Monday, 18 March 2013
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Final front cover edited a bit
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Sunday, 3 March 2013
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.
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.
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