Sunday, 29 November 2009

Feedback - 28/11/09

OK Lewis - you have alot of catching up to do - I have told the other students that this blog shoudl be being done at home now also - use your frees etc...

Research:

- make sure you put your prelim tasks on here with an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.

- The first genre you should be analysing is music magazines - outline the conventions and then look at covers, contents pages and feature articles and think about the following questions...

- Do they follow typical conventions of music magazines? If not why?

- Who is the target audience (GRASS) and how have they been made to appeal to them?

- Do they successfully make the audience want to read on? ( Cover and contents?)

- why do they work?

In research you need to examine your audience - who is your target audience (Demographic - GRASS and psychographic profiling - Young and Rubicon) Also how will your product appeal to its audience - use MAslow too.

questionnaires are needed - to your target audience - and feedback on this - charts and graphs are always good!

Go onto the ABC website to find out audience/circulation figures for magazines too - is there a market out there for your product?

Now move onto planning this week - ( see the last two sheets on the 'before you blog' handout) Start your mood boards, rough mock up of pages, props list, shooting schedule etc....

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Introduction - practice magazine test

I am Lewis Stewart and I have chosen to create a music magazine for my coursework project.


i have created my first magazine cover for SMC st marys collage. i have added a picture of two students at st marys collage in the chaple, i have used photoshop to edit the photo. i like my magazine cover because i have beleve to title is very bold which makes it very easy to know what this magazine is about. i have added subtitles to inform whats in the magazine, i have kept the title spread out to not make the page to pack with information. there are some faults in the cover such as the font isnt very appealing to a younger audiance and the photo has become out of portion this has effected the cover to not make it as good as it could possable be. overall im pleasd with the cover for st marys collage.