Evaluation Script Part 2

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Today I continued writing my script. I wrote out my answers for question 3, 4, 5 and 6! These questions where quite simple to change into a script apart from question 6 where I had to be careful to explain exactly what I wanted to say about that particular piece of technology. Now I only have question 7 to write into my script and then I can start filming.

Evaluation Script

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So now that I have answered all the evaluation questions I have started to write my script. Today I wrote the bullet points from question 1 and the brief description of question 2 and 3 into a script style ready for my to record and add to my video in the next few days.

Evaluation: Questions 6 and 7

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Today I finished answering all my questions. For question 6 I have just bullet pointed a few of the main things I have learnt about technology throughout the project which I will then expand on when I come to writing my script and filming my video. For question 7, I again just bullet pointed the main things I have learnt throughout the project from creating my preliminary task to my final product. Heres just a few of my points on each question:

Question 6:

*How to adjust the shutter speed and aperture on a camera and understand why I need to and what it does to the picture.

*Learnt how to cut out images using several tools on Photoshop

*Learnt how to air brush skin, and use the burn and dodge tool.

*Learned how to make a layout by using frames, how to then place images and text into these frames and move them within the frames on Indesign.

Question 7:

*To understand how to make a page look professional.

*The importance of colour and fonts as well as the actually context of the text or image.

*How to take better photos by using the camera and Photoshop skills I learnt as well as now knowing what lighting I need for a good image and how compose a good image. 

*I learnt how to make use of white space. Also how to follow conventions and make it look like a real magazine. 

Evaluation: Questions 2,3,4 and 5

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Today I answered questions 2, 3, 4 and 5. For question 2 I have given a brief description of what the models in my magazine present, as well as the setting and facial expression in the images. I have done this for my front cover, contents and double page spread, and explained is these representations of this particular social group support or subvert the stereotype.
For question 3 I researched the institutions of the magazines that I was using as style models. I then explained why each institution would distribute my magazine and if I had the choice to choose the institution that woukd distribute it which one I would choose and why.
For question 4 I just explained the age range of my target audience and why I think it would be that age range.
And finally for question 5 I talked about my target audience research and how I included that into my magazine to make sure it would address/attract my target audience.

Evaluation: Question 1

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Today I started to answer my questions for my evaluation. I have finished my answer to question one and will soon be turning my bullet points into a detailed and well explained script, here is an outline of my answer:

1.      In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

USE

 Front cover:

·         Having the main artists name large on the page

·         Bar-code with price and website

·         Plug with win tickets in

·         Issue number and date

Contents:

·         The layout

·         Large page numbers

·         Subscription box

·         Plus column

Double Page:

·         Caption on image

·         Quote in the article

·         Subtitle

·         Image on the left

·         3 columns of text

DEVELOP:

Front cover

·         Photo- not as much as a close up as normal

·         Title is colour with an outline

Contents Page:

·         Plus column is in the centre and a lot larger than NME

·         Title I have used “inside” rather than inside this week

Double page spread:

·         Title goes over both pages and not just on one as most magazines do

·         The quote, mainly with text not on the image

CHALLENGED

Front cover:

·         The title is in the centre, traditionally at the left hand side

·         Photo- normal studio photos, also on an angle and not profile

·         Issue number is larger than normal

·         Used a full length word for my title and now an abbreviation

Contents page:

·         My subscription is at the bottom of the page and not in a box

·         A relatively large part about social media along the bottom

Double page spread:

·        Album cover, not often used

Evaluation Intro

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So now that I have finished my music magazine I have to evaluate it, I can do this by either creating a DVD style video or a PowerPoint presentation. I don't really like speaking in front of people so I decided to do a video. The questions that I have to answer in my video are:

      1.     In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2.     How does you media product represent particular social groups?

3.     What kind of media distribution might distribute you media product and why?

4.     Who would be the audience for your media product?

5.     How did you attract/address your audience?

6.     What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

7.     Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 

     I will be answering these questions over the next few days and creating a script ready for my video.

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Final Double Page Spread

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The final piece of my finished product is my double page spread. I have my photo on the left hand side and my article on the right with the title of the article going across the two pages. I have added two quote to the page, one is an extract from my article which I kept in the middle column of my article and made larger and bolder to draw attention to it, the other quote is on the bottom right hand side of my image just to add a bit more to the page and give it my own style. At the bottom of my article is the album cover I created and in the top left is the caption for my main image. Overall I am happy with the final result of the page.

Final Contents Page

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The next one of my finished products is my contents page. I have two columns of pictures and articles down each side of the page with a then slightly larger image at the top center of the page. I have my plus column underneath my centre article with the information about subscribing and the magazines social media accounts along the bottom of the page. I got a lot of my inspiration from NME when I designed the layout of this page and I am very pleased with the way it turned out.

Final Front Cover

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Today I thought I'd show you all my finished products starting with my front cover. So as you can see I have main artists name at the bottom of the page with a quote from her underneath it. Along the side I have three main sections that would interest people to read the magazine and underneath that I have a plug advertising your chance to win VIP tickets. I am really happy with my final front cover and I think it has developed at lot since my rough cut.

Deadline Day

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Today Is my deadline for the project and I still had a fair amount to do but luckily I managed to get it all done. The first thing I did was finished of my double page spread so that I could then focus the rest of my time on my front cover. I decided that my photo on my double page spread needed to be edited again as the colour of her face didn't look very good. I had a few complications doing this but once I had had a bit of help it looked so much better! Then it was just adding finishing touches such as adding a caption to my photograph and then deciding on the final position of the caption and the quote.Then I added a red line at the top and bottom going across both pages. This was just to add a bit of style to the page and give it a professional touch. Once I had decided this was finished I then moved on to my front cover. I finished adding the stories to it and then added a red line to go in between the stories to separate them and to also link in with the style of my double page spread. I also added a plug to the cover. I made it a typical circle with a white background and a red outline. Inside the plug I was advertising the chance to win free tickets to a concert. Finally I checked spelling and readability and altered any mistakes, I also made "Wilson" from the heading "Megan Wilson" slightly larger to give the page a bit of edge and make it look more professional.

Magazine Update 11

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Today I added the my album cover that I made to my double page spread. I have placed it at the bottom of my article. I have added "Buy Just another lost soul" above the image and then below it I have added the date that it will be released. Around this I have used the same markings as I have for quote so that it links in with the rest of the page and give the page some house style. I have also started to change the layout of my front cover. Now that I have a new image for my front cover I cant start basing my layout around that. I have kept the name of the artist and the quote below it in the same place although I have changed the actual quote. I have then started to add some other stories down one side of the page. I also checked my contents page to make sure everything was perfect on it so that all I have to do before the deadline tomorrow is the finishing touches to my font cover and double page spread.

Completing my Contents Page

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Today I filled in the two missing gaps on my contents page with an image from each of my contents page photo shoots. I also added the captions to go underneath the images. Finally I rearranged the stories and images so that there was variation across the page and I didn't have too many similar pictures next to each other. I then double checked everything on my contents page to make sure there was no spelling mistakes and that everything was in the right place so that I then knew this page was finished and I could focus on my other two pages during the next few days ready for my deadline on Wednesday.

Album Cover

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Today I created the album cover for my main artist to go on my double page spread. I used one of the photos I took in my photo shoot the other day which I decided I wasn't going to use on my front cover as I thought it was more suitable for the album cover. I created it in Photoshop, I opened the image and cropped it down to an album case size. I then added text of the name of her album. I placed half of the name above her head and the rest below. I also added her name in a different a slightly smaller font to her title. Then it was just making finishing touches of the colour of the writing and the font I wanted to use. Here is what the final album cover looks like:

Photoshoot Edits

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So today I edited the photos I took yesterday of my main model. Here are the images before and after with a little description of what I did to each image to improve it.

                     Before                                                                                                    After

 For this image I only changed elements of her face. I used the burn tool to darken her eyebrows and eyelashes and I used the dodge tool to brighten her eyes. Then I air brushed her skin and used the spot healing brush to get rid of any other imperfections.













For this image I again mainly focused on the facial features and used the dodge and burn tool. I again air brushed the face and spot healed it. Finally I adjusted the saturation very slightly to make her hair a bit brighter.















For this image I again air brushed her face and used the healing tool to get rid of any spots. I also used the dodge and burn tool again just to add emphasis to her eyes and eye brows. I also changed the hue and saturation slightly to make the colours of the image more vibrant.











For this image I edited the face the same as every other previous picture and then I adjusted the hue and saturation levels slightly. I also tried to blur out the background slightly so the attention was mainly on her although it didn't work as well as I had hoped.













For this image I edited her face the same as the other photos and then adjusted the hue and saturation to make her hair a richer colour. Finally i adjusted the skin tone as she looked really light this changed the tans and browns in the image to make the contrast between her face and the rest of the image less noticeable.

Main Photoshoot 2

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Today I was taking pictures of my main model Megan. I needed to retake the photo for my front over and I have also had the idea of making an album cover to put onto my double page spread so I also needed a picture for that. I mainly took close up pictures face on or at a slight angle. I took a few mid shots at an angle just so I had a variation of shots to choose from. I want to photo shop some of my favourite pictures before I show them to you so I will be posting them soon.

Final Contents Page Photo shoot

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Today I took some more pictures for my contents page to fill the last space left. I again wanted to take them on location but this time I had a group of three boys, as I didn't have any group photos apart from the one of the two girls. Since I wanted a location different from any of my other photos it seemed logical to go somewhere I hadn't been before to take pictures so I went down to the beach with my models and took some pictures along the promenade and even some on the beach and rocks. Here of some of the photos I took:

Contents Page Photoshoot 2

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Today I took some more pictures for my contents page as I needed two more photos to fill the space I had left. I needed these photos to be on location so I had some more varied photos than just the ones I took in the photo studio. I also knew I needed my model to be in a different position to the photos I already have, to once again give variation, so I tried to stay clear from taking any close ups or long shots. I had the idea of having him sitting down with his guitar. Here are some of my favourite photos:

Photo shoot Thoughts

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Today I thought about what I want the setting behind my model and what pose I want my model to be in so I am ready for the photo shoot with my model tomorrow.

Photo Shoot Organisation

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Today I arranged when I am going to meet my model and where I am going to meet him, ready for my photo shoot in the next couple of days.

Front Cover Update

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Today I thought I'd show you all the progress of my front cover. Unfortunately I haven't changed much to it since the rough cut mainly because I need to take a new photo for it and I don't know what the layout of my new photo is going to be so I don't know how to arrange the stories around it yet. So what I have done is used the photo I have for now and added another story to the other side of the page so that I still have the stories to use when it comes to changing the payout when I get my new photo. I have also added a price just above the bar code

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Magazine Update 10

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So today, again I didn't do much on my project apart from printing out my pages as they currently are and reading through my double page spread article to check for any spelling, punctuation or grammar mistakes. I also checked over my other two pages for any mistakes and noted them down on the page so I knew what to change when I next go to edit my project.

Double Page Spread Update

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Today I thought I'd share with you all the progress I have made on my double page spread. Now that I've had feedback and a week so far to make improvements I have made several changed to my page. I have changed the title of my double page spread so that it links in with the name of her album, I also made the word Megan stand out by making it white and giving it a red border. I have also added a quote in to the text to break it up and added lines to create corners to separate the quote from the text and make it stand out. I have also made all the columns of text start at the same place and added a subheading above it. I have also created a space at the bottom of my article for the album cover I want to create for the artist.

Magazine Update 9

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I didn't do much on my project today but I did look over my project and decide on what I wanted to improve or add to my pages and made a note of these decisions. I decided when and where I was going to take my new pictures for my front cover, who I was going to use to be the models for my contents page to fill in the missing gaps, and again decided when I was going to take those potos and where I was going to take them.

Contents Page Update and Preview

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Today I focused some more on my contents page. I improved my "plus" column but adding a "+" before and after the word and then putting it in a box. Next I added a few more stories to the column and made the subheadings slightly larger and bolder than the rest of the text so it stands out. Then I added numbers next to each story and made them the same colour as the other page numbers and the same font. I put each number in there own frame so I could place them along side the frame with my writing in so that the numbers stood out from the text. Until I have two more pictures to fill in the space left I cant do much more to this page so here's what it looks like so far.

Update

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So the next two weeks are the Easter holidays and I have a lot of other work to do which means I wont be working on my magazine everyday so I wont be posting everyday but I will still make sure to keep you all up to date with the progress of my magazine every couple of days.

Magazine Update 8

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Today I decided I would re-Photoshop some of my images. Since I didn't have a great deal of time until my rough cut I put a few of my images into my pages without photo shopping them, but now I have a bit more time I decided to edit those images. I edited a few images on my contents page and altered a few things on my double page spread Image.

Magazine Update 7

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Today I just made little changes to every one of my pages such as editing colours or fonts and making sure things where in the exact place I wanted them. The main thing I did today apart from tweaking little things was thinking of a new title for my double page spread as the one I had was too simple. Once I had finally thought of one I then changed the font and style until it fitted perfectly to the page.