Final Product - Double Page Spread of Music Magazine

Double Page Spread final Design -

Here is the final design of my Double Page spread design for my music magazine.

Final Product - Contents of Music Magazined

Contents Page Final design -

Here is the final design of my contents page for my music magazine.

Final Product - Front Cover of Music Magazine

 Front Cover Music Magazine -

Here is my finished design for my music magazine front cover.

Pre-Liminary Task : Contents Page

This is my contents page design for the Pre-Liminary task.

Pre-Liminary Task : Front Cover

This is my pre-liminary task's front cover.

Evaluation 7

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

My pre-liminary task was influence by general conventions of magazines, since I took Media at GCSE I already had learnt a few different techniques, though I knew this was no where near standard I still tried to put some inventive ideas to use.

I had used the badge with the title as a regular convention as the masthead. And tried to use a nice tagline to catch people attention.

there is a hugely notable difference between my preliminary task and the work that I have made for my Final Coursework piece. I've used a main masthead and a lot more subheadings and taglines to draw in peoples attention. The colour scheme is much more vibrant with a nice ranged colour scheme.

You can see a huge difference in positioning and text placement, this is very similar to my style model of EDM magazine, it presents well my learning curve and ideas.

My masthead is more developed and you can see usage of a lot more regular magazine conventions such as a barcode, dates, and Taglines.

 Though I only got as far as draft work for my pre-liminary, I felt that I made use of placement and regular formal conventions such as phone number and adress. I have also kept the masthead style of the cover.

• In my full magazine contents you can see a much wider and interesting use of conventions. 
• I kept the use of social interaction by providing websites and adresses.
• I added a lot more colour and variation and made sure to provide more images to show content.
• I made sure my writing was placed at easy background spots with nice colours and text size.

Overall I think I have progressed massively in the ideas of magazine conventions and developing a product for my target audience.

Evaluation 6

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

Throughout this process I have used a lot of different pieces of technology to complete all set tasks. a lot of the technology and software I already knew how to use but I learned how to use it more to my advantage. The apple mac computer seen to the right is mostly what I completed a lot of my work on, though there were a few tasks which I decided to complete at home.

The camera to the left is what I used to take both sets of shots for my front cover, over the process of taking these photos I learnt a lot more than I expected. I learnt after my first batch of photos of my first model that they needed to be redone following the simple rule of thirds method and taking note of style models shots. Then in my second batch of photos decided to use a tri-pod and a few more lighting changes (some on camera, some natural) to emphasise the photographs.

 here you can see a screenshot of some of the work I've been producing in photoshop, I already had a very wide knowledge of photoshop since CGI has been a hobby of mine, however I learnt more of  the quick fix techniques and presentation effects that you would see used on regular magazine covers.

I learnt how to use the advanced gradients tool within selections. I learnt how to change the saturation and contrast on my photos to give them a more appealing tone. I also learnt how to use a Skew Motion Blur.
On top of this I learnt how to create groupings to keep my layers in my photoshop files organized and how to crossfade opacities on layers.

     

I used different forms of social networking to gain audience response and to keep continuos updates on my work and research as a developer. I used Facebook because it allowed me to gain specific audience feedback and target my product to the right kind of people. I use blogger to post my research and work, along with other presentation tools such as www.Prezi.com and youtube to present my

Podcasts.