Thursday, 2 March 2017
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Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Evaluation- Question 1
This is my presentation of question 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Evaluation- Question 2
This is my presentation of question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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Evaluation- Question 3
This is my presentation for the question 3-What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Evaluation- Question 4
This is my presentation for question 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?
Evaluation- Question 5
This is my presentation for question 5-How did you attract/address your audience?
Evaluation- Question 6
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evaluation on Question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process
of constructing this product?
The three products I have used to construct my product are: Photoshop, indesign and a digital camera.
Initially, to create my magazine front cover, I used adobe Photoshop
and for my double page spread and contents page used indesign. To be able to
take my images for my product, I used a digital camera
called DSLR this will allow me to get the highest resolution of photographs to
use in my magazine. The three products I have used to construct my product are: Photoshop, indesign and a digital camera.
In addition, using Photoshop for my magazine front cover, as a result before I started this project I was aware of the basic usage of Photoshop , however using this more in-depth I have learnt how to add effects to my images and make the text appear more bolder. This allowed my masthead and main image to stand out. I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out my image and eliminate the wall background behind the artist in the image and then merged them onto my magazine front cover layout. I then used the polygonal lasso tool as a blur effect for the edges to fade some parts of the image for example my artists hair.
Furthermore, I used indesign to produce my contents page and double page spread, this was the first time I have ever used this platform to create a product. I have learnt many techniques about indesign; especially how to place images and import text from a word document onto the three columned layout. These columns helped a lot with the layout structure to become perfected as they acted as a guideline, also t would need to be very similar to an already produced contents page. With the double page spread it had two columns split; this also follows the conventions of a music magazine. As a result indesign was the best platform to fabricate these products.
Moreover, to take my images throughout all my final products
I used a digital camera; this helped me make each aspect of my project better
containing many unique images. I previously have knowledge of how to use a
camera which made it easy to follow the instructions; as I learnt how to zoom
into taking a picture and record. However, the only problem I faced was trying
to get the best quality picture in order to make it look professional as
possible.
Evaluation- Question 7
This is my presentation of Question 7-Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Questionnaire Analysis
In today's lesson I asked a few questions from my audience feedback questionnaire.
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Double page spread image
In today's lesson, i uploaded my double page spread photograph for my final product.
Content page images
In today's lesson I uploaded the pictures that are on my contents page as the final product i will use.
Front cover image
In today's lesson I uploaded my front cover image that i will be using for my final product of my magazine
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Step by step process of double page spread
In today's lesson I have taken screenshots of my double page spread.
Step by step process of my magazine front cover
In today's lesson I took screenshots of my magazine front cover.
Article for double page spread
High Tyde: A whirlpool of gigs!
I
interviewed the new and upcoming band High Tyde; they are a British indie pop
band originating from Brighton, England Before forming as a band, they had been
friends for awhile. They would all go to their local skate-park to skate and
chat with each other.[2] Louis and
Spencer were originally in a band together.[3] Then Cody
joined during their first band practiced. They become aware of that they would
need another guitar in the band, so that led Connor to be in the band too. Then the band High Tyde was formed in 2012. The band consists of Cody Thomas
which he is the vocals, Connor Cheetham on guitar, Spencer Tobias-Williams also
on guitar and lastly Louis Semlekan-Faith who is the drummer. The ages in this
band range from 18-19; the sound that this band captures is Inspiration from: Two
Door Cinema Club. I got an exclusive interview with the lead singer of this
uprising band: Cody Thomas
How did the band meet?
We meet
through mutual friends at a local skate park, we all went to a bar one day and
started to talk about music had a jam the next day and we couldn’t stop jamming
ever since. “We’ve been going for 5 years now since 2011.
When did you become fascinated in
music?
My dad
bought me a guitar when I was like 7 years old, so then on I realised I had a
passion to at least be involved in music.
Do you have any hobbies you do
besides singing?
I like to
skateboard every now and then with the other members of the band, this hobby is
what brought us together so we tend to continue making a trip down to any skate
parks on this tour.
Have you always wanted to be a
musician?
I don’t know
because you don’t really remember what you wanted to be when you were younger,
I guess I wanted to be a spaceman or some shit, but yeah from what I am aware
of I’ve wanted to be a musician or an icon.
Why did you decide to make indie pop
music?
Because Two
Door Cinema Club’s released an album called tourist history and it kinda took
me back a bit I was like I wanna make an album like that in the future so I did.
What was the first song you’ve
performed in a huge crowd?
Music that
is not our own we performed play that funky music when I was younger in our
local venue, which we went back and headlined at, to perform this EP. The first time we performed one of our
songs was call it; which was in early 2012 at a little bar in Brighton which I
think is shut down now actually.
What’s the biggest festival you have
been involved?
We did
reading in Leeds recently which was insane, but the first European festival we
did was in Valencia which was wicked, I’ve never been there before and was told
that you can’t wear jeans, biggest regret of my life!
When did you release your first EP?
Our official
first ep which was fuzz was released in early 2015, but we released a single in
end of 2014.
Do you guys have any exciting plans
coming up for your fans and where do you see yourselves in 5 years’ time?
Interview for double page spread
In today's lesson I have uploaded a video recording the interview for my double page spread article, this interview was with the lead band singer of High Tyde: Cody Thomas.
Sketch of double page spread
In today's lesson i sketched my double page spread and took a photograph of it to post on my blog.
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