17/12/2009

I have now completed my double page spread. I have compressed my double page spread, contents page, front cover and prelim task to JPEG format and put it into the final coursework folder that belongs to our teacher. The images on the right are my music magazine double page spread.

14/12/2009

I have completed my contents page and have now made a start on my double page spread. The image on the right shows my contents page.

10/12/2009

I have started my contents page and will begin my double page spread when that is finished next lesson.

07/12/2009

I have now completed my Music Magazine Front Cover and will make any necessary changes during lesson time. I will now begin to make my double page spread and contents page. The image on the right is my Music Magazine Front Cover.

03/12/2009

I have now started to make my music magazine front cover. I have my pictures, I have my plan now I just need to execute it in Adobe Photoshop.

26/11/2009

Going back to my research on different music magazines, I have been given the task to compare two music magazine brands and investigate their respective websites. I compared them both and made a comment on what their websites feature, how easy it is to navigate, the style of language they use, what it looks like compared to the other brand's magazine, what it looks like compared to the brands own respective magazine, and looked up sales figures over the past two years for both magazines. The image on the right shows you both websites for Mojo and Kerrang, the two brands I decided to observe.

19/11/2009

I had printed out 20 copies of my music magazine questionnaire and have got them filled out by 20 different people from my target audience. I then made a version of this in Excel as it is easier to analyse. I made graphs and charts of my questionnaire results and wrote a paragraph concluding my results for each chart/graph underneath each one. The image on the right contains some of my results summarised in a chart, although there are many more charts but you can't see them.

12/11/2009

My task now is to create a music magazine questionnaire that will be eventually filled out by 20 people from my target audience that I will hand them out to. I will ask questions about my music magazine front cover, asking them features that they will like to see in it and what colours, fonts, images they like to see in it as well.

05/11/2009

I needed to take some pictures of my own creation of a music group for my magazine. I made a photo shoot plan that I will stick to in order to get me organised for my photo shoot. Details included where it would be and how many people I took pictures of. I borrowed a camera for this task from the Media room. My friends volunteered so I got them to meet up at Dartford park, the scene for my photo shoot, and I took plenty of pictures of them all. On the right is an image of a small selection of the photos I took that day.

02/11/2009

I have been given the task to create a music magazine proposal for my main project. This music magazine proposal will include details about what will feature on my front cover and double page spread. Once this was completed I made draft designs for the front cover, double page spread and even the contents page. I done these drafts by hand, using a pencil and paper.

29/10/2009

I have completed my school magazine front cover. The image underneath shows this, hope you like it!

26/10/2009

I have completed making my draft designs for my school magazine's front cover and contents page. I have collated the two A4 documents onto an A3 piece of paper. Now my drafts are done I am going to start designing the front cover. By the end of the lesson I had finished laying out the masthead and image, ready to complete next lesson.

22/10/2009

I borrowed a camera from the media room and set out to take 6 different pictures that will form a short and simple story. I used Tasha, India and Sophie (classmates) as my models and took the pictures. When I got back to class I imported all images off the camera onto to the computer. I then put my six images into a word document and wrote a little sentence under each image telling the story.

15/10/2009

I have completed the double page spread analysis of Kerrang and analysed the front cover (image at the side). Now that it has been completed I am going to start making draft designs for my front cover and contents page for the school magazine.

08/10/2009

I have made two detailed analysis of two different magazine front covers. Firstly I have chosen Mojo to analyse, which from the image at the side you can that I have done that. I have also analysed A kerrang issue, which I also then went on to analyse its respective double page spread.

28/09/2009

During today's lesson we split it into two parts, the first part learning how to use Adobe Photoshop and the second part leaving the room to take pictures for our draft magazine front cover.

Our teacher projected her computer screen onto the whiteboard for all to see and we would be in front of our own screens with Adobe Photoshop open following along. The teacher was teaching us how to open images, crop, clear spots, change colours, add text, view history, undo and some other features. We then played along with random pictures using these tools for practice.

The second part of the lesson we took the cameras out to take pictures for our draft magazine cover. The photos must be of students from the school and have a mid-range shot. I shared the camera with a partner and we took it in turns to take pictures. When we finished we returned to lesson to import our newly taken photos onto the computer in our own individual folders.

21/09/2009

My first task is to make a mind map annotating different magazines. I have chosen 6 different music magazines and made an annotation to each one.