Evaluation- What conventions have you observed with use of imagery?

Each of my images were taken in a particular way to keep all readers interested throughout the magazine. For example my main image was taken in a unique way to attract my audience and creating a mode of address. Having a strong photo with a direct address really attracts my target audience to my magazine.

None of my photographs really portray a particular stereo type, meaning my magazine can attract a wider audience of people to want to buy it. As you can also see by all the photos that I have shown here they differ slightly to the ones present on my magazine. This is because I did a slight manipulation process to each of my photographs so that they looked correct to be on/in my magazine. The lighting and saturation was the only aspect that was changed on the photographs as some were taken with a flash that came out too bright and some were a little bit darker with some shadowing that I wanted to get rid of. 

 

I have thought carefully about how I wanted to images to look on each of the pages and I have shown that I have used a range of different shots. With the use of mid shots, long shots and a close up shot for the producers say.  

I feel all of my images that I have taken follow the conventions from other music magazines. The photos especially fit in with my genre of a pop magazine, as I have though carefully about costumes, make up and lighting. Sticking to mainly studio shots because I wanted the photos to fit in nicely onto my magazine page so that text could fit in around the images.

Evaluation- You should also reflect on the importance of design drafting and how the final outcome related to the draft layout in each case

designing drafting- final outcomes

Evaluation- What conventions have you observed in terms of Mode of address and use of imagery?

Each of my images were taken in a particular way to keep all readers interested throughout the magazine. For example my main image was taken in a unique way to attract my audience and creating a mode of address by the way I have stood my model and used her arms to create a particular look with a direct address to my target audience.

I used the same idea when taking my other photos that are inside my magazine to make sure I was keeping my audience interested throughout the time they were reading my magazine.

I made sure that I was using a range of different shot types within my magazine because I wanted show that I could follow conventions from other music magazines. 

All these images that are shown were taken using a DSLR camera where the photos were then uploaded onto photoshop so that they could be easily manipulated and edited to fit the genre of my magazine. Although I did not make many major edits to my photographs I needed to change the lighting, contrast and saturation settings so that each of my models looked the right colour to be on each of the individual pages.

All of my images have direct address to keep the reader interested when they are looking through all the pictures inside of my magazine. I think if I had to design more pages for my magazine I would have included pictures that didn't all have a direct address as it would have been more appropriate.

Evaluation- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

 

  

Looking at other pop music magazines in the research stage I figured out that many institutions are likely to distribute my magazine. It doesn't necessarily mean that because I have created a music magazine that it would need to be distributed by a specific media institution.
Having a look in lots of different supermarkets e.g. Asda, Sainsburys, Co-Operative, Tesco etc. I found that all these supermarkets held a large amounts of magazines from music magazines to gossip magazines, which are likely to be one of the institutions that my music magazine could be distributed by.

Other institutions similar to supermarkets would be smaller shops e.g. in a town centre or a local corner shop. WHSmiths is another major distributor for my music magazine as they get a lot of attraction from customers for books and magazines and aim to target a much wider audience each year.  Although my target age group of 16-25 year olds may not be attracted to a shop like this.

A music store is another institution that will distribute my media product as they will be attracting many music artists for album's etc. This is likely to create a wider target audience for music magazines as a range of music fans will be in shops like HMV.

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

MEDIA EVALUATION

Production Of Contents Page Continued...

I have finished producing my contents page for my Pop music magazine. Once again I have used Photoshop to create this as I found it easier to align my text and images so that my contents page looked like it would feature in a Pop music magazine that is currently on the market.

As I have already shown parts of magazine which I have had my inspiration in my last blog post I am now showing the production stage of my contents page.

I have included a presentation of slides with some print screens of the production of my contents page, showing the different stages of the making.

production of Contents Page

Production Of Contents Page

My inspiration for my contents page has come from a couple of magazines that are already on the market as I couldn't find one that I liked and one that I could easily match my magazine to the conventions of my pop music magazine. Although I have chosen pop as my genre I did not want to follow a pop magazine like, Top Of The Pops, as I knew that this is likely to be aimed more towards girls with the colour schemes etc. and would not fit the design of my front cover and my double page spread which has been produced.

I am going to use my logo that I have created to feature inside of my contents page as I thought it would be good to have the website and subscription prices next to it so that people will look at the logo and relate it straight to the Body Of Music magazine.

This was some inspiration for the bottom of the page inside of my double page spread as I had a free space that needed to be filled.

The way that the images have been presented inside of Kerrang magazine has influenced the way that I have set my pictures out. By keeping them all straight with a black line around the outside to define the photograph so it makes it much easier for the reader to look at.

I have kept my writing in columbs which has come from most magazines that I have analysed that are already on the market. Most genres keep it simple with the text in columns and that is how I have decided to present the writing on my contents page.

My producers say was an idea that i really liked, therfore I have taken a photograph of myself to show the magazine has been produced by me and written a little paragraph in the top left hand corner of the contents page. This was something that I have seen in many of the magazines that I have already looked at.