Feedback 23/11/09

A promising start Jack- but you are a little behind the other students - you need to do more work at home on this blog - and try to be more detailed in your posts -

The first genre you should be analysing is music magazines - outline the conventions and then look at covers, contents pages and feature articles and think about the following questions...

- Do they follow typical conventions of music magazines? If not why?

- Who is the target audience (GRASS) and how have they been made to appeal to them?

- Do they successfully make the audience want to read on? ( Cover and contents?)

- why do they work?

In research you need a little more on audience - who is you target audience (Demographic - GRASS and psychographic profiling - Young and Rubicon) Also how will your product appeal to its audience - use MAslow too.

Audience questionnaires are needed - to your target audience - and feedback on this - charts and graphs are always good!

Go onto the ABC website to find out audience/circulation figures for magazines too - is there a market out there for your product?

Now move onto planning this week - ( see the last two sheets on the 'before you blog' handout) Start your mood boards, rough mock up of pages, props list, shooting schedule etc....

The magazine that I am doing is a rock magazine, it will be based around general rock artists, it will most likely have a front cover of a single artist, but there is also a chance of a band, if this is what the target audience would prefer to see. My magazine will include a front cover, of a rock artist, with little side headings showing what the magazine is going to contain, the next page will be a contents page, this will include all of the page numbers with the containing pages. The next page will be from an interview with the artist of my choice. The third page will also include photos from different angles of the model I will be using.

This is my hand drawn contents page, for my preliminary task. Because the contents page is hand drawn, it is hard to show the colours and techniques that would be used on the real contents page. I believe this contents page does it's jobs because it tells you what would be inside the magazine, it also has a nice heading that is similar to the one on the front cover of the magazine.

Preliminary task.

For my Preliminary Task, I created a college magazine. What I like about my magazine cover is that I used a wide range of different colours, from red to pink to black. My background picture is clear yet has a bit of flash showing around the models head, next time I would turn the flash off to avoid the blur. I like the heading because it is different to all of the other headings.

introduction to project.

my name is Jack Wright, and for my media project I will be creating a new music magazine.