Production of Products

Front Cover

This shows me cutting out my picture of Zoe, using the 'lasso' tool for  a better effect

This was the beginning of my front cover, as I was adding my headings and experimenting with different layouts.  

Moving the text around to try and make them fit better on the page

Contents Page!

Putting all of my text into Quark and experimenting with different picture positions

I had added more pictures ad experimented with different layouts. I had also introduced a colour scheme onto the  contents page

As you can see, my contents page had changed still to create  my final version

  Double page Spread

My double page spread has changed a lot, origionally I had four pages

Publication Plan

Publication Plan

Title:  EXPLOSION! (Berlin sans FB)

Frequency of publications:  Weekly.

Price:  £2.99

Distribution:  news agents &  super markets

Rationale: The magazine will include current information on pop music, charts and singers and bands, with focus on what the fans want to see.

Style: It will very much have a fun style to it. It will be happy, exciting and be focused on the biggest stars in pop. Explosion will be an informal magazine.

REGULAR CONTENT·        Editors letter

  Reviews

Quick Questions

Confessions of a pop star

Sinlges Chart

Download Chart

Song Review

Ooft

Concert reviews

FEATURE CONTENT

NEW kid on the block
We talk to Zoe Aldcroft about her rising stardom
Jesse J pops in for a chin wag
All about life in the spotlight and the drama of fame
Britney’s Back!
We look back at her turbulent career and her plans for a comeback!
JL... YES
TheJLS boys come in, looking hotter than ever. We may have took a lot of pictures...
 Bringing Baby Back!
P!nk talks about her new album, dedicated and influenced by her daughter  Willow— Hannah Montana is over       But what will you miss the most?
EXPLOSION! gets GLEEFUL
we go on the road with glee live, and give you an exclusive look at the concert!
Beyonce’s Break
As the woman who never stops takes a well deserved break top prepare for motherhood, we look at what she’s planning to do with her time off
  Cheeky Chaps!
The One Direction boys answer your questions – we have our  earplugs ready                                             
A look at Westlife’s career As the band announce there split, we see why westlife will be dearly missed
All the latest on the x factor house
 New Girlband ‘paradise’ discuss their debut single, perfume’’
 ‘The Wanted’ on being late, boozy nights and buying music
 Ashley Tisdale about her album ‘guilty pleasure’ and what her guilty pleasures are!
 The cast of the only way is essex on what songs they want to record next
Seleena Gomez on having the words most famous boyfriend and what influences her music
 Taylor Swift talks all about her ‘speak now’ tour and what she has planned for her fourth album!
 Gwen Stefani on juggling makibng her her new album and being a mu

House style

Coverlines : Berlin Sans FB

Headlines: Arial

Standfirst: Arial Rounded MT bold

Body text: Arial 11.5pt

Colour scheme: pink, white and orange.

Article Research

There are lots of things that are available that wioll help me gather information for my double page spread, for example, they have there own website, and here are some screen shots:

There is also lots of merchandise available, like this:

After just three episodes of their second season, the cast of Glee had smashed one of the Beatles' most enduring musical records, chalking up the most top 100 US hits by a non-solo act. At that time, the fictional high-school glee club had amassed 75 top 100 singles, trouncing the Beatles' record of 71. The Glee cast had sold an impressive 2.8m albums and 11.5m downloads, according to sales source Nielsen Soundscan. Paul McCartney has even expressed interest in making a cameo, and that was a season ago. The glee club have had well over 100 singles and have sold millions more from when they were at the start of season two, and have had dozens of albums that range from being songs from particular episodes, to themed albums, to albums dedicated to a certain character. Even there opposing glee club, the warblers, have had a few albums! And they show no signs of stopping. 

AS well as albums, singles, box sets, bed sheets, stationary, jewellery, and a tour there have been many books written about the glee club, such as:

For my concert review I want it to look similar to this:

Results and conclusions

After carrying out my target audience Research, this is the conclusions I drew from the resultsQuestionaire results powerpoint

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Target Audience Research (continued)

Voice recorded footage of me asking someone the questionnaire questions:

 

Target Audience Research

Before I could create my magazine, I had to conduct some research into my target audience to make sure that what I made was appropriate for them.


Audience research video footage of me asking someone the questions about pop music and pop magazines.

MEDIA PACKS

We love pop



Top of the pops:

Researching the market place and Initial plans (task 2&3)

Today we had to think about the market place, were our magazines would be sold if we were to put it into shops, and what competitors our magazine may have. I looked at some pop magazines, and this is what I found:


Researching the Market place


‘Top of the pops’ and ‘we love pop’ are two magazines that are similar to the magazine I wish to create. They have the same genre and would include similar artists and feature articles as my magazine.


  ‘Top of the pops’ is a magazine that has been going for a long time, and is fully established. It retails at a price of £2.99 and is usually published every 3 – 4 weeks. Every issue has about the same number of pages, with an average of 64 pages. The magazine does not have solid regular content, although usually included in the magazine are horoscopes, quizzes, competitions, agony aunt pages and ‘oops’ pages where celebrities share embarrassing stories. The feature articles for this particular issue is ‘my Dog was trampled to death by cows’ ‘booboo Stewart spills all on the new twilight movie’ ‘The one direction lads talk friendship’ ‘one direction and the wanted posters’, all these would be appealing to the audience because they are artists that the target audience like and because the magazine is aimed at teenage girls, I think that having boy bands on the magazine would attract them to read it.


The magazine’s website is: http://www.totpmag.com/


The next magazine I will look at is ‘we love pop’. This is a monthly magazine and also retails at £2.99. Each issue has around 65 pages. Again there is not a lot of regular content but there is a ‘1d page’, which focuses on the band one direction and is shown every month, there is also an ‘omg’ page where people share there embarrassing stories, and there is also an ‘agony uncle’ page where john and Edward grimes offer advice and answer peoples questions. There are lots of different feature articles such as interviews with Tulsa from n-dubz, an interview with Lea Michelle and Dianna Agron from glee as well as lots of CD reviews.


The magazine’s website is: http://www.welovepopmag.co.uk/


Initial plans for my magazine:


I have decided that I will retail my magazine at £2.99 because this is a very common price and seems reasonable. My magazine will have about 65 pages (you will be able to tell this from the contents) it will also be a monthly magazine like the two above.

Analysis of professional Double Page Spread

Today, we had to analyse professional double page spread articles, to help us when we come to create our own, here is what I found:

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Analysis of professional contents pages

In todays lesson, we learnt about codes and conventions of contents pages from real life proffesional magazines, and we made a video talking about the codes and conventions from two magazine contents pages of our chosen genre.

Analysis of professional Front Covers

We were asked to analyse professional front covers of our genre, and these are my findings:

Front cover analysis on Prezi

Preliminary Task Evaluation

This is my evaluation of how I feel the whole preliminary task has gone:

Hannah Thomson AS Media on Prezi

Quark Express production process and final school contents page

I created my contents page using a new software, Quark Express, this is how i developed my contents page and what my final contents page looked like:


Contents page production


This is my contents page :

Stage One:

In Quark express I created my contents page, I started of with just an image of my front cover and the title 'contents page'

Stage Two:

This is my contents page after I had added my three images. I decided to use these particular images because they related to the articles and could make the article headings anchorage text

Stage Three:

I have added some of my feature article headings and page numbers

Stage Four:

I have added some more feature article headings here. To create my finished contents page I added my Regular content



Photoshop production process and final school front cover

Over the last two lessons, we developed our Photoshop front covers, this is how i developed mine and what my final piece looked like:


Preliminary Task Six - Final Front Cover

This is my final front cover:

Here is a step by step of how I created my front cover:

Phase one:

I started of with a blank page in Adobe Photoshop

Phase Two:

I added my front cover first, and chose my colour scheme of purple and yellow as I wanted the magazine to have a happy feel as students are happy at Weatherhead

Phase Three:

I then added my Main image and cropped it, deleting the background and just leaving the two presenters and Ice Radio Presenter Headphones to show where they are because i knew that this would link to my main coverline. I also added a barcode and issue date and number because I knew I would be using them and where they would be positioned as this is typical of Magazines

Phase Four:

This shows the majority of coverlines on the page, although not in the final postition. I added some more coverlines and moved them round a bit more before ending up with the finished product

Pre Lim task five- photographs for designs

In today's lesson we had to get all of our pictures for our school magazine, and think about what angles we wanted to use and why and make sure that all the pictures we needed were taken


Preliminary Task Five - Pictures For My Magazine

These are the pictures that I have taken for my school magazine. I will state weather I am going to use them or not, and provide explanation

This is a picture that I took of some books in the libary for my 'All New Libary Books' article. I decided not to use this because I felt another picture with more books would be more suitable as I was meant to be conveying that lots of new libary books had been delivered, not just a small selection.

I decided to use this one instead as it seemed more exciting as there was more books and made it look like there was a higher variaty of books

This is a picture I took of a Weatherhead sixth former, and I decided not to use this becuase you could see the side of the vending machine and the notices behind Emily. i felt that the shot was too wide.

I decided to use this one instead as I liked the fact it is a medium shot and the smile connotes that if you are a sixth former you are going to be happy at Weatherhead.

This is a picture of our school nurse, Claire. I have decided to use this picture. although her facial expression is not perfect, I was only able to take one picture of her and I believe that I should use it because it will help anchor the text 'Your Health - Explained'

Here is a picture of two ice radio members. I decided not to use this as I wanted Ice radio to seem fun and exciting and although one of them has a happy expression the other does not, so I re took the photo

Here both the girls are smiling and it gives a positive impression on the reader about what ice radio is like 

Pre Lim task three (contents for school magazine) and Pre Lim task four (sketch of contents page)

Today, we had to think about what we wanted to include in our contents page for our school magazine and what feature and regular content we could include, as well as creating a rough sketch as to what we wanted our contents page to look like


Preliminary task Three and Four - Contents page ideas

Task Three

These are some ideas I wish to include in my contents page

Regular content that will appear in every issue of my magazine:

·         Horoscopes

·         Letter from the head

·         Agony aunt page

·         Leadership! Page

·         Dates for your diary

Ten feature articles that will appear in this issue:

1.       Iris rewards

2.       Lunch time troubles

3.       Meet the sslt

4.       Clubs!

5.       Meet the new ice radio team

6.       Your health – explained

7.       Trips

8.       A day in the life of...  a sixth former

9.       New library books

10.   Modern foreign languages week

Images that I will use on my contents page:

·         Emily Aston (a day in the life of a sixth former)

·         Books (for the article about the new books in the library)

·         A picture of the nurse to show that there is an interview with her in the issue

Task Four

This is a rough sketch of what i want my contents page to look like:

Pre Lim task one (plans for school magazine) and Pre Lim task two (sketch of front cover)

In today's lesson, we had to think about our school magazine we will produce as a preliminary task and what we wanted to include on our front cover, as well as producing a rough sketch of what we want our front cover to look like


Preliminary Task One and Two - Front Cover ideas

     For my preliminary task, I am going to make a school magazine. The title I have chosen for my school magazine is ‘WeatherNews’. I have chosen this title because it fits with the fact that it is a news magazine about the school for students who attend the school. My main image will be taken in the ice radio station and will be of a member of the ice radio team wearing the presenter headphones. This is because one of my feature stories is about the new ice radio team and so it fits in with the cover story. On my front cover I will have six coverlines:

·         IRIS rewards find out all the new iris rewards available – requested by you!

·         Lunch Time Troubles we interview the dinner staff and ask them your questions

·         Meet The SSLT we interview the SSLT & get the low down on what’s hot and what’s not in schools upcoming events!

·         *exclusive* Meet the new ice radio Team!! (this is my anchorage coverline)

·         Clubs we all need some extra curricular fun , so we give you the a-z on clubs!

·         Your health – Explained we catch up with the nurse to see what she has to say

Task Two - sketch of front cover

This is what I hope my front cover will look like when i am finished:

Camera Angles - You've Been Framed Task

In today's lesson, we got set a task in small groups to look at different camera angles. Here are the pictures that my group took:

Camera Angles

A low angle medium close up

A two shot in medium long shot

A very long shot conveying isolation

An extreme close up of time

An over the shoulder shot of someone writing

A high angle long shot

A big close up of someone using a mobile phone

A close up of someone in nature

A medium close up

A long shot

A photograph which has connotations of friendship

A photograph which has connotations of stress