Final Music Magazine

This is my Final Music Magazine about Hip-Hop/Rap genre.

Final Magazine Evaluation

This is my Music Magazine Evaluation answering all 7 questions about the selected genre.

Final Production Log

This is the Final Production Log where I recapped everything I have done since when I started his G321 Unit 1 coursework. I have given smal descriptions of each posts to make it simple to understand.

Audience Feedback

This is an audience feedback from Simon Cheshire who came across my music magazine, explaining the positive and the negative aspects of my media product. This is an audience feedback from Thivyan Kowridas who came across my music magazine, explaining the positive and the negative aspects of my media product.

Production Log #25

Even though my music magazine was up to standard, I wanted to make it better by makingnew changes like: changing the front cover image to my model who is wearing a black suit to represent the successfulness of his career in his music industry; changing the font of the masthead to make it look professional and bold; changing few feature artists images in my contents page to attract a wider audience and filling up the blank spaces in my main article so that it looks busy and attractive.

Q2 – How does your media product represent a particular social group?

Q4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Production Log #24

At home, I started doing my audience profile using Prezi, to make my presentation interesting. I used the featured artist of my music magazine and one of my friend to give examples on how much they spend for music magazines and items related to music and their interest in their specific artists. Next time, I am going to do my proposal feedback and my magazine feedback.

Audience Profile

This is my audience profile which explains the interest my target audiences are into and also, explains how much they spend on music magazines and the other things related to music.

Production Log #23

Drafts

Drafts

This is the drafts of my music magazine, it shows exactly what I have been doing in order to design and complete a music magazine.

Cover Lines

Contents Ideas

In this PowerPoint, I have covered the main bits that i would be needing in my music magazine in order to encourage the readers to read and buy my magazine and also to make my music magazine look as professional as my competitors. I have included the contents page ideas, the social media sites , subscription and the reviews.

Model Release

Production Log #22 - Music Magazine

It was a day where we received the feedback from our Media teacher Mr Robsons and in my double lesson, I began to improve the contents page as it had the most negativity then any other pages in the music magazine. I realized that I did not have a front cover for the featured article so I started it by using the same file, add a new page and choose a suitable photo to fulfill the whole two pages. Before the end of the double lesson, I began to put a rough idea on what I need to improve on in order to amaze my teacher.

Props/Costume Ideas

This is a Prezi presentation which explains all of the props and costumers I will be using in my photoshoot in my music magazine and why I decided to use them for my magazine.

Contact Sheet #2

Time Lapse (Behind the Scenes) - Photoshoot

This is my two minutes time lapse which is recorded to show how I took my photoshoots. I recorded this time lapse in my school studio room which contains of every equipments we all need to take a photoshoot. I have used a school camera called 'Canon 550D' which has a high-definition quality. Moreover, to make the photos professional, I used a white and black screen. This is to give an effect on the image itself when it comes to editing.

Chosen Images

Equipment



I will also use Power Point, Word Documents and Prezi's a lot while planning my magazine and I will be using Slideshare a lot too, while embeding documents rom my computer files. Just because I have used these programs before, it made it easier for me to get the tasks done quickly and effectively, instead of wasting the time in trying to find out how to use different tools.

Camera and Lighting:

Photoshoot Lights

For the images for my music magazine, I took my model, Thivyan Kowridas to the media classroom where I can have the photoshoot taken. I used a white screen as this will fully make the model stand out more and will highlight all the colours he is wearing.

I used a Canon 550D SLR for my photoshoot as it captures high-definition and qualified pictures with no blurriness on the face. I wanted the images to be sharp as the magazine will simply not look as professional if the images are not clear enough. I have used a white screen which is very effective because it is clean and simple and just brings all the audiences', audience towards the article who is featured on the front cover of the music magazine. The white screen can be an advantage when it comes to editing as it will be easy to crop out the background when using the pen tool in Adobe Photoshop. The lights enabled me to change the way my images appeared and allowed me to create the best possible image by lightening the face as the audiences will mainly focus on it whenever they see a music magazine. By combining the lights, white screen and the SLR allowed me to create a high-definition image which can make my magazine look professional.

Computer Software:

I am currently using Adobe InDesign to make my music magazine, instead of using Adobe Photoshop as InDesign is a much more accurate and professional editing software twhen it comes to creating a qualified magazine. InDesign enables me to view the document as a magazine and can also use various of different tools such as the master page which quickly and effectively add the same text to all the pages. This is an advatnage because I don't have to spend a lot of time in putting the same thing in every single pages. This makes adding page numbers,websites and social networking links a lot more easier as it prompts to audience to use these links as they will be in every page.


Adobe Photoshop.

Microsoft PowerPoint.

Microsoft Word.



Adobe InDesign.