Production Diary 9

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Production Dairy 8

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Production Diary 7

In this weeks lesson i started to create my magazine on Indesign. On the first image i have my front cover and double page contents page. I have decieded on each pages I am going to have a small banner going across the bottom, to keep a constante house style. On the banners at the bottom of the pages i will advertise my magazines website on the left side and the page number on the right.

 

Production Diary 6

Production Diary 5

This weekend I went down to Camden and Shoreditch to do my photo shoot with Charlotte. I decided to pick these locations because they are unique areas with loads of funky paintings and unique shops. Most of my target audience shop in these places, so if they see this as my location it will attract them into buying my magazine. I took many different images at different angles and styles so I had a wide selection of photographs to choose from. The top image is perfect for my double page contents page because Charlottes facial expressions represents a cheeky confident look; most rock artists are very confident. Her clothing is very dark an punk like with the tartan leather coat. However charlottes hair is very messy and unusual. Most rock/indie artists have messy hair or uncut facial hair. The painting of the girl in the background looks like Charlotte as they have similar hair and eyes.

Production Diary 4

Throughout this weeks media lesson I have been going over my coursework and improving things, such as re doing my audience profile because firstly i only looked at one person. Now I have a perfect male and female that are the target audience for my magazine. I also interviewed my friend Gemma and asked her for her opionion on my proposal and uploaded the short video to Youtube. I started thinking of how I want to layout my magazine and found some magazines that I inspire mine to look like. E.g. NME and Kerrang. I went into Tescos today and had a look at all of the magazines and compared the difference in the fonts and how they portray what age and genre there magzagines are aimed at. For example Top of the pops have a very circle and flowing font. This emphasis that this magazine is aimed at a feminine audience. However rock magazines font is very oversized, bold and edgy. This reinforces that this is mainly aimed at the male audience however, some females will also enjoy reading rock magazines. Yesterday I started to collect images for my mood board, and chose a song that I thought fitted in well with my music genre. I chose a song by the The arctic monkeys because there music varies between indie and rock for each song; I think there music fits in well with the style of my magazine. 

Production Diary 3

Throughout the weekend I was a extra on 'My mad fat diary' It was a fantastic experience because i was behind all of the scenes and saw what it was like to film a TV show and how much work went into it, for example all the make-up,costumes and props all the time put in to the surroundings to make everything perfect. The make-up artists and hair dressers were constantly going around and making sure every ones make-up and hair was all correct for the show. This made me think about my photo shoot and how much time and effort it takes for a successful shoot. I have planed where i want my photo shoot to take place either Camden or Shoreditch. I decided on these locations because the genre of music i am looking at is indie and these to areas are extremely funky and individual. I am going to have to model one boy and one girl, they will be dressed very fashionably but also different and bold. The female models make-up will be very bold and eyecatching, with either dark plum or red lips and dark eye make-up. This is to go in with the theme of my music magazine because it will be black,white and red.

Production Diary 2

For our preliminary task, we were required to create a rough magazine for our school. It was to help us gain knowledge in the Indesign and basics and allowed us to learn new skills; understand the basic tools needed. I decided to keep my magazine quite simple and not too busy. I included all the necessary information such as plugs, headline, main image and cover lines.

The contents page contains all the main stories included in the magazine so that the reader can go straight to them if they wanted to.

If I were to pick something to improve I would definitely add more onto the front cover on the left-hand side. I have noticed there is no bar code so that would fill in the gap that is there.

This was a good starter topic for us to begin with as it wasn't stressful at all and refreshed our memory on how to create simple things using Photoshop. Starting our Music magazine should be much less stressful now and will therefore let us be more imaginative, creative and adventurous with our ideas

Production Diary 1

Today I set up my blog, and started working on my magazine front cover, with the photos we took in lesson.  I also made sure my blog settings were correct and edited all of blog to make it look colourful and welcoming. I looked online for inspiration for my magazine. So now I have a rough idea of what I want my magazine to look at. I have been focusing on the new school canteen for the preliminary task, in groups we went out with a camera and took many different shots of the canteen and the food. For my front cover page I have a photo of me and Rachel with the chef in the canteen smiling. This displays Haydon School is a friendly place and also welcoming it connotes happiness. I have decided to keep a house theme of the colours white, black and navy; these are the colours of the school. I have decided to incorporate the Haydon stag into my magazine as it’s what we associate with the school. My masthead is in a large, bold and bubbly font. What looks happy and child friendly. I’m also starting to analyse magazine front covers. I’m going to pick indie/rock magazines because this is the type of magazine I eventually want to create. I have been thinking about my photo-shoot and where it’s going to be located and what models I am going to use. I reckon I will shoot it in Camden or somewhere very artist and unusual in London because I want my magazine to stand out and be different. I’m still uncertain with what models I am going to use.