Lookingbackatyourpreliminarytask,whatdoyoufeelyouhavelearntintheprogressionfromittothefull

product?

Fonts

On my music magazine, I downloaded a font from www.dafont.com called OptimusPrinceps. This gives me more choice on an appropriate font to suit my target audience.

I used a font called ‘’ which was already on publisher for my college magazine. This limits my choice to suit my target audience.

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Colour Scheme

My fonts matched on my music magazine as I could use the ‘eye dropper’ tool on Photoshop which allowed me to select colours I had already used. This allowed me to create a organised colour scheme to help keep my magazine looking professional

Due to not going through planning stages for my college magazine, I didn’t have a colour scheme to suit my audience. Therefore colours used were very bland and mix matched.

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Layout

Due to using photshop for my music magazine, i used the ruler feature which allowed me to move my content so that it was aligned to create a more professional look for a top selling magazine.

On my college magazine I didn’t use rulers and therefore my text and pictures were placed wherever. This meant my content didn't align and it makes the magazine look very sloppy and unprofessional.

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Photography

I decided to include a variation of studio and live based images in my music magazine. I learnt that from my college magazine just having the one image made the magazine look plain and would not appeal to my audience.

I didn’t have much variation of images in my college magazine. I just had one main image and that was it. This would not attract my target audience as from market research, I found that my audience likes more pictures than text.

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Writing Style

I created a first draft of my article to make sure I corrected any errors or inconsistencies in my writing style. I also chose words to suit my audience such as ‘’ which would connect to my target market in order for them to purchase my magazine.

When writing for my college magazine, I just wrote my text without any thought for my audience.

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Overall i think there is a clear positive progression from my preliminary task to my actual task. There was no planning or audience research in any areas of my college magazine. Therefore my magazine couldn’t fulfil its full potential due to I didnt know what my actual audience wanted. However my music magazine was a lot more successful due to researching, planning and using more advanced production stages, such as photoshop rather than publisher.

ResearchI used both audience and market research in order for my to develop my music magazine. For my audience research i created a survey on www.surveymonkey.com which i posted on social networking website, facebook. Once i had received 20 responses I closed the survey and analysed my results. It gave me a clear idea of what I needed to include in my magazine such as music magazines are only bought when ‘one catches their eye.’ It also gave me primary knowledge on what to include in my magazine such as gig reviews, interviews and competitions. For my market research I received media packs from established indie/rock based music magazines. I analysed these to discover a gap in the market for my mainly indie based magazine for teenagers with a love for live music.

PlanningI first of all created a pitch to create a profile on what i plan for my magazine to be like. I kept referring back to my pitch during the production stage as i felt i needed to stick to my pitch which was based around my research.I also made a style sheet. This allowed me to show example images, text and colour schemes i was proposing this use. This helped me decide which would be suitable for my audience rather than just choosing random ones, like in my preliminary task.

PlanningI then made flat plan designs. This gave me a chance to experiment with different possible designs i could use when creating my actual magazine. This allowed me to see what would work with my draft content and what wouldn’t.

I then created photography plans and a contact sheet. Creating these helped me think about how i should actually take my images and then once i had taken then, choosing the best suited ones.

Planning

Planning

I also made a more complex flat plan DPS with my proposed article draft. This allowed me to think

more about what sort of words to include to suit my target audience

Production

• Image manipulation - adding different shadows around images to make a photobooth effect and make them stand out on my DPS

• Text manipulation - adding a drop shadow onto a ordinary title

in order to create an effect that stands out against a busy image