28/9/16



In this lesson I will hopefully finish and upload my Competition and Generic Conventions and Facial Expressions.


By the end of the lesson I uploaded my Competition and I nearly finished my Generic Conventions. For my homework I will upload my Generic Conventions and Facial Expressions.

Competition

This helped me identify what my competition is from other magazines and what they use in their magazines. I will use this when I am making my magazine so I know what I need to use in my magazine to stand out from the others. For example I will make it cheaper than the other magazines so more people will buy it.

Institution Research

Institution research from Francesca Foston 

This helped me find out what different companies make magazines and what magazines they make. This helped me pick which company I would print my magazine with, which would be IPC Media because they don't have a music magazine so it would be new for them and I would have no competition. 

26/9/16

 In this lesson I will hopefully upload my Pinterest mood boards to my blog as well as writing about research of companies. i all also hopefully write about my competition and generic conventions.

In this lesson I uploaded my Pinterest mood boards and i researched some magazine companies.

Costume, Hair and Make Up

This helped me understand what type of hair, makeup and clothes are popular in the alternative music genre so it helped me figure out what I'd have my model look like for the photographs. I will have them wearing dark clothing and a messed up hair style.

Colour Schemes

This helped me understand what types of colour schemes are out there and what types would be suitable for my magazine. I chose that I will use dark colours such as black and burgundy for the colours in my magazine but bright colours to help certain things stand out.

Fonts

This helped me understand what fonts are popular in magazines and what other types of fonts I would like for my magazine. The font style that I would like to use for my magazine would be a bold font as it could help the magazine stand out and it links with the alternative music as people who listen to that are bold and stand out.

Mastheads

21/9/16

In todays lesson I will carry on doing my class deconstructions.

At the end of this lesson I finished writing my class deconstructions, two for contents page, front cover and double page spread. I also uploaded them to my blog.

Deconstructions

Class deconstructions 1 from Francesca Foston

Proposal Table

As Proposal Form

19/9/16 


In todays lesson I will learn key word and hopefully start my class deconstruction.


at the end of the lesson I had written down key words for the front cover, contents page and the double page. I also started my class deconstruction and I will finish next lesson.

Survay

This is my survey that I created to find out about my audience.
 https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/52SM7G2
It helps me understand what type of people read magazines and what type of people read alternative magazines and how they like their magazine set out. This will help me create a magazine aimed to what people like.

Language features in a magazine

Laguage features in magazines from Francesca Foston

14/9/16


In this lesson I will write and learn about language and register and i will hopefully start an article draft.

At the end of the lesson I made a powerpoint presentation about language ad register for example formal and informal language and alliteration and the use of it on magazine. I chose a magazine and a article and wrote about the use of language and register in this magazine. I also started the article draft that I will be doing for homework.

Magazine collage

Mood board inspiration

Fran mood board from Francesca Foston

Briefs 
When centres choose briefs to offer to candidates, they should be guided by their strengths in terms of resources and expertise. Centres should also bear in mind the key areas: forms and conventions, production contexts, the role of technologies, audiences/users and representations. 
The set briefs are as follows: 
Print 
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. 
Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. 
~ All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOURimages per candidate. ~

Welcome

Hi, welcome to my AS Media blog where I will be posting my work from the course. Enjoy!

12/9/16


In this Media lesson I will make a moldboard of ideas for the type of genre my magazine will be and I will also write my proposal table.

At the end of this Media lesson I made a moldboard that had pictures and explanations as to why I chose them for the genre of my magazine, the genre being alternative. I also wrote my proposal table and put all of my ideas that I am going to include on in my magazine on it. For example the genre of music and what is associated with it and also thing that I will include and not include on it.

7/9/16 


In this lesson I will set up my blog and start to write posts for it such as the introduction and briefs.


By the end of the lesson I created my blog and changed the background and colours as well as writing the introduction and briefs.