Monday 30 September 2013
Sunday 29 September 2013
Saturday 28 September 2013
Preliminary Task Evaluation
I think that the house colours contributed in the magazine are consistent throughout the pages. They are blue, yellow, black and white – the same colours contributed in the Haydon school logo. The colour scheme is simple and does not clash with each other. The objective of the magazine was for it to appeal to everyone’s taste as the school magazine would reach out to all years from a range of social classes.
That is why the masthead is black, simple and bold – it has to be easily readable for the target audience. The font is Arial and in a regular size and the title fonts are of a bigger size, it is easily readable for the readers.
The images provided are reinforced with their titles to make it clear to what they are. The images clearly represent the different cover lines on the front cover and the contents page. For example, the cover line ‘Haydon in the rubble’ is aligned by the image of literally, Haydon in the rubble with tractors surrounding the area of the ruined site. The picture and the cover line are made as interesting as possible for it to capture the reader’s attention in a basic format for the reader to clearly identify the different aspects of what the magazine has to offer.
The layout is basic, you can clearly recognize where everything is. The titles are associated with the images, the main image on the front cover is not overshadowed by sell lines and images – it is visible. The layout is straightforward.
However, I would say that the qualities of the images are not up to high standard due to the fact that I used my phone to snap the pictures for the magazine. If I had used a professional camera, the images would be of high quality. Also, I should have used editing softwares such as Adobe Photoshop for the images to look better.
That is why the masthead is black, simple and bold – it has to be easily readable for the target audience. The font is Arial and in a regular size and the title fonts are of a bigger size, it is easily readable for the readers.
The images provided are reinforced with their titles to make it clear to what they are. The images clearly represent the different cover lines on the front cover and the contents page. For example, the cover line ‘Haydon in the rubble’ is aligned by the image of literally, Haydon in the rubble with tractors surrounding the area of the ruined site. The picture and the cover line are made as interesting as possible for it to capture the reader’s attention in a basic format for the reader to clearly identify the different aspects of what the magazine has to offer.
The layout is basic, you can clearly recognize where everything is. The titles are associated with the images, the main image on the front cover is not overshadowed by sell lines and images – it is visible. The layout is straightforward.
However, I would say that the qualities of the images are not up to high standard due to the fact that I used my phone to snap the pictures for the magazine. If I had used a professional camera, the images would be of high quality. Also, I should have used editing softwares such as Adobe Photoshop for the images to look better.
Friday 27 September 2013
Monday 23 September 2013
Production Diary #2
A few days ago, I had finally completed my preliminary task. It was easy to do, but I constantly made re-adjustments to my front cover and contents page until I was ultimately satisfied with it. These adjustments included - changing the font colour, repositioning the layout and so on.
In the end, I named my magazine 'Haydon Heat' as I thought the alliteration was effective. I entailed three features 'Haydon In The Rubble', 'Canteen Makeover' and 'Litter Crisis'. I contributed images that related with the features. All of this was done on a programme called Adobe Indesign.
After that, I collected contents pages, double page spreads and front covers from music magazines, as we are now moving onto making our own music magazine. I analysed the contents pages from billboard magazine and Q, the double page spreads from smash hits and front covers from Billboard and Q magazine. This allowed me to have an insight on how to prepare my music magazine and what techniques I could use to make my magazine effective.
I have decided to make my music magazine multi-genre like Rolling Stone, Billboard, NME and Q. I thought this was a good opportunity as there aren't that many multi-genre magazines. My magazine would be called 'Dynamic' - it relates to music, hence it's musical definition is how high or low the sound is. Also, I thought the name was neutral as it's not aiming to a particular audience - it would appeal to the majority of everyone just like I want my overall magazine to be.
In the end, I named my magazine 'Haydon Heat' as I thought the alliteration was effective. I entailed three features 'Haydon In The Rubble', 'Canteen Makeover' and 'Litter Crisis'. I contributed images that related with the features. All of this was done on a programme called Adobe Indesign.
After that, I collected contents pages, double page spreads and front covers from music magazines, as we are now moving onto making our own music magazine. I analysed the contents pages from billboard magazine and Q, the double page spreads from smash hits and front covers from Billboard and Q magazine. This allowed me to have an insight on how to prepare my music magazine and what techniques I could use to make my magazine effective.
I have decided to make my music magazine multi-genre like Rolling Stone, Billboard, NME and Q. I thought this was a good opportunity as there aren't that many multi-genre magazines. My magazine would be called 'Dynamic' - it relates to music, hence it's musical definition is how high or low the sound is. Also, I thought the name was neutral as it's not aiming to a particular audience - it would appeal to the majority of everyone just like I want my overall magazine to be.
Monday 16 September 2013
Production Diary #1
On 10th September 2013, we had to start our preliminary
task. Our preliminary task was to make a school magazine featuring all sorts of
current affairs happening in the school - we were allowed to make it up as long
as if they were related to the pictures that would be contained in the
magazine.
Firstly, we had to collect our images - we walked around the
school taking pictures of various matters. I took pictures of the new food and
new refurbishing of the school canteen. I thought of the headline 'Canteen
Makeover' for my magazine.
Furthermore, at this time - the school was building a new
gym - the gym was nowhere near finished and it looked like an explosion
happened right in front of me. I took a few pictures of the scene, I thought of
some good headlines like 'Science Test Went Wrong' or 'Haydon In The Rubble'.
I couldn't think of any more images to take - thus I took
pictures of random aspects such as the school field, classrooms etc. We were
walking down the corridor and it looked slightly spooky, I took a picture of it
and thought about a feature of Haydon School being haunted.
We then transferred the images from our phones to the
computer by school email. The application we used for our magazine was Adobe In
Design - it was our first time using it but it was easy to figure out how to
work it.
I started on my title first, I used font from 'dafont.com'
(Bebas). It was black, simple and straightforward. Then I found the Haydon logo
from the internet - I saved it and imported it onto my front cover and placed
it next to the title.
I still have some work to do but I will hopefully have it
finished by tomorrow.
Tuesday 10 September 2013
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