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Production Diary #14

Production Diary #13

I have recently completed my contact sheet. I finalised some of the images from the contact sheet, edited it on Adobe Photoshop by using the spot healing tool to dissolve any blemishes or spots on the model's face, the burn tool on the model's eyes and lips which enhances their features. For some of the images I had also removed the background to make the model the subject of the image and to highlight the importance of the artist on the magazine page. Once I finished editing the images on Photoshop, I saved them as a jpeg. File and transferred them to my magazine. I used a range of different pictures to see what would suit my magazine best. I also adjusted the magazine dramatically to fit the theme of the picture. As a result, I have successfully completed my front cover, the contents page and both my double page spreads. However, I am looking to add an additional double page spread where the artist answers exclusive twitter questions from fans.

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Penultimate Magazine Draft

Contact Sheet 2

This is my final outdoor shoot. I had to provide an additional shoot to my indoor shoot to employ a range of various pictures to make my magazine more appealing and interesting. The setting of the outdoor pictures were at the skate park and in the woods, it was raining which reinforces the characterisation of 'Cecile Rose' the way she is created to portray in the magazine. Also, I took a few indoor pictures in my bedroom where Megan (the model) is made to look like she is writing her songs in her diary. This creates a personal connection with the reader and adds a exclusivity to the article, as her bedroom is in her home as if the audience is looking into her private life, behind-the-scenes.

Production Diary #12

Recently, I have been answering my evalution quesions, completed my outdoor photoshoot and have been improving my magazine on Adobe InDesign.

The evaluation questions I have answered so far are 'How does your media product represent particular social groups?' and 'How did you attract/address your audience?' The first question I answered was 1500 words and the second question I answered was 691 words. Both questions were focused on the audience, consumers and readers. I went into a great depth of detail of how my magazine appeals to the target audience and how the different aspects in my magazine attracts the different social groups in the target audience. As my magazine is a multi-genre, monthly magazine it would appeal to a wide mass of different people, preferably females and males aged 13 to 30 as this this is the age modern day music is most appreciated. Overall, my audience would be interested in the buzz of the music industry and contain a passion for music. The magazine is ceated in a matter that would reach the audiences expectation and not to be biased that it will seclude certain social groups.

I have made many improvements to my magazine, due to the fact that I have now completed an outdoor photoshoot. I have decided to go for a new engaging front cover image, thus I thought the original image was too 'posey' and did not suit the character 'Cecile Rose' is created to portray. I went to the skate part and the woods, unfortunatley during this time it was raining outside, but looking back at the images it created a positive effect and actually reflected the character 'Cecile' as the theme of the shoot was gunge, pop. There were three costume changes to see what fitted best for my magazine and to create a range of different images. I took the pictures from a range of different angles, landscape and portrait as basing it in one way could be perceived as "boring". I attempted to make the images as interesting as possible.  I used props such as a diary and Dr Dre headphones which is relevant to the content of my magazine and the musical aspect.

Also, I have completley re-created both my double page spreads and have created another double page spread where Cecile is made to answer the audience's twitter questions. The new images makes a big influence to the magazine, the layout is made to fit the images.

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The feedback from this survey that I will receive will be beneficial for me to see the strengths and weaknesses of my draft magazine. I would then be able to make improvements on the weaker areas which would allow me to progress on my magazine.

Production Diary #11

I have been making improvements to my previous coursework on my blog such as the preliminary task. I thought my preliminary task evaluation was short, thus I expanded it by going into more detail about the colour scheme, images, layout and so forth. Also, I read over my previous diary posts and edited parts to expand it.

Afterwards, I went back to my magazine 'Dynamic' to make little improvements such as changing the font on my article of 'Cecile Rose' which is titled 'Queen Cecile' the word queen was changed into a font that clearly represented the image of a queen and the font was coloured red to capture the attention of the reader and to highlight the danger and exclusivity of the context within the article, whereas the font for 'Cecile' was changed into dolce vitta heavy font that represents her genre of electra-pop.

I will still be making vast tweeks to my previous coursework as there is much to improve on, moreover there is still work that needs to be completed for my blog and magazine. For example, I plan on making two more pages for my magazine where the artist, 'Cecile',  answers specific questions from the readers' that are chosen from twitter.