Monday, 28 April 2014
Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Looking back to my preliminary task then to my final product of my music magazine, I feel as if I have learnt a lot. My arrangement of the layout of the pages has improved as well as following codes and conventions of music magazine layouts, such as position of the masthead and cover lines, and the type of photo for my main image.
My improvements are mainly due to learning how the photoshop programme works, as when I produced my preliminary task I had never used photoshop before. I learnt how to crop and place images where I wanted them to be on the page, alter the brightness and contrast to produce the lighting effect I wanted, and how to enhance text to make it stand out.
I also learnt how to take photos using a variety of camera angles such as close ups, high shots and low shots; as well as making sure I follow the conventions for a main image, such as the model looking out of the magazine to the audience. Alongside the camera, I learnt how to use lighting equipment to produce the ‘natural sun glow’ light effect in my photo that is often seen in mise-en-scenes of indie folk photos.
Evaluation question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?
The
main thing I did to attract readers for my magazine was to have my model on the
front cover to be looking out to the audience smiling, to engage and welcome
readers. I also put in a couple puffs for competitions and prizes to lure the
audience into my magazine.
In
class we did peer review of peoples work to get an honest opinion of how others
think my magazine can be improved in order to represent my chosen genre more
clearly and reach out to my target audience. It also gave me the chance to
review whether I had successfully met the codes and conventions for both a
general music magazine and in my chosen genre.
Evaluation question 4: Who would your audience be for your media product?
4. Who would your audience be for your media product?
Indie folk is a small sub-genre of folk that is relatively new to the music world yet is highly popular with bands such as Mumford and Sons, and Of Monsters and Men. The majority of indie folk bands/artists are very well known yet very few of the population that know them, listen to and follow these bands. This provides me with a very niche audience, but with the potential to expand out. Yet there are hundreds of indie folk artists who are were not as well heard of but grow to be huge in the industry such as Ben Howard; this is what I hope my magazine can be, starting out small with a niche audience to become as large in the industry alongside magazines such as Kerrang or Q.
I also believe my magazine will be targeted at teenage girls (15+ yrs) as it is a very girly looking magazine and around 15 is when most young people start hearing about and listening to indie folk as it is more 'grown-up' sounding music than what younger teenagers listen to
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