My Magazine Article

Today I worked on my music magazine article. I have decided to do one article on Homegrown British artists particularly grime artists. I was lucky enough to meet grime artist Chipmunk this weekend and took the oppurtunity to take a photo with him. I will be using the photo in my magazine article on Homegrown British artisits.

Practice Magazine Cover- "Zine" Magazine

This is the practice cover of the school magazine "Zine" which I produced in photoshop. I was trying to achieve an urban look by using abstract, rough and edgy effects on the picture. The urban theme is further emphasised by the graffiti font I have used for the title of the magazine. I hand drew this font in photoshop which was quite difficult but because I could not find any urban fonts on my computer, I had to create my own.
I used elements of urban slang such as "garmz" which are terms that a younger urban audience would be familiar with.
The phrase "Welcome to the college life" emphasises that the magazine is a college magazine.
All the coverlines feature college events to attract students to read the magazine.

Photoshop- My first attempt

Last lesson I used photoshop to produce a practice magazine cover. The practice cover is based on college magazine "Zine," which is an abbreviation of the word "magazine." I used an image of myself to represent a typical youth from my urban target genre. I learnt to use various effects on photoshop to alter my image. I hand drew some of the text to add orginality.
By the end of the lesson, I was quite familiar with photoshop and I hope to continue expanding my skills.

Questionnaire final draft

I have finally completed the final draft of my questionnaire and made any improvements. I will now distribute the questionnaire to my target audience and I aim to do this by Friday. I will distribute my questionnaire around college as my target audience is based around college.

Double Trouble article from RWD magazine

Questionnaire

I worked on improving my questionnaire questions. I need to consider what kind of questions will help me construct my media magazine i.e. a niche in certain magazine genres. This will help me identify an ideal market for my magazine.
I need to now construct some draft front covers of my magazine to find out which front cover my target audience prefers.

Introduction to Questionnaire

Today we had an introduction to the questionnaire. I had several questions in mind such as how many people to ask and how many questions to include in the questionnaire. I am now going to prepare my first draft of questions for Fridays lesson.

Preparing to Analyse magazine articles

I have now analysed my four magazine front covers.
The next thing I need to do is analyse 4 magazine articles. I will be analysing magazine articles of different lengths i.e double spread and single spread. I will need to analyse magazine articles from 2 magazines of my genre and 2 from different genres.
I will probably analyse articles from RWD and then pick another genre of magazine like Kerrang so I can identify the different layout styles and language used.

Analysis of Magazine Covers

I have to analyse four magazine covers in order to get ideas of how to create my own music magazine front cover. I have looked at the front covers of two magazines; Rolling Stones and Top of the Pops. The Rolling Stones magazine is for a rock music genre and contrasts with my grime genre. Similarily Top of the Pops is a pop magazine which features different genres of music. I have chosen to analyse music magazines of different genres in order to explore a variety of music magazine genres. This will help me identify key differences in personal tastes. I am also going to analyse two front covers of my chosen music genre; grime, so I can identify aspects of current grime magazines like RWD, that attract my target audience.

Introduction to AS media coursework

I feel quite excited about producing my music magazine as I will be able to express my creative skills and ICT skills through this project. I will also be able to express my passion for Grime music and I hope my magazine will make this music genre widely known across the nation. I have already started planning my magazine by doing the Welcome Day task. I have already decided on the genre;grime, the target audience and I have started to think about the cost of the magazine based on my target audience. I have looked at some other magazines with the same genre .I need to look at magazines with different genres i.e rock and pop and compare them.
I also need to read the course booklet thoroughly.