Here is the feature article of the magazine that i needed to analyse

Photo

Here is the mgazine contents page that i was asked to look at and analyse

Photo shoot up-date

On Tuesday me and my group did a photoshoot and looking at the images they are quite good and we are happy with it

Photoshoot

With the results of the questionnaire we are planning to do a photoshoot with a student from my media group. We want it to l0ook as if he is on the street so we are going to be taking the photos outside with a brick like background. We will be bringing in props like a hat, hoddie, rubberbands to make him look more like the artist T. I

sep2008

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This is the fornt cover of hte magazine that I wrote a feature article,contents page and front cover for.

Magazine analysis

I was asked to analyse a hip-hop magazine to look at the front cover, contents page and feature article. The magazine i looked at is O-Zone and i managed to get the media pack and find out who the target audience are, the age groups, whats popular ect. By doing so I'm able to know what kind of things my target group likes to see in the group.

Questionnarie

Me and my group have made up a questionnaire to know what artists the target audience wants to see in the magazine, what features they would like to see, colours and types of fonts ect.

Main task

I am now going on to do the main task which is to create my own music magazine. I'll have to decide on the genre of music, target audience, what people want to see in a music magazine, colours and fonts and create a house-style. For me to do this i'm looking at a variety of hip hop, r'n'b,grime soca music magazines to see what kind of things are inlcuded in that type of magazine.

COMPLETED FRONT COVER

INSIDE ORPINGTON2, originally uploaded by saraha8.

My final peice for my front cover

FINISHED CONTENTS PAGE

CONTENTS2, originally uploaded by saraha8.

My final peice for my contents page

Text

Whilst making the front cover i had to make sure that i used the right font and colour. As my picture has quite light parts and dark tones in it i had to place the text in places where it could still be read and i also had to choose appropiate colours that go well with it to

Magazines

I looked at a range of different types of magazine covers and college prospectus to see how they set up their front page and the layout of it. What different styles their are and how they carry it out within the whole magazine and contents page. I also needed to know what types of colours and fonts to use that would suit the variety of audience i.e gender, age, intrests etc

Diffculties with InDesign

I've experienced a couple of difficulties whilst using InDesign as it is a new programme that I'm getting used to. It was weird knowing how to use the right tools to help do what i needed to do but it in the end it got better and i was able to tweek certain things into place to make it look professional.

PHOTOSHOP

In my media lesson I went around the college to find a suitable model for the cover of my magazine. I wanted the cover to show a student doing some form of creative work, and luckly I found a friend doing art in the libary. I then played around with the picture in photoshop, making it lighter, fading out the background, just trying to get to know and get used to photoshop as I havent used it before. It's an easy programme to get into and it really helped me with my work.

InDesign

In InDesign I'm learning how to set up magazine layout. Like in Photoshop I had to play around and find out what kind of things I had to, to make the magazine look professional and up to date. InDesin is a suitable programme for magazines we are lucky to be able to use it.

Marketing Workshop

I am going to be making a college prospectus and I've been giving these tips to make it.

Who the target audience is for the prospectus - 14-19 year olds,older students and adults. You also have to check for gender, to make sure it applies for both females and males. Make sure the font and text size is suitablbe for thoes with reading disabilities.
In the pictures use a range of different ethnic groups so that it looks appealing to thoes are interested.
To make sure there is a "house-style". Making sure that the theme of the prospectus is the same throughout each issue i.e colour, text, layout ect.

Semiotics

Signs:

• Iconic - look like what they represent e.g a photo of you
• Symbolic/Arbitrary - meaning must be cultrally learn, dont look like what they represent
• Indexical - have a connection to what they represent and are suggestive rather than directly resembling e.g no smoking sign or crucifix.

fashion-magazine

fashion-magazine, originally uploaded by saraha8.

Here is an anotated magazine cover. It gives me ideas on what I need to include when making my own magazine.

rayyyyx

rayyyyx, originally uploaded by saraha8.

oreo-semiolgy..

oreo-semiolgy.., originally uploaded by saraha8.

Signifier- a biscuit
Denotation-it is a snack,comfort food,fatty,nice to eat
Connotation- I like it, makes me happy

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.