IN DESIGN........

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE FRONT COVER OF ROCK SOUND....

The UK edition of Rock Sound was launched in March 1999 by the French publisher Freeway Press Inc, who had already published the title in France. The magazine was bought out by its director, Patrick Napier, in December 2004 and  it falls in the category of music magazine.their main competitors could magazines like Classic Rock Magazine andQ Magazine. The colour combinations of this magazine and the main image is likely to get the attention of the customers.
 The colours of that stands out in the front cover of this magazine are the colour red, black and white these colour also made the main image to stand out. The front cover of this magazine attempts to attract the audience by the use of a huge text that said 'NEW ALBUM EXCLUSIVE  YOUNG GUNS UNLEASHED DOWN UNDER'  in huge text across the main image.The word exclusive makes it look special and would is likely to attract more audience specially the Young Guns fans. On the top left of the magazine we could see that they were giving away special bumper poster of BlackVeilBirds another factor which would attract audiencesThe cover lines are mostly about other bands and singers this would attract audience who may not be a fan of Young Guns but are of the other bands and singers who are mention on the cover lines....bands like Fall Out Boy and Evanescence.
The front cover main image is of the band members of the Young Guns who seem to be looking  straight at the audience making eye contact.Their clothes gave away the image of being  this young generations with rip jeans, converse , hoodies and base ball cap a very comfortable look yet very fashionable at the same time. The background was of light blue colour which help the darker colours from the the clothes to stand out.
 The font of  this magazines are mostly bold and has a very rough look. The main text were mostly in black and red but the other text were a mixture of black, red and white .
At the bottom of the magazine we could see a thick strap of  a red linewhere there was an inside glimpse  of the magazine , the issue's number , the date of the issue was given as well as the price and bar code of the magazine.

4 MAGAZINE COMPARISONS

ACTION PLAN FOR THE MAIN TASK

THE SECOND STEP.........

HEY BLOGGER ....
okay I'm done with  the first task...... and I'm starting.... with the main task ...yep...its  the hard one :/.....this time its a   music magazine.......so...wish me luck...and I   hope I'm   more    up-to-date   this time...and maybe a little  more creative...:D......okay...see you soon..then ....oxox

EVALUATION.......

Q.In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
ANS....  My magazine  is more or less  like the stereotypical magazine as I had  magazine name at the top and a main image for the cover page  and the content page is gave the summary of what they are actually going to see inside the magazine.

Q.How does your media product  represent particular social groups ?
ANS....My magazine mostly represent  the teenagers and maybe some teachers from the college moreover the cover page give a very young and mature look of a six former plus the cover lines are more

Q.What kind of media institute might distribute your media product and why?

ANS......The main institute that would distribute my media would be St Edmund's College as it could be seen from the cover lines of the magazine it is about  what is actual going around its campus and the main image on the cover page is of a student from the this college therefore more chances of  it publishing it.



Q.Who would be the audience for your  media product?

ANS....The target audience for my magazine is aged 14-19 male and female, but with a slight bias to female audience as you could gather from the used of colours ,the main image on the cover page and the pictures on the content page are images of female figures . The content page also to give us the idea that there is a section on the magazine about fashions which are mostly directed to the female population.

Q.How did you attract/address your audience ?

ANS.....To attract the audience I had  used the advice from  my questionnaire  and use a picture  of a student who they known for my  cover page and I also using bright colour to make it more eye catching ,therefore catching more attention. and distributing the is issue for free therefore giving the audience the opportunity to grab one with out having to worry about the cost. keeping in mind that it a student magazine I have used an informal tone while addressing them make it feel more comfortable and chatty this would more entertaining for them to read therefore attracting more audiences.

Q.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

ANS.....We were use to introduce and  taught different new technologies during this task to start off we started from the:

1. Basis by making a blog on blogger. Then we strated designing our blogs according to our liking  and familiarising our self with the new tabs available on it  once we got use to the tab and understood how to use the we moved on to posting on our blog.

2. Then we moved on to the next step by learning to use the scanner in order to upload and scan pictures we wanted to used for our blog but they were either of published magazines or already printed pictures and text.

3. we also learn to take pictures from different angles. So with the help of a camera we took pictures for the cover page.

4. After taking the pictures we uploaded it to photo shop to edit and give my magazine the final look. But before we got started we tried different type of effects and tabs on a rough pictures just to get the hang on it. we really did learn allot from here it help to make it help me make a plain  picture to a magazine cover.

4. Dafont.com with the help from this web site we used to make the main title cover and the heading for my magazine.

5. After finalising the font  I uploaded to Microsoft publisher to give it the final touch before copying and pasting it to photo shot to give the final look for my magazine

6. But all this would not have been possible with out learning how to use the computer and the Internet . We learn how to use different tabs off the key board example the print screen key was very help full for this task.but overall we have learn a great deal and also different ways decorate our magazine.

STUDENT WORLD CONTENT PAGE.......

HOW IT WAS CREATED????

• UPLOADED A PICTURE TO PHOTOSHOP
• GO TO DAFONT.COM CHOOSE A FONT YOU LIKE
• COPY AND PASTE IT TO PHOTOSHOP AND CROP IT ACCORDINGLY
• CHOOSE COLOR ACCORDING TO YOUR LIKING...
• AND DECIDE ON WHAT AND HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO YOUR MAGAZINE TO LOOK LIKE
• AND WALA......YOU GOT YORSELF A FRONT COVER...BUT I STILL TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE SAYING 'EASIER SAID THAN DONE.....':) JUST LEARN HOW TO USE HOW TO USE PHOTOSHOT AND THE CAMERA AND WELL YOU'LL DO FINE...:)
• BUT THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS THAT.....  YOU LEARN AS YOU GO:)

MY MAGAZINE COVER

OKAY JUST FINISH THE OUT LOOK OF THE MAGAZINE AND WELL HAPPY WITH IT...........;)

magazine's font

WITH THE HELP OF DAFONT I TRIED DIFFERENT FONTS OF MY MAGAZINES NAME.............I HAD FUN TRYING IT BUT I HAD A HARD TIME CHOOSING IT..:o......BUT DO TELL ME IF YOU LIKE ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING...KK..:)

THE MAGAZINE LAYOUT ???

This is the content and cover layout for my magazine.....:) 

PHOTO SHOP ....FRIST EXPERIENCE.....YEPPPPP...!!!!!!!!

(BEFORE)

(AFTER)

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE USED PHOTO SHOT AND WE HAD SO MUCH FUN TRYING OUT THE DIFFERENT TABS AND DESIGN TO CHANGE THE PICTURE FROM ITS ORIGINAL LOOK TO A DIFFERENT LOOK ( PLEASE NOTE......I...NEVA SAID IT WAS GOING TO LOOK BETTER :) ...)....

EDS-UCATTION (CONTENT PAGE)

EDS-UCATION (COVER PAGE)

AVITA PRO FIDE

1. This magazine had a very formal and  a very polish layout compared to the other two magazine they had a brief content about what is inside the magazine which is divided in to different sub headings along with their  page numbers.  
2.  The president of the college he was formal and very professional with his address.He  shared his experiences and  regards to the school and to the readers.
3.  Color used in this magazines content page are mostly related to the college colors 
4.  Target readers are mostly the students of the school and also to the people who is interested in the school as it would help give an inside look into the college life.
5. However the over all out look of the magazines content page is very formal and simple

STUDENT ID (issue 13)

1. This magazine has had some change from its 1st issue .It was a coloured magazine unlike the first issues which was in black and white 
2.  More pictures on its content page . 
3. The first paragraph was a letter from the ed  however  unlike the 1st issue there was no official editor therefore the student id team address their  readers as a whole, they were more informal as they send their good wishes to the readers who would be entering for their exams soon.and also giving a brief idea of whats happening in the college. 
4. The inside content layout was similar to the 1st issue but there was more pictures and colour which made it more entertaining and fun to read.

STUDENT ID...(1st Issue)

1. STUDENT ID.....the content page of this magazine include a letter from the ed...who address the readers  in a very friendly way she used a semi-informal language to keep the readers entertain but still have a professional tone who is trying to bring about what the magazine is  all about. 
2. The magazine also has a paragraph to welcome the readers to the first issue of Student ID in which there is brieft intoduction to the new magazine , the aim of their magazine, type of magazine and an online information in which they allow readers to comment and suggest their ideas. 
3. There was a brief inside look in which the page number and the title was given accordingly . 
4. The colour  of the magazine was in black and white.
5. The over all look of the content page of  this magazine was informal and brief

OUESTIONNAIRE

1. GENDER
a) male
b) female
2. Age groups
a) 11 below
b)12 to 14
c)15 to 17
d)18 above
3.I have a few idea for my magazines name which one of these would you prefer?
a) 4ever
b) Students world
c) Today
d) Other
4. How much are you willing to pay for a magazines?
a) £1
b)£ 1.50
c)99p
d)£ 1.99 
5.What kind of things you would like to have in a magazines?
a) sports news
b) fashion and beauty tips
c) latest news about the school/college
d)horoscope
6. What are the things which you would NOT like to be in magazines?
a)horoscope
b)poems
c)celeb news
d) Others
7.What would like to see on a cover page?
 a) the school building
b)the libary
c)the gym
d)students
8. How much time are you going to read it ?
a) 10 to 15 mins
b)15 to 30 mins
c)30mins to 1hr
d) depends
Thanks guys for helping me out......:)

Action Plan

FIRST WEEK 7.11.11
Setup blog
Inroduction
Action plan
Questionnaire
Content analysis( comparing 3 magazines+the feature they contain)
Textual analysis
SECOND WEEK 14.11.11
Take pictures for the magazines
Decide the layout of the magazine
Design the draft for the magazine
Uploded the pictures(yeppp!!!)
THIRTH WEEK  21.11.11
Textual analysis(describing what I used and did for the magazines)
The tears and smiles during this task
Evaluation
Comparing my work with the other famous magazines.
FOURTH WEEK 28.11.11
Polishing up and getting ready to summit my work( I hope so :/)

Lets get started........:)

hey bloggers......I'm Daphihi and  i'll be using this blog to post my AS couse work. so...WISH ME LUCK ...:D.............. the first piece of work we were given was to make a front page of a new school/college magazine .........