Target Audience Survey

Construction Schedule

• During the first two weeks of December I planned to create my front cover. 
• I then planned to use the remaining week and a half to create my contents page.
• Using the start of the new term I planned to take two weeks to plan and then create my double page spread
• I then used the remaining time in January making any changes or improvements to my front cover, contents page or double page spread.

Location, Props & Costume report

Location

In regards to the location of my photoshoot, I decided to do so in my models bedroom with natural lighting, this is because I wanted to have an element of a professional looking photoshoot shot in a studio but wanted to use the very pale pink colour of her walls. This also means I was able to take advantage of the natural lighting without trying to achieve the same look with studio lights. 

Props

The props I used in my photoshoot included the use of my models electric guitar, this was in relation to the music element of my magazine and the narrative of my model being an indie pop star that plays  the guitar. I shot a range of photos with the guitar and decided to use two of the guitar prop use pictures for my polaroids.

Costume

Costume use in my photoshoot included a range of three looks; black dress with flannel shirt, black dress by itself and black dress with denim jacket all with or without the use of a flower headband. I chose these styles because I wanted to connote a fashionable but fun look to the pictures, also using the element of indie style (to relate to my magazine) and festival fashion (to relate to my main feature/model).

Front Cover Draft

Double Page Spread Draft

Contents Page Draft

Media Kit

Rejected Product

This is my rejected product of my DPS, as you can see I abandoned this product half way through after decided I wanted to start my double page spread again from scratch when I disliked the overall look of the product. After peer assessment of this rejected product it was agreed that I should start again, but to keep the Polaroid pictures and the use of the main image, this then helped the development of my final double page spread.

Photoshoot Contact Sheet

Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt from the progression from it to the full product?

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

Above are the different technologies I have learnt to use within the process of constructing my product. I have used each for constructing many elements that contribute to the process of constructing my product. 

Prezi

I have learnt to use Prezi in the way to contribute to presenting important information and evaluations of my magazine's construction process. It allows me to input pictures and text into a professional layout that allows a reader to flow through the information with ease. 

Photoshop

I have learnt to use Photoshop in the way to contribute to creating my media product. It helped me construct my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I learnt to use a range of techniques in Photoshop in order to make improvements to my magazine, for example:

The dodge and burn tool I learnt to use to increase or decrease the vibrancy of aspects in my magazine, I used the dodge tool to brighten my models hair colour and eye colour to make her stand out on my cover more, I used the doge tool on elements of her denim jacket to make her hair stand out more by contrasting the darker and brighter colours.

The magic wand tool was a very vital part in creating my magazine and made it easier when using fonts copy and pasted from dafont.com to remove the white background from the screen cap and enabled me to move the text over elements of my product without any white boxes like on the banner at the bottom of my double page spread for example. 

The magnetic lasso tool was what I learnt to use when creating my flower border and black and white picture with colour flower headband. I used the magnetic lasso tool to highlight around the flowers on my models head, when all the flowers were highlighted I inversed the colour and then changed the hue/saturation of the rest of the photo to create a black and white photo.

Issuu

I have learnt to use issuu in order to create an element on my blog to present information through a word document, it enables me to input the pages from my word documents and annotate them or rearrange them if I wish. It enables a reader the flick through the word documents in a book form quickly and easily. 

In regards to web spaces, blogger was used as a major role in my coursework, it was used to present all of my work into a blog that can be accessed by a reader, the disadvantages to using a free internet application can be that sometimes websites aren't entirely reliable, and for a while, during the production of my media product blogger was down for a few weeks and blogs couldn't be accessed. Luckily, this problem solved itself out and the blogs could be accessed again. Nonetheless, using web applications that are free are very beneficial to being able to use them without having to pay for them, applications such as Prezi can be payed for exclusive content but still allow free use when using just some of it's applications but the disadvantage is not being able to use all it has to offer for free.

How did you attract/address your audience?

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

What would be the audience of your media product?

Double page Spread

Contents Page

Front Cover

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?