Dear Moderator

My name is Laura-Rose Wilson, my candidate number is 8305 and my centre number is 16829.

I have enjoyed creating a front cover, contents page and double page spread for my music magazine LOUD, and I have learnt many things such as being able to use photoshop easily and to be able to create a prezzi.

I hope you enjoy the work that I have produced.

This is the front cover and contents page of my st marks sixth form magazine for my preliminary task. I have re-posted it so it is up the top so that it is easily seen when being viewed by the moderator.

Evaluation

http://prezi.com/6zwh4kp1a64g/music-magzine-evaluation/

This is my music magazine LOUD's evaluation in the form of a prezi.

 This is my magazine's double page spread, I continued the colour scheme from my front cover and contents page onto the double page spread. Also I have got the LOUD logo on the double page spread as well as the contents page so that the readers will will know where this page is from.

This is the contents page for my music magazine LOUD, I have continued the colour scheme from my front over onto the contents page. On this page I have included an image of Daniel who is from the main story of my magazine, I also have placed a picture of another singer on the contents page to show the readers who else is in the magazine. For the featuring stories I have numbered that on what pages they are on then and given it a heading and then underneath put in more detail what this page/pages contain.

Front cover

This is my finished front cover for my music magazine LOUD. The reason I chose the name LOUD for my magazine as I felt that it fit best with the genre of music and I wanted a short and memorable name for my readers. I decided on a colour scheme of the colours pink, white and black to carry throughout my magazine so that you can see how they are all together. I also used yellow and green so that they stand out and fit in with the pop genre, as pop music tends to be recognised as bright and loud and exciting and this is what I wanted my magazine to present.

I have finished my front cover, contents page and double page spread for my music mgazine LOUD and these are them above.

I have started to create my prezi for my media evaluation, I have nearly finished with my prezi all I need to do is get the pictures of my front cover from the school computer so I can put them into my prezi and then I will have finished.

For my photoshoot I used a Nikon coolpix p100 because this is a high quality camera so the pictures that they would produce would also be high quality.

When I was choosing who I wanted to use for my artisit for my music magazine LOUD I researched into some pop stars for some inspiration on who to pick, how to style them and what type of personality I should present to the readers. I came across Tinie Tempah and he is who inspired me for my overall artist.

These photos above are what helped me to style Daniel, so the similarities between Tinie Tempah and Daniel in the magazine are very obvious.

Artists clothing

When choosing the clothes that I wanted my artist to wear I looked at pop stars and their fashion so that I could chose clothes that fit into the pop genre. In the above pictures these are the main outfits my artist wore when I was taking the pictures for my magazine. I feel that his overall image fits in well with the pop music genre and he looks like a pop star.

USP

Unique selling point

For my music magazine LOUD I had to think of a unique selling point for the magazine, the one I decided on using "Pop magazine with all the latest hits and music news" I chose a short and memorable sentence for my usp so that the readers could remember it easily. I placed this at the top of my front cover in a yellow banner so it stands out and draws the readers in.

Colour scheme

For my music magazine LOUD I decided to have a colour scheme that would potentially run throughout my whole magazine, this is another form of house style for my music magazine. The colours that I used repeatedly on my front cover, contents page and double page spread were white, black and pink.

The images above are examples of the colour scheme I used.

For my music magazine I wanted a logo to represent the name of my magazine that would be recognised by my readers. This would be the branding of the magazine. I had originally come up with a design for this but when I was using photoshop and trying to create this design it was a lot harder than I had thought so I came up with a much simpler design that would be as affective.

The image above is the logo for my music magazine LOUD.

For my media evaluation there is seven questions that I have to answer, the questions below are what I need to answer;

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

-       How does your media product represent particular social groups?

-       What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? (IPC and EMAP)

-       Who would be the audience for your media product?

-       How did you attract? Address your audience?

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

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

We had to evaluate our media product which was my music magazine LOUD in a different way other than an essay, so I have decided to produce my evaluation in a prezi.

I was going to use this image of Daniel and lucy on my double page spread as in the interview Daniel talks about him and Lucy dating, but I decided against using this in the end because in the interview he explains his relationship with lucy so with an image of them two it would ruin the point of the "exclusive" interview.

interview questions

The following questions are the ones that I kept to use for my music magazine LOUD's double page spread, I decided on keeping these questions as I felt that these would be the ones that would be most appealing to my target audience of girls aged 12 to 17.


Hi Daniel, thanks for coming here today I know you must have a very busy schedule..

When did you know that you wanted to be a singer?

If your singing career didn't work out what were you going to do instead?

Have you or would you ever consider acting?

Where did you grow up?

What was your childhood like living there?

Who or what is it that inspires you to write such good music?

Do you get stage fright when having to perform in front of so many people?

Is there anything you do to overcome it?

What is it like to be recognised now when you go out?

Have you got any crazy fans that you see everywhere you go?

So, we've had many people writing in convincing me to ask you this question..

Is it true you are dating Lulu?

Where, when, how did you meet her?

Well I wouldn't have expected that Daniel! Thank you very much for much for coming, I wish you all the best in your career and I’m sure we will be seeing a lot of you from now on!

Above is a photo of my double page spread for my music mgazine LOUD, I have included the five images above in my double page spread of my main stories artist daniel. I chose to carry out a question and answer interview with daniel as I felt that this would be well suited for my music magazine's target audience. In this interview I asked questions that I felt my audience would be interested in knowing about him.

For my double page spread I removed some of the question and answers that I had planned to use, the reason I did this was because I wouldn't have fit them all on at a font that would be easily readable also after reading through the questiions again I felt that some of them didn't need to be in there so I removed these and kept the most intersting and important questions and answers that the readers would most likely want to read.

For my music magazine task everything I did was done by myself with one exception. I took all of the pictures that are on my front cover, contents page and double page spread and all the other information on the page is from me. The exception in this is the barcode I used on my front cover, I got this off google images to use for my magazine's barcode.