Evaluation notes

Evaluation notes
-Planning and research is 20 marks
-Construction is out of 60 marks
-Evaluation is 20 marks
-7 questions in the assignment brief set by the exam board, if you miss one or two, you will not get out of Level 1
-Drafts your answers in word (no word limit)
-Excellent use of IT software
-A range of different technologies to answer each question
-Cannot write an essay for this
-Minimum of 4 technologies
-Have to use technology that are appropriate and fit for purpose for the question
-Representation and codes & conventions
-Demonstrate how far you have come from making the college magazine
-Ability to communicate (Terminology)
-Voice over with images
-1. Media product- your magazine, use codes & conventions of real music magazines, what is your genre? Challenge or conform your genre? Why you used the codes & conventions? Identify them. Colliqual or formal? Refer to case studies, also take snippits of the magazine, Fonts, colour, models, layout, house style, terminology (anchorish, semiotic analysis)
-2. Sub-culture? Colour, misensence, clothing, lighting certain group of people? Brand of clothing that social group would wear? Adverts, does it link to social group? Names that only that social group would understand? What is social group and what’s yours? Press packs
-3. Distributer you chose, newsstand task. Reflect on magazine pitch, why have you chosen the magazine? Distribution methods- look at that and throw in statistics and figures. (Prezi possibly)
-4. Refer to press packs, Refer to magazine pitch, demographic socio economic influences, ethnicity, career job, hobbies, products/ gadgets would the audience buy? Show the products, relate the audience to the magazine
-5. Techniques used for the magazine, model, colour, apps, QR code, fonts, language, feedback, comment on the feedback received, print screens of the magazine
-6. Discuss every piece of technology used throughout, desktop publishing why have you used specific software? Photoshop-image manipulation, resized images, text, colour, industry standard piece of software, Indesign- Professional for page layout, correct use of coloumns, alignments, grids, rulers, what is the point of the rulers? Blogger- new media technology, journey, appropriate online platform for audience feedback, interactive, Dslr, lighting, resolution, illustrator, other technologies you have used, your magazine pitch
-7. What have you have learnt in both, correct alignment, image more pleasing, theory level, semiotic analysis, drop cap on dps

Completed magazine

In the workshop, I decide to improve my DPS by adding more text to it so that there is no gaps or blank spaces. 

Tomorrow we have the workshop to improve our coursework.

Completed music magazine (Understatement)

I did not get recommendations for improvements in my last post so I decided to ask my teacher for feedback. She advised me to put the numbers going down on the contents which I did. Also, she advised me to fill in the blank pages so I added all the red boxes in for promotion. Furthermore, She advised me to put a pull quote in which I have now done so. This will be the finished pieces after improving it from the recommendations.

Music Magazine (Understatement)

Final DPS

I ensured that I included all my branding (Understatement, three colour scheme). I copied and pasted my DPS questions from my task 6. I also typed in at the bottom "Safa A will be answering your questions on the 18 November 2014, tweet your questions to @Understatement and she'll be tweeting the answers back on her twitter @SafaA" so that the audience can get involved. All of this was created in InDesign. Overall, I would say that the DPS was easy to make, however alignment was another difficult thing for me especially with the collage however, after spending a lot of time on it, I think that the alignment is ok. 

Chosen DPS images

These are the images I will be using in my DPS. I chose to make a collage for my DPS as I wanted my magazine to be versatile and also to showcase all the different poses. Most of the images I chose is where the model was looking into the camera so that it is direct address. I created both black&white and white images. The collage was created in InDesign.  

Final Contents

I added in my additional images and then my contents page was finished. Overall, I would say that the contents page was more difficult to make than the front cover as I had to ensure that the alignment was correct and also had to figure out where to place the images. However, after spending quite a lot of time on the contents page I think the alignment is up to standard.