Evaluation

EVALUATION CRITERIA
Candidates will evaluate their work electronically. This MUST contain an element of audience feedback and may be either integrated with the presentation of the research and planning material or may be presented separately. Where candidates have worked in a group, the evaluation may be presented individually or collectively but the teacher must allocate a mark according the contribution/level of understanding demonstrated by the individual candidate.

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:
1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4.Who would be the audience for your media product?
5.How did you attract/address your audience?
6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Level 4 16–20 marks
Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.
Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.
Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.
Excellent ability to communicate.
Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation

Photoshoot

I've organised a photoshoot for Feb 9th with one female model for my front cover and follow up interview pictures.

I'm aiming to achieve a "hippie" effect for the front cover with contrasting colours. The model I've chosen has red hair and green eyes, I'm going emphasise these colours later on photoshop for a strikingly colourful effect.

Lately, I've been experimenting with the InDesign programme. Exploring the potential with this programme has really helped define the possibilities for my music magazine, I now know what I can create while always maintaining a professional manner.

Masthead Ideas

Recently, I have been using photoshop, trying out a couple of ideas for my Masthead:




I prefer the lower picture as it fits the kind of house style that I'm aiming to achieve, with a broken and distressed effect.

For my final masthead I was thinking of taking photos of a hand or a pair of hands holding up a vinyl record to emphasize the theme of music and to give the masthead the vintage-like, distressed look.

The Monthly Connection: Front cover

The Masthead-
The font will be simple and bold with the words "The Monthly" much smaller, as "Connection" will be bigger and spread across the page as the main word. The font will be black, white or a primary colour.

The Main Photograph-
As this photograph is the most important in the process of selling the magazine, it must be as eye-catching as possible. I've compiled a collection of photographs which I may choose to mirror for my own photograph.





Conventional music magazine photographs with an attractive musical artist posing and clad in extravagant clothing.









































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I think the idea of a photo in an environment which is not usually considered conventional for a music magazine photoshoot, for example in a garage or on a pavement. Spontaneous poses with the subject looking natural - no obvious photo manipulation. The subject would be wearing bright, eye-catching clothing, contrasting with a neutral, normal expression.

Nylon Magazine Hose Style

These are all page headings on the Nylon Magazine website. This is the style in which I want to present my Magazine.
The font has an element to it that looks like it's been sketched and scribbled over. The pictures look obviously manipulated and cut up.

I've also noticed one element which features itself on the majority of Nylon Magazine's pages: Three black, curvy threads that look hand drawn across a page. For example, In the first heading pictured at the top.
These scribbled lines are a feature of Nylon magazine which makes it distinctive as "Nylon".
I've decided to emulate Nylon magazine in this respect and take on the 'scribbling' idea for my own magazine; I'm going to 'draw' three black from the top to the bottom, about two centimeters from the outside of each page; I'm also going to have the page numbers looking hand written.

Nylon Magazine

The house style which appeals to me most is Nylon magazine. It does not just focus on music but covers a wide range of music related pop culture. This is the kind of unconventional music magazine I am aiming to produce as I believe there is a gap in the British market for this style of music magazine.

I am now concentrating on Nylon Magazine's house style to give me ideas for my own:

I like the simplistic approach that the magazine has as it makes the text, pictures and minimalist ornamentation of the page stand out so much more than it would on a busy design.