Diary Enrty

This week is half term and for my coursework I have had t complete a few simple tasks. These are

• 2 More Diary posts
• Audience Profile (inc. Questionnare results / Or Interview)
• Names Ideas
• Mood Board
• Colours (connotations)

I have successfully completed all of these and are included in my proposal and on my blog. My mood board gives me ideas about my music magazine and shows me other genres to give me inspiration. My name is one of many that I am still contemplating. The colours and connotations are basically the colour scheme of my work and what this will represent.

Diary Entry

This is the week before half term and I started my proposal. My proposal tells you everything you need to know about my magazine including:

• The name of my magazine
• the business features of the magazine
• how it will sell
• how it will succeed 
• style and genre
• target audience 

All of these will help my magazine succeed. It will be presented on scribd. This gives variety to my magazine aswell as making it seem professional and increasing my marks. Also, when creating my magazine, I will be able to refer to this propsal to see what my next task is and see if I am meeting all of my criteria. If I am not then I will take a step back and evaluate why I have changed it and how I have done this.

Diary Entry 2

This week our task in AS Media was to create a Prezi presentation about Key Concepts for Music Magazine Analysis. They are: Codes and Conventions, Representation, Institution and Audience. Each of these were heading and under them were subheading breaking the subject down into researchable chunks.
I had to research topics such as how music magazines make money and also how they have reacted to the latest tablets and gadgets that could be forcing the magazine, newspaper and comic industry out of business.

Prezi- Magazine Key Concepts

Key Concepts on Prezi

Diary Entry

Dear Diary,

My first few weeks of AS Media were a success. The preliminary task was to create a front cover and contents page for a school. We had to plan it by drawing and sketching it, then we put it onto photoshop and made it on there. I then uploaded it onto my blog and evaluated it. The magazine was designed for secondary school students. We had to pick a target audience however I picked the whole school. This was to entice the whole the school to buy the magazine.

Our next task was to was to analyse three music magazine. We had to analyse their front covers, contents pages and double page spreads. Firstly we started on the front covers. I chose three Indie magazines: Q, NME and Kerrang! They are the three most famous and three that many Indie and Rock fans can relate with. I then had to upload these onto my blog. I uploaded them onto Slideshare which is a way of presenting Powerpoint files on a blog. It looks very attractive and is a different was to host files.

Music Magazine Analysis

Music magazine analysis

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Double page spread analysis

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Preliminary task

Evaluation- Front Cover

The main image on my front cover is a full bleed. This means it fills the entire page. I changed the image on my real cover as I took a very good image and wanted to use that instead. The title is called 'The people' which will entice a variety of audiences as my magazine is meant for the entire school. All of the sell lines entice these audiences as they all relate to different years in the school: 'GCSE choices, We can Help!'. This will obviously draw attention from Year nine students as they are in the GCSE choosing process.
'School Survival Guide', is aimed at year seven students who are new to the school and want to know how to cope with the everyday pressures of high school. Finally 'Top Tips For Exam Survival', the target audience here is for year eleven, twelve and thirteen students as they are undergoing there GCSE, AS or A2 exams.
All of these sell lines help to 'sell' the magazine to the intended target audiences. The colour scheme suits that of boys and girls so will entice a variety of year 8 boys to year 11 girls, who maybe worlds apart in terms of their hobbies, likes and dislikes.
The colours on the page will be bright and vibrant as they will attract and entice people to come and view it and the the sell line will 'sell' the magazine.
My contents page has a list of random pages on the left hand side, easily viewable for anyone, making for easy reading. There are no long or complicated words or phrases to suit all abilities. There are images of the students in the school so that they can be related with and a picture of the headmaster for a special article on him in this weeks edition of  The People.
The website is in full view for people to see, this advertises the magazine on the front page and on the contents. Also on the front page is the price, which is 50p. The price is not expensive which allows both rich and poor, upper and lower class people buy the magazine, as the school has many different social classes and people benefit economically differently.
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No bar code as it is a school magazine and there is no need.
The puporse is for all to enjoy and what I have included succeeds this.