Friday 26 October 2012

Production Log: 25th October

Today I completed and uploaded a PowerPoint presentation of 3 analysed magazine contents pages. I annotated contents pages from Vibe and Q. I chose two issues of vibe to annotate as one of the 2 issues has the President of the United States as the main image which is very unusual for a music magazine.

Production Logs: 23rd October

Today I made yet another PowerPoint slide but this time about name ideas for my magazine. The names a put on the slide are very representative of the dance music genre the chosen genre for my magazine.

Production Logs: 22nd October

Today I made another PowerPoint slide but this time on Existing Magazine names. I used Vibe, Rolling Stone, Q and Spin then said which genre each is and spoke about the meaning behind each name.

Production Log: 19th October

Today I made a PowerPoint slide explaining in connotations for 5 main colours and shades. These where Red, Blue, Green, Black and White. For each I discussed what the colour is associated with, what it symbolises and whether it has a positive or negative connotation.

Production Log: 18th October

Today I completed and uploaded a variety of exciting mastheads onto a word document then on to blogger. I tried finding different mastheads for different genres so managed to get RnB, Hip Hop, Rock, Indie, Dance and Pop.

Production Log: 17th October

Today I started getting ideas of what is already out there in the dance/Drum and Bass magazine genre. As this is such a niche genre there is not much to look at but I did get a range of ATM magazine front covers and put them in a mood board.

Production Log: 11th October

Today I finally finished and uploaded a completed front cover analysis prezzi. I was working on this a good week trying to get back into analysing magazines and getting to grips with prezzi an application I have never used before. I analysed a Q, Rolling Stones and Vibe magazine cover.

Thursday 25 October 2012

Production Log: 4th October

Today as a class we got into groups and miss ran through how to analyse a front cover, contents page and Double page spread. We learnt about the conventions of each and my group analysed a Rolling Stones front cover, NME contents page and a Kerrang Double page spread.

Production Log: 1st October

Today I spent my lesson deciding on a range of texts to choose from that I would like my magazine to have as my Heading and Text for the rest of the piece I decided on 5 options for both. I put this all on my blog on a word document titles Font Ideas.

Production Log: 27th September

Today I put my first items on my blog this consisted of my preliminary task with a magazine front cover and contents page for a magazine about Haydon named The Haydon Times. The task was made starting with my group and I going and taking pictures about the school and then uploading them to photoshop and making the contents and front cover pages using a different texts.

Contents Page Analysis

Contents Pages

Thursday 11 October 2012