Production Log - Monday 30th March

Today I acted upon feedback given to me by my teacher, for example I removed the bevel and emboss from my contents page where I have created a black box that says '@rhythmik', in doing so I think that it has made my contents page look more consistent as all of my boxes had a 'clean' look to it without any effects. therefore by getting rid of these effects makes the page look neater and more professional.
On top of this, I have made my main image on my front cover much larger to draw significant attention from my target audience to my front cover, moreover I have placed the main image in front of my title so that you a few letters of the title are covered by the image. This highlights that my magazine is an already well known brand and therefore can afford to do so, as consumers will already recognise the magazine without needing to explicitly state 'rhythmik'.

Production Log - Wednesday 5th November

In todays lesson I began to look at existing music magazine mastheads, in order to analyse them.
I chose 'NME', 'Q' and 'Billboard' magazine as I like the look of these mastheads and knew that I would be able to say a lot about them. I began making a powerpoint presentation in order to anaylse them. Analysing existing mastheads would give me a good insight on how I should go about making my own masthead and what things I need to consider for example: font, colour and the meaning behind the logo. In my opinion this is what is needed in order to make a successful masthead as they are a key feature on any magazine to attract customers and cause them to purchase the magazine.

Production Log - Monday 20th October

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In today's lesson I made a questionnaire that would help me to produce my music magazine. Making a questionnaire will give me an insight into what the audience are looking for when reading and purchasing a music magazine.

I began to think of questions that would help me to take direction in my magazine such as what kind of shot I should use for my front cover, what freebies they would prefer and what is their preferred content. Moreover I tried to make my question types as varied as possible to get the most detailed and responsive feedback from the audience.

Production Log - Monday 13th October

In todays lesson we learnt about what iconography is, we had to begin to think of what kind of genre we wanted our music magazine to be, I decided to make my magazine on the genre of 'RnB' as that is mainly the type of music I listen to and so naturally I have an interest and background knowledge about it.  We then had to make Prezi's on our genre consisting of: what kind of artists are in our genre, information and associations with our genre. I completed this in the lesson so that next lesson I am ready to write about uses and gratifications in my magazine.

Production Log - Wednesday 24th September

In todays lesson we were told that we had to analyse 3 magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads over the upcoming lessons.
We had a group discussion on how we should go about analysing a magazine. I discovered that we had to describe what it was that we could see, what it means and says about the magazine and then why it appeals to the audience. I made notes on this and on what topics to talk about eg. masthead, images, house style etc. to keep for future references.
I then began looking for front covers and contents pages of music magazines on google and began adding them to a powerpoint presentation. I will finish my front cover analysis for homework and continues workig on the others next lesson.

Production Log - Monday 22nd September

In today's lesson I completed my evaluation, I planned beforehand some topics that I thought would be good to discuss such as house style, photos, content and text. I then talked about all the decisions I made in terms of this and the skills I used to create my final product.
After I had finished this I uploaded it to my blog and began making a video of my product coming together however, I encountered difficulty with my computer and so it took a long time for me to actually get a good and saved version of my product being created on Indesign.
Next lesson I will put this video together and write a post to describe what I was doing and my decisions made during this process.

Production Log - Monday 15th September

In today's lesson we had a quick briefing as a class on what we had to do today, which was to carry on working on our magazines and to start the evaluation if we finish.
I began to put the finishing touches to my magazine by adding in a photograph of a group of girls eating lunch in the canteen to the front cover where I advertise the new lunch menu. I thought that this would be a good addition to my magazine cover as it adds more variation in imagery to advertise customers to the product. I also looked at my magazine and checked to see that I was happy with the layout of everything and the font sizes. By this time it was the end of the lesson, in my next media session I shall begin my evaluation as I have now completed my magazine.

Production Log - Wednesday 10th September

During todays' lesson I carried on making my magazine front cover and contents page on Indesign. 
I added all text to my front cover, edited the font colour and style, added another picture and made my front cover more eye-catching by adding in a text box in the colour blue. I then went on to making my contents page, I used one of the pictures of the school buildings that I took with the camera in a previous lesson and made it the background, I added in a title and all text. Next lesson I will put the finishing touches to my contents page such as editing fonts and images to make sure that I'm happy with the way that it looks and then I would have finished my preliminary task of making a school magazine.

Production Log - Monday 8th September 2014

In today's media lesson we carried on carrying out our preliminary task of making a magazine.
I used Adobe Indesign to start creating the front cover of my magazine, I began by producing the title and I played around with Indesign in terms of font size and placement on the magazine page until I was happy with how my title looked - I also used my magazine plan to know what I wanted my overall magazine to look like.
Next I added in the mid close up that I took of the year 7 girl in my last lesson and made it the focal point of my magazine cover by making it very large and covering the entire page. Finally I started adding in more text around the picture to advertise the magazine to the target audience. Throughout this lesson I have become more familiar with Indesign as I have not previously used it and I will carry on producing my magazine next lesson.

Production Log - Wednesday 3rd September

Today was the first day of my Media Studies course, we were introduced to the course and told that we were to make a Haydon magazine cover and contents page over the next week or so. 
To do this we had to begin by designing our magazine on paper, following the required theme and specification of a mid close up picture of a student. I began to think of things that would typically appear in magazines and moreover things that would suit my theme; I began to add them to my front cover plan to advertise the magazine - alongside a drawing of a student and a draft title. Next we took the cameras around school and took pictures to use when producing the magazine - I took pictures of the school buildings, a group of girls eating lunch and some mid close up pictures of a year 7 girl in preparation for my next lesson when I will begin to produce my magazine.