Style Sheet

Style Sheet
I created a Style Sheet so that it gives me an idea of what fonts to use on my magazine, and what artists to put on the front cover, contents page and double page spread, the style sheet also allows me to create a color scheme, and have a look whether it work with my audience and the codes and conventions of a magazine.

Flat Plans

Flat Plan
I created a Flat Plan to show what layout I would use for my front cover, contents page and double page spread. The flat plan also allows me to see what kind things I will put in my magazine such as details about a competition and where the main page will go, and where the information would be best suited on the magazine.

Flat Plan for Double Page Spread

Hierarchy of Needs

Questions Of What The Audience Are Like For Other Magazines

Questions & Answers- Media
This blog post shows what type of questions a reader of a magazine would come up when they are reading or looking at the magazine, and the answers that the magazine is promoting. The Questions & Answers below would also help me to come up with the questions and answers my magazine that the readers may come up with when looking at images in my magazine or when my demographic is reading the magazine.

Codes And Conventions!

In today's lesson I learned about Codes And Conventions. Codes And Conventions are used in media, and we looked at the codes and conventions that are used in magazines. The codes and conventions are generally adapted to the target audience that the magazine is aimed at. Some of the codes and conventions are generally used to attract people and are generally the same thought the magazines styles. 

Some of the terms we learned are: Strap lines, which are headings that are used on the front covers of magazines. Coverlines are basically subheadings which are generally used all over the magazine. The mode of address is how magazines attract people such as the audience they are aiming for, this can be through competitions which are advertised on the front cover etc. The conventions are the style of magazine and fonts etc, certain styles for certain magazines, so you can tell which magazine is aimed at what audience. Written codes are the form of headings, the captions for images on the covers, and other things such as quotes or editors message etc. The symbolic codes refer to the clothing of what the main people on the front cover are wearing, and there body language, basically things you can see which attract the eye, such as the symbolism of colors such as red which symbolizes danger. And finally the Technical codes is the camera techniques that are used such as angles, and how the lighting is used on the images and the depth of field. 

Some more technical terms were terms such as Mass marketing, which meant that a magazine would aim at more markets than one, to attract a wider audience. Niche marketing meant that the magazine was only aiming at one specific market which would attract a certain audience. Magazines also may use a hook, to attract there audience to buy their magazine such as using competitions or a free CD. The brand identity is something that a magazine has to create, it can either be a positive or negative identity, a positive identity will obviously be better. A hybrid magazine is a mix of genres to aim at more markets. We also learned that news values are who's views are the magazine using, the view's of Conservatives or The Labour party for example, but this depended on their demographic. 

Existing Product Case Study

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In this case study I have closely analysed the front cover, contents page, and the double page spread of a magazine of my own choice, which was KERRANG. I had to look at how KERRANG adheres to or deviates from it's expected house style.
Existing Product Case Study

Media Pass :)

We were told to make a media pass and this pass would give us permission to take pictures when we are out of the school bounds, this pass also provides people with vital information they need to know about us, the students. I designed my pass using Microsoft PowerPoint  and this gave me great options and helped quite alot because the program was simple to use and I could do things with ease. On my pass I have included information such as a students name, school, and admission number, and why they have got the pass, and I have also included enough space for a passport sized picture of the student.

Creation Of School Magazine

This is my draft of the school magazine, in this I have created an informative magazine cover which shows the recent GCSE results of the former year 11's and also some additional information which readers may find very useful. We also had to include a mid-shot on the front cover, and I have done that, and I have also put many other pictures on there from our camera shot/ angle practical work and these shots were relevant to the story i was covering on the front page.

Creation Of School Magazine Contents Page

This is my draft of the contents page for my school magazine, in this I have created clear layout for the contents page so people that need to navigate around the magazine have a clear page and only the neccesary information is on the contents page, so its not cluttered with too much unneccesary information. I put in the relevent information and the relevent image that I have taken myself

Practical Camera Work!

This is some of the shots that me and me group took, the collage features array of different camera shots, and camera angles, this work helped us understand the different camera shots & angles, and it also gave us the chance to snap up some shots for our school newsletter.

Got My Media Blog Set Up!

Just set up my Media Blog! :) On this blog hype. I hope to learn more about media, and the aspects of how media is used and affects the world. By the end of as level Media Studies I hope to achieve a B