Friday, 26 March 2010

Completing my coursework

During this coursework assignmet I have learnt a great deal of lessons, lessons about using the technology, about the different media institutions and industries and a huge amount about target audience. Now that I have completed my research, construction and evaluation of my magazine I feel that I have done my work well to the best of my ability and have grown in confidence learning about and using the information I have gained through doing this task and my media lessons.

My completed front cover

My completed contents page

My completed double page article

My audience responses for my music magazine

My music magazine evaluation

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Update

I have now completed my magazine evaluation, and feel that I have done it to the best of my ability, trying to consider all of the important facts of which I wish to include. I have also collected all of my responses to my questionnaires and am displaying my work in tables and graphs.

My audience feedback questionnaire

Male female?



What do you think of the topic of my article?

Good OK Bad



Why?



What do you think of the genre hybrid of Japop for my magazine?
(Can you please provide a few descriptive words for your opinion?)




Would you enjoy reading my magazine?

Yes No


Why?



Which pages of my magazine do you like the best?

Front Cover Contents Page Double Page Article



Why?



Do you like my use of colour?

Yes No




Why?



Do you like my use of imagery?

Yes No



Why?



Do you think that my magazine looks and is effective as a music magazine?

Yes No



Why?


Do you feel that I have targeted my appropriate audience of younger females, E-C1 and of aspirers and followers?

Yes No



Why?



Can you think of any improvements?

Update

Now I have completed these portions of my evaluation, I have to focus upon completing my seven question evaluation and my audience responses to my magazine. For the seven questions, I have to concentrate on going into depth and really explaining in full detail, the process of making my magazine, target audience, institutions e.t.c. I am finding some questions more difficult to answer, in comparison to others, for example questions which are to do with target audience and institutions I am finding easier to finish, whereas with questions based upon how I’ve used codes and conventions and a comparison to my Preliminary task, I have struggled to complete them, as there are a lot of factors I wish to include. I have made a questionnaire to report the audience responses to my magazine and am now in the midst of getting them filled out and displaying the replies in a table.

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Constructing my magazine

Making my page numbers

Creating my Japop CD cover

This is the step by step creation of my Japop CD cover, I have depicted the stages of it's construction and how I related it to the relevant topics, such as target audience, Jazz andPop. I have also referred to professional Jazz and Pop CD covers in an attempt to better understand how they can attract their particular target audiences.

Constructing my Japop CD cover

Editing my images

Update

I have written down the processes of editing my images and constructing my magazine, including many of the smaller features. I have done so by concentrating on how I tried to target my appropriate audience and link to both Jazz and Pop.

Comparing my images to professional Jazz and Pop magazines

Comparing profressional Pop and Jazz poses to those from my own photo shoot

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Images

From the images I have taken I have compared them to other professional Pop and Jazz, artist's poses and the poses featured on professional Jazz and Pop magazines. I have done this in order to properly attract and refer to features of each of the genres, in the hybrid of Japop.

Linking Jazz and Pop

Update

Continuing on with my magazine and it's construction, it has now been completed. I have been very conscientious about the factors of it's appearance with regards to magazine codes and conventions and target audience which I will be explaining in detail it the slide shows which shall follow, this post. Since finishing my magazine I have completed a number of slide shows sbout a) construction, b) appearance and decsions and finally c) creation of the hybrid of our genre: Japop.