Codes and Conventions

Production Diary 2

This week we carried on from our planning and research of our preliminary task and started to take pictures for it. We were sent out of class in small groups to be creative and imaginative of the genre of pictures we would have liked to put in our magazine. After taking these pictures, they got scanned and processed and we started to create our final task partly using our plan and partly using fresh ideas.

Production Diary 6

This week I have been looking at uses and gratifications. This has helped me to figure out what I need in my magazine and helped me understand that my magazine must entertain, inform and excite readers to the mazimum possible level. I have also created my survey on music magazines, this should help me to understand what type of audiences like and prefer to have in music magazines, in order for me to apply to my own magazine. One thing I will consider in mind as I produce the final magzine is to keep on reffering back to my survey, previous students work, analysis of work etc. to insure I get the best result in my magazine for the audience to enjoy.

Production Diary 5

This week I have been looking at contents pages and analysing them. This helped me to see what creates a professional appearance and what factors are needed to navigate your way through. I have noticed that there are big numbers on top of pictures. This is to tell you what page the picture is linking to. I have also noticed that there are a wide range of shots, from close ups to long shots. It has started to give me an idea of what the structure and layout of my magazine should look like.

Music Magazine Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9PQLB9V

Production Diary 4

This week, I have been asked to pick out two magazine articles and analyse them. The purpose of this task was to help us to understand and give us ideas of what we should apply to our magazine. From this, I will look at the layout, the posts, the subheading of the posts and see what kind of things I would like to put into my magazine to help it look the part. I also found that these magazine articles will make things so much easier for me to apply to my final magazine as I would have a hint of an idea of what to put in it and how I would like it to look.

Production Diary 3

This week we were told to choose 3 magazine covers (e.g. previous students work) and analyse them. I have decided to choose 3 different magazine covers which I thought would give me a better and much broader understanding of what a magazine cover should look like and answer questions like why is it like that or why has the designer placed that there....From these magazine cover examples, I will gain suitable knowledge for my final magazine and how I would like to present it.