Welcome to my blog:

Welcome to my blog, where my Media studies coursework has been completed. Throughout this work, I have been asked to produce a magazine based on music. My product development progressed through 3 stages.
1. Research and planning. Where I analysed other music magazines, and a suitable target audience.
2. Product making. Where I used Photoshop software in order to produce my cover, contents and DPS.
3. Evaluation. I answered a set of questions using various technologies.
Just to state, the order blog posts should be viewed are indentified via a [[number]] tag at the end of each label. The (1) is different as it shows how many posts have that label title. Just to distinguish...
I had a lot of fun creating the porduct and progressing through my media coursework.
Have fun looking through my work...

Final product:

During an extension period, we were allowed to make small but important adjustments to our final products. Here were the slightly changed products of mine:

These were images made during the last few days of our magazine designing. These images were used for the final evaluation questions, as they were orginally going to feature the first version of the final product. However, the evaluation formatted questions have been changed and are now directly related towards the progression of producing these edited products instead. (Proof = Questions 1, 5 and 7 all display images of this product.)

Evaluation: Question 7: (Final)

Extension notes for Q 7:

- E.g of improving understanding is how the colours were used to conform to media magazine conventions. The colour palette used for Key Point, for instance, featured black, white, yellow and red. A common used schematic for a rock genre magazine. Understanding of how colours have affect on a magazine's representation is an example of how my porgression through creating the magazine product has helped me to gain a superior standard of knowing media. 

- Another example is the layout. The layout had to be made more neat and aligned correctly. The alignment of all content within the final product by far exceeds the standards of the draft, something which many times was shown to be a criticism full piece of work.

- A third example of how my progression of understanding of capabilities is the general representation of a media product. For instance, what content is featured, what bands are mentioned, the target audience and appealing factors, etc.. What is likely to gain more sales!

- Also, the terminology usage. How close are images, is it a mid-shot or a wide angle shot? What is the image on the cover featuring and how does it help to protray the product? (E.g. my magazine had a band in causal clothing used to represent the genre of rock.)

Evaluation: Question 6: (Final)

Evaluation: Question 5: (Final)

Evaluation on question 5. How did I attract my audience? on Prezi

Evaluation: Question 4: (Final)

Evaluation: Question 3: (Final)

Media Evaluation Question 3