Powerpoints

In preparation to creating my own music magazine, we researched concepts with different magazine front covers and also had a look at professional photography in order to decide the kind of images we would want for our own music genre. We enclosed all this within two powerpoint presentations.
6B - Magazine Conventions Students)

6A - Professional Photography Students)

Completed Front Cover and Contents Page

College Magazine Evaluation
During the photography, I learnt a range of new skills and key words. I learnt about the use of framing and all the different features of a photograph of a person such as Mode of Address. I believe for my own photography it could have gone better as much front cover image was more of a medium shot than a medium close up like required. This is because due to there only being two of us, we couldn’t position the camera in a favourable place and get us both within the shot.
I believe that I learnt a lot about using the software as Photoshop used to be completely alien to me. However, I can now confidently crop out the background of a photo and edit the colouring and lighting. This is something I would not have been able to do before therefore this is a great help to me. Also, using In Design was something new to me so learning to use that software was greatly useful as it made the process of making the front cover and contents page very easy.
I think that my over-all magazine cover was a bit of a disappointment. I did not get the effect I was looking for. However I believe this is due to the white background. I initially wanted a black background but this was too much of a task as the pictured kept on losing focus on that background for whatever reason. Also whilst using In Design each item has a box around it, and now that they were taken away, may page has a lot of white gaps in which does not look professional at all. I believe that I used the house style effectively and the style of the magazine remains constant. It does look feasible as a college magazine yet I believe I could have done a much better job.
I chose what I did because I wanted to create a magazine that would appeal to students and actually make them want to read it. No student want’s an information booklet on universities or loads of information that doesn’t apply to them. This is why I used the information from my questionnaire to create the articles. This can be shown by promoting “The Strokes”. This is because a lot of the participants in my questionnaire enjoyed indie music so it seemed obvious to feature it in my magazine. Also, the free gift of ‘Festive Condoms’ is there purely for fact people said they would be interested in reading about sexual relations and relationships in my questionnaire. This would encourage people to buy the magazine and also help promote safe sex which is both beneficial and sensible. I tried to display my magazine as speaking on the same level as the students so an informal tone is used and the articles are something they can relate to.

Planning for my College Magazine.

College Magazine
1. The name of my magazine will be CLM. (College Lifestyle Magazine)
2. This is what I will plan to make my magazine similar to.

3. It will be the winter edition.
4. Colour Scheme- Red, Black and White.
5. Headlines- COLLEGE SET TO BE HIT BY WORST SNOWFALL FOR 30 YEARS or HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CHRISTMAS. Kickers- Chance to win gig tickets. Latest winter fashion. Advice on university. Interview with local bands. Christmas wish list.

I have chosen the colour scheme due to the fact i associate all of those colours with winter. Red- Chirstmas White- Snow Black- Represents dark nights. The Kickers have been specifically rendered to meet the needs of the students that i questionned in my questionnaire.

After i did this initial plan for my Magazine, Myself and a couple of other class mates ventured around the college looking for ideal photographs for the front cover. We were given a criteria that the cover image had to be a medium-close up. We also tried to make the image tie in with the edition of the magazine and this is shown by the clothes worn.

My own photoshop experiment

I have attempted to combine this background with Keith Flint from the prodigy. Below is my end result-

My Questionnaire

For each participant in my questionnaire, i gave them each an individual number so i could track their results throughout. This way, i can get a more precise evalutation for each student.
Below is my questionnaire, each question has it's own results. The paticipants will have their numbers in brackets next to their chosen answer.

1) How old are you?
     16 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)
     17
     18
     18+

2) Are you currently in a relationship?
    Yes (3,4,5,6,10)
     No (1,2,7,8,9,12,13,14)

3) Are you a glass half full kind of person or a glass half empty?
   Half Full (3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13)
   Half Empty(1,2,4,14)

4) How many times a month do you socialize outside of college?
    2-3 Times
    5-10 Times (5,6,14)
    10 + (1,2,3,4,7,8,11,9,10,12,13)

5) Which gender is the participant?
     Male (1,5,6,7,13,14)
     Female(2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12)

6) What is your favourite music genre?
    Pop (2,3,8)
    R&B
    Rock (9)
    Indie(1,4,7,10)
    Hip-Hop (1,5,6)
    Other (11,12,13,14)

7) What is most important to you?
     Friendship (3,4,8,10)
     Money (5)
     Power (6,7,14)
     Respect (9,11,12)
     Success(1,2,13)

8. Do you belong to a large group of friends or a small group of close friends?
    Large (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)
    Small(1)

9. Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
    Introvert (1,2,11,12,13,14)
    Extrovert(3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

10) Do you have any interesting hobbies?
      None (1,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,14)
      Dance (2)
      Football (7, 13)
      Singing (11)

11) Which is most valuable in a college magazine?
       University advice (1,4,5,6,7,12,14)
       Enrichment oppertunities
       Subject information
       College advice (2,3,8,9,10,11,13)

12. Would you find articles on sexual health and relationships helpful to you?
      Yes (5,6,9,11,13,14)
      No (1,2,3,4,7,8,10,12)

13. Do you think having articles promoting respect would appeal to you?
      Yes (5,9,11)
      No (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,12,14)

14. What do your parents work as?
      Mechanic (1)                                   Retail Assistant (1,2)
      Office Worker (2)                           Florist (3)
      Meter Reader  (3)                           Hair Dresser (4)
      Restraunt owner (4)                        Trucker (5)
      Council         (5,6                            Joiner (7)
      Teaching (7,11,12,13,14                 Manager (8)
      Carer  (8,9)                                     Scaffolder (9)
      Jeweller  (10)                                  ICI (12)
      Engineer (13)                                  Finance (14)

 15. What kind of home do you live in?
       Semi-detached (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13)
       Detached (14)
       Flat
       Terraced (1)

  16. Do you buy your clothes from one shop or a range of shops?
       One Shop
       Range of shops (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)

 17. Do you crave to be successful in whatever you do?
       Yes (2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,13,14)
        No (1,5,6,7,9,10,11,13,14)
 
 18. Do you go out of your way to please others?
      Yes (2,3,4,8,12)
      No (1,5,6,7,9,10,11,13,14)

I specifically chose my questions in order for me to get a perspective of my participants. For example I used Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in question 7, 12 and 13. For example, 7 shows that Friendship and Respect were the most important to my audience. This means that esteem and love/belonging are what appeals most to my participants.
I attempted to find out my paticipant's NRS Social Grades by asking them about their parent's occupations. Finding out the salary of their occupations would help me find each participants social grades.
Thirdly I looked into the Psycographics in marketing, advertising and sales. This is why I used the last three questions. I was trying to find out if any of my participants were brand loyal. If they were they would belong to the Belonger category. Then i asked question 17 to see if they prioritise their work and always want to be the greatest in their work. If so, they would belong to the Acheiver category. Lastly, I asked question 18 to see whether the people try to promote themselves to the likes of the achievers. If this was the case, they would fit into the emulator category.

Original Photography

Photo shoot with keiran Froom and will Walters

Above and below, a medium close up of two people, where their clothes stand out against a background. We chose to take these pictures against the brick wall, and the clothes been worn were dark and made the brick work look delicate.

This shot was careful use of framing. We chose the trees to frame the picture as they surround the main focus in a controlled way.

We used a rose as our interesting texture as it is built up if layers and shades, and the grass behind adds to the texture of the rose.

This was a low angled shot, we were stood on a wall while the photographer was stood on the floor so we could get a good quality low angled shot.

This was another shot for careful use of framing.

This was a shot we took as an interesting textured back ground, it has a creepy and haunted feel to it.

This was a photo which we used to demonstrate the rule of thirds.

This photo demonstrates juxtaposition, we took a delicate and beautiful rose and put it with a rough and worn wall.

This was another low angled mid shot. below and above.

Original Photography

This is the original Photo shoot we did to start our photography: Photoshoot