10/01/14

I've uploaded my test shots and have will begin editing them to put a title on and the main article to see what type of shot looks the best when it comes to my final image. I'm also going to edit anything that I don't like out of the image such as background area.

I'v had some verbal feedback from my teacher and added some comments to my flatplans and preliminary task to explain what I was doing at the time.

Finishing research...

I've spent a little time updating and uploading the contents pages and double page spreads that I didn't do whilst doing my research phase. It's taken a little while due to the fact that there are 4 of them and I needed to do the double page spread and contents page for each. 

They aren't actually up to a decent enough standard for me but I've uploaded all of them and added some information to them that is a good starting point although I may add to it later, possibly tomorrow if I get the chance. I'll be adding only small bits of information such as comparisons to other contents pages and double page spreads.

After finishing my all of my research, hopefully by tomorrow I'm going to try and get on to my test shots as part of my planning, which means organisation etc that I might plan out tomorrow in time for Wednesday. 

I've uploaded my flatplans to blogger after scanning them in and having them emailed to me. they came out a little faint on the copier but they are readable. They only provide as a base outline for my work and I'm now onto my test shots of my magazine so I have to organise my location and model to have a photoshoot for the image on the front cover.

I'll most likely have my images by the end of the week and then begin editing them on Photoshop to get the best quality image with the indie look that I want for the artist on the front cover. I might have several photoshoots to try and get the best images for my front cover.

The past week I have been creating my flat-plans as part of my planning stage and have created one for the contents, double page spread and front page.

I've also been informed that I was supposed to do an analysis of an actual magazines contents and double page spread, so over the next two days and the start of the Christmas holidays I'm going to be completing them and also completing my test shots for my front cover with a friend as well as doing my very best to complete the rest of my planning and get ahead as much as possible during the time I have off.

For the past 2 weeks I've been filming and editing the Vox pops for the last part of the research that I have to do before I start my magazine planning.

I got a lot more footage than I've actually edited and finalised on premiere pro, mainly because some of the footage that I shot was unusable and my filming skills are really bad, therefore the shots were out of focus and such.

As my magazine has a target audience of females I thought it best that I have more female respondents than male when I interviewed people. In the end I got a male respondent and 2 female respondents.

In the end I got good enough responses to start editing. I’m not very good at editing, so it’s taken me a full week to edit everything. Even now it’s not as good as I would like it to be and if I could change a few things I probably would have shot them all on the same day, and placed the camera in a quieter area so that when I started recording there would be as much background noise.

However this is something I can reflect on later and learn from so that next time I can do it better and get a better grade.

Wednesday 20th November 2013

So far I've been out twice trying to video people opinions about a music magazine. Most of the shots that I took were useless because the camera hasn't been positioned properly or the answers of the people that I used were useless.  

However, I'm going out once more to film some more and try and get the camera steady etc so that the shots aren't all useless. 

My skills using premiere pro also aren't the best and it's going to take me a little while once I've got all the footage that I need to edit them together, I'm lucky enough to have a good teacher and friends that can help me with this.

Week beginning 11/11/13

For the past week I've been editing the different pages that are already on my blog.

So the pages that I have already got up have been going through a strict screening process through my teacher to make sure it's up to a decent standard and has all the right information in it.

My teacher told me about extending the readership profiles on each of the magazines, so I've done this for Q, Rolling Stone and Billboard. I haven't yet finished this for NME, but shall be finishing this over the weekend.

Although all magazines are specific and have a particular genre that they stick to, they also divert from their genre specific content and explore other things which attracts different audiences to the magazine. This is a theme that runs through all three of the magazine's that I've looked at so far, but this is also based on the online content, included and articles that are featured in the most recent addition of the magazine.

After analysing the NME wider audience I'll be able to determine whether this is a running theme with all of the magazines and helps me decide whether although I am creating a genre specific music magazine, to include different articles that might attract a different type of audience than the one I'm specifically aiming for.