Evaluation Question Five

For my Evaluation Question 5 i made a website containing the questions answer

http://chloehorneasmedia.wix.com/question5

Evaluation Question four

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question Three

Evaluation Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups? from chloehorneasmedia

Evaluation Question One

1. In what way does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product...

Draft evaluation-Q7

Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

mise en scene and camera work:

Looking back at the prelim cover that i produced i can see a massive improvement, in terms of photos and layouts. It was noticeable the improvement of my photos as they are clearer and the poses are better, this was due to the improvement of my organisational skill of preparing the lighting and looking at other covers for poses. I didn't do this for my preliminary task. For the background i wanted it to be plain, this way the main focus would only be the model i have used. 

The knowledge of my camera work has improved alot as i got to experiment with lighting and different modes in the camera. This will also help me take photos on my camera at home and a skill i can take on later. 

Clothing:

The first time i took photos i took my time into looking into the clothes that my audience would be interested in. In my preliminary task the shirt my model wore was striking, yet took the focus away from the actual artist its self. So when it came to taking the actual photos i knew the model had to wear a plainer outfit, but yet one that was still in the chosen genre. The photographs turned out better as the focus was more on the artist and not the model. I also chose to do this as there is a fashion section in my magazine that meant that would be a focus more on the artists extravagant leading edge fashion. 

Text arrangement and editing: 

I feel that the arrangement of my final product has improved greatly since my prelim as i have took more time into creating the final product and learnt more skills. Also i had conducted more research of magazines already out there and knew what worked more. When it came to doing my preliminary task i only used one font on the front of my magazine, this makes it look uninteresting. However the use of colours does help catch your eye. On the other hand on my final product it uses two fonts that makes the cover striking and would stand out on a shelf. By looking at Q magazine i got a idea of what already worked and what i could change. 

The title of the magazine changed as my feedback indicated that the title wouldnt work for my chosen genre, therefore i chose octave which was unique and linked to music. The prelim and final product used the same font, however they are of different color, this is because Red is more striking and eye catching, i know this as Q magazine use a red box. 

When it came to creating tag lines for my magazine, i reevaluated the prelim magazine. The prelim magazine didnt give much information about what was inside, this meant people wouldnt be interested as they dont know what is inside. Also by using different fonts this made the cover more interesting for the reader. The use of three colours on my magazine cover made it more striking and interesting too,whereas on my cover i only used two. 

Looking back at my prelim magazine contents i can see alot of improvements. my prelim contents is boring and plain. where as my final product is more exciting as it uses different colours and a layout that i know already works. The colours on my prelim contents match the colours on the front, this is also used on my final magazine too. The main difference between the two is the use of double page for my prelim, i chose not to do this on my final product as the text would look too spaced out and therefore creating a boring contents page. The final magazine contents looks full of pages and things to read which will keep the reader interested.  

Draft Evaluation- Q6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Cameras: When doing my photo-shoot i used a Nikon D3000 camera. When i first used it in my first photo-shoot i found that it was a complex camera to use but offered me a wide range of modes to get high quality photos. When using the camera and taking the photos i noted the positioning and background of the model. I looked at previous photos used in magazines to get a feel for what worked and what didn't. One thing that worked was when the model was facing forward, this engaged the reader with the artist making her more inviting. I also used some artificial lighting and a white back drop to enhance the look of my photos further. The lighting made the images a higher quality and the white back drop helped focus on the model more. 

                                        

Macs and Windows: The college provided iMacs throughout the course, for both practical and coursework lessons and tasks. At home i used my Toshiba laptop with windows. Comparing the two i prefer the toshiba laptop as it is less complex but still uses all the programmes as an iMac. A problem that i encountered when doing my work is when i had finished on the iMac i couldn't then go and do the same piece of work on the computers in the library as it saved on the actual computer itself instead of my area. This made it hard when i came to some tasks. With these pieces of equipment i have been able to complete my media work as it is mostly online and requires to use certain programmes such as Blogger, Microsoft word and photoshop. 

Photoshop: I used photoshop on both the college macs
and my toshiba laptop to create the majority of my magazine practical coursework. When i first came i wasn't certain on how to use the programme but with tasks set such as the prelim magazine cover and contents it helped me expand on the skills that i needed to learn which led me to creating the draft and proper magazine. I have learnt how to edit and manipulate photos in a certain way like using the lasso tool to cut images out. When it came to editing the model for blemishes this is where i needed to use another programme such as Befunky.com and Ribbet.com as i felt more confidence in using these programmes to making the model more photogenic. All of the magazine pages were created using Photoshop CS6, using multiple layers to add each element of the pages. I feel that after creating my magazine i have some confidence when coming to use photoshop and a greater understanding of the programme.

 Online sites and programmes: i used a series of different online programmes to aid me into creating my magazine practical and coursework. I chose to use blogger to create my coursework blog, this enabled me to post my research. This was good as it kept everything in the same place and was easy to track my progress. I also used Befunky.com and ribbed.com to edit photos of my model. I felt i needed to use these instead of photoshop as i felt more confident doing so. To add some detail and interest in my posts i used animo to to present my pitch for y magazine. When creating word documents of my research i then uploaded the document onto scribed.com and use the embed code on my blog.