Tuesday 24 January 2012
Monday 23 January 2012
Essay Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My magazines represents the young generation of artists such as Taylor Swift, Adele and Katy Perry the one of my models wears bright clothing and a straw hat this gives a friendly, calm image inviting the audience in. With magazines such as Billboard the main artist covers the front cover this shows what the main article is about e.g. Taylor Swift appeared in Billboard magazine and her image overlapped the title this makes her more important than the name of the magazine. By having the name of the artist enlarged it will attract the audience more as they will recognise the name or style of that particular name, I have used this idea in my own magazine making “Monroe” enlarged and clear this will already show my audience what my magazine has to offer. With the use of sell lines on the front cover my magazine shows how it is structured.
The back to back position of my models represents the coming of opposites one of my models wears black and symbol of a negative force while my second model wears bright clothing making her a positive force, the use of a straw hat makes the second model appear to have a relaxed personality while my first model wears glasses making her appear organised and in control. However the elbow of the second model overlaps the first this can show how the two forces are competing with each other. Both models appear fun and charming in the cover but only when the magazine is opened they take on a new look, a more confident approach. In my redesigned double page spread I will include single images of my artists to show how they look without their other half; this gives the audience another view of the artist and their true self.
On my contents page I include advertisement for social websites such as Facebook and Twitter this will allow the audience to be familiar with social groups and with the support from the bars at the bottom of my pages informing the audience to send their opinion or follow my magazine of a social network site, my magazine will be highlighted more to the public and gain more interest. Although I believe the structure of my Contents page does reflect to the theme of Pop as I have kept with a bright colour scheme similar to other Pop magazines. My magazine is aimed towards the Pop genre which means the use of bright images and colour but I believe the first draft of my magazine does represent Pop, however a lot can be done to alter it to take my magazine to a next level this will make my magazine stand out more also make a difference to my draft. I believe I need to use more colourful images and edit my backgrounds to make the pages fun and attractive.
My magazines represents the young generation of artists such as Taylor Swift, Adele and Katy Perry the one of my models wears bright clothing and a straw hat this gives a friendly, calm image inviting the audience in. With magazines such as Billboard the main artist covers the front cover this shows what the main article is about e.g. Taylor Swift appeared in Billboard magazine and her image overlapped the title this makes her more important than the name of the magazine. By having the name of the artist enlarged it will attract the audience more as they will recognise the name or style of that particular name, I have used this idea in my own magazine making “Monroe” enlarged and clear this will already show my audience what my magazine has to offer. With the use of sell lines on the front cover my magazine shows how it is structured.
The back to back position of my models represents the coming of opposites one of my models wears black and symbol of a negative force while my second model wears bright clothing making her a positive force, the use of a straw hat makes the second model appear to have a relaxed personality while my first model wears glasses making her appear organised and in control. However the elbow of the second model overlaps the first this can show how the two forces are competing with each other. Both models appear fun and charming in the cover but only when the magazine is opened they take on a new look, a more confident approach. In my redesigned double page spread I will include single images of my artists to show how they look without their other half; this gives the audience another view of the artist and their true self.
On my contents page I include advertisement for social websites such as Facebook and Twitter this will allow the audience to be familiar with social groups and with the support from the bars at the bottom of my pages informing the audience to send their opinion or follow my magazine of a social network site, my magazine will be highlighted more to the public and gain more interest. Although I believe the structure of my Contents page does reflect to the theme of Pop as I have kept with a bright colour scheme similar to other Pop magazines. My magazine is aimed towards the Pop genre which means the use of bright images and colour but I believe the first draft of my magazine does represent Pop, however a lot can be done to alter it to take my magazine to a next level this will make my magazine stand out more also make a difference to my draft. I believe I need to use more colourful images and edit my backgrounds to make the pages fun and attractive.
Diary Entry Week 12
This week I have continued to redesign my background going to a more colourful design, as this will make my magazine relate more to my origional plan. Whereas before I used a negative colour tone as I wanted to include the idea for my title however I believe it does give a fun image but does not suit the bright colour pallet I had origionaly chosen.
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Diary Entry Week 11
During the week I have been editing my music magazine and making improvements. I am planning to include more pages to my main article such as an extra double page spread with a more detailed interview, an added extra introduction page.
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