Completed Music Magazine Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread

Evaluation - Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

 FRONT COVER
The change between my college magazine and my music one, is very distinctive.  As you can probably tell, I've used a wider range of technology on Photoshop to make my music mag' look more professional. On the college magazine, I've just kept a plain background and left a load of white space - covering it up with a spray painted splash tool.  The title 'Kicks' overlaps one of the splashes, making it look pretty stupid.  I didn't know at the time, how to use the layers style on Photoshop, but as I've progressed onto my main music magazine, I've used it appropriately, and the model manages to overlap LEET well.  Also, the photograph on my college magazine is badly cropped, where parts of the actual clothing are left out or cut off, making the outline disorientated.  I've managed  to crop out the image perfectly on my music magazine - the outline isn't disorientated and I also chose to give it an outline glow, after learning a bit of the Photoshop options.  The whole layout of my college magazine looks shabby, and very amateurish.  None of  the subtitles are in a layout way, and they're just plotted everywhere.  On LEET, I decided that I'd have a more compex layout, and that's how I developed the 'T' into a content-store. Also the colours aren't really attracting on Teenage Kicks, due to the amount of white left.  I didn't make the image bright enough aswell, so the model looks washed out like it would without an SLR.  My use of imagery and word of text is definitely better on LEET, as it's more emphasized.
























 I've developed my magazine greatly between LEET and Teenage Kicks.  The pictures on my college magazine are shabby, and don't look professional, or suite the type of magazine that I was doing.  As mentioned before on my front cover, they look amateurish. The photographs on my music contents page, look like they'd probably feature in a well known magazine.  I've learned that to pull off a good magazine, you need to have photos that are going to attract readers, and not make people put the magazine back.  I've achieved this though, through using SLR cameras.  The entire layout of the LEET contents looks more complex.  I've used a wide range of different shapes, giving it a different look with the whole 'white background subtitles' contrasting against the white T - whereas, on my college magazine, there's no layout at all.  It's just a white background with a plain title, that I clearly haven't developed or given thought about. There's not enough content on there to inform a reader, and probably wouldn't even be put in a magazine.  I've used a wider range of texts as well on LEET, due to the fact that I need to inform readers if they're paying for a  high classed magazine.  Giving a 'band index' and a sidebar of contents makes the magazine looked more developed on a whole. Teenage Kicks basically has nothing on LEET.

Evaluation - Question 6 - What have you learnt about the techonolgies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation - Question 5

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Evaluation - Question 4 - What kind of media institution miht distribute your product and why?

Evaluation - Question 3 - Who would be the audience for your media project? Why?

Evaluation - Question 2

 

How does your media product represent similar and particular social groups?

The Taylor Momsen image is taken from  an actual Kerrang magazine, double page spread which is what my photo I've taken, is also used for.  I found this image to begin with, and based my photo on it, as I though the posture and the style suited the genre what I wanted to achieve.

One of the main similarities would be the shot type.  I decided it would look good to do a medium close-up, with spacious image to the left or to the right. It captures the outfit of the model, and also the facial expression, which gives off attitude.  I decided  to also make the photo a single one, with just one person in, like the Kerrang solo artist one.

The whole posture and angle of the photo is  taken similarly too, but on different sides (flipped vertically etc).  Both models heads are tilted to the left or the right, with a wide open 'gasp' type of expression - which is another similarity, with them staring into  the camera. 

Costume wise, I liked the look of  the collar necklace on Taylor, as it enhanced that area & made the face stand out more, which is what I wanted to achieve.  I also liked the whole  eye make-up.  It matches the whole Kerrang style.  I would of probably still chosen to go with this style, if doing a different photo but it matches the genre I like, best.

There's hardly and differences between these two photos.  One of them would be the main costume, as my model has a top with white, distinct writing on, whereas the Kerrang model one has just a plain leather jacket, which matches the genre more.  

Another difference would be, the back ground of the photo.  My model was intentionally meant to be cropped out of the background, but the difficulties of doing so meant I couldn't, and her black hair wouldn't match the  background like it does in the Kerrang one.

Lastly, the slightest thing different between these photos would be the hand that isn't used on my model.  It gives more attitude, towards Taylor, but I didn't think to do this on the model at the time.