Diary Entry 16.

This lesson i have gathered feedback on my magazine and made most of my final edits and changed them to what i believe is the best they can be, i have also started to gather feedback for an evaluation so i can evaluate and have better awnsers for my media essay that i am currently doing each week.

Diary Entry 15.

Today i added comments to my final magazine and recieved feedback so that i could improve my magazine and get it to the highest standard possible.

Diary Entry 14.

Today i completed my title page for my double page spread, i did a title page to make my magazine look more professional and to give the interview a bit of an entrance. I still used all typical codes and conventions when making my title page and included all my key requirements.

Diary Entry 13

This week i have spent completing my final drafts of my magazine, for example getting feedback and working on it to make it a more productive magazine.

Diary Entry 12

Today i completed my double page spread and started my contents the last piece of my magazine i have to do, to complete it succesfully i will have to follow all the codes and conventions of a typical contents found in other magazine on the shelf of shops.

Diary Entry 11

Today I started my real magazine I got the first front cover done with my new edited pictures and made sure all the codes and conventions of a real music magazine would be featured on it.

Diary Entry 10

In this lesson i started my Mise En Scene and started to analyise all of my images used on my magazine and stated why they are used and for what reason they were indie.

Diary Entry 9

Toaday i Completed tasks such as my schedule so that i could seee what i have and havent done, also i completed my Sell Lines so i could finalise on what sell lines i want to feature on the front of my magazine and what the best most eyecatching sell line would relate to my audience the most, and i have chosen 'Win tickets to READING 2012!' as it relates to everyone within the genre of indie/rock.

Diary Entry 8

Today i fully completed my drafts and made a few changes that i will show as i asked for feedback and what i should change to get the best quality magazine i can, i made changes to fonts, colours and pictures that will all needed to be stated on my blog so i can achieve the best mark possible.

Diary Entry 7

Today i started my draft copies of my magaizne, i first started on my front cover, tohelp me produce my front cover i used a NME magazine as a star model and used bits and bobs off of it to make my magazine look the real part and something that couldnt be told apart from any now day magazine on the shelf. When creating my magazine i made sure that my theme stayed the same the whole way through, for example fonts, colours and layout, to test this was consistent i asked people around the school if they thought my front cover and double page spread where from the same magazine, with 98% of them saying yes, i also recieved feedback and all the changes i should make, which i will be completing next lesson.

my drafts so far:

Diary Entry 6

Today i completed my article draft and completed what will be written on my double page spread, when writing my article draft i cam into consideration what the interviewer would be asking, i asked questions that would relate to the audience and also to my magazine, however i feel when i make my actual magazine i will change article draft to match my images and clothes and representattions.

Diary Entry 5

Today I Created a video on my blog of me producing my masthead by text, i videod this and sped it up and added music to give a fast paced video on how i created my initial design of my masthead. I did this not only to portray my masthead but to have other forms of media on my blog and to explore other types of media when going through the stages of making my magazine.

Diary Entry 4

This week i strived to get my blog up to date, and completed my photoshoot for my magazine and gathered enough images to create a good idea of what my magzine will look like and what it will be representing, for example i used a lot of star quality when creating my magazine and looked at many previous magazines when i was completing my product research and aimed to create the perfect magazine which meets all my requirements.

Diary Entry 3

This week i started my proposal for my magazine, i portrayed things such as:

·    Type of magazine (detailed description)

·    Content of magazine

·    Style of magazine

·    Competition to your magazine

·    Target audience (detailed)

·    Business features (price, frequency, subscription, cross media synergy, new media

·    Why you feel it will succeed.

I completed this task by being very detailed and listing all the codes and conventions of my magzine and everything it will include, i also included my target audience and how im going to make my magazine relate to them, for example by using certain photos that portray star iconography and props and everything that my audience can relate to there lifestyle.

Diary Entry 2

This week i started analysing magazines, first of all i analysed similair magazines to the one i will be creating for example NME and Q, I analysed firt the front cover of three magazines, then the contents pages of three then finally the double page spreads of three. When analysing i took in all media key concepts and conventions of a typical music magazine and edited each one in detail, therefore improving my knowledge in music magazines and hopefully help me to produce a better quality magazine.

Diary Entry 1

Last week i was asked to create a blog on http://www.blogger.com/ this would be used to present all my coursework and key concepts of the course, and all the challenges i have overcome. We started the course with a preliminary task, which was to create a magazine based on the them of a 'school magazine' for a younger audience, used all media terminology and key concepts to create the best magazine i could that would appeal to a younger audience. After completing my preliminary task i uploaded it to my blog and analysed it thouroughly so i have something to improve on when i next create a magazine.