Evaluation

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Finished Double Page Spread

Finished Contents Page

Front Cover Finished

Photoshop

More photoshop practice

NME Double Page spread

Double page spread analysis

Q contents page

NME Contents page

NME Magazine front page

Front Cover #1

College Newsletter proper

My Questionnaire Resuts

Here are my Questionnaire results click here

My College Front Cover Mock Up

St Ambrose Balow Collage magazine

Mood Board

We have been asked to do a mood board to show our favourite bands and artists to help us decide what genre we are going to do for our magazine

Photoshop Practice

Rules of Thirds

Rule of thirds is thought as dividing the focused image into 9 different sections. The middle piece being the key element you want to focus on. This picture intends to engage the selective viewer’s attention.

Balanced images are shown for when the photograph is landscape, each line gives a direct meaning and stays on such things as; cliffs and horizontal lines.

Not every scenery that is getting focused on will work, so the rule will not be complied in the same way and will have to be broken. 

this is with and without the lines divided in to groups

Cohen's Moral Panic

Moral Panic is a condition, episode of a person, a group of people emerge as a threat to social values and interests, I.E. drugs, youths, and the MP's expenses scandal are all examples of a moral panic. The media creates "Folk Devils" these are groups if people that have been established as bad groups of people who are effecting the Moral Panic.

Moral Panic falls into to 5 categories

1. Concern - the behaviour of a group are represented as being a threat the requires our concern
2. Volatility - this is a short lived period. Panic erupts but is difficult to sustain. There are negative consequences for the rest of us
3. Hostility - "folk devils" constructed to create a division between 'them' and 'us'
4. Consensus - there is a widespread acceptance of threat posed by the group. This does not always reflect nation concern, but the campaigner will be very vocal whilst opposition will be weak and disorganised 
5. Disproportionality - there is a wild exaggeration of the evidence presented against the opposition - everything from the number of people involved to the scale of the problem is exaggerated to create a moral panic  

Deyes High Newsletter

Media Vocab

Buzz Words: "Wow", "Exclusive", "Free" are all examples of this.
Puffs: Colourful boxes promoting features inside. House Style: A magazine's distinctive design that distinguishes it from its competitors.
Strap Line: A sloganBanner: Text which stands out on a coloured background generally at the bottom of the magazine.
Copy: The Main Story in the MagazineAnchorage Text: The way in which text helps to pin down the meaning of a picture and vice versa.

Pugs: Placed at the top left and right corners of the paper and are known as the 'ears' of the page. The price of the paper, the logo or a promotion are often positioned there.

Motto: Memorable phrase that is recognisable to a brand

Headline: Catchy Title for the main article

Sell Lines: Text on the front cover that helps to sell the magazine to the audience

Caption: Description of the main image

Masthead: Name of the magazine

Lead: The introductory paragraph of an article. Usually written in bold or capitals.

Drop Capitals: Really big letter that starts off an article

Feminisim Theory

As a perspective for looking at media texts, feminists would see most media output as being the product of a patriarchal or male dominated order, aimed at objectifying women as sex objects only cast for roles because of the way they look. Feminism was the response to society's assumptions that women should be subservient to men; until the emergence of feminism women were treated almost as objects, passive agents in a male world.
Laura Mulvey created a theory called the 'Male Gaze', this edition of the magazine Rolling Stone which shows Megan Fox in a revealing seductive pose. This leads to assumption that this will make men buy the magazines, just because of what is on the front cover.

Mulvey argues that people look at things in two different ways,

• Voyeurism- turning the represental figure into an object so that it becomes increasingly beautiful.
• Fetishism- Cult of the female movie star i.e Marlyn Monroe, celebrated for her looks but considered an object and often treated as one.

Questionaire

Please will you take the time to fill in my Questionaire. To do so please click here

What type of research?

We looked at Quantative and Qualative research I have choosen to choose to use Quantative research I have Choosen to do this because it allows a more broad type of research and will allow more people to be able to qive a more direct answer which allows my research to be easier to collate.

What Have we got to do ?

For our Media coursework we have been asked to create a front cover for a music magazine, a contents page and a double page spread of a choosen artist. To do this i will research different music magazines and different generes of music to see how they differ i will be doing this by creating a questionaire of quantative research to find out about this. We have also been asked to do a front page and a contents page for a colllege magazine aswell.
To do this we will analyse 2 music magazine front covers, 2 contents page and 2 double page spreads, this will give me a good understanding on what to make my magazine too look like and who to set it out.
For my college magazine i will analyse a college magazine and a double page spread this will help give me ideas on how to  prduce the best magazine.
Also during the rest of my coursework i will be producing:-

Mood board
Production schedule
Venue release form
Risk assesements
Front page mock up
Contents mock up
Double page mock up
Photoshop practises
Mock shots
All of these will show my progress through the different stages of my coursework