Final Note.

Hello Moderator,

Below, beginning from the month September, you will find my "Research and Planning" posts for my magazine. After that you will find my Evaluation Posts (questions 1 - 7), and my completed music magazine. 

I have attempted to present my blog in a nice and clear fashion so it is easy for you to understand and navigate through. 

Hope you have fun scrolling through my blog!

Thanks, Annalise.

Evaluation: Foundation Portfolio, Question 7.

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

Starting from September, I produced a College Magazine and then a Music Magazine. In the early stages of my preliminary task I had a very limited understanding of using a camera. Which resulted in a low quality image on my college magazine. Since then, I have gained more skills with using the canon DSLR camera, testing out features of the camera such as "AutoFocus" to experiment in how to take the best HD image. The difference between the image on my college magazine front cover and my music magazine front cover is clear and shows that my knowledge of using a camera has improved. 

I already had a lot of experience with using Photoshop before making both of my magazines and found it easy to colour my images, yet my skills still have improved in regard to colour the images as the image on my music magazine is clearly a lot clearer and brighter to attract my target audience. One skill I improved on a lot via Photoshop is with cutting my images, as you can see the image in my college magazine has very messy lines and easily indicates that I have cut my image. However, on my music magazine the image looks like that is exactly how it was taken and does not indicate that previously there was a background behind the model. 

Looking at both magazines, I can see that since completing my collage magazine I have improved on things such as great colour schemes and appropriate fonts to suit my target audience better. My music magazine shows much more design and more thought and skills has gone into its creation, while my college magazine looks quite bare which is seen as unprofessional.

My target audience has become much clearer in my music magazine and demonstrates that my creativity has flourished since creating my college magazine back in the early stages of production. 

Evaluation: Foundation Portfolio, Question 6.

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the production of my music magazine, I used a number of technologies to create my product. Some of these I improved my skills on and other were new to me and I had to learn how to use the technologies.

I used a Canon DSLR camera (shown above) to take my photos for my music magazine. The camera has various settings which I was not familiar with as I had not used this camera before the production of my music magazine. I took me a couple of attempts at testing out the different settings of the camera for me to become used to using it. I found that the "Flash" on the camera was better turned on as, without it and considering the lighting where I took my photos, the images came out a bit too dark to use for my magazine. Also, I thought the setting "AutoFocus" was beneficial as I have quiet unsteady hands and this allowed me to reach more high quality photographs.

I also used the program "IShowU" to show how I used different technology software like Photoshop, Indesign, Blogger and iPhoto.

Other platforms I used for my magazine are Flicker, PowerPoint Presentation and Slide share.

Evaluation: Foundation Portfolio, Question 5.

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

http://www.slideshare.net/annalisehardman/question-5-evaluation-47876564

here is a link to slide share showing my response to question 5.

Evaluation: Foundation Portfolio, Question 4.

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product and why?

Here is a drawing I did of the stereotypical person who would purchase my magazine and showing my target audience.

The drawing shows a 15 year old teenager named Lily who is dressed in a simple flowing skirt, tank top, cardigan, trainers, a headband placed on her head and wearing a necklace. These clothes are fashionable among teenagers and are not very expensive as my target audience are teenagers and would not have the money to buy expensive clothes, such as products from Selfridges which are mostly designer.

Lily likes to listen to music from artists such as Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake. Since she is passionate about there music, she loves to read about there personal life, relationships they have and opinions they have on a range of issues/topics.

She would like to be an actress when she is older and possibly become a new pop artist as well. When she is older enough she wishes to attend auditions for small roles to start her acting career but also audition for The X Factor.

Also, Lily loves animals - she has a dog named TayTay, after the artist Taylor Swift. Lily's favourite thing to do is take her dog out for walks in the Spring time - her favourite season - and volunteer at animal shelters to help take care of the animals.

Lily is a "White-British" female and is fairly slim, has dark brunette hair and hazel eyes. This is consider to be a stereotype for both a leading actress and a Pop singer - such as Megan Fox and Katy Perry.

She takes care when applying her make-up and often browses YouTube on tutorials for new hairstyles and make-up tips to improve her look and experiment in both departments, demonstrating she takes pride in her looks which is true for any celebrity. She has a fairly large group of friends who she hangs out with most of the weekend, and week-days when attending School. Her favourite subjects in school are English, Art and Drama.

Evaluation: Foundation Portfolio, Question 3.

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your product and why?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/132207366@N04/17405975621/in/photostream/

here is a link to my answer for question 3.