Preliminary task.

I used a bright green font for the headline as the Fisher house color is green.
this was my first attempt at creating a magazine cover. i think that the use of red and white was a good idea but the positioning of the text was wrong. i think this because there is a clash between the light coming into the library so the text is hard to read.

Drafting & Planning: NME Creative Task

Today we have made a basic NME front cover with Trent Reznor as our cover star. We imported the pictures into paint.net and deleted the background behind Trent so we could have his head covering some of the NME masthead. We also included the date, price, bar-code, cover star credits and two cover lines.

From this task we have learned basic Paint.net skills. This will help us to make our own magazine cover on Paint.net as we will know how to manipulate images.

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I really like this content page because it uses a large bright image to show who the cover story is about. The subheading 'features' shows the reader what else the magazine and makes them want to read about their favorite bands that are also featured in the magazine.



Compared to the classic rock magazine content page this Kerrang content page contains more information and images. This is useful to me as it shows me that a good contents page doesn't need to be full of images or have a overly large amount of writing. This magazine would attract readers from the age of 14-27 years of age and the Classic Rock magazine would attract readers from the age of 30-48 years of age. The primary colors of the magazine (black, white and yellow) are fluent throughout the magazine (this shows me that the colors on the front page, contents page and my double page spread should all include the same theme).

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These magazine covers will help me to design my own front cover for when i create my Rock Music Magazine.
all of these magazines keep the masthead at the top of the page all the time. i will need to do the same to keep the same look and design of a rock magazine.
i have labeled all of the codes and conventions that i could find in each of these magazines so i can try to replicate the convention styles..  

Drafting & Planning

this is my magazine front cover. I have used a medium close up for my picture as i thought it would leave enough space to include a headline and items on the bottom and top of the magazine. the picture i used suits the use as it shows off the main story that i was going to talk about (the year 11 prom)

Questionnaire Results

 
For question one people said i should have white as my primary colour for my school magazine. I will take this into consideration because it will make the writing on the magazine stand out more and make it easier for people to read who have glasses.

For question two the majority of people said sport i think i will go with the odd few answers of school achivments and sucesful students. I decided to choose the least popular answer because it will make students who read it feel more joined into the magazine so it includes them not just the people who win at sporting events.

For question three, nine out of the ten people i asked said that there should be a puzzle page in the school magazine. One of the answers said that there should be a prize for who ever gets all the of the puzzles correct. This will be definatly included because it will make people want to do the puzzle and this will make the magazine fun and informative.

For question four everyone said yes to having interviews from teachers. This will be good to have inside the magazine as people will want to know their teachers better and by reading the interviews students can also send in questions to the magazine to get their questions answered by the teachers.

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the picture shown above is from a rock magazine. The magazine is effective as it is all black and white except for a free CD sign and a CD. This is to grab the attention of the customer as customers will see the added content to the magazine and will buy it to get the latest "free" CD from the band featured on the cover. this magazine hasn't used the left third convention and instead they have used the left portion of the magazine to show one of the artists and a pug. the magazine has still used other conventions such as the use of cover lines and the bar code.

This is another example of of a rock magazine also featuring AC-DC. The magazine is effective because the font is very unusual and isn't the type of font you would see on every magazine. But the font is effective because it grabs you and would make you read the front of the magazine and see what you are missing out on. this is another example of a magazine not using the left third for cover lines but they have used the bottom of the magazine for the cover star credit and the left third for the main image and the bar code, they have used the conventions that are normally seen in magazines but they have placed them in a unique way as the bar code is in the middle left of the magazine.

this task will help me to layout my own rock music magazine later on during a level media.

Favourite Band (website)

The link below is a link to the home page of AC-DC which is my favourite band.

http://www.acdc.com/us/home

I like AC-DC because i have loyalty towards them in the fact that i grew listening to them as my dad has been a fan of the band since they started.

I find the website appealing because it has the bands main colour as its background and there is a hyperlink bar which will lead you to what part of the website you want to see. This makes the website easier to use.

AC-DC would normally be in rock magazines such as Kerrang magazine or Classic Rock magazine as they both associate them self with the top rock bands in the world.

The website reaches their fanbase by puting art and pictures from their album covers and tours as shown below

The first AS media task

The picture shown below was from a cropping and resizing exercise that i did this morning to demonstrate my ICT skills using a picture and a magazine masthead. 

First Entry.

 I am Jake McEntee and this is the first entry for my A-Level Media blog. I am attending STACS sixth form and have been at STACS since year 7