AS Media Coursework Evaluation

AS Media Coursework Evaluation. on Prezi

This is my evaluation for my final product. I did the presentation on the website Prezi  because it is a creative way to make presentations you can choose the pattern in which your slides appear and it is much easier to upload it to my blog. I inserted images and videos alongside my text.

Double Page Spread (Final Product)

This is my double page spread which was also made on photoshop I enjoyed making this double page spread because I was able to effectivly show my photoshop skills. It was hard to produce but not as hard as the front cover or contents page was becuase by this time my skills have developed from the basics.

Contents Page (Final Product)

This is my contents page that I also made on photoshop it was easier to make then the front cover because I learnt the skills needed while making the front cover. I kept the red, black and white colour scheme because they are three colours that compliment each other well also the front cover colour scheme was red, black and white. If the contents page wasn't then it doesn't look professional.

Front Cover (Final Product)

This is my front cover, I used photoshop to manipulate the image and text. I used a range of different tools in order to crate that image. I looked at VIBE covers and then constructed my own, the reason I used VIBE because they are a established magazine within the music industry and especially R&B which was the genre I was making my magazine on.

At first making the front cover was hard becuase I didn't know how to use photoshop it was complicated and I had never used it before. I got help from my teachers and from YouTube clips and my skills developed so I was able to make this. Compared to the Prelim I did at the start of the year this is much better.

First attempt at front cover.

I kept the basic ideas of this contents page and used it as my draft. After recieving constructive critisism from my teachers and peers I changed some of it and added new things in order to make it look more professional.

Cover Inspiration.

This is the cover is what inspired me to have red in my colour scheme after looking at how effective it was on this cover. the mast head is over the image I want to put that in my magazine becuase it indicates tha the magazine is more important thean the artist it's the magazine that makes the artist famous not the other way around. The image is effective too becuase it is black and white that compliments the colour scheme very well and the text is given some attention too.

Photoshoot

I took photos of Safwan for my magazine. My magazine is a R&B magazine with aspects of Hip hop he wss my model we tested with typical poses at first then took close ups and mid shots.

In this photo I was instrusting him how to pose for the front cover I tried a typical 'bad boy' shot looking away fron the camera I made these shots as sterotypical as possible so I can see the difference between a typical cover and my own cover which is suppose to be original.

This is what I consider a typical 'bad boy' shot because he is leaning against a wall and looking away from the camera as if he doesnt really care and doesnt want to get the reader attention, it's a very casual shot and simple I'm using the white wall as the background because it gives the image a natural shadow and it compliments his shirt better than a color wall would have.



Front cover

I'm choosing the images for my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I'm going to use Safwan as my front cover it will be a mid shot with him looking at the camera with sunglasses on. The reason I'm going to do a unconventional pose becuase after looking at established R&B magazines I identified the conventions and I want my magazine to be unconventionl to keep it original I am going to incoperate some convetion features so it can be recogonised as a R&B magazine.

Contents page

I couldn't decide on what to do for my contents page I looked at examples done in previous years and I looked at existing R&B magazines they were all different to my ideas so I took some ideas from XXL and VIBE then mixed them with my own ideas so that I would have conventional and unconventional features so that it would appeal to the target audience. I finally decided on a basic layout with one image.

My photos

This is the photo I'm using for my front cover.

This was taken outside against a white wall the lighting was really good on that day and there was a natural shadow.