Production Diary 8 - Colour ideas and props and costumes

29th October 2013

As I planned, I did the colour ideas and props and costumes this week.

I did the colour ideas on Adobe InDesign. I created many square boxes with a black border and a fill colour of black, white, grey and one other main colour for each set which were pink/red, teal, sea green and light blue. All of the set of colours I chose had black, white and grey to accompany the main colour because these are the separate colours which will not affect the main colour so that it looks messy and unprofessional.
 

For the props and costumes ideas I found some images of clothing, accessories and props which I would use in the photoshoot for my magazine. I found some images from websites of the typical clothing brand my target audience like, as the clothes on there are suitable for the type of image I want to create. I thought about the items of clothing I picked carefully as I want it to demonstrate pop as well as rock. I picked a couple of brightly colour items to represent pop but most of them were black as this represents the rock genre well.

Props and costumes for photoshoot

Media - Props and costumes for photoshoot.pptx

Colour Ideas

 



I did the colour ideas for my magazine on Adobe InDesign. I first created a new document and then drew a square box. I made the colour of the box black and then duplicated that box and changed it so that the fill is white and the border is black. Lastly I duplicated the white box and made the fill grey. I then duplicated all the black, white and grey boxes a couple of times and placed them directly below each other so that I had 4 rows.
After I had done that, I did the last boxes for each row which is the one main colour I would use in my magazine.

I chose to have black, white and grey for each of the set of colours because these are the colours which would be used to accompany the main colour of the magazine. These colours would be seen on the front cover of almost every magazine because the text is usually black, white or grey. This is because they go well with most colour as black, white or grey text on a coloured background would be clear to see. It also makes the magazine look professional as having one main colour would make it look more organised compared to having many different colours which would make it look messy and unappealing.

I firstly chose a red-pink colour as I thought that most rock magazines use red as their main colour because it connotes violence and danger which is a typically seen in the rock music genre. However because my magazine is rock/pop, I thought that having a pink kind of red would be more suitable as it doesn't look as violent as just red and so it would be more suitable because the pop genre is a fairly happy and positive type of genre.

The second colour I chose was teal. I decided that teal would be a good colour to use for my magazine because it is quite neutral and would be suitable for both genders. It also does not look too harsh like red for example which has connotations of violence which would be appropriate because my magazine is pop/rock and the pop genre is more positive and would use brighter colours.

The third colour I chose was sea green. I think it is a suitable colour for my magazine because my main target audience are mainly girls who are not that girly and also boys and green is a fairly neutral colour which is is not stereotypically liked by one gender.

Finally, I chose a light blue because I thought that it would represent the pop part of the genre very well as it is bright and appealing. It is also a colour which is stererotypically liked by males however this shade of blue is quite light and has a calm feeling to it which would be suitable for girls as well.

I think all the colours I chose would work with with black to make it have a pop/rock feel to the magazine as black would represent rock and the brighter colours would represent pop.

Production Diary 7 - Moodboard, promotional methods and new media.

22nd October 2013

This week I did the moodboard, promotional methods and new media.

Firstly for the moodboard, I collected a range of images from Google images which were related to the audience and also some images of the popular artists in the pop/rock music genre. I found images of social networking site logos, musical instruments, musical devices and clothing brand logos which were likely to be used by my target audience. I arranged all the images neatly in bubbles on PowerPoint and wrote a few sentences about the images.

Then I did the promotional methods and new media on another PowerPoint. For the promotional methods I wrote about competitions, freebies and giveaways as I believe that these are the most effective ways in promoting my magazine. For new media, I wrote about the social networking sites which were popular amongst the participants of the survey I conducted. I also wrote about a phone app which I think would be good because many people nowadays have smart phones and are constantly using them. I also decided to have a phone app because I found from my survey that people are likely to use an app which updates them on a music magazine.
 

I plan to do the colour ideas and props costumes next week.

Promotional Methods and New Media

Media - Promotional methods and new media.pptx

Production Diary 6 - Names and masthead ideas and image ideas

15th October 2013

In this week’s lesson we did the names and masthead ideas. I first created a spider diagram on PowerPoint. I started off with a word which I would associate with pop/rock and then wrote something related to that and so on. I did a total of 25 name ideas.

For the masthead ideas, I went to Dafont and found some fonts which I liked and thought would be good for my magazine. I then downloaded them and opened them up in NexusFont (a program which puts all the fonts together in one place rather than opening individual fonts like we used to do). When I went opened up In Design, all the fonts were on the list because I had opened them up on NexusFont. I typed ‘masthead’ in the different fonts I chose, since I have not decided on a name yet. I did a total of 10 different masthead ideas.

I also did the image ideas this week. This was the task of collecting several images which we thought were good and something we aim to achieve for our own photoshoot. These images included different ideas for poses, hairstyles, make-up, costumes, settings etc. Most of the images I chose had a bright setting but the costumes were dark which complemented well to convey a rock/pop image.

Image Ideas

Media - Image Ideas

Names Ideas and Masthead Designs

Media - Names Ideas and Masthead Designs by fionawongmedia

Moodboard

Media - Moodboard.pptx

Existing Names and Mastheads

Production Diary 5 - Magazine key concepts, existing names and mastheads research and preliminary task video

8th October 2013

The first thing I did this week was the preliminary task video which demonstrated how I created the front cover and contents page of the school magazine. I used a program called ‘CamStudio’ which records the movement of the computer screen.

Secondly, I did the key concepts of music magazines which included: audience, representation, institution and conventions. To do this task I did some research as well as using the knowledge I already had. I also found some images to accompany the information I wrote so that it is clear what I’m talking about as you are able to see some of the ideas visually.

I also did the research task of existing names and mastheads. For the names there were a few different types which were: connotative, phrase, acronym and compound. For each of the examples I found I explained what I thought the effect of it was e.g. acronyms are memorable to the readers. I did this on Prezi as it is a high quality and professional way to present information.

Next week, I’ll be doing the name and masthead ideas.

Magazine Key Concepts

Media - Magazine Key Concepts

Production Diary 4 - Survey results, proposal feedback and preliminary task video

1st October 2013

This week we spent some time updating everything on our blogs and making sure that we have done all the things before we move on. Some things which I had to do included: analysing the survey results and improvements on proposal.

I analysed my survey results on Prezi as I think it is a good way to present the data because it is quite professional. Also, since it saves automatically and it updates in the places where you put the embedded code as well, it is a good way to do this work because I had to spend a couple of sessions to finish doing it.

I first put in the questions and then inserted an image of the graph which I print screened from SurveyMonkey. I then wrote about the results I got saying how it helped me to decide on what to do for my magazine. Also for some of them I mentioned what my idea was and then said whether my results corresponded or contradicted with my idea.

I got feedback for my proposal and then improved it according to the feedback I received. The feedback I got really helped me as there were some thing which I had missed out and the feedbacker had pointed it out for me so I could make improvements on it.I posted my feedback as a Voki as I believe it is a much more interesting way to present this information than just having text. I put made two separates ones, one with the good point and one with the improvements.

Towards the end of the lesson, I started to do the preliminary task video. I first sorted out the layers of my front cover and contents page on the Adobe In Design so that it would be easier when I come to do the video. Next week I will complete making the two videos.

Survey Results Analysis