Below is a link to my evaluation which i have made on Prezi:
https://prezi.com/pic0rmq5xqkw/media-evaluation/
Kara Killington AS Media
Monday, 18 April 2016
Final Double Page Spread
After creating three different double page spreads (below) :
This was the final product i created using InDesign:
This was the final product i created using InDesign:
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
The design process
While designing my magazine pages, although I knew how i wanted them to look and what I wanted to put on them there were certain things which I tried and tested to see what looked best. For example I tried many different fonts, particularly for the masthead on the front cover, here are some which I tested:
In the end I chose Gill Sans Light as I thought this best suited my magazine house style and the audience I am targeting.
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Designing my Music Magazine.
I have been looking into what I would like to call my
magazine, taking into consideration I am focusing on a music shop that also
runs many other businesses such as tuition, instrument building and has many
small bands I searched online to help me come up with a few to choose from, I
found a website that randomly generates band names (http://www.bandnamemaker.com/) and
used this to come up with some inputting the word music, here are some possible
ideas:
-Music Invader
-Music Surface
-Music Beyond Force
Another thing I did was think about musical terminology
which could also work as a title by looking good and sounding right/catchy to
fit my magazine genre and design, I came up with the following:
-Bass
-Chord
-Music Key
-Score
-Tempo Knowing that I would be taking my photos and doing the interview fairly soon, I wanted to be ready to get straight to putting my front cover etc together as soon as I could so I sketched out designs of how I would like my cover, contents and double page spread to look like also thinking of the smaller details such as cover lines and where I would like things to be positioned, below are my photos of my drawn out designs:
FRONT COVER-
CONTENTS PAGE-
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD-
Having these plans will enable me to get straight into the designing process once I have my photos and interview, it will also show my progress should I decide to change any aspects of these design ideas during the process.
Monday, 8 February 2016
Interview questions for my music magazine.
I have come up with with some questions that I would like to ask during the interview for my music shop magazine, these are a basis of what I will ask but some may change depending on their answers. The following are 23 questions I came up with:
1) Name? Age? Come from?
2) How long have you had this
business? (Do you remember the date?)
3) Address of shop? Where is
it based and why did you decide to base it where you did?
4) Why did you decide to name
the shop ‘String Salon’ and the tution side ‘Rainbow music’?
5) Why did you want to open
up a music shop ad start doing music tuition?
6) How did this business
start out?
7) Do you play/are you
passionate about music and why?
8) What instruments do you
play and when did you start playing? / When did you realise your love for
music?
9) What do you do here at ‘Rainbow
music’ other than the shop and music tuition?
10) What is the most popular
area of ‘Rainbow music”?
11) How many staff do you have
working for you?
12) Do you get along with all
your staff and customers?
13) How busy do you get in the
shop and other parts of ‘rainbow music’?
14) Tell me about the
customers that come into the shop, do you have any regulars? Are they all
friendly? What kind of age range do you have come in?
15) Tell me about the bands
you have here at ‘Rainbow music’ and the people in them. How many bands
altogether? Concerts/Gigs?
16) Do you enjoy your day to
day life working with this business?
17) Does it ever get
stressful? / Do you find it difficult to separate owning the business and your
everyday life?
18) Have you made any friends
through the business, staff or customers that you spend time with outside of
work?
19) Any funny stories about
the shop or working here?
20) How has the shop grown
over the years?
21) How long do you see
yourself having this business?
22) Any exciting upcoming
plans?
23) How do you see this
business in the future?
Having these questions ready before my interview helps to keep me organised and prepared. It also gives me the advantage of planning ahead for my double page spread and article.
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