Content page sketch/draft

NEA - Sketching and product profile

Learning Objectives:

• K: the importance of sketches and planning in the decision making process of creating a magazine.
• U: how to use sketches to influence your stylistic decisions.
• BAT: undertake a creative task in which you start the decision making process in terms of style of your magazine.

Introduction: In this task I will be creating a draft of the layout and features in my contents page , by doing this and creating more than one draft I will be able to come to a conclusion what draft looks best to include in my magazine.

   This draft is for my magazine contents page. This is a rough sketch , as it gives me an idea how I would like to layout my contents page. I showed this draft to a couple of people in my class and asked me to give me honest feedback.This really helped as they said I didn't include much content and information and it was mainly a main image taking up all the space. The main feedback I am going to take from this is to use more content and make the image smaller.


 This is my second draft for my magazine contents page. Personally , I prefer this draft as I took on my feedback from my peers and included a smaller main image but more content and information around the sides. In my opinion this is the draft I will be using , as I feel myself it looks the most like a content page of a fashion magazine.

Conclusion: From this task and drawing the sketches of the content page it has helped me get a better idea of what I would like to include on my contents page and the layout I would like it to be.

Product Style Profile

NEA - Sketching and product profile

Learning Objectives:

• K: the importance of sketches and planning in the decision making process of creating a magazine.
• U: how to use sketches to influence your stylistic decisions.
• BAT: undertake a creative task in which you start the decision making process in terms of style of your magazine.

Introduction: In this task I am going to be designing layouts of my magazine , I will create at least two and get peoples opinion on them. By doing this I will be able to pick the best layout and pictures for my magazine. 

The draft above is for my magazine front cover.This is a rough sketch , so I can get an idea how I want to layout my magazine and where I want certain things placed on the page. I showed this draft to 3 people in my class and the feedback they gave me was very positive. However, They said from my draft the cover looked very crowded and busy , as down the side I had 3 pictures and a text following every picture. The main point I am going to take from this is to use less pictures and concentrate on one main image only.




The picture above is my second draft , here I have included better ideas of what I would like to include and some of the headlines and features I want to say. By doing this second draft it has given me a much better idea on how I am going to layout my magazine cover and the type of things I want to be saying in my headlines.

Conclusion: 

• How useful did you find this step in terms of deciding what style you're going to be pursuing?  - I found this task very useful as by creating drafts it gave me ideas and means I had better knowledge of how to design a magazine , so when it comes to creating it I know roughly what I'm doing.
• How useful was peer feedback to improve your work? - Peer feedback was very useful in improving my work , this is because they gave their honest opinions of what they thought about my draft which helped me improve my layout , this way my target audience will prefer the way my magazine is laid out and read it.

Website Profiling

Website Profiling 


Introduction: The following survey are questions linked to how my audience like a website laid out and the colours and text to image ratio. Once collecting these results it would mean I would have a better understanding of what to include and how to layout my website page.

Click here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MLH2RTZ 

Moodboard

Introduction: In this post I will be creating a mood board of all aspiring images of what I would like to include in my own magazine , his post will give me a better idea of what fashion and looks to include.

NEA - Mood Boards

Learning Objectives:

• K: the advantages and disadvantages of using a mood board to inspire content of new media product.
• U: how different types of images and fonts can affect the way audiences consume media texts.
• BAT: produce a mood board that illustrates your initial ideas for your media product.
• CO: Use media terminology throughout. 

Conclusion: From this task I have gathered better ideas and images of the type of style images I would like to include, and feel these are the best type of images for my style of magazine and target audience.


Questions: 

• How did they helped you define content for your products? - The images helped me define content for my products because I would like to include high end fashion , with black and white pictures like Vogue. I"ll be mainly using close ups and mid shots images. 
• What will be your overall colour scheme of your productions? - My overall colour scheme will be black and white , as I want the cover to be classy and simple looks.
• What kind of images/shots would you use in your productions? - The kind of images and shots I will be using in my magazine is close up and mids shots , therefore my audience can see the detail within the pictures.
• What kind of fonts would you use in your productions? - The fonts that I will be including are serif and swirly handwriting style.
• What kind of mise-en-scene would you use in your productions? - The mise - en - scence I would use in my productions is natural but glam makeup , so it looks professional and not too heavy. Also , the clothing worn will be simple and minimalistic , so the audience can focus on the main piece of clothing I'm advertising.
• What kind of intertextuality would you use in your productions? - I would link my front cover to the film " Sex in the City " this is because in this film women go shopping all the time and would be able to relate to the film.
• Which media theory(ies) are you likely to use in your productions? - The media theory I am likely to link to in my production is Bell Hooks , this is because they use the intertexuality to empower women and the images used to show them as strong.