magazine proposal presentation

Audience Research feedback for my magazine proposal presentation(main task)

I did a magazine proposal presentation in front of my media class and it was videoed by my media teacher and I asked different people what they taught about my presentation. This is what they said:

Anita:

What was good about my presentation?

·         Presentation very detailed

·         A variety of fonts for audience to pick the best

·         Confident ,planned magazine

Improvements:

·         Could have faced the audience more

·         Could have spoken louder

·         Engaged with the audience more by asking more questions

Sammah:

What was good about my  presentation?

·         Used Prezi ,background nice

·         Interacted with audience

·         Asked questions, took opinion into account

Improvements:

·         Don’t read off the board too much, look more at audience

         Zak:

What was good about my presentation?

·         Very clear

·         Connecting with audience

·         The presentation is colour-coordinated ,consistent

Improvements:

·         Look at audience more

·         Try not to read what’s actually written ,say it in your own words

Natasha:

·         Used Prezi

·         Layout good

Improvements:

·         Speak louder

Audience Research feedback from my magazine proposal presentation
At first my genre was pop music but then my case studies were hip pop or R&B magazines so I have now changed my genre to R&B

Masthead: I asked the audience’s opinion because I was unsure about what name to use for my magazine. Majority of the audience said I should use INSPIRE for my masthead not ROCKAZ since these were the two names I had come up with but wasn’t sure which one to use. The reason why the audience told me to choose INSPIRE was because they believe it is fun and will be a good name for an R&B since that is now the genre of my music magazine. They didn’t choose ROCKAZ because they said ROCKAZ was more suitable if the genre of my magazine was rock music .I’ve decided to use INSPIRE for the masthead of my magazine and not only because majority of people liked it but I liked it too.

Fonts: I chose three fonts and asked the audience which one they thought will be appropriate for my masthead and a huge number of them said the magneto font because they said it was stylish, bold and clear. I’ve decided to use the Magneto font because I think it’s really stylish and also most people have approved of it.

Layout of whole magazine: Most of them said they liked how I had planned the layout of magazine because it was detailed and said the layout of my music magazine was going to look organised because of the way I had planned it.

Target Audience: Some of the audience said that my target audience was too grown for my genre of music because I said young people from 25 to 27 years but now I’ve reduced it to 18 years to 27 years so that young people from all stages can buy and enjoy my magazine.

Photography Call Sheet

Photography Call Sheet

Date: 20th November 2013

Time: 2:30 to 1:30

Assignment: Inspire! Magazine Photo shoot.

Location: LSC Photography Studio

Media: RAW Capture for 300dpi & web resolution

Compensation: Trade

Primary Shoot Contract: Billboard

Photographer: Stephanie Omari-Amoako

Hair Stylist: Anita Ofori

Wardrobe Stylist: Anita Ofori

Model : Sammah Shariff

Special Instructions: The following are requested items that each model has for wardrobe:

1.brown blazers and black tops

2. gold and black dress,
lack scarf

Timeline-subject to change

1:30pm

Make-up, hair ,wardrobe selection

2:25pm

Sammah meets me at LSC Photography Studio

2:30pm

Photoshoot begins

1:30pm

Photoshoot ends.

Few notes on learning how to use cameras in the photography studio

A FEW NOTES ON LEARNING HOW TO USE CAMERAS IN THE STUDIO LIKE THE DSLR CAMERA

•                 There’s two backdrops when you want to take pictures in the studio and that is either white or black.
•                  There’s flashlights as well but fans go on and off them so that nobody burns themselves.
•                 There’s the softbox which softens the light.
•                  There are light umbrellas which prevents light from hitting the one being photographed.
•                  There are reflectors in gold and white to give warmth and to hide shadows reflectively.
•                   Always be 6 foot in front of the backdrop.
•                  DSLR cameras can take pictures in black and white.
•               The compact camera has two settings A and S settings that is Aparture and Shutter.
•             Every time   you change a setting on the DSLR camera the settings change automatically.

planning of my music magazine(main task)

PLANNING FOR MY MUSIC MAGAZINE (MAIN MAGAZINE)

My model is:
Sammah Shariff

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·       My model is going to be Sammah and she is  going to be  an  R&B  artist. She is  going to be on the front cover of my magazine dressed as an R&B  artist and her costume will be black  so that it matches my colour scheme since my colour scheme is black, red and gold. This is so that the layout of my magazine will be consistent.

PLAN OF COVER FOR MY MUSIC MAGAZINE:

annotations of using illustrator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was introduced to Illustrator with the rest of the students by my teacher. First ,I learnt what all the tools on Illustrator were used for so that I will know when or when I shouldn't use them. We did this so that when we are creating the cover of our music magazines we will know  how to use this program and what fonts to use and how to edit them using layers.

 

I learnt how to put strokes on my font and by this I could put strokes of any size on my fonts depending on how thick or thin I wanted my fonts to be. I decided to use 4 or 6 strokes on my font since I was just experimenting and I quite liked the outcome of it.

 

I also put outlines on my text so that I was able to move them individually and together as a group by the direct form tool select or the select tool respectively. I learnt how to use gradients on my text as well to either add a tint to the colour of my font or a shade. I also used effects on my text .I went to the warp effect and used 'squeeze and twist' because I thought it looked good on them.

 

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