New Front Cover 25/04/13

Comparison of Old and New Front Page - 25/04/13

          

                                                                                                                                            Older Version

Newest Version

I have went for a completely different look for the front cover of my music magazine.

The sub-images I Firstly, I have used a different layout, and tried to use a similar look to tat of 'NME'.  I have decided that the NME music magazine is very modern and the layout is effective as it is appealing. I realised, after doing new research for current music magazines, that the aim I was trying to achieve was similar to the NME magazine.

The title 'Epic Music' was very unrealistic with my old magazine, and although it contained bright colours to appeal the reader', feedback from group members helped me realise that, a darker more simpler title would actually be more appealing. I have used in the top right of the music magazine are very modern. My old music magazine shows images on the left-hand-side that weren't particularly appealing to the teenage audience. Having less images, with a simpler caption was also more appealing.

Using a different colour at the bottom of my new product, made the story I came up with stand out. I used this purposely  for a variety of colours but also to have an impact on the reader. The blue background was used to contrast the main image. I wanted the main image to be stretched and be the first convention to stand out to my audience. With my older version, it was clear that my main image was too compact and needed to enlarged to create more  realism.

My masthead is one of the conventions of my media product I am most happy with. The change is very effective, in the fact that it is more simple, and also most importantly easier to read. I realised previously to my newer version, that my masthead was long and didn't attract the reader enough. The feedback from my teacher as well as my classmates, give me the idea that I needed to have a masthead which is short, easy to read, and stood out. This meant I had to use a contrasting colour to that of my background image, something I feel I have achieved.

The barcode, price and date are also something I feel have improved. I am happy that I realised this didn't need to be the main convention the reader had to see, when in fact the teenage audience want to know the price after analysing my media product.

Overall, I am a lot happier with my new media product. I think there is a vast improvement in the layout, the conventions used, but most importantly the colours I have used.

Social Groups Video (Extended Evaluation)

This is a video I have made, which is an extended version of my answer to the question; How does your Media product represent particular social groups?

This is not the full answer to the question, which you can see further down my blog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=920QFOkCajk&feature=youtu.be  - This is the link to the video have made.

Comparison of Old and New Contents Page

Updated Version                                                                                                            Older Version

I feel there is a dramatic change from my old and new contents page.

Firstly, the title is completely different in where it has a new style. When recieving feedback, it made me realise that you don't necessarily need to have the literal words 'contents page'. I done a lot of research for this as to get a clearer understanding of what modern magazines use as their title. My research showed many modern music magazines use logos or a replica of their magazine title. I think my new title is a lot more modern, unique and it relates to my front cover. I think that having the title 'contents' on my contents page made it look unprofessional and it wasn't realistic. I feel achieved a more  modern type of contents page with my updated version.

The image is also an improvement as it is clearer but also the overall effect of the picture is far different.  My old image didn't have any appeal and it lacked in clarity, and so from my updated version links heavily with the contents page and the artist is a lot more recognisable to the audience.

The layout is also something I feel I have improved dramatically. For instance, the gap between each of the page numbers and text to go with it is much further. I done a lot of research before updating my newest version, and realised that although it is good to have a lot of pages listed, the gap between each of the lines needs to be realistic. When comparing the two versions the main difference is the text used. I have updates my text to a simple black colour, but also i think I found added something unique in the start of each sentence. This can be found on my newest version where the start of each letter is a different colour to the information to go with it, something that is effective and appealing.

Although not completely different, the logo that is on the top of my page has been updated. I thought my older logo was not completely bad, yet I felt the feedback showed it could be modernised. Therefore, i went for something more basic but effective.

My newest version is a lot more realistic in the fact that it has a page number. I was frustrated that my oldest version was submitted with no page number and this was very unrealistic and the reader would not know the page number. Adding this adds to the overall look to my contents page.

At first, I felt (on my oldest version) the screenshot of my front cover was very unique and something I could later use to challenge Media products. Yet, I realised that there wasn't a necessary need for this, and that despite being a good idea it was only taking up space. I decided to remove this, and on my new version I have added section of an artist and come up with a realistic article.

Overall, I am very happy with the changes I have made. I feel some of the changes I have made have been modernised, realistic and are more appealing.