Final Production Diary

Production Diary 15

I went up to Camden and London this week, with some friends and I took some photographs with my friends to use on my contents page of my magazine. I then edited these when I got back to school, however when I went to put them in my magazine they didn't fit therefore I had to change the layout around slightly. I feel that the layout looks a lot better than it did before and the pictures work well and show a good range of artist types in my magazine. I also changed all the things that my fellow class mates and target audience told me they think I could improve on, this took a while but afterwards I liked the overall look.

Production Diary 14

 

This week I have been further working on my coursework to try and improve it. I have started to put all my screenshots of my work together to create a short video on Premiere, which wont be up on my blog until I have completed my magazine, as it shows session by session what I have done, so you can see my improvement every lesson. I have also started to Photoshop some of magazine photos, removing any marks such as spots, sorting out color balances and adding and removing things. For example I added hair to one of the pictures of my models as her hair looked to straight and flat.

Production Diary 13

Production Diary 12

I didn't post last week as I was very busy with work I needed to catch up with as the first draft date is next week and I had to take a week off of school. So I have finished my contents page completely, I have finished my first double page spread, and then the second double page spread for the same artist. I am still unsure if I am going to make a third double page spread for a second artist, I do hope that I do get a chance to do a the third double page spread, as I have taken some very good photos which would go to waste otherwise.

I then started my front cover, which is pretty much finished, however it did take a while to get to the stage that it is at now. I was getting very frustrated with it and just kept wanting to restart. I have also have plans if I have enough time to do a subscribers cover, as I feel this would really make my magazine look more professional. I am planning to take a camera out of school over the holidays and take some photos to use on the third double page spread if I do it, and also for the contents page pictures.

The contents page is pretty much finished, all of the writing is in, and all that is left to do is to change the place holder photos to my own, which I need to take still. I need to re write my double page spread text as well as I have decided to change the idea for that. But apart from that everything is finished and i'm almost there.

Production Diary 11

This week I haven't been in school as I have broken a bone in my foot and I am unable to walk at the moment, but I am going back to school on Thursday and I will be staying after school and in my free's to get up to date with the work I have missed, as I was not able to do any work on my contents page at home. I have booked a few gigs to go and see with my friends, and we have also planned to go up to London and see the lights with my models and take photos there as I think that it would be a nice setting for a picture which could go on a double page spread. Areas like south-bank suit my style of magazine perfectly, so we have plans to go down their and take photographs too. I have also asked a few of my friends that are boys to do another photo-shoot for me as I need a mix of girls and boys in the magazine. However for homework we have been set the task of writing of first draft of the feature article, which I am almost finished with.

Production Diary 10

So today I have continued doing my contents page, I have added some of my own pictures in which I have taken from my own photo shoot with Paige and Daniella. I have also added photos which I have found on the internet of artists I would like my magazine entails. I have decided with a few of my other friends that we are going to go to a few small gigs and take a few pictures that I can use on my contents page. I have also done most of my text that needs to go on to the contents page, however I am going to finish it at home then put it onto a separate document so you can read it all. I did change the layout slightly so I could add some more sections onto the page, like the 'Gigs of the Month' section and the 'Editor Note' section. Lastly my next step is making all of my pictures my own and then moving on to my contents page.

Production Diary 9

Today we started doing a basic layout for our contents pages, that will go into our magazines. By starting with the contents page I get the most complicated part of the magazine done first and then hopefully the rest of my magazine will work out around it. So far I have figured out the colour scheme I want to go with, which is the classic red, white and black, because I think it gives it a more professional feel. I have done a simple layout using boxes and text which will be the base of my contents page, I will most likely change the layout around however this will give me a simple idea of where everything can go and how much I need to include. The next thing to do is to add real pictures into my contents page, and the text I am actually going to use.

Production Diary 8

 

Yesterday at school, I uploaded my video for the genre of my magazine which is indie. I also started and finished my survey monkey survey, which took longer than I thought it would because I didn't know which questions to ask. I posted them both onto my blog, and asked my friends to complete it when they got home, I also uploaded it onto my fronter page and twitter page asking people to complete it. The idea of having this survey is to get a better insight of what people are going to want to have in a magazine as they are going to buy this and they are going to want the most they can get for their money. Additionally I had a few problems when trying to upload my genre video has it wouldn't go straight onto my blog, therefore I had to upload it up onto YouTube which didn't work the first time, however when I tried the second time it took a long time but did upload. Then I inserted a link onto my blog and put a small description underneath telling everyone what it was and why this was helpful for me. But I did have some problems when making the actual video as I wanted to insert live clips from festivals I had found, however Adobe Premier wouldn't accept them. However I learned how to sort out that problem after a little bit of playing around with the programme, I also learned how to export a video from 'Adobe Premier Pro CS6'. Today in school, I just worked on my audience presentation and went over past posts and made sure I had written enough and made sense. I felt this was important as sometimes I made posts when I was out and busy so I might not have made much sense. 

Production Diary 7

Today I was suppose to have my first photo-shoot, but I couldn't as my model was ill and therefore
I decided I might as well wait for them all to be together to do the shoot. I have decided that I definitely want to have a girl group/band on my front cover, I realize that if I do have this I am going to have to work hard on making sure they all look right in character and go together well, otherwise it wont work. As well as this, I have started on my double page spread analysis, as I was behind on this work as I was off ill. That should be finished by my next lesson and should be uploaded soon, this time it wasn't that hard to analyse the spreads as I did this for GCSE and remember a lot of what we did then. My mum brought me some things home from london the other day for my room, I really liked some of the decorations she had picked and it sounds strange but they really inspired me. I took some pictures which I will insert down below, but I think they just look really cool, I liked how fun they made my room looked. I also really liked the dream catcher and the fairy lights because I think they really reflect the look I want to go for with my magazine. Although it is a indie magazine, which people might how does that reflect your magazine that hasn't got anything to do with indie, I do want to bring that fun hipster side into it to. I don't want to have a dull boring magazine. I want it to be stylish. So i'm planning to buy some fairy lights like these and put them around a section of my trees in my garden and take some shots at evening, when its getting dark and the sky is at that orangery yellow colour.

Production Diary 6

Transcript: This week I was researching online more about the sort of clothes I want my models to wear, I was just searching random things such as festival clothes, festival fashion, indie style etc into google and just saving images into a folder so I could print them off and just show them to my models to see if they own any items of clothing like this. I will leave some pictures of those down below so you can see the sort of style i'm going for. I specifically liked the way that Vanessa Hudgen's dressed at some of the festivals she went to this year and last, she went for a sort of indie boho style.

Additionally, I think this style really suits her. I have a model, who I think can also pull this sort of look off. Vanessa also wears a lot of feathers in her hair, face jewels and jewelry which I also intend on having in my magazine. I also decided that I now don't want one model to be my main artist, I want to make a girlband of 3, my models for this will be Kristin Page, Siena Singh and Daniella Blow. I haven't yet decided on a name for the girl band either, but i've been looking online at indie bands names to get a feel and some inspiration.

Production Diary 5

In my last media lesson, we went through the codes and conventions and the representation of magazines in class as a group. Then we went of and had to present this in our own way and put it onto our blogs. I haven't yet started my codes and conventions presentation, although I want to make a powerpoint presentation to present that. But I have started my representation, I have made a video with lots and lots of pictures which I would associate my magazine I want to create with, so it has pictures of indie artists, festivals, bands, clothing, and tattoos etc. Everything about the indie subculture I have got a picture of and has been put into the 3 minute video. I am almost finished with this, however it is at school so I cant work on it at home as I don't have the same programmes. However I am staying after school next week for a couple of days and I will finish it off then as well as my codes and conventions presentation.

Production diary 4

Today I came back into school after being off for a few days and I finished the front cover annotations and started my contents page annotations. I found it a lot harder to find examples of contents pages online, especially double page contents pages. So far I have found one 'vibe' one and one 'Q' one, but I am still looking for my third now, but there is none I really want mine to look like. So I've started my contents pages but haven't yet finished them yet, I have used these sheets to help me do the annotations. The sheets have lots of information on them which give me hints and reminders of what I need to write about and what comes under that. For example; for analyzing magazine front covers, when talking about the masthead you should talk about the significance of the titles name, describe the typography, how big is it, color and font, and where does it sit in relation to the image. In addition to all of this I booked my first photo shoot which will be in the studio and in a couple of weeks, and it will be of Daniella Blow, Siena Singh and Kristin Page. I will be taking these photos for the front cover as well as the contents page and double page spread. I have decided to have Daniella as my main model and Siena and Kristin as my secondary and third models. I have also thought about asking one of my friends thats a boy to model otherwise all of the models will be girls and that may restrict the audience.

Production Diary 3

This week I wasn't in any of my lessons as I was ill and didn't come into school. Although in the lesson that I had previously been in we had started analysing and annotating professional magazines that are well known for being successful, we had to annotate magazines that we wanted our magazines to look like. I chose to annotate the front cover and contents page of two 'Q' magazines and a 'Rolling Stone' for the front cover. I did some of these in class and currently finishing them now. I haven't actually started the contents pages yet. Additionally I also started thinking about when I should do my photo shoot, what genre I want to go for  and who should be in. I decided I wanted to go for the indie music genre and I was going to ask one of my friends called Daniella Blow to model on the front cover and then ask some other friends to model for the contents pages. However I have also asked some of my other friends to take part in my photoshoots, as I think they have the right look for what I am going for.

Production Diary 2

Todays lesson I completed my preliminary task, which was to create a Haydon based magazine, which I called 'The Stag'. I have also started my evaluation but I need to finish it for homework. Last lesson I finished the front page and had started looking at the pictures for my contents page but hadn't had enough time to actually work on any of it. So in todays lesson all I had to do was finish the contents page, where I had to add pictures, write the page numbers, write the title, think of descriptions, add social media, etc. So far my evaluation is coming along nicely, I think it has to be roughly over 500 words but i'm already over that. So far I have explained what I feel I did well on the front page of the magazine and I then need to add more about the contents page and what I can do to improve. 

Production Diary

Sketches & Ideas

I have now completed my sketches and have chosen everything that I want to go into the magazine. I did the sketches roughly and didn't spend much time on them as I only wanted a basic outline to go by. I have chosen to call the magazine 'The Stag' as it relates to the school as that is the schools logo. For the front cover I have chosen an image of a girl standing in front of a tree, she is a new sixth former to the school. I feel that this is a good image to have as this was a bit event happening at Haydon recently. I have chosen to go with a colour scheme of 'yellow, navy and white' as these colours relate to the school well. I got the ideas for the story's for the pictures we took around of the school, additionally I am using some prom pictures that my dad took at the school prom in the magazine. I may makes some changes to my magazine depending on whether it looks right when I put it all together but for now this is what i'm going to stick to. I haven't decided on fonts and sizes yet, as i'm not sure whats going to look good with the layout of the magazine. The language i'm going to use in the magazine will be simple and clear to understand read so the whole school can read it and understand. As if I use bigger words the new year 7's might not understand as much as the sixth form students.