Diary 16/01/12

This week I have been going back over my magazine to make sure there are no errors I have missed to ensure that there is no way of me being able to drop marks. I found that the best way to do this would be able to get a fresh set of eyes to look at my magazine. I had them highlight any spelling, grammatical and any other errors that they could see. Once they had done this I realised there were some key issues with my magazine that I had not notice before hand. Fortunately they were all reasonably simple to correct. Once I had done this I printed out my work again and showed my final piece to a focus group of my target audience. I received all positives from the group which was a key indicator that my magazine was finally done and would be ready to be published.

Diary 12/11/12

Today in my media lesson I managed to complete the evalualtion video for my front cover very easily. I also intended to record the sound for my contents and double page spreads. I did this however the voice recorder I used distorted my voice and also the background noise over powered the actual speaking. Due to this I am going to do it at home to avoid complications. However this is a copy of my evaluation video so far...

Diary 11/12/12

Diary 7/12/11

Recently I have been working on my magazine evaluation. So far I have completed all of the actual evaluation. However I am going to create it into a voice over video. I have been restricted in doing so as I can only record the voice over at home however I only have Adobe Premier at school so therefor I need to have all my voice over done at home before I can start work here. For this reason I have now started the second question in my analysis and am currently workning on that until I can get home and record the rest of my work.

Diary 22/11/11

So yesterday I tried out the tutorial I posted yesterday, However I didn't like the final outcome so I scrapped it. also yesterday I created my how to camera video which had some complications. The first time I recorded it the tape I used in the camera had a problem on it and I only recorded half of the content. So I then went back in my free period and re done it. However this time I foolishly sat in front of a window to film it which gave bad lighting (something I have now learnt and won't make the same mistake again). However I then managed to fix it up a bit using effects on Adobe Premier. I am currently uploading the video to youtube and will post as soon as it is up online.

Diary 21/11/11

I have just seen this tutorial on youtube which I'm quite interested in trying out. Its pretty basic and has been something I've been considering doing for a while, so hopefully it will work out and I'll be able to use in my magazine.

Diary 20/11/11

Its come to the end of the weekend that I intended to do my next photo shoot from. However unfortunatly i haven't been able to complete it due to being ill myself and on the other day being unable to use my model. This means that I wont be able to start up my next set of articles until I have done. However in the mean time I'm going to create several more photoshop tutorials hopefully. I am also going to create a how to and beginners guide on using the cameras and lenses as I have previously stated. When I finally manage to do my next photo shoot I intend to go up to brick lane market for it as I think I can get some great shots there.

Diary 19/11/11

Recently I have decided that the video upload on blogger is of very poor quality. To counter this I have started changing it all to youtube and then embedding it. This makes the video allot bigger, clearer and of a much higher quality. I think this is important as it enables viewing of some crucial parts of my blog to be clearer and easier.

Diary 18/11/11

Diary 17/11/11

So I have now created three double page spreads and a single page for my magazine due to the fact that my article was quite long and I couldnt fit accross the three doubles. However I still has to cut it in places to make it fit and work. I have currently completed my magazine however I want to get allot of feedback and see if I can improve on it more. I am also trying to get access to a good camera for a photo shoot although they have been booked up for a while. I want to do this so that I can create a second article about another artist. I hope this will allows me to demonstrate my photoshop skills further and boost my final mark.

Diary 14/11/11

Tonight I have spent my time creating a rough copy of my front cover on photoshop. I am very happy with the majority of it however I do need to put something in the top corner. I was thinking an arrow or maybe and effect in which it appears to have the page folding over with a sell line underneath. However I am going to get some opinions from my peers and tackle this challenge tomorrow in my lesson. This is todays copy below...

Diary 14/11/11

Today I have been re making my front cover because from feedback I have received there are several things to improve, first are the mast head and bottom banner. I found a new font and style for my masthead first which i got from here: http://www.dafont.com/unicorn-nf.font . Next I was going through several front covers for banner inspiration when I cam across this Empire magazine front cover. Even though it's not a music magazine I really liked the banner effect so I recreated something similar as you can see below. 

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Diary 31/10/11

In my media lesson today I have been tackling the issue I have been having using adobe premier to create my mood board in a video format. Originally the video files I chose to use where uncomputable with the software so this involved having to re download the videos in a different format. Once I had all this working I was having trouble getting my music file to play. The problem was with the scratch disks selected so this involved changing them around which after done allowed it all to work. I have now completed my mood video and will be exporting and uploading to the blog soon. Also whilst in class today I noticed that although the slideshows of my photo shoots work well on normal computers and present my pictures well, they would not play or work at school. Hopefully I will be able to get this software glitch sorted soon. However just as a precaution to the possibility of my final marker having the same problem I will be uploading them also in a different format. Possibly a zipped file containing all photos that will be hosted and able to be accessed from a file sharing site. Finally at home today I have completed a piece on the mise en scene of my photo shoot and why I made the choices of costume and props that I did.

Diary 19/10/11

Diary Entry 17/10/09

This week I have been creating my proposal. This involved getting a rough idea about how i want my magazine to look. This went really well and quickly. However I have encountered a problem on my home computer in which a memory dump has been performed so i need to recover the proposal before i can upload.

Diary Entry 10/10/11

This week in media we have been working on our key concepts of a music magazine. This involved me making a prezi. This has taken me allot of time and has been a very challenging task. I had lots of problems with working prezzi at home. For example when I would be typing and pressed backspace it would take me back to the previous page instead of deleting the character. As you can see from last weeks entry and this weeks i have been using an online application which generates my text into spoken word. The site used for this is spokentext.net.

Diary 29/09/11

Currently in my media lessons after creating our preliminary tasks we have been researching into music magazines. I am currently not sure on what type of magazine I want to create but just have a rough idea on the genre. This meant that this would be a great opportunity for me to get some ideas on theme, layout, articles etc from some successful magazine companies. I have been analysing front covers, contents pages and double page spreads. I think the two most influential and biggest magazines I have looked ate have been Q and NME. They among the others have given me some good inspiration and a better idea of how I look to create my own magazine more successfully and to a higher standard.