Codes and Conventions of a Music Magazine

I already have a lot of knowledge of this topic due to reasearching music magazines previously. However, this has helped me refresh my memory into what a successful magazine upholds and why it does certain things to achieve this high level of standard. This has pushed me to give great consideration about what codes and conventions I will follow in my magazine and whiich ones I will break.

Production Diary 5

I thought this week instead of a video diary, I would post a text post because I want to mix things a bit. I will most likely return back to video blogs because I find them a lot easier. This week we have been really focusing on sort of the written side of our magazine. We have been given 2 separate task to complete by the 15th (tomorrow). These task were: codes and conventions of a magazine. I chose to do the features of a cover page, contents page and articles. I chose to do the key features of each of these and how I took them from a magazine and applied them to my own ideas. Instead of doing PowerPoint, I decided to use Prezi. I wanted to expand my horizons and not stick to the same programmes all the time. 

 My 2nd task was to do a representation of your chose genre (Indie). To mix things further I decided to do a very short film on Adobe Premier. This task was just to explore how your chosen genre was shown through different mediums. I found pictures/quotes/videos and combined them all into one 4 minute video. I found using Premier quite easy and very fun because you can just play around with it and create something very different to put on your blog. 

 Also this week I got back all of my pictures from my magazine photoshoot and the behind the scenes pictures. You can see the photoshoot pictures in a PDF  and all my behind the scenes shots in a video. My magazine ideas are really coming together now.

My target for next week is start getting outdoor shots together along with some location shots with my model and some other people I have in mind.

Until tomorrow's vlog

Bye x

Photoshoot Time Lapse

This video is simply just to show the readers of the blog what goes on behind the photoshoot and that pictures just don't turn up by themselves that you have to put work in. Another reason why I posted this was just to show the time I put in. A picture was taken every 10 seconds for 2 hours, that is over 700 pictures, I wanted to capture that with a short film of behind the scenes.

Photoshoot Contact Sheet

Here we have the final result of all the pictures I took of my lovely model Alex. Here is over 207 and soon I will be eleminating pictures to try and determine what specific ones I would like for my magazine. Along with these, I want to get some more shots of her outdoors along with other people I know. This contant sheet has helped make the process of elemation much quicker than it would if I had to scan every picture.

Analysing Double Page Spread

This really helped me to understand what to put into my article because when thinking about my magazine this was what I was worried about because I didn't really know what to include in the article itself and what made it look good so by analyzing a magazine article that I have focused my ideas on and I will be adapting articles similar to this one to achieve my perfect idea of an article.

Production Diary 4

Analysing Magazine Covers

I have always been comfortable with magazine covers and what looks good and what makes me want to buy it, however by analyzing the covers in so much detail I have realized that I didn't really know the half of it and there are so many elements that I didn't even know could be included and that has helped me to make sure that every element that possible can be on my magazine cover actually is.