Original Images

Picture Planning

Picture	Time and date	Model / pose / costume	Location	Lighting	Set-up time	Mise-en-scene	Camera angle and distance
1	20/3/2011	Male turning his head away from the camera.	My house	Natural	14:00	Normal facial expression, stripy t-shirt, dark jeans.	Medium shot.
2	20/3/2011	Male with hands behind back looking straight down the camera lens.	My house	Natural	14:05	Normal facial expression, polo shirt, blue jeans.	Medium shot.
3	20/3/2011	Male with arms folded, looking at the camera.	My house	Natural	14:10	Normal facial expression, blue hoody, red t-shirt, blue jeans.	Medium shot.
4	20/3/2011	Male playing guitar with amplifier	My house	Natural	14:20	Concentrating on chords, stripy t-shirt, dark jeans.	Medium shot.
5	20/3/2011	Male, playing guitar with microphone.	My house	Natural	14:25	Concentrated face on chords playing, polo shirt, blue jeans.	Medium shot.
6	20/3/2011	Two Males, one holding guitar, the other with a microphone. Having a conversation.	My house	Natural	14:30	Normal facial expressions having conversation. Polo shirt and blue jeans, stripy t-shirt and blue jeans.	Medium Two Shot.
7	21/3/2011	Male holding drumsticks with arms folded.	My house	Natural	14:00	Normal face, looking away from the camera, blue hoody, red t-shirt and blue jeans.	Medium shot.
8	24/3/2011	Male with Bass Guitar, playing chords	School	Natural	10:40	Normal facial expression, Black hoody, dark jeans.	Medium shot.
9	24/3/2011	Male with hands in pockets, looking at the camera.	School	Natural	10:30	Normal facial expression, black hoody, dark jeans.	Medium shot.
10	28/3/2011	Male close up for the editors review section	School	Natural	12:40	Smiling, t-shirt	Close up.

Diary Entries - Week 3

In my third week of this media coursework I have began sketching my ideas for the design of my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I used the results of my audience research to decide on specific areas of the magazine such as colour scheme, style of font, layout of contents page as well as what articles should feature in the magazine.

We also began to analyse what were problems with some previous students work and what we could do to prevent us making those very mistakes. We found that little things such as a spelling mistake or a different font style or size can drop your grade down by several marks. We were taught to stick with one style on our content page which we should take from our audience research. This would mean that the contents page would be effective and be likely to boost our marks.

Overall it has been a useful week which has taught me many things about producing a music magazine from the overall design to the content of the magazine which can separate you from a higher grade.

Diary Entry - Week 2

In week 2 of the AS level media coursework we had a look at our initial ideas and our audience research. For our initial ideas we had to draw a spider diagram which contained all of the ideas for my magazine that I had at the time. It contained categories such the target audience, colour schemes, layout of the magazine and even the type of fonts that will appear on the magazine this was so we could gather together all of the ideas which connected to each target audience. I think this initial ideas diagram will help me develop my ideas into practical production for designing my music magazine layout.

First of all I decided I would do a indie magazine as that is my preferred gere of music and the genre I know most about. I decided that I would have a target audience of 16-30 as I felt that the people between these ages like the indie genre of music more than any other age group. I also decided that the title of my double page spread would be either the band name or the band’s new album. I also decided on a range of articles which I could include in my music magazine.

I also completed my audience research which was in the form of a questionnaire. I asked a total of 30 people for their opinions and ideas of music magazines. This will allow me to use the ideas of others to help me with the production and content of my music magazine. To gather the information I had to ask people in my media studies class and post my questionnaire on Facebook so I could have more people’s opinions and suggestions of what to include in my magazine. I asked people from both genders from my target audience.

Audience Research 3

Audience Research 2

Audience Research 1