Welcome to my AS Media Blog, this is a blog which follows the journey of the making and also the planning of my music magazine. This is the coursework part of my AS Media Studies, which I have to make a music magazine for. Here are the main Posts that I have done:

School Magazine- this was a preliminary task
Initial Ideas- this has all of the ideas that I had for my music magazine at the start of this project
Rough Cut- this was my first draft of my music magazine
Rough Cut Feedback- this is the feedback that I got from my target audience on what they through of my first draft of my music magazine
Final cut- this is my final magazine after I have improved on the feedback from my target audience
Evaluation- this is an evaluation of my music magazine and also this project as a whole

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Rewriting article


I am starting rewriting my article today so that I am acting on the feedback from my target audience. The deadline for the whole of the music magazine is next Tuesday 24th April. I am aiming to have my article finished by the end of my lesson on Friday. So I am going to spend some of today’s lesson and also tomorrows lesson on this. I will then my posting my article on my blog when I have rewritten it and also add it into my magazine on my double page spread. My double page spread currently looks really bare as there is no article on it. 

Monday, 16 April 2012

Week beginning 9th April


I continued the making and improving of my magazine. I had been focusing on my contents page, as this was the one with the least work on it. I have also been doing a small amount of work on my front cover. I have not really worked on my double page spread a lot. I will be focusing on my double page spread more next week. As I need to redo my article, so I will be doing this next week. I have added my pictures to all of my three documents. I feel that this helps to make my magazine look like it’s getting closer to getting finished. 

Friday, 6 April 2012

Week beginning 2nd April


In the first week of half term what I did was that I took my second set of pictures. I took these so that then I could start doing some more work on my magazine, through being able to see what it will look like with pictures in to see if I need to change anything, through the size and colour. As things many need changing because of where and the colours of the pictures. So that the magazine looks better as a whole. So this week I have taken my pictures and started to do some work on my magazine and editing of my pictures. 

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Picture Planning

Here is my second picture planning table for the new pictures that I have taken. Click on the table to see it bigger and more clearly.



Thursday, 29 March 2012

Week beginning the 25th


This week I have been continuing the making of my music magazine. I have mainly been focusing on my contents page for the first half of the week. I have almost done the entire contents page the only thing that I have not done is put my pictures on my contents page this is because I have not taken my pictures yet. I will be taking my picture sometime next week. The Easter holidays starts after today I am not in school for the next two weeks. So I will be still working on my magazine, I will also be taking my pictures. 

I have also done some work on my double page spread, I have done the layout. I started doing some more work on this from about Wednesday; I have been doing bits of my double page spread and also the contents page. I have put in my changed article I still think that I need to do some more work on my article, in the Easter holiday. I have also put in quotes and the introduction. Another thing that I have done is the background colour. The things that I still need to do on my double page spread through making up a name for the double page spread and I also need to put in the picture, after I have taken it. I have not yet put the picture on the front cover and also the rest of the articles. I also started to do a small amount of work on front cover. I have done:

  • The background colour
  • Title
  • Added the barcode with the information above it
  • The line on the top of the front cover
  • Two articles
The deadline for the final cut of my music magazine is Tuesday 24th April. So I have the two weeks in the Easter holidays, a week and about two days after I come back. This is then when this magazine has to be finished by, as then it has to be handed in. After that I then have to have my blog finished for Tuesday 1st May and after that there is the evaluation deadline which is on Tuesday 8th May. This is then my music magazine finished.  

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Fonts I'm Using


I have chosen the fonts that I want to use for my music magazine, with the help of my my target audience. So the fonts that I will be using are:

 I will be using this font for the title on the Contents of my magazine and also the word contents on the contents page. I will also be using this for the title on my double page spread.
The font that I will be using for the actual font for all of the writing and the article is this one. My target audience really likes this font. They said that this font, would be a font that they would want to read the magazine in.
 This is the last type of font this one will be using this one will be for quotes. I really like this font and so does my target audience. It has a really hand written feel to it.



Monday, 26 March 2012

Article Font

There are many different fonts that I could use for my magazine, I have chosen these four her below, to choice from to be the font of my article. The names of the fonts are above the A. The first font is one font but it just shows the same font in bold so then this makes there look like there is two not one fonts. I have also done a post on Title font and Quote font.  So here are the four article fonts:

This first font I really like as it looks like somebody's hand writing.I like the bold version of this is also really nice but I feel that the bold would not be good to use for the article but it may be good to use for the questions.

This second one I think looks okay but I don't think that I will be using this one.As I feel that this font looks like it has been but on bold when it has not as it is very dark. So this would be one of the reasons that I would not want to use this font.
This one I feel that I may use as this one looks a lot like a normall font that you would get for an article. I feel that this is the same with the last one as well but that one has more of an handwriten feel to it.