Edited magazine (Final)

From the feedback ive received from my teacher ive made minor adjustments.

 

 

 

On my cover page, I corrected the spelling mistakes I had and put the models head infront of the mastehead.

 

 

As for the contents page I added another column and rearranged the pictures I also corrected my spelling mistakes and edited my editors note so that there wasnt any '-' symbols at the end of a line.

 

 

For the DPS I added the magazine logo at the bottom the page, corrected my spelling mistakes and got rid of the picture that wasnt really necessary.

 

 

 

Task 11 Evaluation- Question 4

4.      Who would be the audience for your media product?

My target audience would be teens and adults because that is a large generation, which is generally associated with rap and hip-hop, but showing that young people can also enjoy jazz music will expand the fan base. I want my magazine to be aimed at both genders; this will encourage more females to become jazz musicians/singers, as it seems to be a mainly male dominated genre of music. It will be aimed at any social class as jazz is well rounded genre/genre for everyone. The hobbies and lifestyles of the readers would probably be focused around creative aspects for example music lovers (concerts/festivals), people who enjoy drawing/painting and other artistic forms like dancing or drama.

This is what a typical reader of my magazine would look like. Here she is holding a ticket for a Sade concert.

Task 11 Evaluation - Question 6

This is the link to my xtranormal video where i have answered question 6

Media Evaluation
by: jazzkamara

Task 11 Evaluation - Question 5 and 7

This is my slideshare where I have answered questions 5 and 7

Media evaluation from jazzkm

Task 11 Evaluation - First 3 questions

This is my prezi I have answered the first 3 questions on this.

Task 10 feedback on finished magazine

Looking at my college magazine how have my technical skills improved on indesign and photoshop?

Task 10 feedback on finished magazine

What could be improved?

Task 10 feedback on finished magazine

Which elements of the magazine do you as the audience like?

Task 10 Feedback on finished magazine

I've tried to use a variety of different ethnic groups, have you noticed this? does it work?
Do you think im stereotyping the genre of Jazz?
I've used a variety of age groups, does this work well?
I've included both male and female models, how well does this represent the genre of Jazz music?

Task 10 Feedback on finished magazine

Who are the audience? Are they the group that you initially targeted?

Front cover, cover page and dps (fixed according to audience feedback)

Cover page

Left hand side of contents page                                    Right hand side of contents page

Double Page Spread

After receiving the feeback and taking it into consideration I changed parts of the magazine, I tried a few different blue and purple tones for the text on the cover page but from a distance I wasnt able to read it so I kept it the goldy colour it originally was. Many magazines feature an editors note and it had been said that it would improve my magazine if i were to make a landscape contents page so i took that on board and made that change.

Task 9 Final Magazine - Cover, Contents and DPS

Task 8 Cover Page

This is my process towards the final cover page for my magazine.

I've decided to change the blue writing to white as it was very hard to read the coverlines from a reasonable distance as a person would be doing in a shop, also ive made the price smaller and moved the barcode onto the left hand side. I've also included more coverlines and adapted my skyline so it attracts the reader. I've made the mast head larger so that it fills the whole length of the page and I included the website of the magazine in the bottom right hand corner.

Task 8 Planning and shooting

These are thumbnails from both of my photoshoots.

This shoot was for the contents page, I shot him with a saxophone because this is an instrument commonly known throught out the jazz music scene. I also got him to wear a black shirt and trousers as jazz musicians tend to do. I used the top left picture because the model is showing true connection with his instrument which makes him look like a professional saxophonist.

 

 

This shoot was for the cover page and dps. I attempted to make her look like a jazz artist with the big hoop earings and the vintage looking jumper. My inspiration for this was the singer sade. I also shot her in simliar poses as what sade had done in pictures. I used the bottom left pitcure of Noreen and the top left this is because these pictures her eye contact with camera is strong and her positioning works well which creates a bigger impact when the audience look at the picture.

Call Sheet - Second shoot Conrad

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

Photographer

Photoshoot assignment/Call sheet

 

Date: Tuesday November 20^th 2012             

       

Time: 13.50 – 3.00

 

Assignment: Music magazine

 

Location:

Photography studio

Concept: A jazz musician, who plays the saxophone.

I had the model dress as many jazz musicians

 I’ve seen wear black. I had planned to have

pictures of him standing and seated to see which

ones worked best. The saxophone played an important

part as it’s a well know jazz instrument so it fit perfectly

 with the genre I was portraying.

Client: N/A

 

Media: RAW capture

 

Primary shoot of contact:

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

Photographer:

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

MUA: N/A

Hair stylist: N/A

Wardrobe stylist: Zenab Bukkar

Model: Conrad Nicholaou

Call Sheet - First shoot Noreen

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

Photographer

Photoshoot assignment/Call sheet

 

Date: Monday November 19^th 2012                    

Time: 11.25 – 12.50

Assignment: Music magazine

Location:

Photography studio

                                                  Concept: I had planned to do portrait shots at various angles and poses inspired by Sade and a few other

female jazz singers. In order to portray the jazz/blues

 genre I had my model wear a vintage jumper I had a

change of outfits in case the first look didn’t work.

I took a few pictures in the second outfit but it

didn’t work as well. 

Client: N/A

Media: RAW capture

Primary shoot of contact:

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

Photographer:

Jazz Kamara-Marsh

MUA: Charisse Dawn Mitchell

Hair stylist: Tamika Aboah

Wardrobe stylist: Tamika Aboah

Model: Noreen Adjei

 

Photography Studio Set-Up

We were introduced to the photography studio before our planned photoshoots took place. We were shown the basic set-up you needed when taking photos.
As a class we were shown what we needed when setting up the studio for our personal shoots for our music magazines.

You have the choice of a black or white back drop
There are two flashlights - soft boxes (grids) which diffuses light, the grids channel correct lighting onto model and distributes light equally
There are two polyboards, these are foam boards which reflect light
The model should stand 5-6 feet away from the back of the backdrop
Lighting settings on soft boxes should start at 3 then you can decide if you need to go higher or lower (controlling the brightness of soft boxes)
The camera used is a Nikon d7000, it has 16 mmp, a 3.5 LCD screen, aperture priority  and shutter priority
There was a godox remote control transmitter, which syncs the camera and soft boxes, so when you take a picture the soft boxes flash
Lastly there were reflector boards, these are in gold, silver and white - as obvious from the name they reflect light

Task 8 Contents Page

This is the process of my contents page for my music magazine, from the beginning I had my mind set on the colour scheme of gold, dark shade of purple and white as I feel that they represent jazz music genre well. So I had used purple and white/black on my DPS and Contents page and gold and white on my Cover page

As you can see from the process below that I started of with placing the main stuff on the page and then gradually building it up, the word "contents" started off much smaller than the masthead but I made it bigger. I wanted contrast on the contents page so I made the writing dark purple and black. I added a website at the bottom of the left hand page, once all of the text was on the page I then started placing the images around it. After receiving feedback I then went on to make a second page for my contents page as that was favoured. On this page I put a picture of the featured music artist on my front cover and an editors note with a brief explanation on what was in the magazine.

Task 8 DPS

This is the process of my DPS for my music magazine, from the beginning I had my mind set on the colour scheme of gold, dark shade of purple and white as I feel that they represent jazz music genre well. So I had used purple and white/black on my DPS and Contents page and gold and white on my Cover page.

I started off by finding an image of the music artist to place on the double page spread and decided on this one

I then started placing the already written text on the other side of the DPS

I had made the questions in purple and the answers in black to show where there was a change of person

I had left a gap between the text where I would place a picture, as in my case studies they had more than one picture on the DPS so I wanted to do something similar, I made sure the picture related to the topic of the article.

I then added a pull quote that the music artist had said onto the page where there is an image of her as this would attract the reader as they're looking through the magazine as the white stands out on the black background

I then came up with an article title which I did in a large font in dark purple

I then added an image of the music artist with her two sisters and a caption explaining the picture

This is the finished copy of the magazine DPS

Task 7 Audience Research Task

This is the audience feedback i received after presenting my magazine proposal to the class. i received both positive and negative feeback as well as constructive criticism.

From this feedback i was able to decide on the masthead and what sort of font it would be that I would use, this was done by getting them to vote for them, with the masthead from the 'dafont' website it didn't work as well as i thought so i found a font on photoshop which was similar. I also showed them numerous of different page layouts for the cover page, contents page and double page spread which i again got them to vote for which one they thought was best, once they chose it i began to adapt it to make it more interesting.