PICTURES

Through the weekend i took brand new pictures for my magazine, the pictures i had taken before were out of focus and didint look professional enough.

the location of where my pictures took place was just near the college in orpington. The rest of the picture was taken at a house. i wanted the plain background just to mak it easuier when is started cropping.

for the photoshoot i didnt really need any props, my actor just had to put make-up to make her face shine and wore jewlerry to shot the RNB side.

i told my actor to where bright clothing to contrast with the colour scheme of my magazine.

QUESTIONNAIRE &

I gave out 10 questionnaire to members of the public aged 16-27. the questionnaire helped me decide on what to put and do on my RnB/HipHop magazine, this also helped me decide on what the audeience are attrected to when purchasing the magazine.

This is a sample question that i asked the target audeince.

MAIN TASK

I have started my main task of making my magazine. I have decided to make a Rnb/Hiphop magazine. I have researched about other music magazine to follow the conventions.

the main magazine i have loked on was Vibe, i went on vibe magazine website and looked for the brand values.

hiphopcover

hiphopcover, originally uploaded by lisakabongo.

i annoted this cover in this lesson

FRONT COVER & CONTENTS PAGE!!!

THIS IS A PICTURE SAVED AS A JPEG FROM INDESIGN

THIS IS MY CONTENTS PAGE AND MY FRONT COVER

indesign screenshot- Contents Page

indesign screenshot Contents, originally uploaded by lisakabongo.

This screen shot is from Indesign, its my contents page. I produced all the features on photoshop then added the picture on indesign to layout.

In Design start up

Untitled-1 copy, originally uploaded by lisakabongo

This print screen is from Indesign, i started using it in this lesson. At first it was quite complicated to use but as soon i got the hang of it i placed my pictures and edited the layout for my magazine front cover.

Planning my own Prospectus

IMGP1212, originally uploaded by lisakabongo.

This is a medium close up picture, this is my ideal picture of a college prospectus. The image is clear and sharp.

For Wednesday's lesson, each student AS Media class got given a camera to take pictures of medium close-ups of students around the college. We were also given a sheet of the different types of shots that we needed, which were:
MCU of person standing up
MCU of person sitting down
MCU of person outside (with background)
MCU of person inside (with background)
MCU of person in high angle shot
MCU of person in low angle shot

I have uploaded the photographs on my flickr account and annoted my favourite ones .

There is very good lighting in this shot, which means that I will not have to lighten it in any photo editing software.

This picture can be edited on photoshop i can crop the picture and delete the backgroud to add another background.

Annotated Prospectus

HE_prospectus_image, originally uploaded by lisakabongo.

This image has a few anotations about college prospectuses as i will be doing College magazine cover and contents page for my preliminary task I have researched some of College prospectus Covers.

Annotated Magazine Cover 2

estelle11, originally uploaded by lisakabongo.

This is my second magazine cover that i have researched this one is more annotated because the editor has used alot more features.

Semiology/Semiotics

Iconic: look like what they represent e.g. photo of you

Symbolic/ Arbritary: meaninf must be culturally learned. Dont look like what they represent. e.g No entry sign.

Indexical: have a connecttion to what they represent and are suggestive rather than directly resembling. EG No smoking sign

Annotated Magazine Cover

cover_big, originally uploaded by lisakabongo.

I researched some music magzine. This magazine is vixen the masterhead is very big and bold so it can stand out on the page. I have annoted the magazine to have an idea of when is tart producing my own magazine as my first Courseowork. I have annotated the magazine and indentified the features that the ediot has used.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Semiology

Signifier: This is a Red Love Heart

signigied...This wil be the maning of a sign we break this down into Denotation and Connotation

Denotation:Red Love Heart

Connotation: In my own individual interpretation of this sign leads me to think of love

Marketing Workshop

In this lesson the class wil be havig a talk from a proffessional prospecturs maker. The talk will be based on how prospecturs are made

The main points that i will be takin point about, are:

• Who is the target audience for?
• The house style - colour scheme,fonts, types of images

Target Audience

Sam and Sandra produce prospecturs each year for orpington college. The college prospecturs is aimed for students aged between 14-19, on the other hand Parents teachers,and guardian will also be interested in prospecturs to know how well the college is and to make sure that the college good enough for a student aged between 14-19.

The college prospecturs must have good gender balance in order to target both genders, the reading age sould also be balanced. the reading age starts from 12-13. prospecturs must have simple langauge for everybody and anyone to understand especially demgraphic ethnic population.

The House Style

The class got introduced to Mock up board this was breif, to show us how next year prospecturs would look like. The colour scheme was based form the new building for orington College, Nature Green, burnt orange dark yellow lighter green, these colours will appear alot for the new year prospecturs for no clashes, the maker of the prospecturs decided to stick to the same colour palette. Photoshop is the programme that the college prospecturs use to edit images and InDesign programme is for the layout of the prospecturs. in the breif Mock up vards there was quite alot of Medium close ups and close ups images.

My flickr Account

Link to Flickr Account

Introduction

Hello my name is Lisa Kabongo i am currently studying at Orpington College. This is my first year i am currently doin:

• AS film studies
• AS media studies
• AS english
• GCSE maths

This blog has been set up for my Media project i will be produciing a magazine cover used with photoshop and InDesign.