Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? (7/7)

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product? (6/7)

How did you attract/address your audience? (5/7)

Who would be the audience for your media product? (4/7)

Transcript - Evaluation Q4 by

What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why? (3/7)

How does your media product represent particular social groups? (2/7)

Evaluation Q2 by

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (1/7)

Evaluation Q1 by Johnny Fonseca

Audience Feedback

Production Log #42

This is my last production log of the blog, before I begin talking about my final and what I am going to do next I want to say that I really enjoyed creating this blog and it was a great experience and I really developed my planning skills! 

Now your thinking whats this post
 going to be about right?

Moving on I am very happy with my final piece and I feel personally that it looks really real! I would buy it if I saw it in a shop, Antonia was a great model chose and I got to thank her for her hard work, it's OK I brought her a Nando's in return :D. I am now going to finish this blog with my 7 Evaluation questions, I am going to try change the format of each evaluation to make it look creative and interesting! I want to finish my blog on a good note so I need to put a lot of effort in my evaluation.

This is Johnny Fonseca singing off, Peace

Final R&B Magazine

Production Log #41

I have just received feedback from my older brother who loves classic/Motown R&B so I knew he was going to be perfect for my feedback, he is actually a subscriber for VIBE magazine so he is use to the magazine format. He actually gave me so much useful feedback that it actually made my magazine look professional and realistic, also instead of making him writing about what he thought I recorded it!  Yet again I added a black and white filter to keep the theme going and this time I used a Ne-Yo song from his new album R.E.D. Lastly I did some quick designing on Photoshop and created a banner for my blog but still keeping the R&B theme going, I also came across a cool looking black background on Google image. I then had to change some of the text to white/grey/gold on blog. The colours on my blog also link with the colours used in my magazine!

Single Page Contact Sheet & Ideas

Here is the contact sheet for my single page which I got asked to do by my older brother as he felt there was a lack of her "normal" life, I took advantage with this request and noticed an absence in colour in my magazine. This meant that I had to focus on adding colour into my single page. A problem I encountered when I began creating my magazine was I had already finished the article on the previous double page, however I then began looking at a magazine called "Grazia" even thought it is a fashion magazine I took a look at the magazine and got an idea of adding an "Ups and Downs" part to the single page, this meant I was able to get personal with the fans and talk about Antonias life before she got famous and her live as she is famous and the differences, the fans will feel more connected with the singer as her old life is getting involved.  I felt that it was best to talk about the difference with her Living, Fashion and Celebrities. To the side there is a boxed section which has a yellow colour to illustrate the highs and the black to represent the lows, I am going to mimic this but twist it into music and Antonias lifestyle. I am going to at least try to encounter some gold text or a white glow to illustrate that the magazine is flowing and that this page does connect with the overall Antonia section. Lastly I had a tough decision about where I should take the final shot and how I should take it, for this shoot I simply told Antonia to be herself, I told her to come in the current clothes she is in which will illustrate her "normal" side. She then came in a nice dress and her hair tied up which was perfect. Now it was my job about where to take the photo, I didn't actually like the way my house looked in the background so I used my neighbors front gate (with permission!) as an area which Antonia could be in front of, I did this too see as if behind her was her actual house. I took the photo in many different poses and angels however the most simple one won. Eye level with looking straight at Antonia combined with a simple natural simple, perfect.

Magazine Second Draft - Feedback Video

For this feedback I got my older brother to analyse and tell me what I could change to make my magazine look professional and actually suit the R&B music magazines conventions. I chose him as he reads many music magazines especially R&B.

Adding another page?
Also my brother re analysed the whole magazine again and did a thorough look and explained to me that there was a few spelling errors and also that he felt there was a page missing. He wanted a page which illustrated Antonia's "normal life" style before she got famous as these are the story's which fans want to know! He suggested a photo outside of a house or somewhere which symbolizes her neighbor hood/upbringing, this will attract those who want to know her story.

Production Log #40

Now from my sketch's I created my first draft! I like some of the magazine but parts I think I could work on, but I guess that's why i'm planning on doing another draft other this before my final. I felt that as it's my magazine I should give me own first feedback. I gave myself simple questions like:
-Would I buy this magazine?
-Why?
-How do you think the magazine should look like?

Magazine First Draft

I felt that as it's my first draft I should be the one reflecting on it and telling myself my opinion on it and how I could improve it! First off after looking at my magazine from a distance I can instantly tell I forgot to add a bar code! And also I could add the new scan called a QR code. Also I feel there should be a few more sell lines which introduce articles which are within the magazine. Also one major thing which I forgot was the website,price and issue number, these are vital information which are needed on a front cover, without them there would be a loss of information and readers will become confused when they look for it when there about to purchase it. Maybe if I play around with the layout of the sell lines and badge, it will give me more room to put sell lines on the wrong and overall make the front cover look more professional.

This is my special edition front cover which I created, however I wanted to go for the simple look, saying this now looking at the front cover I think it needs a bit more information such as the website, price and issue number/date as this is vital for any magazine. Also I feel there should be something which clearly states that this magazine is special edition, maybe some boxed text.

The first thing I think about when I look at my contents page is non professional and unrealistic. First of all I don't like what I did with the colour photo and gave it less opacity  secondly I don't like that I tried to include to main photos, makes the page confusing. I don't know which one to look at as a main image. Also the information part of the contents page doesn't really illustrate what sections of the magazine parts are from, I should use sub-heading for my next contents page. Also I should maybe try add some other pictures instead of two main ones maybe one big and three small? Also I should remove the pull quote as this is a contents page not a double page spread, I know I was trying to link the photo to the article but instead I should replace it with a number next to the image.

For the this double page I instantly can tell the the photo doesn't suit a introduction to an article double page spread, I need to use a photo with less attitude. Also I change the layout of the Antonia and the rest of the sub-headings maybe one under the other. Also for the new photo which I chose I should edit it a bit to make the photo look nice because sometimes there could be marks/scratches on the models skin which could be distracting.

For this double page I feel that I should put the text closer together, there is too much space in between the texts, also the photos layout isn't appealing, it just seems like I crammed lots of photo on a page and added text. However I really like the way I added gold on to parts of the text which are questions, there easily seen . Lastly there are no pull quotes, nothing which will pull the reader in and the photo seems too happy for a article double page spread as this is the page where it holds all the information. I should use a photo where she is posing.

 For my last double page spread I really should add at least some text with a square behind it to stand out, I don't want to change the colour of the font as that can be confusing and distracting for the readers. I really feel the the behind the scenes is a really good idea and the photo used for this page is brilliant and represents classic R&B.

Production Log #39

The sketches of the magazine are very basic as I had no idea what I was doing, this meant I did not do enough research! I went back to the internet and look at magazine, there was one article which caught my eye, it was an article in about Tulisa, the article combined with the photos gave her this really elegant look, and on top of that I really liked the layout, and you can tell that they used a sepia type effect on top of the photos in my case it would be black and white.

Sketch of R&B Magazine Front,Contents and Double Pages

Front Cover Sketch

This is my first plan of my magazine, as I am going to for classic R&B magazine I wanted the front cover to be very simple but grab the readers attention and to do this I thought a competition would lead people into the magazine. I also wanted to have a name which will focus on the R&B genre so I felt "Harmony" was best suited. Also moving on I want to use a nice clean portrait shot of my model in black and white on the front cover. I also felt that by adding artists names, this would then attract readers who are fans of the following artists "Ne-Yo, Trey Songz, Rihanna, Beyonce or of course the main artist for this issue, the new upcoming "Antonia".

 Contents Page Sketch

Moving on I wanted my contents page to be clean and simple, I didn't want too many pictures  maximum two I did this as the main objective for the contents page is to inform and by having so many pictures and colours on the page the reader will get confused and instantly get distracted by all the colours and not the information itself. 

1st Double Page Spread

On the first double page I wanted this page to be an introduction page to the whole interview, saying this meant that there was only going to be a little part of the article to introduce the article and set the interview and then to engage the audience I would use an interesting pull quote to grab them into the article and make them read it! Also I felt a large photo of Antonia should be displayed on the double page to illustrate who the article is on. Of course I added the page number and website to each page in the magazine, as this is a convention of a music magazine.

2nd Double Page Spread

This double page spread is the where the main chunk of the interview/article will be at, this means that I have to have some sort of thing to grab the audiences attention while there reading the article to keep them interested. For example after a column of article I have included a column of photos which will be all studio shots of the artists, this is so that the readers are kept entertained whilst reading the article. I then add the rest of the article column which will then finish on the next double page spread. Then to finish off the double page spread I will present a photo of the artist on a whole page. Not forgetting the convention of the page number and website on each page.

3rd Double Page Spread

Lastly This page was simple, it was the last page of the article so I instantly knew I wanted the main photo to be a performance shot which will be placed in the background and on top I would have a quote displayed to keep the readers going and for them to finish the article. Then I would finish the article. Lastly I also added an image of a behind the scenes shot and will be adding a description or the readers to visit the website to view the behind the scene, this will then create more traffic for the magazines website. 

Production Log #37

After some thinking and discussing with my teacher she explained that it was a great idea and that no one has done anything like it in my class, so of course I went with it! It was actually really fun to record it. When editing the video I put a black and white filter on to bring that reoccurring R&B classic theme to the blog. It also gives it a nice look, very formal! Now to begin the magazine, Lets Go! (Ne-Yo uses that catch phrase a lot on his twitter! (And yes I am a Ne-Yo fan.)

Interview with Antonia

Here is a quick interview I did with my model to see how she got on when doing the photo shoots. I am very pleased she enjoyed her first ever photo shoot and I hope I will use her for my other media projects in the year to come.

Production Log #36

After some thinking I knew the video would take a max of 1 hour to create, edit and upload so I did it. If you noticed I added a backing track from a famous R&B girl group. I wanted that R&B theme and genre to be reoccurring in my magazine. I also had in mind an interview of some sort to see how my model got on.