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

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!

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?

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.

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.)

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.

Production Log #35

After my 2nd photo shoot I booked my 3rd and final photo shoot in the studio immediately as everyone in Media Studies is at the point of needing photos to use for their magazine meaning slots were going quick and my model was busy a lot of the days! I was lucky to get the studio for a good 2 hours but the problem was I was really looking forward to doing a time lapse but why I was booking equipment I forgot I needed two cameras! By the time I remembered all the cameras were gone. I just had to stick with behind the scene photos. I am now thinking about making a video on how I edit a photo and what I do to make it look professional.

Production Log #34

So my last blog post illustrates that I did two photo shoots instead of one due to lighting errors. Firstly I was trying to create a silhouette effect but didn't have enough lights! I then spoke to my teacher about my photos and she told me to re-book and do a photo shoot using the continuous lighting which gives a softer light to the skin. Once I got that up and going the photo taking came natural and all my photography course and hobby came in to action.

Production Log #33

Now that I have the rights to use the photos I have taken of Antonia I am able to begin photo shooting! I was able to book out my school stage which means it wont be as fancy but with a bit of cleaning and the use of black curtains I can make it work! I am up for a challenge! 

Production Log #32

Transcript:
The last thing I did on this blog was create my equipment document and uploaded it. I included some pictures to make the writing not drag on as much! But the next task is simple, before we do my photo shoots I get my model "Antonia" to sign the release form to state she gives me the right to use the photos for my AS Media Magazine (R&B).

Production Log #31

I have previously created a locations idea, however my photo shoots don't really consists on any outdoor location except if its a performance or an event, however I thought about using a forest but I explain in the post why its a bad idea, I have now decided that I am going for studio photos and a performance shot, now to find a stage! Next I begin to talk about my equipment which I have used/will use in the next couple of weeks!

Production Log #30

I feel that my work is actually looking really professional and if you haven't noticed I am going with a very classic theme on my tasks so that my blog is flowing and looks interesting. I added a lot of information with the amount of space I had for New Media, I then uploaded the presentation to scibd, but next time I should remember about using sliderocket! http://www.sliderocket.com/

Production Log #29

This month the Golden Globe awards took place, this award ceremony are best known for films, however they still appreciate musical talent. The nominations for best original song picture were:

As show in the image about, Adele the Rolling in the Deep singer won an award for her song "Skyfall" which was recorded for James Bonds last movie. Adele is a R&B and Soul singer, and in my magazine I am going to add an award ceremony of some sort as it is interesting for fans to know. Also, music magazines need to ensure that they know all of the latest news on artists that they are going to interview for articles to ensure that the information is current and exclusive.

Going back to the blog I just finished my Promotional methods and I created the ads on Photoshop and extracted op top of an ad, I was surprised how real some of them actually look. It was interesting to see how I would present my magazine if it was to create ads like that. My next task is New Media and this seems to be an easy topic for me as I indulge myself in too many social networking site, so lets see how I go!

Production Log #28

I created a cool looking prezi on Props and Costume with lots of images and went in too detail and why I needed certain things to create that R&B look. I will now be moving on to Promotional methods for my magazine and I really want to go back to the blog platform, so I am going to write it in blogger and add some  created JPEGs which I will create with photoshop.

Production Log #27

After gathering some ideas for heading/sub heading I began thinking about my props and costume which I will need to create that classic R&B look, I have already thought about the different dresses and outfits and I have begun to think about what goes with one, and lastly I have already thought about that all important prop  the microphone.

Production Log #26

The only big problem I had with writing my article was actually starting it, once I got that sorted the rest was easy, the only thing which was an issue was the time spent doing the article, lets just say I went to bed pretty late finish it off. I really wanted to do the article all in one go as I had really good ideas and finish the article would be faster then writing notes about it! At least I motivated myself to finish it, right?

Production Log #25

After reading so many article to get an idea I wrote my article really easily, all I had to do was have a bit of peace and quite and have a story in mind and the rest just came at an instant! I felt like I used that 1 to 1 tone in my article which really engages the reader with the magazine.

Production Log #24

Transcript:
After looking through many magazine for sell lines I did a blog post about the ones which I thought were good and that I could use for my magazine. The next task for me seemed hard, I didn't really understand what it wanted me to do, but after discussing this with my class mates and teacher I found out its just notes on what I am planning to include in my contents! I looked at other magazine from all different genres and took pieces of each to make the one contents page fit for a R&B fan! As I am trying to engage other audiences in to liking R&B I have to include new stuff which magazines haven't added before such as upcoming concert pages.

Production Log #23

I have now just chosen my colour scheme and with the help from some friends we came to the conclusion that a black, white, grey and then a nice gold would be perfect for my classic look which I am trying to create. I began looking for tutorials on how to create a gold look on my text and found a perfect video on Google: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/gold-text-effect-photoshop/

Production Log #22

I have just completed my colour connotations and I feel that its also the right move to do my colour scheme next. The colour connotations is a simple task yet again I seemed like I over thinked it as usual. By this time I really just want to get to start my magazine but I still haven't done the right amount of research so I took some extra time to do some research and post it here:

I did some extra research into the list of artists who are known as classic R&B which I could use in my magazine for example:

Here is a picture with Beyonce

-Jessie J
-Ne-Yo
-Trey Songz
-Rihanna
-Chris Brown
-Beyonce
-Conor Maynard
-Mario
-Omarion

These are just a quick list I created about the artists who fit the R&B genre categories  I feel that my main article the upcoming artist links with the Beyonce as they are both diva like characters who love to do what they do.