My preliminary task of creating my college magazine was hardly anything compared to making the music magazine as this one was more crucial and serious where your weaknesses would be picked up by your audience more and your strengths would have to attract and satisfy them easily. For the preliminary task this was like an introductory task where I was able to experiment freely with it more and play around with various tools and the camera and equipments, but in comparison with my main task I had to spend much more time on its production, planning and researching. For the equipment and resources I had to be more aware of my surroundings as I took the pictures in the studio instead of any location around the college taking pictures of anything that was related to the college look. It was slightly more difficult for my main task as the locations to take the images compared to the college ones- where I could use the whole building, was limited in places like a recording studio therefore I needed to use the right models and props to tie it into the music look.
For the people involved in my production for the preliminary task I used anyone who was in my group as they could pass off as any student but for my main task I had to choose someone who would fit the bill where they had to be of course attractive enough to capture peoples attention and would also suit the genre and look I was going for which is a versatile look. For my other images however I didn’t plan the models well enough who were suppose to look like a band although they didn‘t. However as it is a magazine with a mixture of different genres this worked in a way, as each model had an individual music style look therefore my message to the audience which I was trying to reach out to worked saying that it’s for everyone.
With the time management I spent much more time than I did with the preliminary task as I had to compose not just the front cover and contents but also a double page spread meaning I had to write more. Also if I wasn’t happy with the fonts and look of it, this was really frustrating and therefore more time consuming as I couldn’t leave it unless I was satisfied with it enough to move onto the next page which was really difficult with the deadline for all three pages to be handed in at the same time
I did originally want to make a different genre magazine instead of a particular style of music themed one as there isn’t many out there and I thought that this would be a great way to bring in a mass market instead of a niche. Therefore I wanted to confirm this idea using my audience research to see if this was a good idea or not.
For both tasks, I aimed to capture images that would directly relate to college or music with the use of the props whether it is a student’s locker or listening to music on headphones and the NVC of the model. I wanted to have a really original and creative idea with expressive poses and array of colors and maniac compositions but as it was aimed at everyone I had to limit these as it could be mistaken for perhaps a rock magazine as opposed to an all genre one, therefore my style had to associate with everyone.
With my audience research, as an audience myself I thought that we would share similar tastes however I was exposed to completely new and different ideas which lead on to a bit of a dispute regarding various artists that I should use. Unlike my preliminary task the attention to detail was much graver as each individual of my audience seemed to be attracted to a certain thing which meant that every micro detail had to be spot on without any mistakes or inappropriateness that would clash with other elements.
As I was on the verge on completing my final outcomes I had to make sure that everything on the page meaning colors, images and texts had to match and fit in right with one another and so that it looked cozy which would draw out good connotations to the magazine itself and what it has to offer. I printed out the magazine to see what it would look like in my hands as an audience to see what they would be seeing and through this I could easily spot mistakes that I wouldn’t really notice on the computer screen. An example of this would be the size where the texts on the contents page were far too big and didn’t really look as busy as it should do therefore making slight differences and fixing up errors made a huge difference whether it was the font size or type.
With my drafting, planning was key in making the final outcome, as it would save me time and allow me to have less mistakes as I would know what to do instead of just playing around and wasting time like I did with me preliminary task as the draft would motivate me and help me see how it could look like and see if it worked or not simply by just looking as the sheet in front of me which I would be replicating and obstructing later on into Photoshop.
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