Planning my evaluation.

PLANNING & QUESTION to answer for my evaluation:

Key: Grey - question
         Purple- plan and points

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real music magazines?

*Use an existing actual magazine to compare my final product to*
*similarities and differences= what to do to make my magazine more real and have the professional quality*
*mark out the missing parts*

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

*refer to my target audience, demographics, profile research and lifestyle*

*pick out specific aspects of a particular social group features from my magazine to support my answer*

*give some comparison about my chosen social group to another e.g. hipsters vs. classical*

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

*include different distributing online websites like ISUU* 
*explain why it would be beneficial for my magazine*
* reasons why i chose that distributor- does it suit my target audience, is it popular enough to be known, would my target audience use or know the distributors?* 

Who would be the audience for your media product? (lots of detail here please)

*TARGET PROFILE RESEARCH AND INTERACTIVE VIDEOS I MADE OF MY TARGET AUDIENCE*

How did you attract / address your audience?

*pick out certain aspects and features of my magazine to proof evidence*
*find a similar magazine to mine and explain why my audience would be attracted- similar colours, images, shots, locations, artist and events*
*feedback from pre-audience* 
*researched on the most popular magazines to be sold which would indicate that my magazine would be sold a lot if i addressed to their style and genre e.g. indie pop*

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

*photoshop process, image editor; image size, rookie, befunnky, phone apps*

What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from your preliminary task to the full product?

*quality of the product, how to address to the audience, certain shots that would be appropriate and suitable for  a music magazine, key aspects to have on a magazine, the process that takes along making a magazine, team work, organisation skills, meeting deadlines, etc.*

Final Product- Harmony Magazine.

This is my final music magazine. I exported the photoshop file into JEGP file to ensure that the layers from photoshop will not unbalance the final pages.

Contents page - 3rd, 4th and 5th Photo shoot.

PHOTO SHOOT 3, 4 AND 5

I took new photos with different models for my contents page. I used 6 models in total for my contents page.

I used Haggerston School playground to take pictures of my model, Gulistan.

I manipulated the shot with different camera angles, lighting and composition to make the picture more interesting and to emphasise her dominance in the music industry.



The picture on the left looks duller, darker and desaturated therefore; I adjusted the exposure and contrast level on the picture to lighten the shot bit more to symbolise her power and rise in the music industry. I used 'BeFunky.com' to use unique effects on these pictures. I used 'Vintage Morning 1' which brightened the picture even more. This made the plants look more alive and it emphasised the ambient light behind her.

2nd photo of Gulistan:

I really like this picture because the background could symbolise her busy and chaotic lifestyle in Hollywood after her success. I slightly zoomed into my models face to manipulate a crowded environment and surrounding by tensing and denying the composition of the shot. I increased the level of contrast in this picture to emphasise her features. I used a Vintage effect to create a darker colour to emphasise the vibrant colours in the picture.

Second model: Shima Akter

I decided to position my model on stairs to portray her 'down to earth' attitude in her music. Also, by sitting on the stairs, her juxtaposition has allowed her to engage with the audience through her eyeline match with the lens. I increased the level of contrast in this picture as well to embrace and highlight her hair colour, the flowers in her clothing and her retro lipstick. Since the DSLR camera I used was HD, it exploited the imperfections on my models face, therefore; I used FlashSpot to hide and cover her spots to create a smoother and more flawless face for the publishing.

2nd picture of Shima:

I am going to choose the best picture from our photo shoot to display on my contents page.


3rd model: Funmi Foloyan

I experimented positioning the camera in different angles to create a more interesting shot for my audience. I tilted the camera slightly to the right to create an illusion of being laid against the wall. The tilt could represent the sudden change she has experienced throughout her work in the music industry. I lightened and brightened the shot a little by increasing the exposure and decreasing the contrast level.

4th model: Fatima Sheikh 

I really like this shot because of the lighting and the shadows in which the glasses above the model created. I took this photo in a terrace which had great lightning and space to position my model into. I decided to position my model between the stripy lines to symbolise her being under spotlight that is caused by her fame and success in her music. I cropped the right hand side of the picture because it made the shot look unprofessional. I brightened the shot to embrace the good lighting we had in the terrace by highly increasing the exposure level. As the exposure level increased, my models costume (blazer) started to brighten up like the colour of the wall which looked very creative and more effective because it could almost symbolise her rise and acceleration in Hollywood. Similarly, Fatima had some spots on her face ilk Shima, therefore i used FlashSpot to remove her imperfections to create a smoother texture and display.

More pictures of Fatima Sheikh ( potential to be displayed on contents page):