Monday, 27 February 2012
Starting the Magazine
Today, I am going to make a start on the magazine now I have been given all of the information from James on what he has written. The front cover and one of the articles will focus on Ed Sheeran, another on Coachella festival and the contents will obviously cover a wide range of topics.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Meeting Bex and Discussing Ideas
Today we met Bex for the first time in the Learning Cafe on campus and discussed the ideas that we have for the magazine. Overall, Bex is pleased with the idea that we have and that we should aim to make sure that the magazine that we are doing fits purpose. She also made a suggestion that we could maybe focus the magazine in on British festivals so it appeals more to the target market.
I then told Bex that for the layout, I am concentrating on NME as a point of reference for the house style. This is because NME is the post popular music magazine in the UK and that using this as a point of reference to design our own may be helpful to ensure that it is fit for purpose.
I then told Bex that for the layout, I am concentrating on NME as a point of reference for the house style. This is because NME is the post popular music magazine in the UK and that using this as a point of reference to design our own may be helpful to ensure that it is fit for purpose.
Our Facebook Page
Today, Harri created our facebook page in order for us to be able to communicate with eachother easier. Opening up the communication has allowed us to be able to share ideas and post documents for eachother that we can all have easy access too. This is obviously on top of e-mail and phone correspondence that we have regulary to ensure that the project is completed to the best of our ability.
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Adobe Indesign CS5.5
The software that I have decided to create the magazine on is Adobe Indesign CS5.5. The reasoning behind this is firstly because I already have previous knowledge of the software when I created my A-Level coursework for Media Studies (see picture), meaning that I know how to navigate around the software and that it will save time when it comes to creating the product.
It's also because the software is what I would deem to be rather professional, which is something that all of us in the group want to come from our final product.
Monday, 13 February 2012
New Brief Set & The New Group
Today I have found out the new brief and the new group for the new project - because I was unable to attend due to personal reasons, I have had to find out in a Monday meeting with my new group. The group first met eachother on the 10th Feb 2012, the members of my new group are Harri Gill (Project Manager), Harry Webb (Researcher) and James West (Content Creator) meaning that I am the Production and Dissemination.
I met the group at Harri's flat in West Downs, here I found out the brief which is creating a magazine for a type of Media. We have chosen to do ours on Festivals around the world which is something that I believe we will be able to create a good, informed piece on. Even though there are not many Festival magazines on the market that we can draw reference to for things like house styles (font, colour schemes etc), music magazines act as a good substitute as the target market and demographic remains pretty much the same.
It was then established by this that Harry would complete the research by the coming Friday in order for James to get started on the Articles and other information that would be needed.
I am going to start looking into the software that I am going to use to create the pages of the magazine that we have been set: (Front cover, contents, two articles). We have a meeting with Bex on Thursday morning to discuss our ideas and in what ways we should take our ideas forward.
I met the group at Harri's flat in West Downs, here I found out the brief which is creating a magazine for a type of Media. We have chosen to do ours on Festivals around the world which is something that I believe we will be able to create a good, informed piece on. Even though there are not many Festival magazines on the market that we can draw reference to for things like house styles (font, colour schemes etc), music magazines act as a good substitute as the target market and demographic remains pretty much the same.
It was then established by this that Harry would complete the research by the coming Friday in order for James to get started on the Articles and other information that would be needed.
I am going to start looking into the software that I am going to use to create the pages of the magazine that we have been set: (Front cover, contents, two articles). We have a meeting with Bex on Thursday morning to discuss our ideas and in what ways we should take our ideas forward.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Final Presentation: Rectifyed
I can safely say now that the presentation has been completed, but with however, a few digressions to the project brief. Considering that Slideshare was not working for our PowerPoint and due to how many different approaches we had taken, we have come to the conclusion that uploading the presentation to YouTube was our only option.
The above video is our finished presentation and in some ways I am happy and in other ways I am disappointed with the outcome. The presentation has weight, it clear, concise and the design does not inflict the audience with an 'information overload'. However, the sound is extremely distorted. Something, obviously, that could prove to be extremely problematic.
We have also uploaded the presentation to slideshare, meaning that it is backed up, if anything is to go wrong.
The above video is our finished presentation and in some ways I am happy and in other ways I am disappointed with the outcome. The presentation has weight, it clear, concise and the design does not inflict the audience with an 'information overload'. However, the sound is extremely distorted. Something, obviously, that could prove to be extremely problematic.
We have also uploaded the presentation to slideshare, meaning that it is backed up, if anything is to go wrong.
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Uploading the Presentation to Slideshare: Unsuccessful
Today, Anthony tried uploading the presentation to SlideShare.net. Something, I am afraid, has been unsuccessful. The aim was to have it done for Thursday, ahead of time so Justine could check that the link worked and because I am unable to attend the lecture on Friday morning due to personal reasons.
The PowerPoint has been done in the wrong format, meaning that the presentation is an array of static images and we have lost the audio and animations that we connected with the presentation. Therefore, we are now looking into other methods of completing the project for the Friday 10th 2012 deadline. We have thought about using other versions of Microsoft, using video creation software among other things.
I have also been in correspondence with Justine, as I believe that it is paramount to maintain the contact with our tutor in situations where the project is in jeprody.
The PowerPoint has been done in the wrong format, meaning that the presentation is an array of static images and we have lost the audio and animations that we connected with the presentation. Therefore, we are now looking into other methods of completing the project for the Friday 10th 2012 deadline. We have thought about using other versions of Microsoft, using video creation software among other things.
I have also been in correspondence with Justine, as I believe that it is paramount to maintain the contact with our tutor in situations where the project is in jeprody.
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