Final

Well... Here they are then

Final post! -Evaluation

Evaluating media from Jack Fox on Vimeo.

This is my final post to my AS media blog, I hope you enjoyed looking through my blog, seeing how far I have come from my preliminary task to the final product.

I have organised my blog into labels and blog archives, which should make it easier to find your way around. The music I have incorporated on my blog is related to my magazine, and the kind of bands you will find inside Chord.

I feel that I have learnt a lot during the time of production of my magazine, and I hope all my hard work has paid off.

Gooooood bye!

Equipment used to produce my coursework

These are the equipment I used to produce media coursework. They involve a MacBook Pro and Lumix DSLR. The use of my own equipment has been a huge advantage for me, because it meant that I could do the research and planning at college in my lessons, and then actually do the practical work in my own time.

Choice of three content pages

Personally, I preferred the middle one, but I was torn between the first and second, so I mixed them together, which I think makes it look better, this is what I developed...

i'm going to ask people which one they prefer, and they can leave their comments below.

So, which one do you prefer?

More contents page changes

I was experimenting with layout of pictures and text, and I simply moved some pictures all together, and made the background darker. I think this looks better than the other one, because it's more organised.

Mock up sunday

Today I spent part of the day looking at my ideas for my contents page, and trying to work out what I didn't like about it. I found out that I didn't like that there wasn't much text on the page, which made it look less professional, because the pictures were on there own, which made them irrelevant. So I went back to the drawing board, to decide where I could include more text, which linked with the pictures. This is what I developed....

This is only a mock, but basically what I think my contents page should look like. I added a 'Feature' section, because I think that this is a fundamental part of any contents page, because this is what tells the reader what to expect to see inside. I like the use of text and images in this version of my contents page, because they are well balanced and easy to read, and they cover the main points in my magazine. The red square in the photo above is simply to show where a picture will go, as soon as I have taken it. The picture will consist of a small group of people, which will be a band featured in the magazine, because I think that I need to include some kind of band to make the magazine theme more believable.

I also decided to shrink the "contents" title and move it in the corner of the page, because I don't think people really need to see that it is a contents page, because they most likely will already know.

To Do List:

More changes

I reworked some pages once again, and I am happy with the double page spread now, although I will need to add more pages to the contents, and perhaps add more text to relate to the images, which is next on my todo list.

This double page spread consists of more text, and a darker background around Jeremy Stone, which stops before it reachers the smaller pictures, which helps break up the page. I used the lasso tool combined with the eraser in photo to cut Jeremy Stone out of the dark background. I changed the colour of the introduction to my article, so this breaks up the article. I also added a quote from my article, and placed it above Jeremy Stone's head, which helps fill out the gaps on the page, and makes the page look a lot better arranged.