Construction resit

The reason I am making changes to my AS coursework is so that I can push my grade up that little higher. I know where I need to improve, and I have gained skills along the way to recognize what I need to do to make my work better. My front cover and double page spread only need some small changes, where as my contents page is going to be re-done.
I feel that I have the knowledge and tools to make these pieces of work better and I know that I can do better, therefore, I am going to do them again. 

Final designs

Here are my final designs. They are slightly different to the images I have in my evaluation questions because I have been working on them bait more and changing things slightly. I have progressed a lot over the past couple of moths and my destines have changed a lot. this is because i have been doing more research over time, and then I've been applying different ideas to my designs. Overall, I am quite happy with the way they have turned out because they all contrast well and I can clearly see where I have gained my ideas from. Also,I have learnt a lot while producing these. This includes different technologies and skills that i have gained while using different internet sources etc. 

My front cover has changed a lot since I started creating it. I have changed many conventions by adding/taking away different parts of my front cover in order for me to decide what I actually wanted it to loo like. I feel like it looks a lot better now than when it did before because I have put a lot of hard work into it over the past couple of moths after receiving feedback from my teacher. I have spoke about my conventions used in one of my evaluation questions and why I have used them, but since doing my evaluation questions, I have changed a few things around. For example, the font. I have used a tool on Photoshop to make my fonts more bold and clear. I done this because I wasn't really happy with the way the fonts looked before as I feel they looked too overcrowded and plain. So I made them look a bit more interesting by the layout, font and colours.  I tried to blend the colours bait more because I had lots of different shades of red which looked all over the place, so I changed that by making them to a grey and cranberry red colours. This is to make my magazine look more put together and match my contents and double page spread. 

My double page spread has also changed a lot since doing my evaluation questions. I really like the layout of this of my double page spread as I feel like it fits in well with the whole design of my magazine. I tried to include as many conventions as I could to make it look more professional and I feel like I added a lot. I also added my own little touches such as the 'Rebecca' signature to make it look more realistic and I created that via the pen tool. I just think it ties all of the article together. I do think that my image could be improved and made bigger, but the way that my double page spread turned out, made it really hard to do that. I couldn't make the image bigger without making the background bigger and that just messed everything up. But so far I am happy with the way that this has turned out even though there could be more done to it. The image was inspired by magazines such as Acoustic. The pose and prop was used to show the emotions of my model which links in with the article. I think the prop also tie-in with my genre which is weird but looking at images I have researched, they see to have some sort of prop. 

My contents page didn't turn out the best but I am happy with how it has improved over the past couple of moth. I found it hard to make a layout that I was happy with and that would attract my target audience. I also tried to include more than one image just to make it look more interesting rather than just having one image by itself. And looking at magazines out there, the ones that are my genre tend to have a variety of images on their contents. I included as many conventions as I could which makes it look professional and clean. Since creating it, I have changed a lot of things such as the layout, font, images etc. And for my final design I feel like it does look a lot better than it did before. Since receiving feedback from my teacher  I have been able to use that as a way of improving my contents page and looking again at magazines out there so that I could have some more inspiration. Even though I still have ways of improving this, I feel like I have shown how I have progressed and at the minute I am happy with the way it is and how it contrasts with my front cover and double page spread.

Time management

Over the holidays, my final pieces were looked at by teacher. From the feedback I am slowly making some changes to my front cover, double page spread and contents page. I do feel like the feedback has helped me realise clearly, what changes need to be made in order for me to move forward and progress onto higher grades. The main thing I am changing is to do with the layout. I am sort of changing things around to make my magazine look more contrasting and eye-catching. This includes moving around fonts and chaining some of my images.  I do feel like I ran out of time when doing my contents page, which made it look quite different to my other designs. So over the next few days I am going to look at some influences from other magazines to help me change a few things around for my magazine. The inspirations I will look for are conventions and where they are situated on the page. I will use Billboard and NME magazine for inspiration as they are the main magazines i have been researching. 

Time managment

In todays lesson, we looked at part of the film industry. After we completed that, we came onto the computers to complete some work on our blogs. Today, I aim to get any odd bit of work completed, and some more work done off the checklist. I have got some more research completed which was the facial expression research by Millium and Ferguson, and I have added this to my blog. I will also look at my evaluation questions, and add more so that i can improve. 

Facial expression research

A man called Trevor Millium identified five key facial expression theories. He looked and research different magazines and the facial expressions made by the models. The five facial expressions he identified were:






















Another researcher called Majorie Ferguson identified four different types of facial expressions. These were:

















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Time management

In todays lesson, I created a mood board on front covers, double page spreads and content pages. The products I have included all have inspired me in some way. I have pieced them all together as separate mood boards and I have included them in my blog. I feel like I have progressed well over the past few lessons and have got a lot of work done.

Today we also sat as a class and looked at ethnicity within TV drama and analysed one video. We didn't write in great detail as we only looked at sound and camera. I think that I need to do some more independent studying on the theory work and practice the terminology a bit more. This will help me when it comes to exam practice.

Mood boards

Here, i made some mood boards of the front covers, double page spreads and contents pages that have overall inspired me. I have already included some of these in my blog posts, but i have pieced them all together to make a creative mood board on the existing products that have inspired me, and helped me gain ideas on creating my own work.