rough cut vs preliminary task contents

As we see there is a major difference such as content and images seen.

Having more pictures on the rough cut and having better font on the contents pages.

That the rough cut contents page is much more clear as the writing all starts at the same point unlike the preliminary task.


Also filling space on the contents on the rough cut as the rough cut just looks empty full of space that could of been used.

rough cut vs final cut D.P.S

The last and final page of my magazine pages is my double page spread which there is a massive comparison.

Let's start with the photo. It's a 'on  location' image compared to the rough cut, studio shot. This shows diversion as no other shot is 'on location' to make the image on my double page spread image stand out from the rest.

Also placing the article on the other side of the spread is definitely the second biggest change as it goes against the conventions of a normal magazine by having it on the left than on the right. Also having the change of the black to white to make it easier to stand out from the background of the location.

I also changed the band name location to be more condensed together which fits the page perfectly and the removal of the massive purple under bar, which I only had to fill space as I didn't have an 'on location' shot as it was studio but with an 'on location' I let the background fill the spread.

Overall I believe the change and decision of the development of my double page spread it really shows the quality multiplying to make it a high standard.   

  

Rough cut vs Preliminary task

Here is my rough cut and preliminary task and I just want to compare them as this stage I finished my final cut of my media product.

As you can see the image is a long shot while the preliminary is a close up shot. Along with the point that they're both studio shots but one hasn't been photo shopped and placed it with a dark blue background.

Comparing them you can see the quality of the task and rough cut is doubled the amount.

Full Article

Here is my full article:

   Q: First of all, how are the three of you?

Eleanor:  I’m great!

Bree: I’m fine thank you!

Romy; I’m also great!

Q; How are you feeling about the positive response with the promo/teaser of your new single called ‘Refresh’?

Eleanor: Personally I’m very grateful that our fans are still loving the music we’re making especially that it’s in a different direction than the last album but I hope the not only the single but the next one and the album gets the response the promo for the new single coming out on Sunday which it’s already on pre-order

      and so many people already bought it, it amazes me.

Bree: I totally agree with Eleanor that it flows onto the next single and eventually the album which is coming out in May.

Romy: I knew the response would be great as we’ve received so far.

Q; What was the inspiration of this album since it’s in a different direction from your debut album ‘WHY?’

Eleanor: Well this album was more fun to make as with the success of the first album we can create music more tailored for us and the fans as we’ve been given more creative freedom.

Bree; Yeah as when I look at the first album it’s not as daring as the new album, we’ve got a stronger attachment to this album than the first album.

Romy: There are some tracks that are weak on the first album but all the new tracks are strong with a powerful meaning unlike the first album.

Q; Overall what do you want for your ultimate goal as a group?

Eleanor: I would love our songs to be used for a musical, either a musical film or a West-End/Broadway production.

Bree: I think doing the Bond Theme would also be the thing we could do as a group.

Romy: That we get placed into the hall of rock and roll.   

Q; Will there be a following tour?

Eleanor: definitely performing is what we live for hence why we are performers

Bree: Since we couldn’t with the first album it would be god’s gift if we could tour.

 Romy: Why wouldn’t we, it’s our passion to perform.

Q; You three have been keeping your project very secretive, are there any tracks to look out for on the album?

Eleanor: like we said it’s a secret so I’m not saying anything.

Bree: We want to surprise you guys so you’ll have to wait till May to listen to it, so be patient.

Romy: what’s the point of telling, we want to hype the album up so it’s under lock and key, sorry.

Q; Have you enjoyed your time in the spotlight so far?

Eleanor: It’s been great, the experience I’ve gained from this career we’ve made.

Bree: definitely

Romy: yeah man even though the press

 can be irritating.    

Q; Is there any tracks featuring artists?

Eleanor:Yeah there are a few tracks featuring other artists...

Bree: these are the tracks to look out for.

Romy:The people who we had the opportunity to work with has been a blessing.

Q; So who do you think are the biggest competition to you three as an artist?

Eleanor: Most likely Little Mix as there great performers.      

Bree: I guess if not little mix, most likely Fifth Harmony, as you don’t see much girl groups these days.

Romy:If not girl groups like us, most likely Zara Larson or MØ, as our album has similar sounds and instruments.

Q; In a previous question you said there will be a tour supporting the new album, will the tour contain previous tracks from the last album?

Eleanor: Of course the tracks on there is the reason we can make the second album.

Bree: Obviously we will have the singles in the sets but the tour is more for the new album.

Romy:  If we do I think we’ll have a small section for album tracks that aren’t singles but the singles most likely will span throughout the show.

Unfortunately we had to end the interview there, as the girl power group had to leave for the shoot of their music video for their new single ‘Refresh’. Which is available on iTunes 7th of March.  Along with their new album out on the 5th of May. 

Article Questions

Here are the questions fro my article:  

 Q: First of all, how are the three of you?

 Q; How are you feeling about the positive response with the promo/teaser of your new single called  ‘Refresh’?

  Q; What was the inspiration of this album since it’s in a different direction from your debut album      ‘WHY?’

  Q; Overall what do you want for your ultimate goal as a group?

  Q; Will there be a following tour?

  Q; You three have been keeping your project very secretive, are there any tracks to look out for on    the album?

Q; Have you enjoyed your time in the spotlight so far?

Q; Is there any tracks featuring artists?

 Q; So who do you think are the biggest competition to you three as an artist? 

Q; In a previous question you said there will be a tour supporting the new album, will the tour contain previous tracks from the last album?

Media Evaluation Questions

These are the questions we have to answer for our media evaluation:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products. 

So we are going to have to look at our products and compare who we followed or did something different than the normal conventions on all three pages.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This makes us look at our content and do we think it represents certain social groups well and if it's presentable to the audience of them groups.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?

So we have to research and see what distribution company would be suitable and see what type of magazines distribute similar magazine as our magazines.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

We have to be specific about about the audience and not generic so we have to go into deep detail about the audience which are our readers.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

We analyse our magazines and what draws the audience in and I have a video for a response on my rough cut which made an effect towards my final cut.

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

Looking at the tools we learned from the start and how we used them to produce our final cut of the magazine.

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

We compare the final cut and preliminary task between them and see how much the final cut has developed from the preliminary and see if there are any traits still there.    

Final Hand In, D.P.S

The double page spread (D.P.S) has always been a mixed bag but my final double page spread, I love it. Compared to the rough cut as it's an on location image and not studio making it look even better than before.

Final Hand In, Contents

Here is my final Hand in for my contents page of my music magazine. Through out the development creating this page, I hate the other two consisting of the preliminary task and the rough cut.

Final Hand In, Front Cover

Here is my final hand in of my magazine front cover, I've really came a long way of developing my front cover from the start of the preliminary.

Font 5

This is one of my favourite fonts I used so I used it for my artist. I was inspired by the 'Rolling Stones' magazine with 'Madonna' on their cover and it just inspired me to use something similar as it gave the new retro vibe which is very popular, and I'm doing a pop music magazine so I knew I had to do it. It brings this vibe that pop is just more than new and up to date but this retro knowledge, showing the old is the new.

Font 4

The reason why I used this font was to contrast with the other title fonts on my contents page. It contrasts with the subtitles from being thin and the main title of the contents page joint up and more complicated than this font so it stands out in its own way compared to the bigger stand off fonts.


                                                                                                                                             

Font 3

 This font is called 'fabulous personal use' I used this for my contents page. The reason I used this font as it stood out and it brought some difference to my magazine. It gives it a more sophistication feeling towards the pop magazine genre towards the bubbly style of what is commonly used in this genre.

Font 2

 This is the font I used for my cover as it's a lot bolder and contrasting to the font used for my logo and masthead. It also stands out on the cover especially when I used this for the red wording.  

     
 

Font 1

                       

This Font was used for my Masthead, I chose this as it was a simple and clear font to read. The style of the font stands out from the over cover font as it's more striking and bold compared to the thinness of this font. Along with the use of this font for the other titles on the contents page of 'regulars', 'out of this world' and 'monthly contributors' to also counter balance the font on the contents page. It is useful for the small logo I used on my double page spread of 'FMS'.   

Rough Cut vs Final Cut Contents

Here is my final cut of my contents page above the rough cut and there are massive differences between each version.

I'll start with the structure of my contents page. I split the list of contents that would be in the magazine into the 'REGULARS' and 'OUT OF THIS WORLD' as the one of articles than the original where it was just listed which looks terrible compared to final cut. Along with adding a 'MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS' section as well.  

Another major difference with the structure of photo placement and the addition of photos, along with better and clearer images. I decided with the two models as the popstars to show the double power of women in the music industry.

Another change there is, the use of a better font as the font used on the rough cut didn't have the opportunity to lower case. Along with having the key words in red such as my front cover on a certain story to keep it effective and have the house style flowing through the magazine. As well having it back to black instead of the pink and purple as it looks awful with the blue.

I also changed the page colour with it being blue to white as it looks much better with the black and red wording making it easier to read than struggling with similar shade of purple with the blue background.

The parts what I kept the same is the title font of the page, and the shade of pink but I defined the shape and placing of the pink bars which came from the underline of the page title. This was to make the sections easier to define.

Overall I believe this my weakest page but I'm satisfied on how this page has turned out.        

Rough Cut vs Final Cut Cover

 On the top there is my final cut of my cover and on the bottom there is my rough cut.

As you can see there is a major difference with the front cover containing more stories from 4 stories to 7 stories to go with the convention of having multiple stories than a few.

I also changed the image on my front cover as my photo was not the quality standard i wanted it to be, so I retook the photos I needed. I also assigned a colour to each member of my group to make them each stand out.

I also added a barcode which I made in Photo Shop.

However they're are a few things I kept the same such as they blue dividers and the white colour for trinity. Along with have the same key words in red to stand out. Along with keeping the masthead the same but only bigger than the rough cut compared to the final.  

I'm very proud of my development of my cover and how polished it looks.    

Final Contents Page Draft

This is the final draft of my contents page complete, with images and stories.

I added the story about an artist "gone bad" which is seen in artists such as "Zayn" when he left "One Direction". So I wanted to portray it with the use of the leather jacket in the picture on the right she has the leather jacket to embody the image of a biker chick who is hard as nails.

Along with images of the model in the top right I wanted a close up and then a long shop with different expressions to show the attitude of pop stars and how they believe they're better than anyone else.

Monthly Contributers Pictures

 On Friday 31st of March I got some pictures of some friends to be my monthly contributors. I went with a close up/mid shot for the photo to keep it looking professional as they're 'writers' of an article or 'photographer' of a photo shoot.

New D.P.S

This is the new Double Page Spread (D.P.S) its based of the original it's just moving the text further to the right to avoid the centre line so it isn't cut off.

Along with the opportunity to get on location pictures as I only have studio shots.