media evaluation - Premiliminary and finished product comparison

Media: Music magazine evaluation

Music magazine research.

To start of my music research I decided to research the covers of music magazines first. To begin with I simply searched "Music magazine covers" on google images. I emmidiately noticed a trend, most of the popular looking magazines seemed to have celebrites headlining them. Looking through some of the results from google images I started to notice that 'Vibe' and 'Blender' magazines seem to stand out most. Both magazines have celebrities headlining them. I looked through previous magazines issues and celebrities headlining these magazine seem a regular occurance for these two magazines. The celebrity overlapping the title shows that these two magazines are established.

  Leona Lewis starring in "blender" magazine.


 As you can see here previous X-factor winner Leona Lewis headlines 'Blender' magazine cover. She seems to be the vocal point of the magazine, which is illustrated with her head overlapping the title.





 Picture below global superstar T.I healines 'Vibe' as you can see he is the vocal point. He like Leona Lewis overlaps the title.

T.I headlining Vibe magazine.

 

Music Magazine introduction

We have moved on to the music magazine from the college one, which we completed
before christmas 2012. For our music we are going to have to make a front cover,
a conents page and a double page spread. The images we use have to be our own
and the minumum number of images we can use are four. The content of the magazine however can be decided by us. In order to make a decent music magazine, you have to take a look
at current popular music magazines. I will  be researching through music magazines in my next slide.

College magazine research.

The reason why I am doing a magazine survey is because I want to find out Ideas to include in my college magazine. I am designing a front page and a content page.  I would like to identify the target audience of the potential magazine. I used a series of question to identify specific criterias of my magazine creation. I asked a variety of question such as age, gender and how often my potential audience read my magazine so I can base my potential magazine around their expectation.


Response I recieved from my survey.

80% of the people who answered my survey were male.
83% were people between the age of 16 and 19.
75% of the people who took the survey say they read magazines.

of that 75%:
54% say they read a magazine less than ones a week
18% say they read magazines everyday
18% say they read magazines ones a week

contents of the magazine that interest my target audience (note this is a multi choice):

63% say sports magazine would interest them.
36% say games magazines would interest them.
36% say movie magazines would interest them.
45% say they would want "other" contents however none specified.
18% say gossip magazines would interest them.


Price for content:

45% of people said they pay more than £2 for a magazine
18% said they would pay between £1.51and £2
27% said they would pay between £1.01 and £1.50

page count:

45% say they would expect more than 20 pages in a magazine.
36% say they would expect between 16-20 pages in a magazine.
while 18% 5 to 10 pages..

contents inside:

27% of people said they would prefere a magazine with a high picture content.
18% of people said they would prefere a magaznie with a high written content.
54% of people said they would prefere a magazine with both of the above.

These results have helped to establish following for my magazine:
Entertainment magazines are the most popular.
the price can be above £2 but theres a big expectation on good quantity.
should aim for at least 20 pages.

my magazine Survey.

Magazine Survey Please could you answer it. :D

Cinematography

Definition of Cinematography- The art of making motion pictures. movie shots come in all different angles which stresses a certain part of the movie or show. These show what type of movies or show these people represent. this can also target certain viewing audiences. there are several different shots a show or movie can contain. such as:

Establishing shots (EST)- where the action takles place this sets the scene
 
Wide shot (WS)- often (but not always) used as an establashing shot.
the point of this is to show the subjects suroundings.

 Long shot(LS) - a shot which shows most or even all of a subject and their surrounding.

 Medium long shot(MLS)- knees to head with some background

Medium shots (MS)- waist to head

Medium two shot (M2S)- similar to above but with two people.

Medium close up (MCU)- head and shoulders

Close up (CU) - shows the characters face, it used to show emotion.

Big close up (BCU)- forehead to chin, used to show extreme emotion.

Extreme close up (ECU)- a very tight shot, for example someones eye or a door handle.

Over the shoulder (OTS)-used during a conversation, medium close up   + the other persons shoulder, head and back etc.used during a conversation, medium close up   + the other persons shoulder, head and back etc.

Over the head shots (OH)- camera will be directly over the objects or actors
 
High angle (H/A)- could be used to make object/ person powerless.

 Low Angle(L/A) -Could be used to make the object person powerful.
 
deep shot(DS) - when something is in the foreground and something alse is in the background