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Main Task:Photographs

When taking my photographs I used the followong equiptment:

4084 canon 400d 3 Quart cam

Using this camera was quite hard at first, especially for my preliminary task. For my main task i thought i had got the hang of it, however i noticed that my phototaking skills were poor so i had to racap on how to use the camera properly in order to take good pictures. I noticed that the main difficulties with using the camera was when trying to get the red light to be in the eye of the model. This was bad as it meant some of my images were out of focus.

bowens gemini 250r flash head 592647

To trigger the flashyou need a pair of Pulsars, one set as a transmitter connected to the cameras hot shoe and the other set as a receiver wired into a flash head. When i first took my pictures for my main task, i did not use this, therefore my pictures were not that much of a good quality.

 bowens pulsar radio trigger single unit 

SoftBox

The softbox was used to use a soft light as to create soft diffused light by directing light through some diffusing material, or by "bouncing" light off a second surface to diffuse the light.

in 60cm studio foto circular reflector light 82027

I  used this when taking my pictures as to try and stop the light from the softbox from reflecting of the model whilst taking the picturs.

This is a picture of me taking pictures for my music magazine

 

These are some of the photographs that I took for my magazine

This is the picture that I used for my music magazine front 

cover.

This is the main image that i used for my double page spread.

This is the image i also decided to inlucide on my contents page

These are other images that i took during the photo shoot 

Main Task:Drafts layout

These are the draft layouts that i created for my magazine front cover

This is my final draft for my music magazine front cover

This is my final draft for my music magazine contents page

This is my final draft for my music magazine double page spread

Conclusion about Audience Reasearch

I conclude that the questions i came up with to ask my audience are good as they are going to help me get my audience's opinions about what they would like to see in a music magazine. Also because it gives me a way of  connecting with my audience due to the communication i had with them in order to obtain the findings i did. They also helped me recognize that producing these questions and asking if they had any other ideas was a good as it helped broaden up my ideas for my music magazine.

The findings i got back from my research audience are good because i have a variety of ideas from my audience, both male and female and from the same age group in which my music magazine targets. As i used Msn chat as a method to gather this research, i think the audience were not bored as this was a different way of gathering research compared to the ordinary way of gathering research such as a questionnaire on a white sheet of paper.

I could have however improved my research audience by mainly including open ended questions as closed ended questions would have given me more reliable results that would have been easier to gather. The fact that my questions were closed ended questions was bad as it narrowed down the audience's responses. It was not a good idea to include such questions as the questions mainly had my choices and preferences therefore not giving the audience that much of a choice to say what they really wanted or preferred.

I also then decided to complete a moodboard which also helped me understand what my typical audience research is and what they are mostly interested in.

Main Task:Audience Research

                                          Audience Research Questionnaire

1.      What type of magazine do you prefer to read? Music, Fashion, Sports,

2.      Do you think music magazines are useful?

3.      Do you enjoy reading gossip sections in music magazines?

4.      What colour theme would you prefer a music magazine to have? Red and White, Purple           and White, Pink and Black, Pink and Blue

5.     Do you think competitions attract readers to read music magazines?

6.     What type of music genre do you prefer? Rap, R&B and Soul, Hip-Hop, Indie, Rock, Punk

Lennard

(12:50am)

Ash: hey

would u mind me asking u you a few questions to help with my media coursework?

Lenny: erm no its cool go on

Ash: 1. What type of magazine do you prefer to read? Music, Fashion, Sports?

Lenny: Music

Ash: 2. Do you think music magazines are useful?

Lenny: Yea i do

Ash: 3. Do you enjoy reading gossip sections in music magazines?

Lenny: nope

Ash: 4. What colour themes would you prefer a music magazine to have? Red and White, Purple and White, Pink and Black, Pink and Blue

Lenny: purple and white

Ash: 5. Do you think competitions attract readers to read music magazines?

Lenny: I think they do

Ash: 6. Which music genre do you prefer? Rap, R&B, Hip-Hop, Indie, Rock, Punk

Lenny: Hip hop

Tobi

(12:42am)

Ash: What type of magazine do you prefer to read? Music, Fashion, Sports

Tobi: sports

Ash: 2. Do you think music magazines are useful?

Tobi: Yes, for entertainment purposes

Ash: 3. Do you enjoy reading gossip sections in music magazines?

Tobi: Yes

Ash: 4. What colour themes would you prefer a music magazine to have? Red and White, Purple and White, Pink and Black, Pink and Blue

Tobi: Red and white

Ash: 5. Do you think competitions attract readers to read music magazines?

Tobi: Yea

Ash: 6. Which music genre do you prefer? Rap, R&B, Hip-Hop, Indie, Rock, Punk

Tobi: Rnb, rock mixed 

Debbie

(12:51am)

Ash: heya, would u mind me asking you a few questions to help with my media coursework?

Debbie: yeah course

Ash: 1. What type of magazine do you prefer to read? Music, Fashion, Sports?

Debbie: mmm music

Ash: 2. Do you think music magazines are useful?

Debbie: yeahhhh

Ash: Do you enjoy reading gossip sections in music magazines?

Debbie: definitely

Ash: 4. What colour themes would you prefer a music magazine to have? Red and White, Purple and White, Pink and Black, Pink and Blue

Debbie: purple n white

Ash: 6. Which music genre do you prefer? Rap, R&B, Hip-Hop, Indie, Rock, Punk

Debbie: r n b

Irene 

(12:50am)

Ash: heya, would you mind me asking you a few questions to help with my media coursework?

Irene: no problem ask

Ash: 1. What type of magazine do you prefer to read? Music, Fashion, Sports

Irene: Fashion and music

Ash: 2. Do you think music magazines are useful?

Irene: Yhh

Ash: 3. Do you enjoy reading gossip sections in music magazines?

Irene: of course

Ash: 4. What colour theme would you prefer a music magazine to have? Red and White, Purple and White, Pink and Black, Pink and Blue

Irene: Purple and white

Ash: 5. Do you think competitions attract readers to read music magazines?

Irene: Yhh kinda
Ash: 6. Which music genre do you prefer? Rap, R&B, Hip-Hop, Indie, Rock, Punk

Irene: R&B and soul

Moodboard for My Audience Research

                            Audience Research 


This is the mood board i created as part of my Research method. I did some research into the typical audience my music magazine would target. These are the things I came up with that give an impression of the type of audience the music magazine I am going to create will target. 

Update

To improve my AS coursework, i have decided to complete a moodboard that shows what the typical target audience for my music magazine is into.