Tuesday, 24 September 2013

School Magazines- Text

What I would and wouldn't use in my School magazine
 
 
Within the magazine, the text should mostly be the same, unless I want to make something stand out/be seperated from the rest of the page. From researching the codes and conventions of school magazines and magazines in general, I learnt that the text should be an easy to read font, especially in a school magazine because children are going to be reading it, and the same font should be used throughout. I also learnt that the text should be in black, or another dark colour, because it will make the writing stand out against majority of background colours.
 



This is an example of a font that would be suitable for my magazine, because it is easy font to read and understand, which is important because its the part of the magazine that gets the information accross to the audience.

 
 


This is an example of a kind of font that I wouldn't use because it's quite hard to read and understand, and when looking at a magazine, the audience would want to be able to read it easily and quickly.
 

This is the font I would be most likely to use within my school magazine because it is easy to read/understand but doesn't look too formal/boring. This font is called 'Arial Narrow'.







 

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

School Magazines- Title

What I would and wouldn't use in my magazine
 
 
 
I found out that one of the codes and conventions of school magazines is to use the colours of the school on the front cover, therefore I will use green, white and black on the front cover of my magazine. I also found out that you shouldn't use too many different colours, which is why I will stick to these three main colours.



I learnt that the title should have something to do with the same of the school, and should be in a font that is quite easy to read.




This is an example of a logo that wouldn't be suitable for the school magazine that I'm making because it doesn't follow the codes and conventions that I previously researched- it is a very hard font to read and the colour doen't match the colour scheme of the school.





This is an example of a more suitable title for my school magazine because it is in a font that very easy to read, and it is one of the three main colours that are associated with the school, which therefore means it follows the codes and conventions of a typical school magazine.



 


 

Codes and Conventions of School Magazines

Codes and Conventions of School Magazines
 
What are codes?
Codes are a sequence of signs that create meaning. Codes can be split into two futher catorgories: Technical and Symbolic.
Technical- All the ways that equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.
Symbolic- Show what is beneath the surface of what we see. For example, a character's actions tell you how the character is feeling.
 
 
What are conventions?
Conventions are the generally accepted ways of doing something/what you would expect to see in that specific type of media. There are general conventions in any medium, such as the use of interview quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific.
 
 
How codes and conventions apply in media studies?Codes and conventions are used together in any study of genre – it is not enough to discuss a technical code used such as camera work, without saying how it is conventionally used in a genre.
 
 
Research on the codes and conventions of school magazine front covers:
Some of the codes and conventions that apply to magazines in general are;
  •  The title is either in the middle, or at the top left corner of the magazine.
  • Images are normally to the right of the text, or in the middle of the front cover and each have a sentence to briefly show what is inside the magazine.
  •  Not too many colours are used, and the colours aren't too bright.


Some of the codes and conventions that are more specific to school magazines are;
  • The title usually has something to do with the name of the school.
  • The school logo appears on the front cover.
  • The school colours are used throughout the magazine.
  • The is an image of the students and/or the headteacher.
  • The information is recent and relevent to the school/it's pupils.
Examples of school magazines that follow some of these codes and conventions:
 


 This school magazine has the school logo in the top corner, and has recent and relevent information on. It also has images of the students.
















This school magazines also has an image of the school logo on the front cover, and has two images of the pupils. The name of the school is used in the title of the magazine.
















This school magazine features the school logo and has two large images of students. The information is recent and relevent to it's audience.
 

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Work schedule for entire course


Week
TASK
Week 1
Research the codes and conventions of general magazines and school magazines (included front cover and contents page).
Blog
Week 2
Analyse existing school magazines.
Create a school magazine mood board.
Blog
Week 3
Make a rough outline of what my magazine will look like (front cover and contents).
Blog
Week 4
Decide what kind of photos I want to take, where I will take and who will be the model.
Blog
Week 5
Borrow a camera from school and take the photos for my school magazine (prelim task).
Blog
Week 6
Upload images to the computer.
Edit all images.
Blog
Week 7
Create first draft of school magazine.
Ask for feedback.
Blog
Week 8
Edit magazine and create second draft/final piece.
Blog
Week 9
Complete evaluation of school magazine.
Blog
Week 10
Make sure everything is on my blog.
Week 11
Research codes and conventions of music magazines.
Analyse front covers, contents and double page spreads.
Blog
Week 12
Decide of genre.
Analyse magazines of that genre.
Look at specific conventions of chosen genre.
Blog
Week 13
Make a practice cover using existing artist on fireworks.
Blog
Week 14
Hand draw rough outline of what my music magazine will look like.
Blog
Week 15
Look at different fonts that I could use in my magazine and on the cover.
Blog
Week 16
Create basic draft of all 3 pages on fireworks.
Blog
Week 17
Make a survey on name for magazine ect.
Blog
Week 18
Analyse survey answers.
Blog
Week 19
Think of artist name and identity/personality.
Decide on when I will take the photos, where and of who.
Blog
Week 20
Make second draft of all pages.
Blog
Week 21
Borrow camera from school and take photos of main model and other models.
Blog
Week 22
Upload images to computer.
Decide which photos I want to use.
Blog
Week 23
Edit selected images.
Blog
Week 24
Edit selected images.
Blog
Week 25
Edit all pages and add in images.
Blog
Week 26
Ask for feedback on magazine.
Edit where necessary.
Week 27
Make word doc/powerpoint ect about creation process.
Blog
Week 28
Upload magazine to blog.
Blog
Week 29
Make sure all of blog is up to date.
Blog
Week 30
Start evaluation questions.
Blog
Week 31
Evaluation questions.
Blog
Week 32
Finish Evaluation questions.
Make sure blog is complete.