Preliminary Task - College Magazine.

Unlike everyone else in my media class, I decided I would do my front cover and contents page on a website called Picnik which is an editing website.

The front cover image is an image of Hannah with leaves blowing around her, this is a very Autumny picture. I decided to edit this image to make the background more vibrant and colourful. To go along with this theme I decided I would use orange and a mustard yellow colour for my text with black behind it to give it a drop shadow effect. the style of font i decided to use was Bleeding Cowboys a gothicy type of font which also looks effective with the colours of the text and the background. I like the way i have edited this photo so that all the colours link together and have a common colour scheme.

On my contents page, I used an image of Guisborough Priory with a coffin with the lid sligjtly to a slant. At first I thought this image would be front page material but then I decided it would be better to have a girl on the front and an image of the local area on the contents page. I decided to edit this image so it also had a gothicy edge about it, I also decided I would use the same font as the front cover and the same colours as the colours also suited the image I had chosen.

I like the look of my front cover and contents page as they are edgy and look detailed enough to be an actuall magazine. I think that other students would buy this magazine due to the fact it has current stories and students will be able to get involved with the stories.

PLEASE LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS ON WHAT YOU THINK.

Niche Markets.

In previous tasks I have been analysing images of Pixie Lott but in this task I am going to analyse the genre of music Pixie is in and the way in which she dresses and how it is represented to the people who like her music. I am also going to discuss who may have influenced Pixie and her style.

Pixie's style may have been influenced by Blondie aka Debbie Harry with the platinum blonde hair and the smile, she may have also been influenced by X-Factors Diana Vickers, who also has platinum blonde hair. However when it comes to fashion style Blondie wore a lot of plain coloured clothes with knee high boots which were in style when she was well known now a days Pixie has a common fashion style, she wears clothes which are in trend and what every girl would like to be seen in and possibly even buy.

The genre of music she writes can be glassed as pop princess, and it is music which lots of people like due to the fact the words in her songs are very catchy and also the music has a very upbeat tempo. I like the music Pixie writes and how it sounds due to the fact it is my kind of music, i like the lyrics she writes as they are meaningful and are good songs. I also like the clothes Pixie wears as it is current and what all girls want

NME Analysis

The target audience for this issue of "NME" magazine, is for people who not only like indie music but also like Oasis as this issue is mostly about the fight between Noel and Liam Gallagher and why the well known band Oasis split up in August 2009 just before they were due to go on stage at a Summer Festival.
I think the age range for this magazine is teenagers, it may be aimed at both genders depending on who is on the front of the cover, for this magazine I think the main target audience is people who were Oasis fans and want to know why they decided to split, from the image on the from it looks contriverisal due to the fact they both have a serious look on their faces.
The three main colours of this magazine are Red, Black and White. The colour red denotes that there is a sense of danger and urgency about the magazine and also may denote a sense of blood.
On the cover there is other stories which are in the magazine and they are in the same colour scheme as the rest of the magazine. This links to the colours of clothes which Noel and Liam Gallagher are wearing. There is one made headline "Rock's Messiest Bust Ups" and many other kickers about what is in the magazine, this gives the audience an insight on what is also in the magazine and persuades them to buy it.

Practising using the cameras for College Magazine

As a group of four we were given a task, for this task we had to go out in the College grounds a take a number of photographs of different things.

Throughout the task we had to use various camera techniques including long shot, close up and framing. here are a number of photos we took with the camera and information about the shots we used.

For this photograph we as a group decided we would all stand on two benches with two of us on each bench, it is a full body shot. to get this picture like this we put the camera ontop of a bin and put it on a self timer.

Overall we liked this picture as we were all in it and all smiling, it is a decent picture.

This pciture is a high angle shot, we used two of our fingers and created a star shape. We held the camera high above to get this shape and the table in the background. This image shows a group of friends creating an image and interpreting our own imagination.

This photograph contains all four of us as a group, we decided to all fit into one mirror and have the tallest person take the picture. I decided to edit the picture so it was straight and so it was smaller. As a group we liked this picture.