Deyes High School College Front Cover.

My Evaluation of my coursework.

http://prezi.com/0pcyh7zgl07q/robyn-reid-smiths-evaluation-of-media-coursework/

Final Draft of Double Page Spread

Final Draft of Contents Page

Final Dratf of Front Cover of My Music Magazine



Lists for production of magazine

Actor List
Phil Wade
Mel Heague
Jack Cunningham
Will Davenport
Costume List
Phil - Tight black jeans, black patterend t-shirt and black converse.
Mel - Tight blue jeans, black and white stripy top, black biker jacket, black military boots.
Will - Tight jeans, rolling stones t-shirt and converse.
Jack - Black and white shirt, tight lack jeans and converse.
Venue List
84 Liverpool Road South, Maghull

My Music Magazine Genre Choice.

For my music magazine i have decided to choose my genre of my magazine as a rock/ heavy metal theme. I chose this because it is one of my favourite genres of music and will be good to create a magazine about. Here are some of the artists that fall under this category.

The Blackout

Korn

Arctic Monkeys

My Chemical Romance

Photoshop Practise

Here is the image that I practiced on in Photoshop. I used the different tools to alter the image and gain a better idea about how the software works and how it may help me produce my music magazine.

Before.

After.



Venue Release forms and Contributor Forms

My Music Magazine Basic Mock-Ups

These are my music magazine basic mock ups. I have made them very basic so your get a little feel for how my magazine will look. I will be adding to how my magazine will look when I develop new skills for creating my magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.

This is a basic mock up of the front cover of my magazine.

This is a mock up of my contents page within my music magazine.

This is a mock up of the double page spread which will be in my music magazine.

Music Magazine Photographs

These are a selection of photographs that i took but i will NOT be using in my magazine. They give me an idea of what i need to do to improve my photographs and what i exactly want in my photographs.

I took this by accident, but still think it looks good.

JACKS FACE! (far right)

Dirty boys

Jack sucking his lip in

<3

Music Magazine Questionnaire Results

To determine what genre of magazine is should create, i created a questionnaire for my classmates to answer.
The results are shown in a graph form so they are easy for you to see.

Results for my initial question.

For the answer YES to the question 'Do you buy magazines?' the results were -

For the answer NO to the question ' Do you buy magazines the results were -

My Chosen Genre Moodboard

Double Page Spread Analysis'

This is a 'My Chemical Romance' double page spread analysis.

This is a 'NME' double page spread analysis.

Magazine contents page analysis'

This is a 'NME' contents page analysis.

This is a 'Kerrang' contents page analysis.

Front Cover Analysis'

Pete Doherty on the front cover of 'NME'



Biffy Clyro on the front cover of 'KERRANG'

Music Magazine front cover terminolgy.

Newsletter Analysis

This Deyes High School newsletter is plain and and bland, it has no colour on it just black and white writing and a black and white image, although 'deyes' is in big bold letters so you know exactly what it is before you even read it. The image is a shaded pencil drawing of the building, it is out dated so therefore makes the school looks old and not modern. They should make the newsletter more colourful and take a picture of inside the school grounds so you get a feel of what the school is actually like. The newsletter cover is very basic as it only says the name of the school in bold and in the font 'serif' and then specifies that it is a 'Specialist Science College'; the image of the school reflects the value and the discipline of the school. For example the charter of values. The news letter is quite messy and as it has three differnt fonts on the front cover, this shows that it hasnt been created by someone who knows what they are doing. Underneath the 'Deyes High School', they use a puff saying 'specialist' this draws the audiences attention to that sentence. You can tell that not a lot of thought has been put into this newletter as it is sloppy and tacky and looks very rushed. There is no enough text on the front page to even put 3 texts so i dont understand why they have. The logo for the 'specialist science college' doesnt look professional either, it looks like it has been taken from clipart and stook on the front of the news letter. I think that the school newsletter should been more of a magazine format with puffs, motos, a lot more pictures of the school, maybe an updated version of the pencil drawing of the school. It would also look good with pictures of some of the students and if they had used the school colour scheme of black, white, red and blue.

This newsletter is of St Ambrose Barlow high school, this is another newsletter that we analysed in class. The first feature that you notice about this news letter compared to the other one is that it uses a lot of colour to make the newletter more appealing and very easy on the eye. The newsletter uses both a professional font and a funny, curly font. I think they used a 'fun' font for the title of the newsletter which is also the name of the high school to try and interpret that the school is a fun school which the students enjoy going to. I think that they have used a professional font for all the other text because as well as being fun, the school wants to convey that they also have a professional side and are a good school and will give their students the best education that they can give. They have used picture from around the school to show how much of a good school that they have and that the school is very well presented, to make sure that people want to go there and want their children to go to that school also. The badge on the right hand side of the title of the nesletter is in full colour which represents a level of formality within the newsletter.
The Amborse Barlow newsletter would look much btter if it was set out more professionaly than it is set out currently, which is very chaotic.

Cohen's Moral Panic

A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. Acording to Stanley Cohen, author of Folk Devils and Moral Panic and credited with coining the term, a moral panic occurs when a person of group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests. Those who start the panic when they fear a threat to prevailing social or cultural values are known by researchers Those who start the panic when they fear a threat to prevailing social or cultural values are known by researchers as "moral entrepreneurs", while people who supposedly threaten the social order have been described as "folk devils."
Moral panics are in essence controversies that involve arguments and social tension and in which disagreement is difficult because the matter at its center is taboo.The media have long operated as agents of moral indignation, even when they are not self-consciously engaged in crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiety or panic.

Moral panics have several distinct features. According to Goode and Ben-Yehuda, moral panic consists of the following characteristics:

• Concern - There must be awareness that the behaviour of the group or category in question is likely to have a negative impact on society.
• Hostility - Hostility towards the group in question increases, and they become "folk devils". A clear division forms between "them" and "us".
• Consensus - Though concern does not have to be nationwide, there must be widespread acceptance that the group in question poses a very real threat to society. It is important at this stage that the "moral entrepreneurs" are vocal and the "folk devils" appear weak and disorganised.
• Disproportionality - The action taken is disproportionate to the actual threat posed by the accused group.
• Volatility - Moral panics are highly volatile and tend to disappear as quickly as they appeared due to a wane in public interest or news reports changing to another topic.

Mock Up of College Magazine

This is a very basic mock up of a college magazine front cover.

This is a very basic mock up of a very basic contents a page.

Narcissistic Identification

These images are of Lady Gaga on the covers of

Narcissistic Identification demands identification with the object on the screen through the audiences fascination with him/her.

Feminism

As a perspective for looking at media texts, feminists would see most media output as being the product of a patriarchal or male dominated order, aimed at dis-em-powering women. Feminism was the response to society's assumptions that women should be subservient to men; until the emergence of feminism women were treated almost as objects, passive agents in a male world.

Laura Mulvey created a theory called the 'Male Gaze', these two magazine's Rolling Stone and Q, which show Lily Allen and Megan Fox in revealing or no clothes. This leads to assumption that this will make men buy the magazines, by just what is on the front cover of them 'objectification'.



Megan Fox on the front cover of Rolling Stone.



Lily Allen on the front cover of Q.

Mulvey argues that people look at things in two different ways,

• Voyeurism- turning the represental figure into an object so that it becomes increasingly beautiful.
• Fetishism- Cult of the female movie star, celebrated for her looks but considered an object and often treated as one.

Beth Ditto on the front cover of NME.

NME completely went in the opposite direction to objectification, and shot the cover which shows that these magazines should be about the music that the people actually make, not about the gorgeous women involved. Also Megan Fox is not even a music artist, she is completely just a figure on the front of the magazine to make it sell more widely.