Friday, 31 December 2010
Feedback
Still no work added to this blog, Ashba? I am very disappointed that you have not made any more progress. This needs to be improved for our return in January. As well as being up to date with research and planning, you also need to have written your article and taken all your photos.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Feedback
Ashba - this is developing too slowly! There is still too much that needs to be done and you should be nearing the end of the planning phase... You must work really hard to raise this from a minimal/basic level of research to something more substantial. You still haven't analysed front covers etc.
Please can you use my comments to work on this over the holidays to improve this.
Can you also use labels to organise your blog posts - research, planning, production...
Please can you use my comments to work on this over the holidays to improve this.
Can you also use labels to organise your blog posts - research, planning, production...
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
RnB/ Hiphop BillBoard Top 40 Chart..
1. Can't Be Friends
2. No Hands
5. Whip My Hair
6. Right Thru Me
7.Right Above it
10.Bottom Up
11. Love All Over Me
12. Black And Yeloow
13. Make A Movie
14. I'm Doing Me
15. All I want Is You
16. You Are
17. Sometimes I cry
18. One in A Million
19. There Goes My Baby
20. Holding You Down
21. Champagne Life
22. When A Women Love
23. Miss Me
24. Fancy
25. Love Like This
26. Gone Already
27. NO BS
28. Love You No More
29. Un-Thinkable
30. Biltersweet
31. Runaway
32. Share My Life
33. Finding My Way Back
34. Fall For Your Type
35. Why Would You Stay
36. Making Love To The Money
37. Hot Tottie
38. Make It Rain
39. Rap Song
40. Pretty Girl Rock
Trey Songs
2. No Hands
Waka Flocka Flame Featuring Roscoe Dash & Wal
3. Aston Martin Music
Rick Ross Ft Drake & Chrisette Mistele
Chris Brown Ft Tyga & Kevin Mccall
5. Whip My Hair
Willow
6. Right Thru Me
Niki Minaj
7.Right Above it
Drake Ft Lil Wayne
8.What's My Name?
Rihanna Ft Drake
9. Lay it Down
Lloyd
10.Bottom Up
Treys Songz Ft Niki Minaj
11. Love All Over Me
Monica
12. Black And Yeloow
Wiz Khalifa
13. Make A Movie
Twista Featuring Chris Brown
14. I'm Doing Me
Fantasia
15. All I want Is You
Miguel Featuring J.Cole
16. You Are
Charlie Wilson
17. Sometimes I cry
Eric Benet
18. One in A Million
Ne-Yo
19. There Goes My Baby
Usher
20. Holding You Down
Jazmine Sullivan
21. Champagne Life
Ne-Yo
22. When A Women Love
R Kelly
23. Miss Me
Drake Featuring Lil Wayne
24. Fancy
Drake Featuring T.I & Swiss Beats
25. Love Like This
Donnell Jones
26. Gone Already
Faith Evans
27. NO BS
Chris Brown
28. Love You No More
Diddy- Dirty Money Ft Drake
29. Un-Thinkable
Alicia Keys
30. Biltersweet
Fantasia
31. Runaway
Kanye West Ft Pusha J
32. Share My Life
Kem
33. Finding My Way Back
Jaheim
34. Fall For Your Type
Jamie Foxx Featuring Drake
35. Why Would You Stay
Kem
36. Making Love To The Money
Gucci Mane
37. Hot Tottie
Usher Featuring Jay-Z
38. Make It Rain
Travis Porter
39. Rap Song
T-Pain Ft Rick Ross
40. Pretty Girl Rock
Keri Hilson
I have researched the top 40 RnB/ Hip hop Billboard chart which is present above. This will help me to shape my artist into what the audience would like it to be with it's own unique style. Also it demonstrates what kind of music people enjoy listening to. RnB/ Hip hop is still a mainstream genre that consists of a large audience so my music magazine does not have as many risks than a niche genre which only captivates a small audience. My target audience is the young teenage category. This fits perfectly with it, as the majority of artist on this chart are young, fun teenagers or young adults.
Many artists are quite new to the industry, along with the traditional artist which are the leaders of this music genre. Willow Smith released her debut single " Whip my hair" on 26th October 2010 reaching to fifth position on this chart; success achieved by the young artist who is known the be "Baby Rihanna". Another artist that gained five remarkable positions with debut singles is Drake. His singles are featuring well qualified artist such as Lil Wayne known as King of Hip hop. Along with Rihanna, T.I and Jamie Fox. A female solo artist that has a unique style to her music is Niki Minaj. She came at sixth position with her debut single "Right thru me"; this shows a sensitive side of Niki then the normal fun, funky side of her. My target audience can relate to these artists and influence them as they are from the same age category.
I have researched the top 40 RnB/ Hip hop Billboard chart which is present above. This will help me to shape my artist into what the audience would like it to be with it's own unique style. Also it demonstrates what kind of music people enjoy listening to. RnB/ Hip hop is still a mainstream genre that consists of a large audience so my music magazine does not have as many risks than a niche genre which only captivates a small audience. My target audience is the young teenage category. This fits perfectly with it, as the majority of artist on this chart are young, fun teenagers or young adults.
Many artists are quite new to the industry, along with the traditional artist which are the leaders of this music genre. Willow Smith released her debut single " Whip my hair" on 26th October 2010 reaching to fifth position on this chart; success achieved by the young artist who is known the be "Baby Rihanna". Another artist that gained five remarkable positions with debut singles is Drake. His singles are featuring well qualified artist such as Lil Wayne known as King of Hip hop. Along with Rihanna, T.I and Jamie Fox. A female solo artist that has a unique style to her music is Niki Minaj. She came at sixth position with her debut single "Right thru me"; this shows a sensitive side of Niki then the normal fun, funky side of her. My target audience can relate to these artists and influence them as they are from the same age category.
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Research Feedback
Ashba
You have very little research on here yet and must work hard over the next week to improve this situation. Use the grid in the yellow booklet to work out what you need to do. You have some basic research here but it needs more depth and there needs to be more of it. You also need to get your contents page loaded into the prelim task post to complete this task ASAP.
You have very little research on here yet and must work hard over the next week to improve this situation. Use the grid in the yellow booklet to work out what you need to do. You have some basic research here but it needs more depth and there needs to be more of it. You also need to get your contents page loaded into the prelim task post to complete this task ASAP.
Friday, 3 December 2010
Preliminary Task; Front Cover
This is the front cover of my college magazine.
I believe it is attractive and fun rather than boring. Also the colours; yellow blue and red show a feeling of excitement which brings together the magazine. This should be present as the magazine celebrates success of the students and the achievements that the college has made. The target audience for this magazine can be divided between two groups which are students and parents, not just the parents. It is at a good standard, providing relevant information to the reader. The mid-shot photograph is placed in the middle of the cover. The student's attitude in the photograph represents she is pleased and happy. Also the body language shows that is pleased with herself. It is inviting the reader as looking straight at them. It will intrigue the reader into finding out what the students achievement is. They are many different fonts that are used which brings captivated emotions into the cover. Subsequently, I have used a competition to engage young readers from the age group of 16 to 19 year old, as they have more enthusiasm to be involved in competition.
A skill that I have achieved in the course of making this cover is cutting out the picture which includes using photo shot. This was a program that I had never come across before so a need more practise before undertaking my actual magazine.
However, they are several things that I would change such as using catchy phrases which can draw the reader's attentions. Additionally I would consider using a professional font that allow me to be competitive in the magazine industry, as the number of fonts that are used make the cover look disorganised and crude. The Front cover is the give away of the magazine saw that has to be up to standard, otherwise readers will leave yours and pick a higher quality one. Also readers should feel the magazine is value for money which contains a considerable amount of information but reader friendly; pictures accompany the text. Even though the colours are cheerful and bring happiness to the page but I would consider capitalising colours that would invite readers to the magazine not draw them away as they may feel its childish and targeted at a younger age group. The bottom end of the magazine is used to post competitions. Whereas I posted my as a heading which was wrong saw I am going to change that when making my actual magazine.
Content Page
This is my preliminary mock up page for my content page for a college magazine. I have developed my ideas further by producing a content page for this magazine. This will help me when I am planning my actual magazine. I have structured the layout of the context page which suggests professionalism along with neatness. Whereas if things were placed in a random selection it would result in the reader getting confused. The background color of my content page is yellow. The heading that consist of the largest font on the page will bring the page out. Also the sub-titles suggest all the topics that will be included in the magazine. This is a good way to split information into sections. It makes it easier for reader to conceive whether would like to purchase it or not. The font size would be smaller than the heading but larger than the explanatory text. The color of the font would be red; this would make the font stand out from the rest. Further more, below the sub-titles I have included explanatory text that explain what the topic may contain. This should he sharp and accurate as it will grab the readers attention but not give away all the story that the article is based upon. The font size for this would be a normal, readable size and the color would be blue, keeping to the theme. On this page I have added several pictures. The reason for this is that readers enjoy taking look at pictures and would interest them to go more depth were that picture was taken. The main picture; student standing in a formal outfit that it taking over the third half of the page brings atmosphere into the page. It's like someone standing looking directly at the reader inviting them into the magazine. The six other pictures hat are present show student's studying, trip to new york and lastly when the student representative speaks out. To conclude the pictures sub-headings are required to en-show the reader understands the reasoning behind them.
On the hand, they are many things that can be improved on my content page, for instance the background color is highly bright, as it is yellow. This will irritate the readers eyes after a certain time, leading to no purchase of the magazine. The content page is the next biggest factor that encourages the reader to purchase the product so has to be eye- catching. I believe all the colors being put together on the page will clash and confuse the reader and not allow them to read on. Also the large number of pictures may distract the reader from the text, as they may think they is no point buying the magazine when I have seen most the pictures. Lastly one more criticism that could be constructed is the heading it should be in the middle of the page, not thrown in the corner which may look like a sub-title just in a larger font.
Overall I believe the magazine has come to a success as it's the first time. I have developed my skills and have learnt more skills that will contribute to my actual magazine. For my my magazine I think I'm going blend both dark and bright colors together rather than having it too bright or dull. Pictures attract my attention when I'm reading a magazine so I will include couple as both female and males enjoy looking down at a pretty women. Finally I am going to produce a questionnaire that i will give to number of people from my target market and look at what they'd like to see in the magazine. The feedback will allow me to produce a magazine that will be different from the mainstream one's but still keep to what the audience wants to see.
I believe it is attractive and fun rather than boring. Also the colours; yellow blue and red show a feeling of excitement which brings together the magazine. This should be present as the magazine celebrates success of the students and the achievements that the college has made. The target audience for this magazine can be divided between two groups which are students and parents, not just the parents. It is at a good standard, providing relevant information to the reader. The mid-shot photograph is placed in the middle of the cover. The student's attitude in the photograph represents she is pleased and happy. Also the body language shows that is pleased with herself. It is inviting the reader as looking straight at them. It will intrigue the reader into finding out what the students achievement is. They are many different fonts that are used which brings captivated emotions into the cover. Subsequently, I have used a competition to engage young readers from the age group of 16 to 19 year old, as they have more enthusiasm to be involved in competition.
A skill that I have achieved in the course of making this cover is cutting out the picture which includes using photo shot. This was a program that I had never come across before so a need more practise before undertaking my actual magazine.
However, they are several things that I would change such as using catchy phrases which can draw the reader's attentions. Additionally I would consider using a professional font that allow me to be competitive in the magazine industry, as the number of fonts that are used make the cover look disorganised and crude. The Front cover is the give away of the magazine saw that has to be up to standard, otherwise readers will leave yours and pick a higher quality one. Also readers should feel the magazine is value for money which contains a considerable amount of information but reader friendly; pictures accompany the text. Even though the colours are cheerful and bring happiness to the page but I would consider capitalising colours that would invite readers to the magazine not draw them away as they may feel its childish and targeted at a younger age group. The bottom end of the magazine is used to post competitions. Whereas I posted my as a heading which was wrong saw I am going to change that when making my actual magazine.
Content Page
On the hand, they are many things that can be improved on my content page, for instance the background color is highly bright, as it is yellow. This will irritate the readers eyes after a certain time, leading to no purchase of the magazine. The content page is the next biggest factor that encourages the reader to purchase the product so has to be eye- catching. I believe all the colors being put together on the page will clash and confuse the reader and not allow them to read on. Also the large number of pictures may distract the reader from the text, as they may think they is no point buying the magazine when I have seen most the pictures. Lastly one more criticism that could be constructed is the heading it should be in the middle of the page, not thrown in the corner which may look like a sub-title just in a larger font.
Overall I believe the magazine has come to a success as it's the first time. I have developed my skills and have learnt more skills that will contribute to my actual magazine. For my my magazine I think I'm going blend both dark and bright colors together rather than having it too bright or dull. Pictures attract my attention when I'm reading a magazine so I will include couple as both female and males enjoy looking down at a pretty women. Finally I am going to produce a questionnaire that i will give to number of people from my target market and look at what they'd like to see in the magazine. The feedback will allow me to produce a magazine that will be different from the mainstream one's but still keep to what the audience wants to see.
Preliminary Task
For my preliminary task I am producing a front cover for a college magazine; this will consist of taking a mid-shot photograph of a student with one main headline that will be based around a student's achievement. As well as, a few other headlines that will bring together other subjects that taking place in the college. Along with this I am also producing a content page which will be designed as a mock-up. This will be hand done and scanned on to my blog. This is a good practice before I make my actual project as I will improve my skills by coming across certain problems that could have occurred during my final piece.
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