Production blog seven

Production blog six

In todays lesson I finished my double page spread analysis. Once again I wrote about key codes and conventions, similar to what I done for the front cover and contents pave analysis as this will then help me when creating my own magazine and show me how most magazines work and what tends to be in every magazine and what isn't included. Next lesson I am going to complete the codes and conventions prezi.

Production blog five

In todays lesson I started to complete the analysis of three magazine front covers. The magazine front covers I have chosen to analyse are Rollingstones, Q and NME, I spoke about many different things including key codes and conventions of a magazine front cover e.g Mastheads and sellines. I then moved on to the contents page analysis where I chose to do kerrang and two Q contents pages. And like the front cover analysis I spoke about key codes and conventions. Next lesson I will be moving onto my double page spread analysis.

Audience survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BDQB5FT

Research blog

Research Blog

 

 

  In order to give myself a good idea of how I should be producing my blogs I have done research on past blogs to get a good idea of what they’re like. The blog I looked through is Alfie greens. I noticed that he has set it out very well by having three main headings: Production diary, Research and Planning and in each he goes in to go detail about what he is discussing. He also uses a good variety of media to visualise his ideas, these include photos, videos and even surveys.

 

 

        Alfie has set his blog out very well and it is clear where everything is and its all easy to access as he’s sectioned it down to separate things. It also looks very good because he’s followed the same colour scheme throughout the whole blog and it uses the same colours as his magazine also therefore it all goes together nicely and there is no colour clashes.

 

 

Here on the right side of Alfies blog he has all of his different labels. This is what he has used to categorise each different post into different sections. This makes it a lot easier for people to read his blog and get to where they want to go much more quicker rather than going through all his posts.

 

 

Throughout Alfies blog you can see it is not all text but he also includes youtube videos and soun cloud clips. This makes it alot less boring and more exciting for the viewer as they are not always having to read through text but sometimes only having to listen. It is also a more efficient and quick way of Alfie getting all his ideas and work onto his blog.

Here in one of Alfies production blogs we can see how he has included a screenshot. This is a screenshot of the work he is speaking about in the text, this is effective as the reader can then visualize what he is actually speaking about rather than just imagining it.

Analysing Alfies blog will be very beneficial as I now know what I can include in my blog to make it successful. The fact that he is not only providing the reader with text but also videos and soun clips is very good as it makes the blog stand out alot more and become less boring, these are things I will think about doing throughout the year.

Representation of a genre (indie)

Audience - Uses & Gratifications

Existing mastheads

Magazine codes and conventions