Changes to Images

Changes to my Images from sarahwalley

Images I have taken for my front cover

Well this week I have taken some of the images that I will use for my magazine. I origanaly thought that I would not have to do alot of editing, but i will have to do some serious croppping and a little adjusting with the picture, combining two images to create on image. This is beacuse the shot needs to be a medium close up, but to get all of the images that perfect image combining two images is my only option. Theese are the images that I have taken.

Magazine Cover Research

Magazine covers reseach from sarahwalley

PLanning for my cover image

Cover image from sarahwalley

Different fonts for my magazine

Names for mag in different fonts from sarahwalley

House style from sarahwalley

Magzine Layout

Power point from sarahwalley

The Name of my school magazine

I am going to call my school magazine- High Expectations. I have previously posted a list of magazine name ideas, and I have chosen high expectations form the list.I have chosen this name as it sounds formal and gives the auidence an idea about what the product is about. Within the school genre catagory, it also shows what the school expects the students to achive. High Expectations could suggest that the school wants the students to achive high grades, but it could also suggest that the students are required to meet high expectations on issues like uniform. I think this name will be effctive in the way that the priamry and secondry auidence will both know what the magazine is about and what the expectations of the school is.

Semotics of Images

When talking about semiotics of images there are couple of categories to think about. the denotation and the connotation. The literal meaning is denotation and the connotation is what the image would suggest. Within an image semiotics are important, as it looks at what the reader will see and feel when they read/ look at the magazine.

In an image the connotation of someone putting their hands on their hips is that they are confident and are comfortable with the situation they are in. However if the image of someone is curled up in a ball this could suggest that the person is lonely, scared or anxious.

In my magazine I would like the students to look confident. So the images that I put in the magazine will have to have the students striking a pose so that I achieve this aim. I would also like them to seem important, so I will use a camera angle that looks up at the students. This way they are higher than the camera and look superior to everyone else. I would also like the students to be doing something school related. Like holding a book or something. This then gives the audience a feel of what the magazine is about.

Semotics of Brainstomed Names

 

 

Semiotics is the tern used to describe the look and effect of a media product, in my case magazine covers. Denotation is the precise meaning behind the magazine name, however the connotation is the meaning behind the name, or what the name would suggest. These are the names in which I have brainstormed for my school magazine. I have examined the connotations for each of the names.

Kool Skool- Kool School this magazine name could be used to explain how cool your school could be. It could also be informal and cheesy; however allowing students to learn still.  

Cleaver Cloggs- This name could be used to describe the student to make them feel important. The magazine could be about getting the most out of your education and ways to have fun and learn.

Fun timez- This could be a magazine about the fun bits about school. Like the extra school activities and different things that are fun around school.

Classroom Classics- this magazine could be about classic problems that students have in the class room and what they can do about it. It could also suggest a formal magazine and bland magazine.

 

Skools out- this could suggest a very laid back magazine and a very interesting for pupils magazine. Being an informal magazine it could include quizzes and fun things to do.

Sckool stress- this could suggest the magazine talks about issues relating to stress and anger, or fear. It could mean that the magazine tackles serious issues that will help students to learn grow and develop.

Chillax- this magazine title could suggest that the magazine is low work load, and is something fun to do just to wind down. It could be filled with little quizzes and questioaires and games, to help students learn things easily.

Lookin brighter-this name could suggest that the students get more cleaver as they read the magazine, but also could talk about serious issues that are taken in a light hearted way, to help students and parents to understand them.

High expectations- this magazine could be about all the serious issues that the school expect them to do and what they want the students to achieve. It could also be about how to reach the expectations for struggling students.  

 

Gradez- this could be about different courses and how what to achieve and how to achieve grading criteria. It could be put into a fun format so that the students understand and have other pieces of advice linking to grades.

 

Optionz- this magazine could be about choices that students have. What subjects to take at GCSE or whether or not you are doing the right courses for you. It could also talk about the different choices students have outside of school. Like whether gangs are a good idea etc.

 

Genre Conversions

A genre is basically a category in which my magazine is placed. A genre conversion is a similarity’s between two items in the same category. When I was researching different genre conversions I noticed that in my magazine genre, school magazines I noticed that some features were the same. The masthead was the same font, sans sheriff. This font is easy to read and looks quite professional. It will also make it suitable for viewers out of the following categories- A, B, C1 and E. Also the magazine covers looked very minimalistic. This gives the impression that the magazine sub-genre is upper class and makes the magazine look fresh and easy to use. It also fits the audience, primary being the students and secondary being the parents and local community.

This will influence my magazine as I will use the same font. This will make the magazine easy to read and understand. It will not make it look boring, but will just look more professional than other fonts. My magazine must look a little minimalistic but still provide all the information. This makes the magazine look classy and posh, which in turn will reflect on the school itself.

The audience of my new school magazine

The primary audience of my new school magazine is children between the ages of 12 and 16. They are in full time education and therefore will want the school magazine to be exciting and to deliver the appropriate information about the school and what is going on. The secondary audience of the magazine will be parents and staff, so generally the most important article will be formally written so that it can be understood by all audiences, whether it is primary or secondary. Most of the students are will be from semi rural to rural areas which will influence some of the articles included in the magazine. Most students will also come from working class families and will be in the groups C1, C2, D and E. Therefore any adverts in the magazine need to feature items that would be available to each family. E.G- Not too expensive so that parents are faced with financial difficulties.

 

The magazine will have casual language occasionally formal to engage with the audience so that they get the message and be interested at the same time. The type of language used in the articles will reflect the nature of the article and the importance of the articles. The pages will be bright and engaging to the audience but then will also have lots of picture to back up the text used. This will mean that the students will read the article and not be put off by steams of writing. This will also not clutter the magazine and it must be dyslexia friendly. 

 

The contents of the magazine will include revision notes as students of this age will be completing their GCSE’s. It will also be important to include information on careers and post 16 choices that students will have to make. There could also be short quizzes that will increase learning without the pupils noticing. It will also include extra curricular activities, ways in which to increase learning capability, events and activities in the local areas and appraisals. This will encourage the students and notify the parents what is going on in the school and if their pupils are doing well in class or extra curricular activities.

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my blog.

My blog is all about a music magazine project for which I am doing for my media project. I will be adding pieces of research and pictures that i find along my journey. So far I have not done much to post, so over the next couple of weeks I will be posting at least once a week about what I have done in lessons and what I have learnt.