School Magazine Fonts and Layout

This is my PowerPoint on what fonts and layout I will be using for when I produce my school magazine. There is justification for why I am going to use such fonts and layout in my school magazine which are stated in the PowerPoint and there also examples of fonts and layouts that should be avoided and thus I based my layout on the opposite to them for a better design.

Fonts and logo designs from bdr628

Poses and Makeup Mood Boards for School Magazine

This is my presentation on poses of both male and female models who have different styles and lighting which creates the effect the image is trying to create and there is another slide detailing in different make up style to see the effect they create.

Poses Mood Board from bdr628

Mood Board and Fonts for School Magazine

In preparation for our production of our school magazines we have had to create a series of mood boards with a number of fonts that could be used for the magazine cover. The mood boards were used to try different colour schemes whilst the fonts have been analysed if they are suitable for a school magazine or not. The link below will take you to SlideShare where the presentation I located.

Mood Boards, Colours and Fonts from bdr628

Mind Map On Magazine Format for School Magazines

The image below is a mind map or spider diagram of how the formatting that does into magazines. As you can see, the mind map has details on the train of thought or designing that goes into designing a magazine cover. This is a basic mind map of a school magazine as the details are for a school magazine not a music magazine.

How To Work Photoshop

This document has tips and trick son how to work lighting effects on Photoshop, these skills on Photoshop are needed to be bale to create and evaluate media texts so this document has the precise information and screenshots to go with them. I found doing this useful and hopefully you will too as Photoshop sometimes can be complicated and confusing. Click on the link below to see the document.

How to work photoshop from bdr628

School Magazine Comparison

The presentation is of the three magazines I have previously analysed but this time I have compared all three of them together to see which magazine is the most effective at engaging the reader and conveying their content across to the reader of the magazine. Once again follow the link below to see my presentation on the comparison of school magazine.

Magazine comparison from bdr628

Analysis of Three School Magazines

The following presentation is my analysis of three different school magazines and how they are designed, what their content is, what the purpose is of the magazine and how they have tried to fulfil the purpose of the magazine. The link below will take to my presentation.

Three School Magazine Analysis from bdr628

School Magazine Media Questionnaire Evaluation

This is my media questionnaire evaluation where I evaluate how I organised my questionnaire along with what would I do differently if I had to produce a media questionnaire again in the future. The evaluation does go into further detail about who my questionnaire was targeted at and why, further in-depth information is included.

Media Questionnaire Evaluation from bdr628

Results for School Magazine Questionnaire

My results for my questionnaire about magazines has been taken and then put into graphs on a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation.

Media Questionnaire Results from bdr628

School Magazine Questionnaire

In Media, we are beginning to look at magazines and how they are formatted and why they are formatted in that particular way. As in our coursework we are going to create a school magazine ourselves, we had to design and then hand out a questionnaire that asks what people would like to see on a school magazine front cover, what stories should be told in the magazine etc.

Game of Thrones Character Analysis

In my Media Studies class, I was asked to analysis four characters from a drama of my choice and it was preferred that I evaluate the stereotypes of the characters of two males and two females. As Game of Thrones is my favourite drama, I decided to evaluate Jon Snow, Ned Stark, Cersei Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen  as they all offer stereotypical and non-stereotypical appearances on the show.

Game of thrones charcater analysis from bdr628

Storyboard

This is my storyboard that has the various camera shots and effects of the camera shots in a 30 second scene in a film of my choosing. I chose The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise because the film has very interesting camera shots portraying different moods and mind sets which I found quite refreshing..

Storyboard from bdr628

British Steroetype

With stereotypes, in the group I was working with, we decided to look into the British Stereotype because it was a stereotype we all were familiar with due to use all being British ourselves. Below you will finds the board we created about the British Stereotype.

Lighting Shots

This the presentation on lighting shots that are used in film and photography to highlight certain objects or emphasise certain emotions in a scene. For example, a back light could be used to reflect mystery of a character or the seriousness of the scene.

Lighting Shots from bdr628

Various Camera Shots

In media studies, we have been investigating into different camera shots that are used in photography and films to convey certain details or emotions by characters. I used professional camera shots from many different films such as Oblivion and The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug because those examples provide a better quality example of a camera shot thus showing the viewer a more clear example. We did take photos in my media class but mine was just terrible, best not to use them I though. 

Camera shots from bdr628

My Original Camera Shots

Original Camera Shots

 

In my media lesson me and a few others had to go out into the school and take some camera shots to experiment with some camera angles. This experience was a new one for me as I'm not the type to go out and take photos of anything random or eye catching but nevertheless it was a good experience for me. Below are the images of my attempt to experiment with camera angles.

 

Extreme Close Up

This is my eye which I used for extreme close up and you can certainly see why the camera shot is called a extreme close up, they are mostly used to make the audience focus on one subject. I say the extreme close up is very effective as I noticed the very first thing I did is look at the eye in the image.

Close Up

This is a gas tap located in the science labs in my school which I used to take a close up shot. A close up shot is used to focus on the detail of an object or the expression of a character and if it shows the expression of a character the camera shot only shows either the head or head and shoulders of the character. This type of camera shot can  also be used to imply intimacy or tension between characters.

Wide Shot

This is me on the football field of my school and this is what is known as a wide shot as it includes a lot of visual information. It mostly used by the director to set the scene as there is so much visual information for the audience to take in.

 

Medium Shot

This is simply the direction sign at my school to obviously direct people to reception and the camera shot is a medium shot. This shot is used to present visual information to the audience whilst still focusing on the subject.

 

Overall, what I learned from this experience is that you need to take around about 30 photos when taking camera shots so that you have more images to work with. I found this out as I only took  10 photos and the only worth while photos out of that ten are the ones above this text. Well lesson learned and now I know for the future so I won't make the same mistake.

 

 

My Media Consumption in 7 Days

I was told in Media Studies to take note of me media consumption in a time period of 7 days, well this is my media consumption over 7 days:

Friday 5th Sept- E-mail, Skype, News, imdb, Youtube, Twitch, Text messages
Saturday 6th Sept- E-mail, Skype, News, imdb, Youtube, Twitch, Text messages
Sunday 7th Sept- E-mail, Skype, News, imdb, Youtube, Text messages
Monday 8th Sept- E-mail, Skype, News, imdb, Youtube, Twitch, Text messages, phone call
Tuesday 9th Sept- Skype, News, imdb, Youtube, Text messages
Wednesday 10th Sept-  E-mail, Skype, News, , Youtube, Twitch,
Thursday 11th Sept- E-mail, Skype, imdb, Youtube, Text messages

Overall, what I got from my notes of my media consumption is that I spend quite a bit of time my phone or laptop. I realised that I spend more time texting, e-mailing and viewing videos on Youtube at the weekend probably because I had more time than I did when I was at sixth form. The major realisation is that Youtube takes a lot of my time as that is the one media outlet that I went on no matter what. To conclude, I believe my notes show that generally our society in this day and age can not live without technology and I know this because if there was an apocalypse and all technology was rendered useless, I have no idea what I would d with myself. So hat was the result of my media consumption which I found quite interesting... 

About Me, Myself & I

Hey, my name is Brandon Rock and I'm not really fan of this blogging business but hey lets give it a try. Let me start of by saying some things about me, well I'm a sixth form student currently studying Modern History, Applied ICT, Media Studies and Business Studies which I find all of them fascinating, especially Modern History. The reason why I love Modern History is that I get study about how and why Britain came to be the dominant power in the WORLD (jut wanted to highlight that) during the 1800's. You can probably tell from that sentence that I'm super proud to be British, anyway... outside of school when I'm not doing work or out with friends I'm mountain biking at Cannock Chase which is insanely fun and dangerous at the same time. I won't tell you how many times I've broken my bones when tumbling down a very muddy hill.

You have no doubt seen the northern light image above this text by now and the reason behind that is that the northern lights in Norway is the No.1 place in the world that I want to see, sure there are the seven world wonders but they don't compare to the northern lights. Don't ask why I want to see the northern lights, I just do, its just something that has caught my eye and I've never let slip from my view ever since.

How was that for a post on my blog? I'm still not a fan of the whole blogging process but I thought I did all right tis time. Lets hope I do alright next time...