C4 Main Task preperation

Main Task!

It has come around so quickly but here I am, beginning to pull together all my preparations in order to successfully complete my main and final task.

I am grateful for todays lesson, as we finalised what ideas and features need to be considered before creating the final task. This allowed me to make a list that I can stick to when preparing and creating my music magazine. However, seeing everything wriiten down, I realised quite how much work there is to be done. But I like nothing more than a challenge.

For homework, we have to create a 4 page mock up of our ideas. I have just completed mine, and although it is done in rough and drawn out by hand on white card, the process has really helped me. I have seen positive and negative factors in my own work which means that I will not make the same mistakes again in the future. Although it is really only a rough guide, it has helped me to picture my final ideas more clearly.

I have to make a front cover, contents page as well as a double page spread. And these are some of the important factors on my list in which I must consider:

-Choosing a genre - I have chosen to focus on the genre Indie, this is very popular in the music industry right now and I think that this theme gives me alot to work with.

-Define Target Audience
-Make audience profile
-Life style choices
-admirations
-interest trends - My audience will be aimed at those who are interested in the Indie music and lifestyle and aged between 15 and 25. Like most music magazines, the audience will be more male than female. I must take this into consideration.

-Uses and Gratification
-Surveillance
-Buying
-wearing
-watching
-listening
-Interaction, links with other people
-a wider community

- Pleasure
-relax
-enjoy - I must make the magazine an easy read that readers will find relaxing and not challenging or tedious.

-Design Features
-house style
-image style and presentation
-variety of shots and distances
-title - I am thinking of calling my magazine muse, as a muse is something a song writer thinks of and aspires them to compose a song. I will also be using alot of black and white as this is sophisticated and edgy. I am also aiming to take a variety of shots.

-contents
-articles/features
-inventing the stars - I am looking at using articles such as battle of the bands, exclusive interviews and top ten charts lists.

- Headlines
-language (in line with genre)

-Planning for photos
-location, props, mise en scene - I have arranged to take photographs of two sperate bands at their studios. This allows me to use the band members, instruments and lighting to create my desired shots. I need images of the bands as a whole and of each member individually to accommodate the type of article I want to produce.

Overall I think that planning in such detail is very helpful and I cannot wait to begin taking my photographs next week. Bring on the challenge of the main task!