Evaluation (not finished)

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

As my audience is between the ages of 17-25, this is still quite a young minded group of people. The fact that it is aimed at females aswell really makes the use of bright, light colours fitting with that genre. Although this is quite a stereotypical comment, friends of mine have also stated this fact. I have also used a model that is 18 years old (but looks older) which allows the audience to connect with him as a peer, and be interested and maybe even inspired by his look/work. My audience will have an artistic/musical outlook, and will be attracted to the small details such as torn paper, and scanned materials - as these are not typical elements of a magazine. I also think these things, however insignificant they are, make my magazine individual.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Final Touches - Feathering Lettering

As I noticed that my lettering had a pixelated grey/white line around it I decided to try out techniques to remove it, I first used the paintbrush tool, picked out the shade of black that was appropriate and turned the opaquity down and then simply manually went over the lines.
After realising this took to long and wasen't very professional looking I decided to try out using the feathering option. I selected the area around the image, turned feathering to 5 and then used this effect on the image. I think it gives a much better look to the text.

Before Feathering

After Feathering

Final Adaptions to Contents Page

Adding Article to Double Page Spread

Adding Text to Double Page Spread

I decided to test out the test on my double page spread, After trying pastel shades of yellow, blue and green I decided that black actually looked the best and was the easiest to read. After testing different font types I found that Tw Cen MT was my favourite, as I tried to find an unusual font that would fit the magazines theme, but actually a plain text looked better, but still quite feminine. I used the font in size - 9.25 pt as this made it clearly readable, but also left a lot of space to right a fairly long article.

Double Page Spread Interview

So jamie how does it feel to suddenly be recognised almost everywhere you go?

Its absolutely mad yeah! I was even asked for my autograph the other day, thats when the whole thing really hit home.

And is this industry what you imagined it to be?

Honestly - it’s harder work than i expected, but I have been through much harder to get to where I am today. Its loads of fun and you get to meet some pretty amazing people so the hard work definitely pays off.

Sounds great, whos the most influential person you’ve met so far?

Alex Turner for definite! Its amazing to be able to talk to someone of such high status and still have things in common, for what he’s acheived he’s so down to earth - Great guy.

Yeah he’s a reknowned nice guy, but how has this whole process been affecting your ego?

Well i’ve never been full of myself, what’s the point? Everybodies equal at the end of the day - just some people are luckier than others. I guess.

Speaking of luck, with fame usually comes a lot of freebies, have you received anything substantial?

Well actually my favourite brand Stockholm, sent me out 3 sweatshirts and 2 pairs of jeans last week. They’d noticed me wearing the brand in a few press photo’s and it’s been giving them publicity so I guess they were repaying the favour

Wow, that must’ve been a nice surprise. So speaking of fashion, is it an influential thing to you, or do you see it as just clothes?

It’s definitely not just clothes, I think the way you dress reflects the person you are, thats why i’m always dressed in light hearted colours with subtle accessories. I dont take myself too seriously - and I think that shows through the way I dress.

That’s an interesting way to look at things, so your style isn’t influenced by anybody in particular?

I see my style as a geeked up, hip hop style, and i suppose if I could nail my influences down to a singular person it’d be Pharrel Williams.

Thats unusual as he dresses a lot like you, but you have very contrasting music styles.

Yeah, I guess my music and my look contradict each other, as most people imagine acoustic artists to model themselves asthough they were brought up on a farm, but I was brought up in a city, surrounded by street style.

Well it is obvious to see that the balance between the two works really well. Unfortunately it seems that i've squeezed as much time out of you as i'm going to be given, but as myself and the in flux readers would love to hear more about you and your rise to fame, maybe we can revisit this interview again further down your promising music career. It's been a pleasure speaking with you, and I wish you the best of luck for the future.

I wanted to keep the questions and answers to a style that would fit the artists outlook, he is not an excitable person, nor is he obnoxious and rude, he is infact a reserved person, that is passionate about his career. I feel the interview is ok, it could maybe do with some tweaks so that it flows better though.

Adding Page Numbers

Adding page numbers was straight forward as I already had the font type ready from the contents page. My contents page was named as number "2" as behind the front cover would be named as the first page. For my double page spread, I decided to only number one of the pages, as it is altogether one article. I decided to use this technique - not only because it will be much neater, and allow the article to have a better continuity but also as I have seen this technique used before in successful magazines.