College Magazine Research

These college magazines are all quite similar in a way as the title is behind the model and the model is the one to stand out the most. Also the camera angle is a mid-shot with headings around the model.

The college lifestyle magazine has a model and background in grey and white and this makes the colourful headers and titles stand out more than what anything else does and this makes the magazine stand out more from the others as this is different.

The campus life has a model that is stood with a background like in the grass or in a car park and I think this makes the magazine look more edgy. Also the writing for these magazines are in black and white which makes the image stand out more rather that the text.

 

College Audience Questionnaire

The questions I have chose to be on my questionnaire will give me a audience of the same kind as I have asked if they are subscribed to any magazines at the moment and with the most popular answer I will generate a magazine similar to the music magazine they are subscribed to. Also this magazine will feature the most popular answers so that it really will be based on the audiences preference.The reason I asked what there parents did for a living was to put them into social classes of upper class, lower class, middle class ect. This told me how likely say the upper class would buy maggazines. the age of them told me what the most popular age group for reading magazines were so for when I came to make my own this give me information on who to based the audience on.

Responce spreadsheet
After recieving the responces I found out that the most popular theme colour would be black and white although the other colours had a very low count. The favourite music genre was tied between pop and rock, and ovbiously this tells us that the main thing that intrests people most when buying is the music articles. There was also comments to see interviews and new music suggestions. The majority of the answers said they prefer longer articles than short ones which I found quite unusual as most people I know prefer reading short articles as it doesnt bore them as much but I suppose that the longer articles have to be as interesting as possible so it doesnt send the reader off to sleep. Only  people from the responces were subscribed to a magazine and that was NME magazine. Most of the responces came from first year females which tells us that they will be the one mostly reading a college magazine.

5SOS Deconstruction

5seconds of summer all have kind of a messy hairstyle but smartish clothing and  I don't think this picture represents who they as the background is down a back ally and this makes me think of rappers.The ally is pretty clean considering where it is and only has a few leaves and a wheely bin in the background. Also is you tend to go down allys you notice that there tends to be a lot of grafiti and all the walls are clean appart from the clean painting. The body language the boys are showing is typical way boys generally stand with either their hands in their pockets or crossed. The expression on their faces is the type of face you do when your not allowed to smile on your id pictures but also comes across to me as though they want to smile expecially michael on the far right as his has a kind of smirk on his face. The way the light is on this image is giving them a shadow as it is coming from behind them and this makes them stand out a lot more from the background as its giving them more of a 3D image. Three of the boys are wearing black skinny jeans and they have put ashton in blue jeans with turn ups as I think this makes him stand out more as he is the newest member of the band and i think they wanted their fans to notice this by making him stand out slighty. Also they are stood in order with the grey, black, grey, black and this is used quite often in images as their outfits are normally all very similar. By putting Luke in the denim shirt this tells us that he is the lead singer of the band as the lead singers tend to stand out a lot more than the dummer or guitarists. The camera angle is a low closeish shot of the boys which makes them apear taller than what they originally are.

Multimedia Glog

My aim for this is to define the image of the pop rock genre and I am using these artists as a prime example as I think that these artists are quite popular in the genre.

1st Photo Shoot

These pictures from my first photo shoot include mid shots of each person and also a passport photo image. On a few of these images you can see that I was playing around with the props to try and get the personality of the model across to the audience. Also in some I have incorporated the rule of thirds by placing the model in the left hand side  to create a small amount of shadow near the face.

About me

My name is Olivia and this is my media blog. I am making this blog as a place to post all my media work. I like most types of music but mainly listen to music that is either played on the radio or in the charts. The magazine i am going to research on is the Billboard magazine as in there they have a varity of different genres and also some new rising artists.