Friday 2 December 2011

Diary Entry

04/10/11
I created a codes and conventions of magazines for my college magazine

29/10/11
I sketched my ideas for my college magazine cover and contents, i followed the codes and conventions from other magazines

1/11/11
I created my cover on photoshop, following my sketch.

2/11/11
I created the contents page for my magazine, for this i used Quark


08/11/11
Today i made my contents page a Jpeg and uploaded it to the blog. I also decided the genre of my magazine and it's target audience.I also created a list of initial ideas for my magazine plan

15/11/11
I carried out reasearch other rival magazines on their prices and content.

16/11/11
I analized contents page, magaizine covers and double page spreads of two magazines, both NME and Kerrang

17/11/11
I made a list of questions and turned them into a questionnaire, i posted the questions on my blog

18/11/11
I printed off 20 sheets of the questions and asked people to fill them in, i recored the results and made a bar chart with them.

19/11/11
I then asked two people the questions whilst recording them for their asnwers. I uploaded the video to youtube then embedded them on blogger

20/11/11
I created a publication plan of both NME and Kerrang

21/11/11
I created my own publication plan for my magazine

23/11/11
I began work on my Music magazine, sketching the front cover.

9/1/12
I began work on my magazine contents page

11/1/12
I continued working on my contents page, i added images and text to the template i created