Vorke As Media Presentation

1. AS MEDIASTUDIESFOUNDATION PORTFOLIORESEARCH & PLANNINGCENTRE NO: 11049ST FRANCIS XAVIER COLLEGE

2. My name is: OghenevorkeKalusi-GbekeCandidate No: 1284

5. Reflections & Feedback What would you do differently next time? I would do many things differently next time. Next time I would make sure that I structure my time well so that I would not miss any deadlines. I would also attend the Media Studies after college sessions at least twice a week to help with my knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. I would make sure that if I did not understand or know something I would ask for help so I could understand. What kind of feedback did you get that might influence you? From my evaluation and feedback given by my target audience there are quite a few things that I would change. Firstly, I got some feedback that my front cover somehow looked like a poster – this is because the cover lines are in line, same font, same colour and sizes. Next time, I would change the fonts of the different cover lines and let my main story be bold and bigger so it would stand out from the rest. Secondly, I evaluated that my contents page did not have a professional look. It did not look like and was not similar to content pages of my research, therefore, next time to get a professional look I will section the contents of the magazine to different categories – this will also be user friendly. Feedback showed that the image that I used on my contents page was too big and it needed more pictures. Next time I would use a few more pictures, which will appeal to my target audience. What aspects of your understanding of Adobe Photoshop and InDesign do you need to improve? I started this course with no understanding of Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. To date, I have a basic knowledge on how to use this programs. I am now able to edit a photo in Adobe Photoshop and edit text in Adobe InDesign however, I will need to improve on this knowledge.

6. The music genre of my music magazine is: Genre? The genre of my music magazine is Gospel which is associated with Christianity. Chosen title? The title of my music magazine is Genesis. I felt this would be an appropriate name for my music magazine as Gospel is associated with Christianity, I wanted the title to reflect this link so the target audience will associate the title with this as well. Therefore as Genesis has religious connotations (first book of Christians holy book – the bible), the title is then linked with this idea which is linked to Gospel.

7. Research: As part of research for this project, I studied two Gospel magazines which are shown below: Gospel Truth Gospel USA

9. Mainly black people

10. Age: 30+

11. Social Status: A – E (everyone)Gospel artist: Marvin Sapp who will appeal to its target audience as he is well known.

13. Young people: 13 – 29 years old

15. Genesis magazine also gives away worth while freebies such as CDs, t-shirts, tickets etc.

18. Different shades of orange = effective

19. 7 bold sub headings

20. Main cover line story Is the biggest and boldest linking to the main image of the model

21. Price, date and barcode

22. Issue Number

24. These colours are appropriate or the genre of the magazine as yellow connotes happiness.

25. 3 Large images labelled by the page of its story

26. 1 Section

27. Consist of the name of the magazine as well as the date and the issue number.

28. No images

29. Plain theme colours of white and blue.

30. These colours are appropriate or the genre of the magazine as white connotes purity and blue connotes serenity and infinity.

31. There is use of different shades of blues

32. 3 Large images labelled by the page of its story

33. 3 Sections: “Features”, “Standing features” and coming events.

34. Consist of the name of the magazine as well as the date and the issue number.This I a contents page from a gospel magazine called “Singing News”.

37. Consist of the name of the magazine

38. 2 Large Images

39. Title of each story is in bold

41. How does the contents page flag up your double page spread? Orange theme colour

42. Here’s an example of an inspiring double page spread…

43. This is my double-page spread

44. This is how my double page spread works Large heading Page numbers

45. This is how all three components are linked together….

46. This is my re-drafted cover page

47. This is my re-drafted contents page

48. This is my re-drafted double spread

49. Evaluation You can find my blog here: (URL) http://vorkemedia-princessvee.blogspot.com/ And You can find my evaluation with responses to the 7 questions here: (URL)