Who would be the audience for your media product?

The main audience for my media product would be young people who are interested Rock/Pop music. These who use  different colour and background e.g. brighter foreground with black and grey.

for example

My music magazine would be targeted at a specific age group and at people who a assured type of music and artists. These characteristic would be include.

Þ     A teenager or young adults

Þ     Young people who listen to Rock/Pop music

Þ     Young people who listen to Rock and pop music through different means, for example; the internet, IPod, Phone, Mp3, Radio, CD’s and  Live shows

Þ     Young people that may regularly watch music channels such as ,Scuzz,Lava,NME,WTF

Þ     They also shop at stories which sells clothes that are  from Rock or Pip culture

Typical readers

Although my main audience would be teenagers and young people. This may be my audience because the actors on my cover are of that age group

Rough Sketches and Trials

After coming up with the name for my magazine, I went on to draw some rough sketches of possible layout ideas for the front cover of “Future History”

My target group and audience is in the age range 15-25, this means that I fit the criteria, and because of this it allowed me to decide and have a close into what my target group and audience would want.  Therefore, I planed quite a few different research which allowed for my target group and audience to state what they wanted as well as point to what they didn’t or did like in my own project and real media products. During my research it allowed me to recognize the needs of my precise target group and audience, as the success of the media product provided me with a sign as to whether the target group and audience would liked it, and whether or not it met their needs. Although I tried to make as many techniques for right of entering audience feedback before I had finished each of my products so that if my target group and audience did not like something I would be able to make any changes needed.

For example, during the construction steps of my magazine cover I planed research which my target group and audience could decide which font colouring and style them favoured and without asking them a feedback during the course. Using the Blog I have had the accessibility of teachers to remark on my work, this means that to discuss aspects if my target group and audience did like it or not; although other students providing me with feedback was of great advantage to me, this means that for them fitting my target group and audience range it meant that their needs and wants were completely suited to the criteria of my media products. The use of the remarks part of the blog was very helpful to me than the use of research as it meant that the audience wasn’t maximum value to a mark box answer, as the remark box allowed for the accessibility to state their view and ideas.

From this I decided that the grey version looked better than the black. This is because although the black was quite vivid and electric, the grey version looked more like an actual cable and would fit in with my genre, rock/indie a lot better. As a result of this, I also decided that the colour scheme for my music magazine should be black, white and grey.I then made a quick rough front cover on Photodhop using photos from the internet to give me an idea of the sort of thing my magazine could look like in terms of layout:-

Creating this rough front cover made me realise that for my actual front cover of Future History cable I would also like to use a long shot photo of a band, but obviously one that I have taken myself.  but would layer more headlines over the top for the real thing. Using these ideas I came up with this plan for my front cover.

I then tried creating my masthead on photoshop, using the idea I had from my mind map and some of my sketches to help. I tried using an white colour and a dark grey colour for this as shown below :-

The Final Design OF My Website

Before designing my wbeiste I have designed 1 or 2 draft of website that I wanted to look the difference between the websites that I have used. As the first website I have used to create a wix.com and the second draft that I have designed I have used Dreamweaver and the final design of my website I have decided to use a wix.com because I found it easy to use and its lot  more interested to design a music website.

I have developed the website even further by adding the real video and the poster to the website. I’ve stuck with my idea of having more than one post and I think it works and does not look too overcrowded. The name of the single and the album are present in this table so that the user can easily see what the single the video is for and what the album is called so that they can buy it.

Furthermore I have added a login aspect do that the user can become a member of the website and can therefore access more of the website than someone who is not a member.  Although I added links to the bands other websites so that the user could add them on Facebook and MySpace and view their own official website

Here is my final website

 I really liked this final website as it looks very professional and like a website a band would actually have. I like the background and the way the buttons and the title stand out from the background. I also like how the buttons change colour and their are links to the bands other official web pages.

Click here for a working link to the website.

http://www.wix.com/iskuroon/future-history#!

My first rough Sketches and Trials website;

The first website I have created in Wix.com was this website below, I have designed this style first because I was practising how it is going to be to design website in Wix.com as I have never design website in wix.com but when I design my first website in wix.com I have realised that I can design another style which will suite my story and the pop genre..

 Although the images I have used the first design wasn’t my own images it was images I was testing how it’s going to be look like when I design my own website.  http://www.wix.com/iskuroon/first-draft

Annotating Website’s

Introsuction

I thought it would be a good idea to analyse the bands own official website to see what kind of features we could add to our website.

Although this Part I have been asked to do a research about music websites which I have to design my won website when I finish annotated my research. However the websites that I have chosen to annotate is

http://www.natashabedingfield.com/gb/frontpage?cmdr=ip2country/detected.

Although the first website I have chosen is got lot of images instead of text and the second website has got lot of text instead of images.

Furthermore the media intention was to create and design a cover or website which will be meant at a confident audience for designing my own website or creating my own cover. Also for me to do this I have to carry out a selection of different research which will be included in surveys and analyzing different existing media products.

I looked at different types of covers then I research for starting looked at the gatherings of each of those types. For example album covers would be very high type illumination and would generally have younger attractive people declining music, with a great effort straightening out them.this websites that i have annotated is the main websites that i have aim and want to design the some way as they look.

The website is very naive with the same image being used as the background on each page and on 2 of the links on the side of the homepage. The same naive text is used for all of the page links and the title at the top of the page and a similar font is used on the rest of the text as the main text would be hard to read a lot of text in.

So I will show my findings to the audience and try to use some of these conventions and features on my Future History website

1th websites

I decided to look at website from different genres so that I could get an idea of what goes on to a website. As of looking at this different website I can see that they have a few things in familiar. They all have the video for the newest single on the homepage; they have obvious links to different pages including outside links to their different official websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. They all use their band font for the title of the website so that the user can become familiar with the brand of the band. They all have new on the front page so that fans can feel close to the band by finding out what is happening with them. On most of them there is an image of the band at the top allowing the audience to become common with the band. All of the websites are fairly light and gold which shows a new crazes which I will most possibly use in my own website.

2th website

 

although this websites are fairly light  the difference in layout, choice of fonts and pictures creates a completely different feeling to the website for example the Avril Lavigne website is quite light and dark pink  but it looks extremely feminine because of the choice of pictures and layout where as the website for Projectile for my favoured looks fairly manly because of be short of images and the overcrowded layout. On 3 of the websites the background is quite graphic which I think is a nice aspect as it makes the website more interesting to the use or even visited.

3th website

One of the website I knew I wanted to analyse was Kesha's as I believe that she has a very alike sound to Future History. From looking at the website I can see that it is extremely original and eccentric which shows how Kesha herself and her music are described. All of the links are on a massive two of a kind of relates to the artist album. The associates are in pale and so stand out from the profound gold background.

in the homepage she has the video of her newest single which all the other arital's website has got it. but it just like many other band websites do and so this is a feature I will want to put in to my website. At the highest of the page is an image of the artist this allows the audiences and the fans to become common with the artist and recognize her. The major part of information down the centre is news and her blog. By having this aspect it allows the user to feel closer to the artist.

The different between the music websites that I have research on. However those websites are from different magazines also they have different style I would use the fist cover and the third one to look similar in my own cover magazine. However I would also use different language that suites my cover magazine and colour too.          
   

I also look at some other music websites by looking at the design of the website I thought it would be best if I looked at Ashley Tisdale website as well as other own sites such as Ashlee Simpson and Katy Perry, lady gaga.

This music websites I found a huge difference in all four websites because the Ashley Tisdale one is very strange with different colour background. Also the lady gaga website is quite different two from other websites because it used black background all the pages and all her pictures where in black and white, this contrasted greatly with Katy Perry who had a dark pink with black background and it was more girly and influential and different.

Overall all the websites I looked at looks interesting and well designed and all of them look high-quality which opens their music up to a bigger target audience.

Inspirational music video

This music video is by http://youtu.be/yyK8GLWWElk it is stop animation which is the same process I am using to make my music video. The video includes comic music video, the use of the he or she face is an example of emotional, and how a music video should have many shots of the artist or band. In this case, the artist is shown in nearly every shot. The music video is very creative and playful so it could appeal to a range of audiences (perhaps more young adult audiences), similarly to how I want my music video to too

This is an intertextual reference to how I will use stop animation in my own music video. It can create a lot of movement and variations of speed and movement can help keep the audience interested. Furthermore, by having different fun and entertaining shots increases the focus of the audience. For example, the audience would have more attention with the shots used and the feeling around in a bright room with ladies to the music.

Overall evaluation

In the whole project I think that my three media products are effective and work together very well, although the feedback I received from my primary and secondary target audience showed that my products petition to my target audience and they would watch over and over as it contains that they would want to end watching it.

My primary and secondary audience feedback at the end of my AS media project showed that I didn’t not do enough research on magazine and my target audience plan. So in A2 media project I make sure that I research the products and the target audience for more and tried to focus on the main thing my target audience want and going out questionnaire my research which was very important and effective as it made an impact on my final product; this means that it helped me to include every stage that my primary and secondary target audience wanted and need.

If I would do this project again I would repeat this project and I would do the same plan but having lot of time to do research as this is very important. Although I would change the main images and style to something of the better quality. This means that I would change the main story to another story within the magazine cover so the magazine cover will stand out more attract.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction this product?

The technologies I used in the process of constructing my media product were:

During my media product I have learnt many new techniques and methods that I didn’t know before. This means that, when I first began the course I was really familiar with some of the technologies consisting of the processing applications used. Although I have learnt how to use Photoshop very efficiently and have put it to use outside of school time. The most useful tool I have learnt about in Photoshop would be the replica instrument; this can be used to fill spaces with the exact same colour as the picture. However the other technology that I have come cross was prezi, animate and scribe which have helped me along the course; before I had heard nothing of these sites and agendas.

I have now learnt how to use these to great effect and will continue to use them where I find pertinent. Scribed has been massively successful in my use, as it has enabled me to post an article on my blog without manifold posts, it makes everything look clear and easier to read.

To be honest I never used a Blog before so I started of not knowing what to do with it first so what  I did was at the beginning I write all my work into Microsoft work first then I realised I have to upload my blog. So afterward I developed so many blog skills in since starting the production of a music magazine. For example: I have learnt how to upload Mp3 files and Images. Having become familiar with using a blog I have been able to work more easily and quickly.

I have also made my Wix website live so people around the world can  view it,  this means that I first decided to use Dreamwave but the choice of styles and layouts were limited and it became quite hard to use, so I decided to use Wix as it has much more choice of layouts and Ihad more freedom to choice whatever style I want my website to be.