Contents

I apologise for the chaos of the ordering of this blog; I posted work after it was marked, and this means that it was posted after diary posts about other pieces of work. The work is also not necessarily in the order that it was mentioned on the brief. Therefore, I created this post so as to allow for easy access to all of the coursework in the order that it is mentioned on the brief.

Task 1: Production Schedule

Task 2: Case Studies

Task 3: Preliminary Task

Task 4: Preliminary Task Evaluation

Task 5: Newsstand Analysis and Magazine Distribution Methods

Task 6: House Styles and House Styles Pitch (including Task 7: Audience Feedback) and House Styles Redraft

Task 8: Photography

Task 9: Construction (final magazine)
             First Draft
             Second Draft
             Final Draft

Task 10: Audience Research/Feedback (Main Task)
               Questions used for Task 10:
               Question 1
               Question 2
               Question 3
               Question 4
               Question 5

Task 11: Evaluation
               Question 1
               Question 2
               Question 3
               Question 4
               Question 5
               Question 6
               Question 7

Question 7 (SlideShare)

Question 7 from EllenLesser

Question 6 (Prezi)

Question 5 (Prezi)

Question 4 (Vlog)

Question 3 (Vlog)

Question 2 (Podcast)

Question 1 (SlideShare)

Question 1 from EllenLesser

Planning Evaluation

Ever since I last blogged, I have been working on my evaluation. This includes:

• Planning the answers to each question
• Choosing an appropriate technology to present the answer to each question
• Preparing the presentation of each question

So far, I have completed the following questions:

• Question 2 (podcast)
• Question 3 (vlog)
• Question 4 (vlog)
• Question 5 (Prezi)
• Question 6 (Prezi)

I am currently working on Question 7, which will be a Slideshare.

Audience Research/Feedback (Main Task)

These are the answers that I received for the questions that I posted on my blog about my magazine, that will be useful for my evaluation.

Question 1: Who are the target audience of my magazine? What age, gender, ethnicity, class are they?

• Christians of all ages and classes
• Christians aged 16-19, white, middle-/working-class
• Ages 14-24, mainly female, all ethnicities and classes

Question 2: How are listeners of Contemporary Christian Music represented? Please describe in terms of how people of different ethnicities, genders and ages are represented in my magazine, and whether or not this reinforces any stereotypes.

• Laid back and chilled
• White females aged 16-19 are represented as creative and established but boring
• Reinforces white stereotypes of creativeness, but isolated
• Calm, quiet, collective, simple
• Younger people are represented as more mature and able to fit in with the older generation
• Conforms to white Christian stereotypes of naturism
• Presented as being anyone who is interested in a livelier form of worship, but mostly white females
• Goes against stereotypes of churchgoers being of the older generation

Question 3: Which elements of my magazine do you like?

• The colour scheme is well suited for the target audience
• The DPS is good
• The layout and the friendly, upbeat tone of the narrative

Question 4: Which elements of the magazine could be improved?

• The skylines could have been a darker colour
• The text over the photos could have been clearer

Question 5: What technical skills - on Photoshop and InDesign - could be improved?

• "I don't think any technical skills [could] be improved"
• "Happy with presentation"

Question 5

What technical skills - on Photoshop and InDesign - could be improved?

Question 4

Which elements of the magazine could be improved?

Question 3

Which elements of the magazine do you like?

Question 2

How are listeners of Contemporary Christian Music represented? Please describe in terms of how people of different ethnicities, genders and ages are represented in my magazine, and whether or not this reinforces any stereotypes.

Question 1

Who are the target audience for my magazine? What age, gender, ethnicity, class are they?