Website

This is the link to my A La Mode Website. 
https://maddisonlengland.wixsite.com/website

contents pages

front covers

 Cover number one.



Cover Number 2

Statement Of Intent

How do you intend to use the four areas of the media theoretical framework to communicate meaning and meet the requirements of your chosen brief?

My chosen brief is Brief 3: Magazines and Online. The four areas of the media theoretical framework are Media Language, Audiences, Institutions and Representations. The brief states I must create the first two editions of a new fashion magazine for Bauer Media. I will be creating two front covers, two contents pages, and a website for my magazine. I will use media language in my first front covers through the use of bold fonts, black text for the mastheads and main article stories and red text to empathise certain details to create a focus of the audience. This all meets the requirements of the brief. I intend to create my website with a hyperlinked page and a advertisement video attached onto the home page. This is for the distribution of my magazine, according to the brief.

I am following the brief and using research I have collected, in order to represent different social groups ( class, ethnicity, age etc). This means that all audiences will be attracted to my magazine, and my products I create will support Bauer Media morals. I aim to make my two contents pages significantly different in their design, through the use of the media language, with different images, texts, colour schemes and layouts. I hope that by doing this I can create certain representations about my Fashion Magazine " A La Mode", attracting my target audience with the media language, which therefore supports the media institution, Bauer. I plan on having 2different colour schemes for the products that I will create, one being white, black, and red, which have classy, expensive and fashionable connotations, and another being a dusty blue/turquoise, which is on trend, matching the clothes of the model pictures that I intend to use. I came to the conclusions of using these two different colour schemes after doing extensive research into popular fashion and lifestyle magazines, such as Vogue and Elle.


Product 2

I want to be unique with my designs, but still stick to common trends and themes, in order to gain a wide audience for my magazine and website, of people aged 16-25 in the A and B categories, as the brief states that my products must be for a culturally sophisticated demographic. For this reason, I have decided to include a giveaway competition of a trip to Paris to interact with this audience and help relate to them. This is because this is something that people of the AB social class demographic will be interested in. I have decided that i am going to use a white background and certain font styles and sizes on my magazine as part of my mise en scene. Another feature i am going to use on my website is on the slogan " In Fashion Style " i have replaced the F with an Eiffel Tower to emphasise the theme of my product.

For the video on my website, which is my form of distribution of my magazine, I am going to take small clips of my models, behind the scenes when we are taking pictures, or footage of fashionable outfits, and makeup / close up shots. I intend to merge them all together and add music which will interest my target audience, for example Pop music. The video will show small snippets of what will be included in my magazine, in order to entice the audience into following my products. This will also communicate meaning of my magazine.

How do you intend to link your media products to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the digitally convergent nature of your media production?

Firstly, there will be many ' Easter Eggs' placed throughout my magazine, which refers to my website, due to the fact the brief states that my media products should be digitally convergent, as this will be appropriate for modern society, create brand loyalty and push readers of the website to read the magazine also, and vice versa. An example of this is stating how readers can find more information on stories in the magazine by going to our website. In addition to this, on my second contents page, I have wrote all social media details for ' A La Mode', including the website, and applications such as Instagram and twitter.

Task 11 Schedule

NEA - Planning - Schedule

The purpose of this task is for you to identify potential production dates and try to stick to them.

• Why do you think it's important to produce a schedule of activities when working on a production?

It is important to produce a schedule of activities when working a production because it helps with time management and ensuring you complete all your texts. 

• Name activities you're likely to struggle with?

I think that i am going to struggle with the design of my website.

• What are you going to do in order to achieve these difficult activities?
• I will do research and ask my teacher for help if needed.

Task 10

NEA - Sketching and product profile

Learning Objectives:

• K: the importance of sketches and planning in the decision making process of creating a magazine.
• U: how to use sketches to influence your stylistic decisions.
• BAT: undertake a creative task in which you start the decision making process in terms of style of your magazine. 

Introduction  - In this task i am creating more sketches and drafts for my magazine, however this time for my contents page. I am going to design the layout, and decide what features i will like to include. Making multiple drafts will help me come to the conclusion of what i want. 

This is my first draft. It is a rough sketch of a layout that i would like for my contents page. I have included an image, and then featuring articles.

This is my second draft. 

Task 9 Product Style Profile

NEA - Sketching and product profile

Learning Objectives:

• K: the importance of sketches and planning in the decision making process of creating a magazine.
• U: how to use sketches to influence your stylistic decisions.
• BAT: undertake a creative task in which you start the decision making process in terms of style of your magazine.

Introduction:

In this task, i am going to be creating and designing sketches for the style of my magazine, showing what i will like to include. 

Draft one - 
Magazine front cover
I have designed this magazine front cover with quick, rough text, to create my layout for my front cover. I have showed my draft to some of my peers in my class for feedback on how to improve. Majority of people suggested i make it clearer and cleaner, as it was quite busy and crammed.



This is the second draft for my magazine, where i have now included my actual headline, a strap line, and subtitles for what my magazine will include. This second draft has allowed me to get a better idea on what my front cover will actually look like.



conclusion:

I found this task useful because i will now be able to quickly create my front covers, and i can research on the topics i have chosen to focus on. Also, i now know which pictures i need to take for my cover.