27 March 2013 - Final of Music Magazine

20 March 2013 - Final School Magazine & Evaluation

15 January 2013 - Brand Values: DAVE

 

9 January 2013 - Brand Values

17 December 2012 - Questionnaire Findings

Write an evaluation of your findings from your questionnaires. How did the results inform your planning and production for your school magazine? You need to write a paragraph for each question and show examples, where relevant, from your magazine.

I had used my findings from my magazine questionnaire in order to help plan my school magazine.

An idea in which I had received from my questionnaire is that the title of my School magazine will be called 'RHS News Round' as the majority had chosen that this name was the most attention grabbing. 

In my questionnaire I had also written a question which said 'If you pick up a school magazine, which of these would be the first thing you notice?' and I had given a choice of 4 answers: Main front cover image, title of magazine, articles that are included in the magazine or the theme colour of the magazine itself. Since most of the votes had been counted that the main front cover image is what's most noticeable I need to make sure that the main picture is relate-able to the school and to the students that are reading it. For example I wouldn't place a picture of mountains with a waterfall as it has no relation to the magazine itself.

As one of my findings in my questionnaire suggested that what students would want to see in a school magazine is exams and holiday dates I shall make one of my compulsory articles based on exams (this could range from exam dates and times to revision techniques) and one compulsory article about holiday dates (including bank holidays and inset days). Adding these two articles will help students find the school magazine more interesting and fun as it's more relating to their interests rather than being boring and unnecessary (which is another finding about how students felt about school magazines in general).

          From my findings with my questionnaire I also found that students are more likely to read a school magazine if they're featured in it, this can be arranged as each term a star student will be one of the small features added to the school magazine as well as having a Q&A for students. This will enable them to have a part of the school magazine as well be 'featured' in it thus more students wanting to read the school magazine and perhaps finding something else that may interest themselves.

          Lastly, I need to make sure that my school magazine has a colour theme that is repetitive throughout the school year as this will help make the magazine relate to the school itself  Since Regent High has the colour of the group in which students are placed into, those colours will be mainly used in my magazine. These colours are: Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Yellow and Purple. As each magazine is being released each colour theme will change. (EG, 1st magazine release = Red, 2nd magazine release = Blue.... etc)

10 December 2012 - School Magazine Questionnaire

Questionnaire on School Magazines

1. Do you like/read magazines?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No          [   ] I don't know

2. If so, what type of genre would you mainly read?

[   ] Sport          [   ] Fashion          [   ] Music          [   ] Other _______________

3. Do you read a school magazine?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No              [   ] Sometimes

4. What would you want to see in a school magazine?

_________________________________________________________________________________

5. When you read/think of a school magazine, do you think it's...

[   ] Useful          [   ] Boring          [   ] Unnecessary          [   ] Other ________________

6. If you pick up a school magazine, which of these would be the first thing you notice?

[   ] Main picture          [   ] Title          [   ] Articles on front cover          [   ] Colour (Theme of Magazine)

7. Out of these three titles which one grabs your attention the most?

[   ] RHS News Round          [   ] News Around the Clock          [   ] RHC Times

8. Would you only read a school magazine IF you were featured inside?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No          [   ] Maybe          [   ] I don't know

9. Would you make the magazine's theme colour relate to your school colours?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No          [   ] Maybe          [   ] I don't know

10. Would you read an article on teacher's lives IF included in a school magazine?

[   ] Yes          [   ] No          [   ] Maybe          [   ] I don't know

10 December 2012 - School Magazine Cover prt1

This is the beginning of my Cover page for my School magazine:

As from what I have done so far I'm quite proud, as I was able to convert an MP4 video file into a JPG image file and then add it to Photoshop as my Cover Picture.

I then searched up fonts for my title and copied that onto my Photoshop and now I had only just started to erase the black box around my title as I only want the text on my Cover Page.

7 December 2012 - Film Editing Glossary

• CUT - A visual transition created in editing in which one shot in instantaneously replaced on screen by another.
• CONTINUITY EDITING - Editing that creates action that flows smoothly across shots and scenes without jarring visual inconsistencies. Establishes a sense of story for the viewer. (Invisible Editing)
• CROSS CUTTING - Cutting back and forth quickly between two or more lines of action, indicating they are happening simultaneously.
• DISSOLVE - A grade scene transition. The editor overlaps the end of one shot with the beginning of the next shot.
• EDITING - The work of selecting and joining together shots to create a finished film.
• ERRORS OF CONTINUITY - Disruptions in the flow of a scene, such as a failure to match action or the placement of props across shots.
• ESTABLISHING SHOTS - A shot, normally taken from a great distance or from a 'birds eye view', that establishes where the action is about to occur.
• EYE-LINE MATCHING - The matching of eye-lines between two or more characters. For example, if 'Sam' looks to the right in Shot A, 'Jean' will look to the left is Shot B. This establishes a relationship of proximity and continuity.
• FADE - A visual transition between shots or scenes that appear on screen as a brief interval with no picture. The editor fades one shot to black and then fades in the next. Often used to indicate a change in time and place.
• FINAL CUT - The finished edit of a film, approved by the director and the producer. This is what the audience sees.
• IRIS - Visible on screen as a circle closing down over or opening up on a shot. Seldom used in contemporary film, but common during the silent era of Hollywood films.
• JUMP CUT - A cut that creates a lack of continuity by leaving out parts of the action.
• MATCHED CUT - A cut joining two shots whose compositional elements match, helping to establish strong continuity of action.
• MONTAGE - Scenes whose emotional impact and visual design are achieved through the editing together of many brief shots. The shower scene from 'Psycho' is an example of Montage Editing.
• ROUGH CUT - The editor's first pass at assembling the shots into a film, before tightening and polishing occurs.
• SEQUENCE SHOT - A long take that extends for an entire scene or sequence. It is composed of only one shot with no editing.
• SHOT-REVERSE-SHOT CUTTING - Usually used for conversation scenes, this technique alternates between over-the-shoulder shots showing each character speaking.
• WIPE - Visible on screen as a bar travelling across the frame pushing one shot off and pulling the next shot into place. Rarely used in contemporary film, but common in films from the 1930's and 1940's.
• CREDITS - The information at the beginning and end of a film, which gives details of cast and crew etc.
• CUTAWAYS - A brief shot that momentarily interrupts continuous action by briefly inserting another related action; Object, or person (sometimes not part of the principle scene or main action), followed by a cutback to the original shot.
• FREEZE FRAME - The effect of seemingly stopping a film in order to focus in on one event or element.
• FLASHBACK - A scene or moment in a film in which the audience is shown an event, that happened earlier in the film's narrative.
• GRAPHIC MATCH - An edit in which two different objects of the same shape are dissolved from one into the other.
• JUXTAPOSITION - The placement of two (often opposed) images on either side of an edit to create an effect.
• LINEAR NARRATIVE - A style of storytelling in which events happen chronologically.
• PARALLEL EDITING - A type of editing in which events in two locations are cut together, in order to imply a connection between the two sets of events.
• VISUAL EFFECTS - Visual effects are usually used to alter previously-filmed elements by adding, removing or enhancing objects within the frame.
• MATCH ON ACTION - A shot that emphasises continuity of space and time by matching the action on the preceding shot with the continuation of the action. For example, a shot of a door opening after a shot of a close-up of a character's hand turning a door handle.