Friday 6th March

During this lesson we were told about the criteria that we had to follow for taking the pictures for our music magazines. The pictures had to be our own original material. We got the basic ideas of what our pictures needed to look like and then we got some time at the end of the lesson to start planning out the front cover and the picture layout.

Thursday 5th March

We had to go down to the computer room (E3) for this lesson to make a PowerPoint presentation on a music magazine. The presentation had to be on a magazine that we hadn't previously looked at which meant i couldnt do NME so i did Q magazine instead. The presentation had to show the basic structure of Q magazine, so i mentioned things like their circulation and readership figures and explained things like who set it up and why and how they got the name Q.

Tuesday 3rd March

During the lesson we had to do an essay on the ways a music magazine attracts its audience in both the print and online versions. Looking at the differences and similarities in both versions.

In my answer I wrote about how the print version attracts people with things like free gifts and I used the example of how that weeks NME was giving away a free poster, cd and money off voucher for a shop. I then talked about how the online version has its advantages in how you can listen to songs on it or watch videos. Then there are also ways in which the two version work together, like when in the print version there is a story on a video or a song and then it says at the end of the story to go to the NME website to see/hear it.

Friday 27th February

In this lesson we were given more time to look at the print versions of music magazines. I looked at NME as we were going to get set homework on it later on and it was the one i knew the best. During the lesson i looked through the magazine making notes on everything like content, pictures, colours, free offers etc.

At the end of the lesson we were then set the task of comparing the print version to the online version.

Thursday 26th February

In this lesson we went down to E3 again so that anyone who hadnt finished their school magazine work could do. After this had been done we had to look at different types of music magazines that had been brought in by Mrs Rogers. When we had finished looking at the print version we had to go look at the online version and compare how it was similar and different to the print version.

Tuesday 23rd February

In this lesson we had to start looking at our main task. We split up into groups of between 2 and 4 and had to look at all different genres of music and put them into mind maps and split them up into their characteristics and examples of the sort of bands/artists and magzines. The four genres we had to write on were Rock, R'n'B, Pop and Dance. In my group I did the Rock mind map and I split it up into its own sections like Indie, Metal etc. I also looked at typical sort of characteristics of each type.

Thursday 12th February

We went to E3 this lesson to make our school magazine front covers and we used photoshop again using the tips we had got from marks tutorial a couple of weeks before. I stuck to my design that i had come up with earlier that week. My contents had the same colour scheme as the front page and also had the same st marks badge in the top corner.

Tuesday 10th February

In this lesson we had to take the pictures for our magazine front covers. I first tried taking a picture of two people but it didn't turn out the way i wanted to. I then got two pictures of two individual people in the library and then got one more of one more person in the sixth form common room. After me and Beckie had taken our pictures we went back to class and uploaded them onto our own folder and gave the camera back to Mrs Rogers.

Friday 6th February

In this lesson we had to plan and draw our school magazine front page. For the front page I decided to have a red background and yellow font to represent the schools badge. I called the magazine Marksman and had three pictures of students laid out across the middle. I also put in the school badge in the top right hand corner of the front page.