Wednesday 29 April 2015

final magazines



Final magazines

Front page

This is my final version of my front page and I think it works well as it really appeals to my target audience with the font color but also we know that the magazine is aimed at Durham itself with the help of the image of Durham Cathedral which is a main icon of Durham.

Advert page /2 page


This is my final draft of my advert page which is promoting a restaurant in my local college which is in Peterlee which is part of Durham again reinforcing that regional identity of Durham in my magazine to the audience.

Contents page/ 3 page


My final content page which I think works with all the other pages I have using the same fonts and color scheme to help with the femauriality of the magazine. its cut into different section which follow the convention of other regional magazine and makes it easy for readers to find the article that they want to read.

Article/ 4 page

My final article page which fits in again to appealing to my target audience being upper middle class aspirational females. again linking back into the regional identity of the magazine doing an interview with a shop owner in Durham.  

Billboard advert


Final billboard advert which is easy to read and follows the convention of other billboards by having not that much writing there and forcing more on the image. as its more on the brand name that sells the product in this case with my magazine ''Durham''

Friday 24 April 2015

Development of my radio add


For my radio add I decided to ask Susan Jinxs to see if she would record my radio add. I made her read all the radio scrips I've done to see which out of the 3 I liked and over all I liked the 3rd script out of the rest.

I decided to ask her as she is a professional voice actor for radio add's, plus she is female which would appeal to my target demographic of upper middle classes.  I had to cut the third radio scrip out of the other two she did as she recoded all 3 scrips on one go. I had to use the tool ''Catch playhead'' to cut the track

From getting my recording I then went on the program Garage band to edit and add special effects to my add's. Some of the special effects I used where

  • Sweet Strummer 02.1- For the ambiance and backing music which I had loop all the way through the add however I choose this as it can be related to Durham as a motif to the people who play guitars in the Durham city centre. 
  • Foyer_1.2- I needed a sound which sounded like there was a crowd of people and this seem to fit in nicely with the sound I wanted but also with the voice over from the recoding I did earlier. 
  • I did have a third sound which was File folder but this just didn't really work that well as I wanted a sound which sounded like a magazine was being turned when the person said ''packed with art, theatre, food and cinema'' to mimic that she was flicking through the magazine at the time; reading out  the different heading in the magazine. So I recorded myself turing a magazine and placed that sound file in. 
  • On the program it allowed me to change things like the sound of each sound file by using ''enable automation'' which let me place dots on the sound file which then let me play around with bring the sound higher and then gradually lower as the file plays. This help with making some of the sound effect fade out instead of the sound stopping suddenly; which overall sounded a lot better to the listener.