Summary of this past week :)

I havent been on this in a while because my school internet has been messing around. So therefore I shall go through what I've been doing in my Media lessons the past week with my class mates. After Monday's lesson where we created these blog we set about creating our own questionnaires to distribute to others. These questions were related to the music magazine we intend on doing. I wanted to keep mine to two pages to prevent the participants from getting bored but it ran over into 3 pages. I may add more images and colour to it in the future to make it more appealing.
In the next lesson we looked at other music magazines already out on the market. We analysed them and the features included on the front page and contents page and what effect they would have on the reader. I quite liked doing this because it made me realise how every single thing on my magazine cover will affect the target audience's opinion and how much detail Im going to have to go into.
I then looked at my questionnaire and got others to look over it for me. This let me make improvements to it because I had other people's input. :) I also sectioned the questionnaire off into sections so that it doesnt intimidate the participant filling it in when I give it out. I put it into categories of the personal details, the genre of music and what the audience would want in general out of a music magazine.
I also did what I planned and organised the layout of my quiz better, including pictures and making it more appealing. I intend to hand this out now to 30 people in the next week or so and see what results I get back :) Should be goood.

In today's lesson we looked at advertising and how certain adverts are put with particular magazines due to what target audience that magazine attracts :). This helped a lot I think because it let me think more about what kind of adverts would be suited to my magazine. Hopefully, my hobbies question in my questionnaire should help with this :). We also went on to analyse the features on a double spread page (dps). Images seem to be very popular in them so these should also be present in my DPS when I come to designing it. There's so much to think about! Tomorrow Im going to print out 30 copies of my questionnaire and hand them out :).

Purpose of using Blogs :)

There's loads of different reasons for using blogs. I mainly use Facebook for my use of social media at the moment, it's pretty much a major part of my everyday life. Oh and Youtube :). These types of blogs are for personal use and allowing others to interact with you easily even if they are on the other side of the world! I don't really do that but my friends do. There is then the business side of blogging, using it for marketing, branding, advertising and things like that. Personal blogging is good because it allows people to reflect their personalities.

Yeah so as I said before, this is the first time I've ever used blogging. I'm actually quite excited about this :) I think it's really good that the OCR exam board have decided to let us do this and use modern day technology to record all our developments in the project :). It's a lot better than having to hand write everything anyway!

Introduction to blogging :)

Helloo

My name's Sam Butcher, this is my first blog so this is quite new to meee. Yeah so this is my blog for my media course which I'm currently doing at Sponne School :).