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Today i also answered question 3 of my evaluation.

Kerrang podcast

Evaluation: Question 3

There are two main publishing companies that produce Music magazines. These are Bauer Media (http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/) and IPC Media (http://www.ipcmedia.com/).
I have previously researched the company IPC and you can see the case study on my blog.
Bauer Media seems to be the most involved when it comes to music media as they publish Kerrang!, Q and Mojo. However they also produce various music tv stations including 4Music, Kerrang! and Q.
Therefore i feel that if my magazine were to be published by Bauer Media it would have more success than if it were published by IPC.
Above is an example of of a podcast produced for Kerrang magazine by Bauer media...

Bauer media also have a website which sells tickets (http://www.aloud.com/) therefore all of the media outlets are covered by this one company therefore my readers would be able to watch and read about their favourite bands and also buy tickets to go and see them.

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Today i have finished working on my prezi and have answered questions 2 and 4.
Here is a link to my prezi...

Media Studies Evaluation on Prezi

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This week I have started to work on my evaluation. i have found a new way of presenting my evaluation in the way of a Prezi.
i started to answer questions 2 and 4.

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Today I took part in activity where everyone in my class put a section of their work up on the screen and we went around the class choosing one thing which was good about the piece of work and one that was bad and writing those points on a piece of paper.
i chose to display my front cover because although it was my strongest of the 3 pieces of work there was just something i wasn't sure about.
After completing this task there was a resounding view that my cover was too 'plain' and people couldn't tell which of the cover-lines was the main story. Also some of the text was hard to see. So i changed those aspects of the front cover. i then added a barcode etc to make it look more like a magazine cover.
Another thing i added was smaller pictures so the readers could see what was in the actual magazine.

We then received our work back from provisional marking and there were a few slight bits i needed to change throughout the work to make the articles/tag-lines link together more. as well as adding a barcode onto the front cover.
on the contents i added some scribbles around the album cover in the bottom left corner, i also added another which linked to my DPS. Another thing i changed was the colour of 'UpSwitch' on both the front cover and contents page. i did this because it then linked with the colours on the DPS.

After changing those few things on the contents i started on the DPS. The main thing that was mentioned other than the page numbers was that the title of the article was too cramped in the top left corner. to combat this i moved the image to the right slightly and then re sized and moved the text around so it fitted around the picture more. i then moved the quote to the right so it fit on the guitar neck.

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Today i finished my double page spread. For the content i interviewed my friend Pete and used the answers to form my article.

I then printed my front page, contents and double page spread for provisional marking.
After printing my work i realised i hadn't included a barcode or issue information on my front cover so when i get it back to do final tweaks i shall add all of that information.
Also on the contents page there is a grey box around the word 'contents' so i will remove this as well.