Task 2

Write down a brief description of your AS and A2 production pieces of work
This should include:
-What you were asked to produce
-The target audience
-How you evaluated your product

In year 12 which was my AS coursework I was asked to produce a music magazine that included a front cover, a contents page and also a double spread giving information about the artists I had shown on the front of my magazine cover. Before I started the main magazine for my coursework my teacher set me a preliminary task to make a magazine for the school based on the main issues that come up in school for example, uniform, lesson hours, what students what out of school time but my main focuses was art as I was doing this subject at the time and had a few ideas of what to put into the magazine to get across to the art students in the school. This was done to get the views of other students in the school and how they feel about the schools subjects and rules. It allowed students to have a say and give their opinions as this is a critical subject that is taken on by the head prinicple as he wants to know what he could change to make students happy and have a better time at school whilst learning. When it came to the main music magazine I had the skills to make it as high quality as possible from the preliminary task that helped me understand the software and get use to the tools and layout of the technology which was photoshop.
I produced for my AS course work a music magazine and worked with a digital camera to take pictures for my cover and also for the other pages included in my magazine. I worked with google a lot to get font styles and images to cut out the letters that were used on my front cover that gave it a unique look and also professional. I had to do a contents page with information letting the readers know what they would be reading about in my magazine labelling them all with page numbers so each section is easy to find. I also added extra images of other bands as my music magazine was about up coming artists developing their music into the industry and becoming famous. On the double page spread I wrote a article about my chosen band the stereotypicals which allowed my target market to see the obsticals they had to go through to get to were they are today. This magazine would appeal to teens and anyone with a dream of singing as it gives people a inside view on a new up coming bands life and how they got to the stage they got to. When it came to evaluating my product I used many different technologys to show the skills I have in showing my answers in different ways to make it more interesting to read and also to gain more knowledge when it comes to useing a varitey of technoloys which is important in the media industry.

When it came to my coursework this year round in A2 I had more of a knowledge on the technology I was using so I was more excited and capable of using the different softwares. I was ask to make a anciallary text which included a digipack and magazine advert that had to represent my band to their full extent by showing their genre through their clothes and the way I positioned them when it came to taking photographs of the band. The software this year was a different format and  took a while to get used to. The target audience of my ancillary texts are teens and youngsters as the Pop genre is found in the charts all the time and is a well known genre that everyone listens to, also I am a big fan of Pop music so I already had an inside view on what would work well to get across to my target market. I evaluated my products by putting them on my blog and explaining why I chose certain features found on the ancillary text for the genre I want for which also came through in the final evaluation questions for my music video to as I spoke about each product I made for media. I was also asked to make a music video of my chose so I picked a song and decided on the people I used that best fit the style I was going for that would get across to my target audience which was the same as my ancillary text as these two products always connect back to each other. I made the video fun to watch using many different clips within a second long so it made the video look interesting and make my audience want to watch it again as it catches their eyes. I think my music video and ancillary text fit into the music industry at the moment as new bands are always forming and always get publisitey that is why I chose this genre and these artists. When it came to the evaulating my questions I had to answer them indepth about each product I made and list the technoloys I used as this year round I used many different and new technoloy's that helped me to produce my final product pieces. I showed my evaluation questions in four different formats as this showed the examiner I had good knowledge and creative thinking when it came to constructing and presenting my work.