Friday, 21 January 2011

Pitch Presentation

I gave a presentation to pitch my production piece ideas, to my A Level Media Studies class and teacher and I was given reflection feedback on the quality of my ideas.
The constructive criticism was:
  • to improve the clarity of my target audience (broaden age width)
  • reconsider the colour scheme of my production (on the basis of my pre production)
  • confirm what the double page feature article will be about/consist of
  • confirm who my models will be
  • confirm what the headlines featuring on the front cover will be
I feel that since pitching my magazine, I have improved my understanding of what my article will be like/about, shown by the planning in my previous post.
I still need to consider my target audience, colour scheming and exact wording of headlines.
However, I fell that I will delay headlining and colour scheming until I have established my article, and start to plan my front cover.
The commended features were:
  • appropriate and original title of magazine
  • good quality and realistic pre productions
  • constructive use of results from questionnaire
  • an achievement of effective skill in using photohsop
  • organised element to my planning
I am pleased that people recognised the professionalism of my pre productions, as I put effort into making them look realistic. Also, I am glad that I used my questionnaire results constructively, in the eyes of my peers.
Above is my planning for the layout of part of my production piece: 'double page feature article'.
On the left, I have planned the sequence and inclusion of my writing, giving me a basic overview of what my article should consist of when I come to write it.
On the right, I have planned the layout of the article itself, so I have a plan for when I have finished the writing of the article, and start to construct the production.
In order to produce both of these documents, I used examples of TV guides, that I'd bought in order to ensure my pre/production appeared accurate, to create a narrative and layout for myarticle. These TV guides were: 'TV Choice' and the 'Radio Times'. These magazines are from opposite ends of the market with 'TV Choice' being the lower end, as I see my magazine to be between this price ranges. I have decided this because I don't think there is a magazine that is produced for demographic group D/C with Psycographic group 'mainstreamer'.

Thursday, 20 January 2011


Above are images of my pre-production pieces: missvision (young women) and teenvision (teenage girls)

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Planning my Production Piece

I have started to research TV guide feature articles and have discovered that the majority of them are interviews and I will do this too. Interviews are generally considering a new TV series, but as my genre is Soap Opera I will 'interview' someone returning to an already developed programme (soap opera). For example, Delta Goodrem being a 'not so new neighbour' arriving at Erinsborough (in Neighbours) and an interview discussing her past experience on the show as well as her wish to return.