Previous Student Work: Johnny Fonseca

Johnny Fonseca completed his AS coursework in 2013. I have picked his

work to analyse to my own media coursework, as he did the same music genre as I'm doing on this year for my

AS media.

Clara Barroso AS Media G321

Johnny’s blog has an easy layout to find all his work and

information that he provided on his ‘research’ category. He

created his blog on Blogger as it’s an easy website to create your own blog and share your media

work. He mainly posts his research work with an image and

writing next to it or even text format, by using Scribd or even as a Jpeg from InDesign, which is a different method to display your

work.

There is nine posts under the category ‘Research’, this is the first step where the student has to start thinking about the magazine they

are creating and what they have to start to research to put on their

blog and to give the student a bit more of knowledge about media industry especially in magazines. Johnny has done his research very well with a clear understanding,

however they are text based.

The double page spread post has been done very well, as he has

picked a variety of different magazines to analyse it from and

to have different ideas from different music magazines. Its easy to read the post and to know what section belongs to what as he used a clear font and size for the reader to read. The way he displayed it is also nice and clear as he used a different method so all his posts

don’t all look the same.

The first post that appears after pressing the category ‘Planning’ is the most eye catching, as

he showed his images he took for his magazine as contact sheets into individual images, which are shown very clear and easy to have a read about it. This category has thirty posts and it highlights

the time and all his work he as put onto the process of him planning for his R&B magazine.

I like this specific post because it shows his photography skills and displaying skills as he finds a way of demonstrating his images all at once. It is

also interesting the fact that he still comments about his work and he process of taking the pictures with his own discussing. This also

provided him with more ideas for what his final magazine could potentially look like and how he

can recreate the music genre, R&B, onto a magazine.

The category ‘Evaluation’ has seven

posts and its all his typed explanation

and discussing and process

about his magazine, this

time he just displayed in a different way and in a more digital way.

The evaluation is a long

process that you go

through after doing all your

research, planning,

drafting and your final magazine.

Evaluation is potentially the one area that you have to

explain everything

you have done through this course. So because

Johnny’s post are all mainly text based, he

did his evaluation

using Adobe InDesign, the

same programme he would use to make his final magazine. He done a little magazine for

each evaluation

question with two pages of more written

with text. Overall, this showed his media skills through his

evaluation as a media student.

The category ‘Final’ has two posts which is of his final magazine and a special edition magazine front

cover. He has represented the R&B genre very well and in a very

original way. The use of model also focuses on the idea of being R&B like and dark skin tone too. She’s represented in a the right way for his magazine target audience. I really like the use of layout on every page. The fonts and text size is also very similar to any music magazine as he gave his

own R&B twitch to it, which makes his work more original. Also the

use of colour scheme portrays and its every easy to tell that his

magazine is an R&B magazine for and older audience. His magazine is perfect and me as a student I

can see his knowledge and use of InDesign and Photoshop, which is

very impressive for a AS student at this point in media studies.