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MUSIC MAGAZINE EVALUATION AS MEDIA STUDIES CONNOR GAY

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MUSIC MAGAZINE EVALUATIONAS MEDIA STUDIES

CONNOR GAY

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Magazine Influences

These magazines were a big help to me for inventing a design that I would use for my Magazine; NME and Q

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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My magazine definitely has that touch of ‘NME’ to it,

especially seen in the contents page:

Also the way that the title is bold and outlined

in ‘NME’, seemed to be a good idea for my

Magazine, so this is what I did with the title for

MUSAC.

Unlike ‘NME’ there are no picture contents pages in this magazine like mine, so using an influence of another music magazine, I brought this idea to my magazine.

I included the subscription tab seen at the bottom of the ‘NME’ magazine into MUSAC.

Also I liked how on the front cover of ‘Q’ magazine,

It is quite plane with the front cover, because there

is just a picture, barcode, skyline and a title.

I used this idea for ‘MUSAC’.

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I also got an idea after looking at this

magazine contents page, because of how

there is a dull gray colour in the back ground

of the magazine, which actually in my opinion

gives a sophisticated approach to the

magazine, which works well, because Adele

is a very mature artist. I wanted to take this

into consideration with my magazine so I

chose the dark purple/brown colour which

followed a colour scheme with other features

of the magazine as shown by the arrows.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (continued)

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How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The price of the magazine is very affordable, so it can be available for those of the emulators social class as well as those of the achievers.

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What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The media institution that I would use, would be ‘ICP

Media’, for the reason that they can link to all kinds of

music, so it would be fairly easy to get into, in comparison

to other Media Institutions who do not link to all music

types. Also they are a very huge Media Institution, so the

publicity would be very useful to draw in an audience.

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Who would be the audience for your media product?

For my audience, I would try to range for a big audience, because

although my Music Magazine is an Indie based magazine, I would

include artists like Mumford and Sons, or Adele, where lots of different

people like them even though these artist may not specialize in the

music genre that their fans would usually go for. Both males and

females of around 14-19 should be interested in my magazine. Indie is

a very neutral band genre, so for this reason many people would enjoy

Indie music of some sort, whether it be Indie or Indie Rock.

Furthermore, after recent surveying, 36 people were asked what their

favorite artist’s genres were. 82% of them said Indie. Because lots of

people like Indie music, they would be more likely to subscribe to my

Magazine rather than a different style magazine.

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How did you attract/ address your audience?

This magazine can attract to both a male and female

variety, because a girl upon seeing this magazine, will

see a teenage girl making her own way up to the music

industry and a role model, however as well as this, a boy

would see and attractive young girl as well as a talented

young musician.

The ‘Black Keys’ T-Shirt that she wears automatically tells the audience

that she is an Indie Rock Artist. Also the bright colours behind her

doesn’t exactly tell us that she is a heavy rock singer.

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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Photoshop was obviously a huge part towards my end product.

Photoshop was were I edited all my images, created backgrounds,

wrote my text and put it all together. Using Photoshop was a struggle at

some points, because although I have used it many times before, it

brought me to a new level of understanding of it. For example, I

explored the ‘Liquify’ tool, which was very new to me, but I soon

adapted to it and used it in various ways like taking in the body shapes

and curves of my chosen music artists.

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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When I first saw the preliminary task, I thought instantly of doing an

Alternative Rock magazine. This is because it was my favorite type of

music, however I then surveyed, and found that Indie music is liked

more on average then Alternative Rock, so the chances are, that my

magazine would be read more if it was Indie based then Alternative

Rock based. I had to keep thinking about how to represent Indie music

through different aspects of my magazine, for example colour. I had to

keep adapting the colour which suited Indie styled music the best. This

is why I used orangey yellow on the front cover, faded purple on the

contents and light blue on the double page spread.