2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My magazine uses forms of a real magazine by using the same style
of layout as in real magazines with a large image on the front
page, a typical contents page and a well informative magazine. I
have also used forms of a real life magazine by using the same
house style through out the magazine. My magazine also fills the
whole page so there is not a lot of blank spaceand it looks more
filled and looks more attractive to reader because it looks like
there is more to offer on the magazine. Competitions and other
images are also used on all pages to make the page light up more
and to make the magazine stick out.
I have developed the conventions of a real life magazine by using a
large image to catch the eye of the target audience. I have
developed this by using the person shown in this image on all of
the pages I have produced. I have also developed the conventions of
a real life magazine by displaying some of the large image over the
letter N. This shows that the magazine is well known because they
will still see the masthead even though there is image over the
letters. It also shows that the artist is the main person in this
magazine.
3. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
I have used the rock genre for my magazine and I have aimed this
rock magazine to teenagers and young adults. I have taken this in
mind and have found many different ways in which I can represent
the particular social group. The main artist of my music magazine
is a young male who is aged within the aim of the audience and
wears clothes which are associated with some rock bands. This
picture is also used because it gets in your face like the rock
genre does. The masthead I have produced is Bold and in a colour
which easily sticks out like the genre. The fonts I have used for
the magazine are also bold and in colours which are associated with
rock. The images that are used on the magazine are in secretive
poses and dont tell much about the artists in the magazine
whichalso links to the rock genre and will make people want to read
about the artist. The background of the magazine uses dark colours
which work well together and are used because a lot of people who
are into rock wear dark clothes.
4. What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
A media institution like Bauer media group may want to use a
magazine like mine. This is because the Bauer media group produce
magazines like Q magazine and Kerrangwhich are both in the same
music genre as my magazine. A company like this can expand my
magazine my putting it online for online costumers to buy. If the
magazine is very successful it then go onto the shelves with other
top magazine companies and can become very popular with the
audience and maybe even other markets. From this if the magazine
becomes more successful it can become a radio station and even a
television channel.
5. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for my magazine is teenagers to young adults who are
into the rock genre. I have used this audience as the target for my
magazine because I myself am a teenager. The magazine is aimed at
both genders because of all the different features inside the
magazine.to appeal to both of these genders I will have both male
and female artists in my magazine and will have competitions which
could suit males and females. This is a good target audience to use
for my magazine because most young people nowadays listen to music
of all sorts and most of the people who buy magazines are teenagers
to young adults. If I could get my magazine onto online it would
also be great for my magazine because the internet is being used by
more and more teenagers now.Competitions and prizes get younger
people excited because the first sign of something good happening
or a free trip somewhere and young people want to know about what
the competition is and what they could win.
6. How did you attract/address your audience?
I Attracted the target audience I have aimed at by using a large
image on the front page of an artist. My target audience is young
males and females who are into the rock genre. To attract them with
this I have put a large image of a young artist who is in the same
age group as the attracted audience. I have also attracted the
audience for this magazine by using competitions and prizes with
well known bands and artists so more people will want to have a
read on whats happening. A big strapline and a big strong quote
help attract the audience to because they want to find out what has
happened with the certain artist or band. For example I thought it
was the end already the audience will automatically want to read
the article and find what the quote means.
7. Audience Feedback
I needed audience feedback to find out how well my magazine was to
the target audience I was aiming at. I wanted to find out from the
audience feedback if the target audience for my magazine was
appropriate. what they thought were the good and bad features of
the magazine were and also what I could improve on the magazine to
make it more professional.
Target Audience - My original age group was teenagers and young
adults ( 16-25) from the feedback I was given my magazine was
appropriate for the age group I was aiming at. This was because of
the pictures I used were of me and Im in that age range.
Good Features - from the feedback there was some good features to
my magazine. These included the fonts of which I used in the text
and for the titles and subtitles, the colours because they stuck
out and made it much more easier to read. From the feedback I was
also told that the pictures I had used were good and were big so
they stuck out and made the page more colourful.
Bad Features - From the feedback I was given I had some bad points
which I could improve with my magazine. One of the things was that
I needed to add some more pictures and maybe have pictures in which
I was standing or sitting in different positions because i was
almost doing the same thing in every picture. I was also told I
needed to fill the page a bit more by some of the people.
8. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
The first step was planning. I had to research differentfront
covers, contents pages and double page spreads to find out what
they are like and what features they have. I then had to make a
draft copy of a magazine to see what I could achieve with it and
hopefully it could help me.In my planning I also produced a
documents with lists of, fonts, masthead styles and a set of boxes
with different colour schemes I could use. I did this because I
wanted to find out what different colours schemes, mastheads and
fonts looked the best put together and which would appeal to the
target audience the most.
I have learnt a lot from planning the magazine which has helped
when making my magazine. The planning has helped me to understand
how to make a magazine. It has also helped me learn the important
features of the magazine and how I should use them.
I have learnt a lot from publisher and fireworks. With publisher I
have learnt how to places words over pictures. I have also learnt
from publisher how to make a transparent background on a picture
and how to change colours of the background. From fireworks I have
learnt how to edit images so that the background is completely
vanished and I can now use all the tools and understand what they
do.
9. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I think I have a learnt a lot of things since the start of the
preliminary task. I have learnt the structure of a typical music
magazine and have used it on my own magazine.
I have also learnt that consistent house styles are very important
in a music magazine and the appropriate images big bold titles and
mastheads also make a difference.
I have learnt that one big picture on a page is very
affective
As you can see the two magazines are very different from each
other. You can see the difference from my preliminary task to my
final magazine. Changes have been made to make the final magazine
product much better than the preliminary task.
