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FRONT COVER


CONTENTS PAGE


DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD




Question 1 (slides 2,3 and 4)

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


For my music magazine I chose the genre of Pop.
I looked at Top of the pops magazine and Smash hits magazine. I did this to help me decide what information and types of stories that I would put into my music magazine. I saw that the writing was informal and there was language used to suit the audience. e.g. by using words like "lol" and "omg" this would attract people to the magazine. So I decided to use it in my own magazine.

There is lots of text in Pop magazines, The stories on the front are about celebrities. There are many stories showing on the front cover this would make people want to read about it inside the magazine. The colour theme that I used was pink and yellow this is similar to the magazine on my slide, it uses the colour theme of yellow, pink and blue. These colours appeal to the target audience of young teenage girls (age 12 - 16) as they are quite girly colours and they are also bright, making the magazine stand out from many others.

Looking at Top of the Pops magazine and my magazine, it shows that I have used
forms and conventions of real media products.


Question 2 (slide 5)

How does your media product represent particular social groups?



My music magazine represents teenage girls, aged 12 - 16. This is the target audience for my magazine. I have shown this by using;

• Bright colours
• Girly colours (pink and yellow)
• Celebrity news
• Free gifts
• Informal language

All these points would represent a social group of teenage girls.

Question 3 (slide 6)


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



Bauer Media don’t have many pop publications so my magazine would be aiming at a market that hasn’t been hit yet. Bauer Media could expand my pop magazine to other forms of media such as online, radio and TV, and also could expand it to different countries making it a world wide magazine. Bauer media is very successful, they own many publications such as;

• Kiss FM
• Magic FM
• FHM ( best selling international, multi platform brand)
• The Box
• Closer
• Heat
• Grazia
• Q
• Kerrang!
• Zoo
• 4 Music
• Zoo
• Smash Hits

So it is a reliable company to go with. This is why I would go with this company.

There are some negatives about going with Bauer Media. As Bauer Media owns many successful companys there would be alot of competition with other magazines. Because Bauer Media is very successful they may charge me a high price if I go with them. But overall I think Bauer Media is a good choice.

Question 4 (slide 7)

Who would be the audience for your media product?


The target audience for my music magazine is teenage girls aged 12 - 16.

Readers Profile
My audience would typically be a 14 year old girl called Emma who is just starting year 9. She has exams coming up and is stressed, shes intrested in celebrity news and gossip, she loves boy/girl bands and she likes clothes and to see what celebrities are wearing. She reads the magazine to take a break from revising.From the Uses and Gratifications Theory my target audience would read the magazine for all four reasons; escapism, Personal Idenity, Personal relationships and survelliance.


Question 5 (slide 8)

How did you attract/ address your audience?


I attracted/ addressed my target audience by using bright colours, informal language, lots of text, intresting stories and free gifts. All these reasons would make the target audience want to buy this magazine.

Question 6 (slide 9)

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


I have learnt alot form creating my magazine, I have learnt how to use Photoshop, I did find it quite difficult and hard to use. I learnt how to edit photos correctly and add all different types of effects to a photograph. Also have learnt how to make a blog, and post images onto it. I did find this hard to start with.
Here one skill that i learnt

this is what the image looked like after

The brightness and contrast have been edited, I then used other various tools to improve this image.


Question 7 (slide 10)

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


I learnt what not to do and what to do on my final music magazine from my perliminary task. I learnt not to make one picture be all what is on the page. In my preliminary task I only had one picture and a small amount of text. I learnt that this looked too empty and it was not that intresting, Also the text blended into the picture. The headline and name of magazine did not stand out at all, so in my final magazine I made sure that everything was bright and stood out, and there was lots on the page.
My preliminary contents page did not have alot on it, I added lots of text and images onto my final magazine. So I did learn alot from creating my perliminary task.