1. Akash Sharma

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The conventions of a media product.
Main image over
masthead
Masthead
Cover line
Eyebrows.
Stories inside Main story.
magazine.
Short
Main Image
summery of
story.

3. The conventions of my
Eyebrows.
media product.
Main image over
masthead Masthead
Main Image
Main story.
Short Stories inside
summery of magazine.
story.

4. How does your media product
represent particular social
groups?
My music magazine is represented to age group of around 18-25 year old.
My target was to produce a magazine that would appeal to both sex and
to those of the age 18-25. The style
and layout of my magazine cover implies
that it is for the older target as apposed to
a more teenaged basted target audience.
The photograph on the cover shows the
rock band Blink 182 and the placement of
them in such way portrays a group bad feel.
Throughout the cover and content page I
have used two fonts and six font sizes. This
gives my magazine a more formal look
appealing it to my target audience.

5. What kind of media institution might distribute your
media product and why?
I think my magazine would be distributed by IPC Media as IPC Media
distribute magazines such as “NME”, which was my main inspiration
when creating my magazine as it had a similar target audience. My
audience is men at the age of 18-25 and IPC Media also publish other
magazines such as “Nuts” which is for the same target audience as
my music magazine. When creating my magazine I had to take into
consideration how important my context was and how important it was
for magazine to get a profit. When considering these factors I realised
that my content wasn’t the most important thing about my magazine
but it was a major factor as I need to appeal to a older target audience.
Whereas profit was not so much a issue as my magazine as many
adverts which would finance and help me earn my profit.

6. Who would be the audience
for your media product?
The audience for my music magazine are men around the age of 18-25.
The audience of my magazine would be the kind of people who listen to
rock music and bands such as (Blink 182, Sum 41, Pendulum and other
bands such as those) . My audience are people who look like this.
My magazine addresses these type
of people and this audience. My
magazine does this by the colour
scheme I have used and the people
on the cover of my magazine.

7. How did you attract/address
your audience?
I attracted my audience for my magazine my using certain colours that would
appeal to them. I researched what colours to use by constructing a
questionnaire which I asked to my target audience.
With this questionnaire I also
 What colour would you like
presented my questioned audience
to see on a music
with music magazines such as NME
magazine as a them
Kerreng and Vibe and asked them
besides white and black.
which they preferred.
 Yellow--3  NME--9
 Green-- 1  Kerrang--4
 Red--8  Vibe--7
 Purple--4
 Orange--0 Using this feedback I created my music
 Pink--0 magazine to suit my audience.
 Blue--4

8. What have you learnt about technologies from the process
of constructing this product?
Whilst constructing my magazine I have learnt new skill on adobe InDesign
and developed my skill on adobe Photoshop.
Using InDesign was not that difficult to use and get used to as I was already
used to using adobe software before.
The accessible and the ability to get hold of the Photoshop is the difficult
part of using the technology. Buying the product is expensive as well as
hard to install on your computer at home but once you have access to
the software it is quite straight forward to use.

9. Looking back at your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
From creating my college
magazine for my preliminary
task I have improved a lot more
as I know more about the
conventions of a magazine and
I have improved my skills on
how to use software to my
prove my final product. Other
factors such as time and
planning also help a lot towards
my final product being better
then my preliminary task.

10. Audience feedback on music magazine.
After creating my music magazine I had made printouts of the cover content
page and my double page spread. After doing this I asked 20 people of my
target audience a few questions about my magazine and based on this
feedback I feel I have achieved my goal as I have created a music magazine
that appeals to my target audience.
My Questionnaire:
Out of 10 rate these qualities of my magazine.
1. Does the colour scheme appeal?
2. Does the Rock Band on the front cover appeal?
3. Does the text in the magazine meet standards?
4. Would you choose this magazine if u saw it at a store?
5. How is the magazine in hole for appeal to you?

11. These were the results I get back.
1 2 3 4 5
1) 7 1) 8 1) 7 1) 10 1) 7
2) 6 2) 8 2) 9 2) 10 2) 8
3) 5 3) 8 3) 7 3) 9 3) 9
4) 6 4) 9 4) 6 4) 9 4) 7
5) 9 5) 7 5) 6 5) 7 5) 4
6) 7 6) 9 6) 6 6) 8 6) 4
7) 6 7) 8 7) 6 7) 6 7) 5
8) 8 8) 7 8) 9 8) 8 8) 3
9) 8 9) 9 9) 9 9) 8 9) 7
10)8 10)10 10)9 10)8 10)6
11)7 11)6 11)10 11)9 11)8
12)9 12)8 12)7 12)9 12)9
13)6 13)7 13)9 13)9 13)5
14)10 14)8 14)6 14)9 14)7
15)7 15)9 15)7 15)9 15)9
16)8 16)7 16)8 16)7 16)8
17)9 17)8 17)8 17)6 17)10
18)0 18)4 18)7 18)5 18)8
19)8 19)1 19)8 19)8 19)6
20)9 20)8 20)7 20)6 20)8