The document describes the target audience and design choices for a music magazine. It aims the magazine at girls aged 11-18 who enjoy pop stars like Rihanna and Justin Bieber. To attract this audience, the magazine features these pop stars prominently on the cover and includes gossip, reviews, and posters. The designer learned skills like using Photoshop to edit photos and studied real music magazines to employ conventions like prominent cover images and double-page spreads featuring interviews. The goal was to create a magazine that professionally represented the target audience's interests in pop music.

2. The audience for my media product is for Girls aged 11 to 18, I Have also posted a blog about the
target audience, the link is below.
My target audience would be a girl who would listen to pop stars
like Rihanna, Katy Perry, or Justin Bieber.
My Music Magazine represents my target audience
because I made my product for them, I wanted to make my
product girly and classy for the audience and I wanted to give them
what they want and why they bought the magazine, they want to buy
the magazine because they either like the front cover which contains
there favourite artist and bands or upcoming artists and reviews on CDs
they wanted to buy. They buy magazine
s because they want to know what the latest gossip is
on there favourite music “Pop”.
http://dhsamyandrewsmusicmag.blogspot.co.uk/

3. • I started to look at different types of magazines, I noticed
more girls buy pop music magazines, like top of the pops, and
I love pop magazine.
• This is because most girls now are interested in Justin
bieber, one direction, Jessie j or Rihanna.
• Music is changing, and pop is
becoming more and more popular.

4. http://www.totpmag.com/
Looking at this web page for the magazine you can see, that there are
luring there target audience in for there magazine because of adding
“win and meet the wanted” and adding the audiences favourite pop star
on the front.

5. I wanted to talk directly to the audience, I researched and
asked my friends and my younger family members what would
attract you to buy a music magazine.
My younger cousin Abby, whom Is a massive fan of Justin
bieber said she would buy a magazine, if they contain posters,
front cover of Justin bieber or Jls.
And that is why I added a lure to win One direction tickets.

6. A Part of My Questionnaire
This first part of my questionnaire helped
me quite a lot, because I can see that most
girls want to see there favourite artists and
Most of them like Justin Bieber and they
are lured by the posters.
For my main cover, I wanted to put one
star on the front cover and I want to put
her on the front cover because it will
interest a lot of girls to be like her because
her story is that she won the factor and
achieved her dream.

7. Lure is the most important convention to use in a
magazine.
It mainly attracts the audience towards the
magazine, and they would want to buy it.
To the left are a few examples of magazines I have
bought.
One picture is Rihanna and that is the huge
important Lure in a magazine, they are attracted to
the front cover because want to see who Rihanna is
crazy in love with.
The other picture is Taylor swift and you can notice
on the side, there are pugs (Nicole scherzinger) and
lures in the left side.

8. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My music magazine represents my target
audience, the magazine shows the audience are
into pop music, for example like Rihanna and
Jessie j, it links with there interests, for example,
some girls are interested in Justin bieber and they
want to know more about Justin bieber, so they
would head straight to a magazine.
I wanted to show a classy, fancy and elegant
theme for the target audience/ social group. So
that’s why I added a nice soft purple colour to an
elegant font.

9. • I know I have shown my target audience
in a good way through my font and the
layout of my magazine.
• The image throughout my magazine
shows a pop star, with pop star poses like
some ideas I have researched.
• The image is aimed at an older
teenager, because they will find the image
classy and very popular.
• I asked the model to wear light coloured
clothes to help with different affects I can
use for my products.

10. I have represented my social group, as being younger teenagers
or older teenagers, for them to enjoy reading the magazine and
not expect any bad language or anything else on the matter.
An other thing I have done is kept it silent on the front cover and
the contents page, so the reader will buy the magazine and will
start to read the pages. I didn’t want to get straight to the
information already on the products.

11. What have I learnt about the technologies from the process of this product
I have learnt quite a lot in this process of the product, I have learnt how to use
Photoshop, because of editing the magazine.
I have added the original picture and now on the next
slide you will see that I have editing I, and it will be perfect
to use for my front cover.

12. You can see, I have made the sky look brighter and more sunnier, I have made
the person in the front to have more colour in her face, I have made the view
look better and you may see I have used a middle view camera shot to show
the view as well.

13. These are the tools I have learnt to use on Photoshop.
I have learnt how to use most of them tools on
Photoshop, I know how to use the spot healing
brush and the clone stamp. Those two are the
ones I had struggled on at the first time however
I know how to do them now.
Clone Stamp Before
Clone stamp, After – The
bottle has disappeared.

14. Before you have to use Photoshop, you have to have a high
quality camera in order to edit your magazine pictures.
One main use of technology that I have learnt to use from
creating my music magazine is the program called Photoshop cs5
however I have Cs2 at home, this was used to edit pictures and
images to make them look how I wanted for my product. I used a
variety of tools like spot-healing brush tool, the lasso tool, the
crop tool and the clone stamp tool.

15. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
I have tried to make my magazine look as professional as
possible, I looked at a few different magazines to get loads
of different ideas, for the photo, I looked at most photo-
shoot poses and ideas and I wanted to book a photo-shoot
studio, however it was fully booked the day I phoned, so I
thought of another idea, which was adding the perfect
view for the photo-shoot, and my first idea was Liverpool’s
Famous place, the Albert Dock.

16. For the masthead, I wanted to get the best name and the best font to use, I
decided to look at the main colours first in a music magazine, I looked at
different pop magazines and others genres like NME. Nme interested me in
to making my name for the magazine, Because Nme stands for New Musical
Express. So I was thinking of making a name like that however I came across
Musical Terms Like Time Signature and I really liked the Name Signature and I
also asked my friends if they would like it for my magazine and the main
answer they said was I would Buy it.
Top Of The Pops Inspired me to do Purple for the colours of the masthead
and other text. I have a really old cover from top of the pop which I have had
since I was a busted fan, and now looking through it, I have noticed the
layouts and text they used to use, on your left, you can see there old
magazine and they used to use blue and mostly pink.
I wanted to develop the colour from the Cher Lloyd top of the pops
magazine, and make the colour more lighter and more elegant to the front
cover of the page and I also had the idea of the pug in the middle of the
magazine, this shows I am trying to take different ideas from the conventions
of the magazine.

17. For this Contents Page, I
got the idea of Nme and
Rolling stones magazine.
I looked at the NME
and rolling stones text
and layout.
I basically just
combined this together
and my own ideas and
created this magazine.
I wanted to get the reader
more focused on the
contents page because that’s
where they mainly turn the
page to see what page there
favourite artists are on
The page numbers are
all different to show
there are many pages
to look at.

18. In the middle, you can see my final double
page, You can see the magazine double page
spreads I have researched, in my pop magazine
that I bought “We Love Pop Magazine” Taylor
swift was on the front cover and on there
double page spread, they asked the star many
questions, and I thought that was a good idea
to use, I decided to do that idea.
On the left, you can see a lady gaga double page spread, It gave
me an idea to use for the layout of the magazine, so I decided
to use white for the background, and the main picture on the
left.
On the right, you can see the speech title on the left
and that gave me idea to use the font Courier New
because it is similar to typewriter texts and script
writing texts.

19. What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
The media institution that would distribute
my media product, would be IPC media, who
own and publish more than 60 well known
media brands. For example Teen Now, who
have one direction as there story's now and
they also publish a well known magazine
called Nme.
Why they would distribute my media product
is because if they buy my magazine, they
would expand there business and they would
make more profit, however they would only
distribute my magazine if it was professional,
and that’s what I need to make it look like.

20. Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task
Looking Through my preliminary task, for example my college
magazine, I have noticed I have improved from my college
magazine to my music magazine.

21. You can see the mast head has
changed.
You can see that my first
masthead has become
smaller and more un
professional, when my
new masthead for my
front cover is bigger and
stands out on the
magazine.

24. I have learnt quite a lot throughout my premilary task, I
know how to edit pictures on Photoshop, I know how to
research the different magazines and also how to take a
great picture for my Magazine.
I have learnt how to get everything ready for the editing
of the magazine, getting the photos, organising a photo-
shoot and booking a studio however the studio was
double booked that day so I had to try and find
somewhere else and think of a better idea to use for the
photo-shoot and that was the Liverpool albert docks.