5. In my magazine, I have tried to stick to conventional techniques
while trying to make it unique. I felt that if I stuck to more
conventional methods, people would feel more comfortable, buying
the product.
Each of my final products contain standard methods, like having
my masthead at the top and the barcode and issue number are in
the lower left hand third.
My dps also follows conventions by having one main image and one
small image and an interview put into columns.
The analysis I have carried out on real products has really helped
with the design of my products and give me inspiration.
Q1 IN WHICH WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF
REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?
6. My product represents a social group consisting of teenagers and young
adults who like rock music. I think I have achieved this through the use of
images, the lack of formality in the text, the colour scheme, I feel I have
met the criteria of a rock magazine
I used magazines such as Kerrang and Q, who target the same audience
and researched what they did to make their target audience very blatant. I
noticed that the people they target their product towards is very vague, the
only common factor is that they like the same genre of music, therefore I
have tried to make my magazine as universally acceptable as possible.
2 HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR
SOCIAL GROUPS?
7. I think that the publisher that would
most likely publish my magazine is are
either IPC or Bauer.
3 WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT
DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?
8. I attracted my audience by putting a low price on the magazine
because teenagers and students do to typically earn a lot of
money, and a low prices would entice them to buy. I also used
colloquial language to attract my audience, the language used
is laid back and informal, which is how stereotypically how
students and teenagers speak and they are less likely to buy a
magazine if the language they use is very formal, they may feel
that the magazine is up itself and they will be put of the
magazine
5 HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR
AUDIENCE
9. I have learnt a lot about the magazine making progress. I have
learnt that colour, images, fonts and other conventions are very
important to making a magazine look good. I’ve learnt that colour
schemes are very important in helping the demographic you are
targeting realise that I am targeting them (A teenage girl would
pick up a magazine with a pastel colour scheme). Images help with
that also, a magazine with a man with a guitar on the cover
instantly show that it is a music magazine and music fans will be
enticed. I've learnt that the fonts used are important, Using quite a
rough, sketchy font would be ideal for a rock magazine, but not on a
women's lifestyle magazine which would suit a thin clean font as its
masthead or anywhere in the magazine.
7 LOOKING BACK AT THE PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT
DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT ABOUT THE
PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?
