1. Candidate Number – 5224
Centre Number – 57353

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
• I have looked at a variety of magazines for example Classical Music
magazine, Cotswolds magazine, Fashion magazines and Gossip magazines.
• For the front cover I looked at the Classic FM magazine to look at the layout of the
fonts and the pictures. I also looked on the internet and didn’t genres of music to
see how they have done the layout of the front cover of the Music Magazine.
• For the contents page I looked in a Classic FM magazine to find a contents page. I
have made the contents page similar to the Classic FM magazine but I added my
own design in to it.
• For the double page article I look at the Classical Music magazine, Cotswolds
magazine, Fashion magazines and Gossip magazines. I also looked on the internet
to look at different designs and layouts of double page articles.

3. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?

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

5. Who would be the audience for your media product?
• The target audience will be for teenagers and adults – Age 13 onwards because at
that age people will have an interest in the genre of music and what is happening
in Gloucestershire Music.

6. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

8. Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine) what do
you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
School Magazine Music Magazine
What have I learnt?
I have learnt how to use different technologies by using InDesign and Photoshop and I have learnt how to use different
graphic styles by using a range of tools and techniques.
The technology have I learnt from InDesign and Photoshop?
I have learnt how to use all the techniques and tools used in InDesign and Photoshop for my Music Magazine.
What technology have I used and learnt on the Magazine?

9. Pictures chosen and why

10. Strengths of the Music Magazine
• The strengths of my Music Magazine is I have used a different range of techniques in Photoshop and
InDesign with different effects used.
• I have used a range of pictures of Gloucestershire Music.
• I had good useful information in the Music Magazine.
• I have used a range of fonts on the Music Magazine.

11. Weakness of the Music Magazine

12. How can I improve?

13. How I made the Music Magazine?

14. Video or voice recording of third party feedback?

15. Conclusion