2. Front Cover: my front cover follows magazine conventions pretty well. What I
would say is different is that the background is a solid white. I did this
because I wanted the people who bought the magazine to completely
concentrate on the text and image on the page. I put all of my coversine's on
the left because that is what will be seen on the newsagents shelf or where
ever it may be placed. I also tried to develop upon that point so I put my
main coverline on the left and at the bottom of the magazine. That also isn’t
very common for magazines but my target audience liked it.
Contents Page: my contents page wasn’t based of anything that I saw but it
was what I originally thought of when I started this subject. Usual magazines
have a bigger image that has the main feature on it, but I decided not to do
that because, even though my feature is the one I’m working on, there is a 6
page feature in the magazine. So I thought it would be a good idea to have 2
images of the same size. I didn’t challenge many conventions of a real media
product because I have all the necessary things.
3. Double Page Spread: the main difference that I had in this part was that I had
an image above the text, therefore it’s the first thing you see on the page.
Apart from that I hadn’t challenged any media conventions. One convention
that I used, which is very obvious, is that I put the text in columns. I did this
to break up the text so it isn't a boring long chunk of text, which I know is
very boring and doesn’t look interesting at all.
4. My magazine represents the group of people that
the elderly might ‘avoid’ on the street. The facial
expression of the model on the front page shows
the overall ‘attitude’ of my target audience. I
purposely didn’t include anything that would
attract people like ‘Goths’ or anything like that
because I wanted my magazine to represent the
‘hip hop gangster’ sort of person. I may have not
done this throughout the magazine but that’s
because I wasn’t able to because I only had a
limited amount of pages/pictures. It more
represents the ‘chavs’ and people like that.
5. Throughout this task I have seen quite a few media
institutions that publish my genre of magazines. I think the
institution that I would want to publish my magazine is
Thrust Publishing Ltd. I chose them because they publish DJ
mag and that’s also a magazine which is partly like mine. So
with the publishing fame of DJ mag I think my magazine
‘Wrapped’ would have a lot of sales from them because it is
from the same company as a very well known magazine. I did
also consider Brauer Media because they publish many
famous magazines like Q, Mojo and Kerrang. I am hoping that
in choosing this publishing institution that my magazine will
have a mind blowing first issue sales figures.
6. I have used a varying amount of different technologies throughout
this task. I have also used a lot of new technologies. Using an Apple
Mac has been the newest thing because I have always used a
Windows computer. Photoshop was also very new to me because I
had never done anything like that before and I didn’t know how to
use it. The internet/powerpoint/prezi/camera are all things that I
have used before. I have learnt that there is a long process and a lot
of technologies are needed if a new magazine or any magazine
wants to be produced for publishing. This is also the first time I have
use a blog to upload all my work to, so its all in one place.
The one great thing about photoshop is that it is so versatile
because you can do so many thing with so many tools its
unbelievable. If I didn’t have access to it at home I know I wouldn’t
have been able to finish this, one because I’m still not 100%
comfortable with it and two, because I’m a slow worker!
7. I know I have learnt a lot during this task. I have learnt that
there is so much a company has to do before they can even
think about sending their media pack to a publishing
company. There is so much research and planning involved
with it, its unbelievable.
The one main thing that I have learnt from my prelim task is
how to use Photoshop! It was very new to me and now I am a
little more confident but still not 100%.
I have also learnt a lot about how media conventions affect
the sales of the magazine and why they are where they are.
Before starting this I just thought they were there because
they looked nice, but now I know they serve an actual
purpose.
