2. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
My media product
represents teenagers
who are into pop
music, by having the
typical forms that pop
magazines have which
is bright bold colours
with hearts and stars.
Also by having
teenagers on the front
cover relates with the
particular audience
intended for the
magazine.
3. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
•I challenged the conventions of
magazines, as most magazines have a
medium shot image on the front cover.
•To make my magazine stand out over
other contenders. I wanted to take the
image looking down on the artist so it
would be unique and the effect being that
I wanted the artists to look up to the
reader.
•I develop conventions of
magazines by the image
over lapping on the
masthead. As it was a
convention widely used on
most magazines I
researched.
4. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and why?
The type of institution that my
music magazine will get
distributed by is in the retail
industry
•Newsagents.
•Supermarkets such as
Morrison's, Tesco’s and
Sainsbury's etc.
•WHSmiths.
•Make it available to order
monthly or yearly online.
5. What would be the audience for
your media product?
The audience of my media
product would be teenage girls
who are interested in pop
music. I developed this by the
colour scheme of my magazine
being quite feminine. And with
logos of stars and butterflies in
order to attract my audience.
6. How did you attract/address your
audience?
• I addressed my audience by a
questionnaire that I got some
young teenage girls to fill out as
that was the age I wanted to reach
out to.
7. What have you learnt about technologies
from the process of constructing this
product?
• I learnt about Photoshop throughout this process:
• How to have a steady hand on the wand tool when
cutting images out.
• When taking pictures with a camera to be able to cut it
out easily its better to take the picture with a plain
background that wont reflect the model/s clothing that
they are wearing.
8. Looking back at your preliminary task, what
do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full progress?
• I have learnt how to cut out my images better.
• The conventions of magazines I have a much more clear
understanding now and how to take those conventions and to create
my product based on these conventions.
• I have learnt to layout things more clear to stand out or to be more in
the background then the foreground.
• I have learnt to take pictures more professionally by choosing a
suitable background and how to take the different shots needed.
• Learnt that just picking a model isn't as straight forward that a lot of
thought process has to be put in place like the hair and make up
also the outfit and the way you want them to pose. So in reflection I
would have made my modals bring in some more bright and bold
clothes and make them wear make-up.
