The document summarizes the coursework for a music magazine project. It discusses how the magazine uses conventions from real publications, represents its celebrity subject as down-to-earth, and would appeal to a target audience of 13+ interested in pop-rock music. The document also reflects on technologies used, like photo editing, and lessons learned between the preliminary and full projects, such as including more detailed contents pages.

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2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? My media product uses conventions that are already used in well established magazines. It has a house style like magazines that are sold in shops do. Masthead. Shows the name of the magazine and it’s slogan in big bold letters to attract readers. I used what I thought to be the most shocking part of my article for the pull quote on the cover which is used to pull readers in so they buy the magazine to read the story.

3. How does your media product represent particular social groups? The readers of my magazine would get quite a good impression of the people featured in my magazine because I have tried to show that my made-up celebrity is quite hard on the outside to fit her style of music but is actually a very nice girl. “This was fun. I hope all my future interviews are like this. Thanks!” These two quotes for the interview show that even though she is now famous and considered a celebrity she still remembers the people that were there before and she is very down to earth “I did have some friends. The ones you can depend on, y’know? Now that I’m…famous, I still talk to them. Its not like I’ve turned diva. I’m totally down to earth.“

4. She is supposed to be quite a young celebrity or teen superstar it could help people of her age group that listen to this type of music be seen in a better light. This image of her that I used in my magazine shows her hiding most of her face which makes her look very innocent which should help people to see that she is just a young girl making music.

5. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Bauer is a German company that publishes Kerrang! Magazine, which I believe is one of the closest magazines to my own.

6. IPC Media is the company that publishes NME magazine. This magazine is also quite close to what I cover in my magazine, because the music I cover isn’t as rock as Kerrang! But more so than NME, so I think that one of these publishers would be good for my magazine.

7. Who would be the audience for your media product? The audience for my music magazine would be people of my age or maybe from 13+ who are interested in pop-rock music more than any other type. I think that my magazine is suitable for this target audience because I have tried to keep it quite young looking and friendly. I used this font because I thought it looked quite rough and not too formal, which younger people seem to like.

8. How did you attract/address your audience? I attracted my audience by using words such as “we” and “you” which is a device used to make the reader feel more involved in what is being read. An example if this is my strapline, where I use the word we to make the audience feel like they are a part of it: where we take a different look at music.

9. In the box with the subscription offer, I wrote it very informally, which should appeal to the younger audience that I am targeting. I almost died on stage— and I loved it! I also used this pull quote on my front cover of a very exiting and intriguing part of my article. I used this particular quote because I thought it would attract readers.

10. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Whilst making this project, I learned more about the photo editing website that I used. I learned that rotating an image can give it a completely different feel. For example: The image on the left was turned into the image on the right, which I think is a much nicer image of her face and you can see her eyes which makes her seem more human and connects to the audience better.

11. I also learned how to group objects together, which made it a lot easier to move things around on my magazine. As you can see, here I have grouped the images and the names so if I were to move them they would all move together rather than me moving them one at a time.

12. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? From the preliminary task, I have learned that contents pages need to be a lot fuller and have more information on them, otherwise its not really worth having one.

13. I have also learned from making the preliminary magazine that it is quite good to have a more busy front page because it gives the audience more to look at and makes it look more professional and appealing.