7. Institutions For the publishing of my magazine I have chosen to research the two publishing companies which I think are most suited for my magazine and who would be able to do best for my magazine (‘TMA’) in the long run. The two publishing companies I’ve decided on are TimeInc. and MusicMags. Both of these companies have a lot of experience and knowledge in publishing magazines and I would be confident to put my magazine sales into the arms of any of these publishers. The fact that there are hardly any R&B magazines in the market at this moment in time can only be good for the predicted sales of my magazine as R&B music fans are likely to be interested in my magazine.
8. Institutions Final Decision My final decision is to go ahead with the decision to choose MusicMags as my magazine publisher. I have chosen this because simply it has more promise and more experience in what I want to achieve with my magazine. TimeInc published the magazine ‘Vibe’ which gave me inspiration with my project as this is a R&B magazine too. However this magazine collapsed and stopped sales in 2009. Therefore for this reason along with others, I believe MusicMags is a more reliable publisher for me to use. MusicMags is a magazine distribution company for music instrument retailers with inherent added value that positively affects a retailer’s bottom line. They generate an average of 3.5 times the average revenue than the average distributor, MusicMags exclusively supplies a selection of over 48 leading magazines. Time Inc., a Time Warner company, is one of the largest content companies in the world. With a portfolio of 22 U.S. magazines and more than 25 U.S. Web sites, including some of the world's most popular, powerful and trusted brands, it is the largest magazine publisher in the U.S., and a leading publisher in the U.K. and Mexico. TimeInc were apart of the R&B magazine ‘Vibe’ but it was announced that it was shutting its doors in June 2009.
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15. Use Of Technology The media project also helped me gain new skills with the programmes Microsoft word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Of course I had used both of these pieces of software before but my knowledge of the two became much better from using them in media studies lessons. I learnt how to use slide designs in PowerPoint because I needed to do well presentable research with it and I also learned how to use a master slide efficiently. In Microsoft Word i learnt how to use page setup efficiently to lay your work out well. Two websites that helped enormously with my media studies coursework were Blogger.com and Slideshare.net. Blogger is a site that allows you to create a personal blog which you can update and publish files to whenever you want to. This was a great website to use as you could complete and publish coursework anywhere you had access to the internet. Slideshare is a website that allows you to publish PowerPoint presentations onto your blog so you could do your coursework on presentations too . I learned how to use all of these pieces of technology efficiently through the classes of media studies and they are a great help with all the work I do.
![Conventions of Front Cover ,[object Object],Both of these magazines have their masthead in the top left hand corner of the page, along with a banner running across the top. Therefore this part of my front cover is conventional. One thing on my front cover that is slightly unconventional is the triangular shaped pug in the top right hand corner of the page. Some magazines do use this technique, but not many don’t so therefore its rather unconventional. Nevertheless, I still think that it is a professional technique to use and it makes the page look aesthetically pleasing.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)