The document discusses a media product created by the author - a grime music magazine. Some key points: - The magazine challenges some conventions by placing the title at the bottom of the front cover rather than the top to allow more space for information. - The price is kept small but visible to attract consumers without putting them off with a high price. - The target audience is those interested in grime music, particularly males and females aged 12-30 from lower/middle class backgrounds who can relate to the genre. - Suitable distribution outlets would be music shops like HMV that sell different genres under one roof, or at grime music concerts to attract those interested in that particular artist.

2. Comparing two Grime magazine front covers to my media product. Title is blocked by artist, a new customer would not be aware of its name. Price, issue date and bar code kept the same at the bottom corner . Magazine title is at the bottom so it is not over the image of the artist or under It so the title is clear for all customers. More bold headings used similar to my magazine as compared to the other it also contains more information.

9. Clothing shows young teen male audience. Young females who are inspired. Older Females. Clothing shows mid 20’s male.

11. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? I learned how to use adobe photoshop to a a high standard. I was at first unable to grasp the idea of layers which was the most important factor in photoshop and would edit my work on one layer. This defeated the purpose of photoshop and I found it extremely difficult to re-arrange and move my items, this made the the software no different to paint or Microsoft word. Eventually I grasped the concept of layers and now I am able to use them in all of my construction. This was most necessary on my front cover with the writing overlapping the images, this was especially hard in removing the white off the bar code, as in some magazines the white background is not on there. I also used the knowledge I gained cropping images without loosing pixilation when transforming them. I am now familiar with all of the tools in photoshop such as the magic wand which was one of my favourites. I am now comfortable with the use of adobe photoshop and am happy with the progress from the first lesson until now, I have made a massive improvement and this can be seen from my preliminary task when compared to the final.

12. I also learned how to use a online presentation called prezi. This is an online and a much more animated version of powerpoint. Before media class I had never heard about Prezi and I used to do all presentations for my other AS Level subjects on powerpoint. However ever since I started learning prezi I have began to use this instead. Initially it was a bit tricky to get used to, especially the use of paths and how to make the prezi focus on a specific section. I grasped the scrolling on it quite easily but I was facing minor technical difficulties such as putting text in line and spreading out the information in a way that was easy to read when you zoom in. However I have overcome those difficulties since the initial time I used prezi and now have prepared a complex Prezi in the planning section. We used prezi to analyse two magazine cover, contents and double page spread. The magazines were NME and Kerrang.