2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge the codes and conventions of real media
products? I have used conventions of
other magazines by using a
On my front cover, I have used codes and contentions such play on words with “Note
as a main image, masthead, issue date and number, Book” and have also used a
barcode, price and cover lines etc. picture within the text to
Real Media Product My Music Magazine make it stand out.
I have gone against the
convention of having the
masthead going all across
the magazine so I had it on
a slant instead. I did this
purposely so it does not
block the main image and it
also draws the readers
attention to the main article
within my magazine. This is
also achieved by the model
looking directly at the
camera.
3. In the top right hand corner of my magazine, I
have an issue number and the date of the
magazine. When I researched other
magazines, I noticed they all have these so I
decided to use them myself. It adds to the
realism of my magazine. Similarly, I did the
same with a barcode to give my magazine a
more realistic look. The idea of having the
price in small font is to make it hard to notice. I
purposely did this as if I were to look at a
magazine, I wouldn’t want to know the price as
it may out me off buying it. So I thought, the
same as many other magazine companies, that
I should have the price tag in the smallest font
to prevent any mind changes of the audience.
I have used a close up of the person on the
front so the audience may establish the main
topic/person in my magazine. It focuses on her
and draws attention to my magazine.
4. In this teen vogue contents page, I noticed the layout of columns
which I a convention that I followed. Along with page numbers,
pictures and the contents masthead. This contents page only has
one image but I have included three. I learnt that I needed more
than one image as I experimented doing this but it didn’t look right
so I concluded that I needed more images.
5. I have replicated the logo of
“NoteBook” onto the contents page to
make it a consistent feature
throughout my magazine. This signifies
what magazine the audience is reading
because it is the actual name of the
magazine.
Now that I have compared my
contents page with a real media one, I
think I followed the codes and
conventions needed to make it
realistic.
6. I tried to replicate this double
page spread interview layout in
the terms that it has columns,
photos and questions and
answers. I imitated this layout
and added a few other codes
and conventions such as quick
fire questions and a tweet from
the artist. I also used a
promotion fro the artists of her
next appearance and her new
album.
Also, on my double page spread, I have
included a main heading saying “Cover Story”,
and an introduction on the artist, the logo of
my magazine, having the layout in columns &
having quick fire questions for the artist. All of
this will contribute to the realism of my music
magazine.
7. I have also used a technique
that is similar to stage
directions. When researched
different magazines, I noticed
these were included in some
interviews. I think its to give
the reader a sense of realism
and get to think that they are
with the artist so they are
interacting with the reader.
8. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
I deliberately used this photo as the
girl on the right is wearing a sparkly
dress and the girl on the left is
wearing a red dress. These costumes
signify my genre of classical pop
music as these are the kind of outfits
that the artists would wear.
I tried to replicate this image
as my main image. Katherine
Jenkins would be the kind of
person who will be featured
in my magazine.
9. As my magazine genre falls into two categories, Classical music and Pop music,
it will have an extended audience and this is known as an unconventional
audience.
Even though this magazine is not a music
magazine, if you think it was a music
magazine, they would have the same
audience. This relates to my female,
sophisticated and classy factor of my
audience. This magazine gave me
inspiration for the colour scheme I used.
10. What kind of media institution might distribute your
product and why?
I researched two media institutions when answering this question. One being IPC
Media and the other is Bauer Media.
IPC MEDIA
There are loads of
women's magazines,
one teen magazine and
one not many music
magazines. This would
be ideal to market my
magazine with this
company. All three
aspects are in my
magazine so there is a
fresh place on the
market fro my magazine
so I would choose IPC
Media
11. BAUER MEDIA
Here a just a few magazines
that Bauer Media have there
name to. I don’t think my
magazine will fit in with this
company because it will be
alone in the sense that there
are not many other magazines
like it. At a push, Grazia
magazine will be the closest to
my target audience except
they don’t specialise in music
whichh is what mine does.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t want
Bauer Media to distribute my
music magazine.
12. Who would be your audience for your product and
why?
Here are typical audience
members who my product will
be aimed at. One is featured
in my blog. They are likely to
be labelled, stereotypically, as
posh, classy and sophisticated.
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e.com/watch?v=u5I This music video,
vpoJrTQY Break It To My Heart,
by Katherine Jenkins
will be the kind of
music which will
appeal to my
audience. Katherine
will be an artist that
would be most likely
feature in my
magazine. Even
Katherine herself
would be an ideal
member of my
audience.
14. How did you attract/address your
audience?
One way that I have
attracted my
audience is by
including a quotation
of the main artists
featured in my
magazine. This will
Another way in which I have
intrigue them as
addressed my audience is my
they will want to buy
making a feature that gives
my magazine to find
them a chance to meet Harry
out what her
Baldwin. My readers will want
experience was like
to not miss out on this chance
at the Royal
so therefore will want to buy
Wedding.
my magazine. This proves that
I have attracted my audience
through this tactic.
15. What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
&
Looking back at your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
16. When I had completed the challenge of my preliminary task
(my school magazine) I then had to start planning a music
magazine. I did mind maps of genres and title names. I
originally had the idea of a pop music magazine, but the
audience feedback was a bit negative towards the genre in
such a way that people could not establish the correct genre.
So I decided to change my genre which when I received
audience feedback again, it was much more better and I had
improved as I changed my genre to Classical Pop music.
I used the skills I learnt when
making my school magazine and
applied them to the task of my
music magazine. I found that I
developed them too as you can tell
because my music magazine is a lot
better than my school magazine.
I added codes and conventions to my music magazine to add to
the realism of it. This includes things like barcodes, price and
an issue number and these are not present in my preliminary
task. I feel I have improved in my photography as I have taken
more images and included them on the front cover and made
the main image fill my whole page.
17. Within our preliminary task, we had to do a medium close up
shot of the main image that would appear on the front cover. I
was allowed to change the shot however, I did slightly to a
close up, not a medium close up. When researching pictures
that I could replicate, I stumbled across this one of Katherine
Jenkins and I thought immediately that that would work with
my genre! And, I am happy to say that it has. The replication
that I did has worked out well.
18. In my contents pages, I think I have also improved too.
For starters, I have included much more features that
are in my magazine. Even though I used four pictures in
my preliminary task, I used three in my music magazine.
I did this because when I looked back on my school
magazine, I thought the photos took up too much space
and there wasn’t enough text. However, I think it was
successful as I have
managed to use the
space efficiently
without the page
looking too compact
and overloaded. Even
though the two
magazines are two
completely different
genres and have a completely different target
audience, you can still see that I have progressed with
my skills to develop my music magazine.
19. I feel like I have developed my technology skills as I
researched many websites that I could use to edit the text
fro my magazine. I came across dafont.com and I used this a
lot in my music magazine.
20. I then came across this website called picmonkey.com which I
found really useful to edit photos. One example where I used this
is with the image in the front cover.
I developed this image
to make it better and
more suitable for my
front cover image. Her
hair has been lightened
and the background is
a lighter shade, edging
on white.
I really enjoyed this website as I
did want a white background
but couldn’t get the correct
shade of white that I was
hoping for in the original photo.
Furthermore, this website
helped me achieve this
background and it looks so
much better.
