Getting feedback from an audience helped the author recognize areas for improvement and what worked well in their preliminary product. For the final product, the author considered the features the audience liked and adapted a similar convention. Researching other magazines in the genre helped the author appeal to a larger, global audience compared to just their school. For the preliminary task, the author did not research the school magazine market but learned it is important to understand conventions in the chosen genre to meet audience expectations. Market research provided inspiration and insight into what content and layout a rap music magazine's target audience would expect to see.

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Looking back at your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
Question 7 part 2

2.  Getting feedback from an audience on my work is very
important, it has allowed me to recognize where I have
room for improvement and what has worked well for
me within my products. It has shown me what my
audience want/would expect from a school magazine.
When coming to creating my final product, I took into
consideration the type of features that my audience
liked to try adapt a similar convention in my final
product. My final product is a complete different genre
to my preliminary task, therefore, it is important that I
looked at audience feedback for existing magazines
similar to the one I was going to create. Learning
different conventions of a magazine and the design has
helped me appeal to a larger audience and branch out
globally in comparison to the 1000 pupils my school
magazine appealed to.
Audience Feedback

3.  For my preliminary task, I didn’t look into the school magazine
market to get ideas of what my magazine should look like and
what features and conventions it should show. Instead, I just tried
to create something that I think you could label as a school
magazine, I kept it simple without really doing much looking into
the genre of school magazines. Since doing this, I have learnt just
how important it is to research into my chosen market and getting
an idea of the conventions music magazines follow. I then done
further research into specifically rap/hip-hop music genre
magazines such as XXL. This was a real advantage to my final
product because I had a rough idea of what my magazine would
need to qualify in this genre. It gave me inspiration for my final
product as I got an glimpse of the things my target audience
would expect to see in a rap magazine, this is things like the layout
and the content. I wanted to appeal to a much larger audience than
my preliminary task, therefore I took a professional approach to
my final product to ensure that it was the best possible work that I
could create in order to attract a wider audience.
Market Research