The document discusses the results of market research conducted to design a magazine product. It summarizes: - Most readers are between ages 17-35 - Indie music is most popular genre - Price of magazine should be no more than £5 weekly - Bauer Media would be a suitable distributor due to their mainstream audience reach - The magazine is aimed at males ages 17-35 who prefer mainstream music weekly - Consistent style, reasonable price, and focus group recommendations will attract the audience - Skills in Photoshop, blogging, and presenting were improved through constructing the magazine product.

1. By Ryan Baxter

2. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
Analysing existing media Presenting my findings and
Handing out surveys
products (Front Cover, Double outcomes in a market
for publics ideas
Page Spread, Contents Page) research report.

3. How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
From the market research report I found:
Most people who read magazines are
Between 17-35
Most popular type of music is Indie
Price must be no more than £5 per issue
Editions must be weekly

4. What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
Bauer Media distributes a wide
range of media products
I believe my magazine would fit in
as it targeted to a mainstream audience
I have included all the aspects of a
magazine that ones on Bauer Media include.

5. Who would be the audience for your media
product?
I am appealing to an age range of 17-35,
as this is the most popular.
I am appealing to an audience that
prefers mainstream music.
My gender of my audience will mainly
be male as females don’t usually read
music magazines.
I am appealing to an audience that wants
weekly editions of the magazine
Focus Group Results

6. How did you attract/address your audience?
I use a consistent house style throughout the magazine
(Fonts, Colour, Layout)
I have to use a reasonable price for the magazine which is no more than £5
I use the Guttenberg design principle
I used the features that we’re recommended by the focus group

7. What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
I learnt the how to use Photoshop, image editing and image manipulation
I learnt how to use Google Blogger
I learnt how to use SlideShare to make my blog presentable to an examiner

8. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do
you feel you have learnt in the progression from
it to the full product?
My Photoshop skills have improved massively, need assistance less.
I learnt ways in which magazines are designed, through the Guttenberg design
principle etc...
Through looking at actual media products (Kerrang, NME, etc) It gave me
better ideas to use on my own media product