My magazine targets young women and men ages 15-25 interested in music and fashion. It uses a colorful design with a prominent image of a female artist on the cover to attract its primary female audience. While most music magazines focus on specific genres, my magazine explores various music genres to appeal to a broader readership. Major media companies like Bauer Media and IPC Media would be suitable distributors as they have experience in magazines, music, and reaching both female and male demographics. Through this process, I've learned about effectively representing my target audience and exploring different distribution options.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
Real media products?
The use of a clear heading
The name of the
Main artist who The other stories
is the main attraction of the magazine
being the most obvious along the side Barcode
thing

2. Masthea The Focus
d Point
Many of the music
magazines seem to have
the red and white colour
scheme, I also used this The colour schemes are simple but
colour scheme affective and are used in the right
way. The focus point of the
powerful shot of the woman being
the main attraction I think is used
quite often and usually draws in a
lot of attention and a good
audience

3. Original
ideas
At first I started with trying to
have a really simple picture with
minimalistic style.
But then I needed to make room
for my stories to be advertised
to entice the reader

4. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

5. My magazine represents young women
ultimately, but also young men who
have interests within fashion as well as
a broad spectrum of music.
Younger women around the ages of 15-
25.
For people who don’t particularly have
a specific genre of music they enjoy but
they like to explore and develop their
knowledge in others.
The use of a girl being on the front page
and the headline
being about another woman artist and the
competition being
between the two.

6. There is also a need for
fashion within this
magazine, as the hint of
fashion is reflected in the
use of clothing on the
main feature picture. This
could enhance the social
group to young people
who not only like music
but also fashion and like to
link the two.

7. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Many commercial shops that young
women will go into may distribute my
media product as this is where the
customer interested in my magazine will
go to get products that could compliment
what is within my magazine. My magazine
is based on music but It also looks at the
fashion side of the music industry.
Although this is not where music magazines are
primarily sold it is a new and seeming to be an
effective strategy used by magazine empires over
the last few years. It allows someone who is so
used to a certain way to allow themselves to be
opened up to some variety, in the most
unexpected place.

8. More conventional places for the
magazine to be distributed would be
places such as...
Smaller music distributors would
be good for my magazine as it
does not have a specific genre of
music, so it allows more of a
variety of markets instead of a
niche market who like a specific
One of the only music shops still left thanks to type of music.
new technologies being introduced which
allows consumers to get there needs and
wants elsewhere.

9. This is one of the UK’s leading companies, which
Bauer Media explores and is involved in such as magazines, music
channels, radio and TV.
These radio and TV
stations that Bauer media
are involved in reflect the
type of audience I want
to see my magazine and I
think this type of media
organisation would
distribute my product
well due to its high
profile within the media
and how it has similar
work to what I am
presenting.
Their women’s magazines

10. This organisation produces over 60 iconic media brands,
with print alone reaching almost two thirds of UK
women and 42% of the UK men.
This company has the mass printing of The fact that this company
women's magazines, with women being also has a huge majority of
my demographic and major market of my its market allows my product
magazine, hence why my magazine is to not just be used and sold
preliminary based on what young women as a woman’s magazine as
want to read within a music magazine but males at this time are also
also having a sense of fashion. into fashion and have just as
much influence and interest
in fashion and music
This is the reason I think IPC Media would be good too distribute my magazine as it
has a broad market instead of having one specific niche market. They sell too both
sexes who I think would be very interested in purchasing my product.

11. IPC Media Magazines

12. How did you attract/ address your audience?
The use of a young woman
being the main focus of this
magazine from the very first
glance that the audience will see
it showed that the magazine is
highly female based. Also with
the majority of the stories on
the outside being about women
and very woman orientated this
expresses the audience from the
get go.

13. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

15. Who would be the audience for your media product?

16. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?