- The document discusses the creation of a music magazine, including following conventions like mastheads and layouts while also challenging some conventions to make the magazine stand out. - Research on existing magazines helped identify conventions to follow to make the magazine look professional. The magazine targets young adults and teenagers who listen to pop music. - Feedback from the target audience provided insights on what they liked and disliked about the magazine, which the creator plans to apply to improve the magazine.

3. While creating my magazine I have tried to stick to the normal conventions of a magazine while
changing them slightly to make my own magazine original enough to stand out to it’s target
audience.
I have stuck to basic conventions such as having the masthead and skyline at the top of the page
on the front cover of my magazine. Challenging conventions was harder than following them but
I did challenge certain conventions like having a different costume for different pages. I
challenged this convention because I wanted to make sure the audience knew who the model
was throughout the magazine and I thought that the easiest way to do this would be to have her
in the same outfit throughout; This also helped me to keep m model recognizable to the target
audience. My double page spread conforms to magazine conventions by having a large image
taking up most of the space on one of the two pages while the text is taking up the rest of the
space on the opposite page.
My analysis of different front covers, contents page and double page spreads helped me to
identify the conventions I wanted to follow in my own magazine as I could identify if a lot of
magazines followed similar conventions to make them look professional.

4. My magazine clearly fits into the music genre by the use of music terminology in the title,
images of instruments and concerts that I have been to and by using recognizable artists names
that fans can easily pick up on.
Overall I think that my magazine doesn’t look like a real published magazine but it does follow
most of the same conventions that they do.

5. My product represents young adults and teenagers who listen to pop music. I have achieved this
through the images and design of my magazine by keeping everything minimalistic and simple
like the tracks in this genre of music. Also pop magazines tend to have very simple layouts and
designs.
To attract a younger audience to my magazine I have used a teenage model on my front cover to
make the magazine relatable to the young audience I am trying to appeal to. I have mainly tried
to aim my magazine at a female audience by using stereotypical ‘girl’ colours and fonts. I think
by doing this I have failed to attract a lot of male audience members.
To research into the pop genre I looked at existing media products in this genre and looked into
what the models in their photographs were wearing and what poses they were in, what layouts
the pages were using and other conventions that were being used throughout the magazine.
I think that my media product does conform to certain stereotypes in the pop genre as it is
mostly seen as a female dominated genre which is very similar to the content in my magazine.

6. My magazine would best sell in supermarkets and newsagents. I think this because big
supermarket chains and newsagents have a lot of different genre magazines available to buy.
Also because my magazine is in the music genre people who like reading music magazine will
have to go there to buy a new magazine anyway so they would be more likely to purchase my
magazine there.

7. I think that the publisher most likely to distribute my magazine would be IPC Media as my own
magazine is in the same genre as one of their most successful magazines (NME) but is very
different to it at he same time. NME is aimed at an young adult fanbase who listen to different
variation of rock (pop rock, alternate rock, etc..) and metal whereas my magazine is aimed at a
young female audience who listens to pop. This would be a new market for IPC Media to
investigate as they have no current products that appeal to this audience.
Different IPC media magazines

8. This is a short interview I did with a
member of my target audience to find
out what they liked and didn’t like about
my magazine.
The target audience for my magazine is
teenager and young adults who listen to
pop music. I have chosen this genre as
pop music is huge at the moment with a
lot of young people listening to pop
music everyday so my magazine will be
able to use artists that they recognise.
My magazine is mainly tailored for a
female audience because from the
results of my survey that I did I found out
that most of the people I questioned that
said they read magazines were female.

9. I have tried to attract my audience by using different style fonts and pictures to make my own
magazine look unique and to set it apart from other magazines.
I have used a A4 sized picture of my model (Ashleigh, 17) on my front cover to attract the
readers attention. Also my model is representing the audience I am targeting for my magazine
so this will help to get their attention.
The title font I have used is a bold comic book font to attract the readers attention which also
follows general magazine conventions which will also attract the readers attention to the page
titles which will interest them in the content on them.
The video on the slide before also shows what I found when I interviewed a member of my
target audience to see what they did and didn’t like about my magazine.
The other video on slide three also addresses different ways I could distribute my magazine by
asking a different member of my target audience what form of magazine they prefer to read
(digital or print).

10. I have learnt a lot from the process of making my
magazine. I now feel confident in using Photoshop CS6
to edit my photos by using different filters, changing the
saturation and brightness of the photos to create
different effects.
I also now feel a lot more confident to use Photoshop to
create a whole magazine whereas when I started I
would’ve preferred to use Microsoft publisher as I knew
how use the software before I started to create my
magazine.
I have also learnt how to add custom fonts into a
computer. I downloaded my custom fonts from
www.dafont.com

11. One of the major things I have learnt while creating my music magazine is how to manage my
time better so I can finish my work before the deadline. I had a lot of problems with this when I
first started my college magazine and it put me behind when I needed to start my music
magazine but I have managed to catch up now by working hard outside of lessons as well.
Another major factor I have learnt from creating the preliminary product is how to use
Photoshop to create a better quality product than Microsoft publisher. When I created my
college magazine I used Microsoft publisher and now from using adobe Photoshop I can be
more creative and am allowed more freedom to create the product I wanted to and wasn’t as
limited as I would’ve been If I had continued to use Microsoft publisher.
However there was still a lot I needed to learn while creating my music magazine. I have
managed to learn how to take a better quality picture that is more suitable for its original
purpose, how to add new fonts into a PC and then into a different software package and how to
apply different layer styles and effects which I had never done before.

12. Looking back at the preliminary task I feel that I have learnt a lot of new skills that have
helped me to create a professional looking product that I wouldn’t of been able to create
without the experience and knowledge I have gained from creating my two magazines.