The student created an indie/pop music magazine that challenges conventions of real media magazines. It uses techniques like bright colors and headlines on the cover to attract readers. The magazine represents 16-25 year olds interested in various music genres and festivals. Bauer Media would be suited to distribute the magazine given their experience with music magazines. The target audience was addressed through appealing images and stories about artists and music trends they follow. The process taught the student editing techniques and how to better design for their target using tools like Fireworks. Feedback from a preliminary task helped improve the final magazine.

1. MEDIA MAGAZINE EVALUATION

2. QUESTION 1
In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and convention of
real media?

3. ANSWER 1
The other pictures that are
placed on the front cover
I believe my music magazine challenges real media forms and conventions. advertise other stories which
The way my magazine looks, looks like a music magazine through the use of might appeal to a wider
mise-en-scene and the colours and stories that have been incorporated into range of audience.
the magazine. I think the target audience I have set out to appeal to have
been attracted through my magazine and I believe it would be something you
would find in a news agents.
The magazine has a
clear masthead so it
stands out and
My magazine uses a lot of different therefore the readers
media techniques to entice the would be attracted to
readers into buying my magazine as the magazine.
they would be interested in the look
of the magazine and too see what
would be enclosed inside. The flashes down the left
hand side of my
magazine show the other
stories which again would
entice the readers into
picking up the magazine.
The magazine also used Competitions might appeal to more people as
the rule of third. they would be interested in what they could win.

4. QUESTION 2
How does your media product
represent a particular social group?

5. ANSWER 2
My media magazine represents social groups who would be interested
in listening to music and are interested in learning more about
different types of music. The music that is represented in my
magazine is music which would appeal more to people who are up to
date with the music world and what the current music trend it. The
would also have to be interested in my magazines type of music
(indie/pop) as this is the majority of music enclosed inside.
The social group would be able to find out more about the
music world and what music is the current “must have” through
the use of the top 10 musical charts that I placed inside my
magazine. The audience would be able to try out new music
from the list inside and this might be able to change their minds
to music they hadn’t listened to before.
The festivals and concerts would appeal to people who attend a lot
of them in the year and who are interested in finding out who’s on
and what’s the latest festival to go to.

6. QUESTION 3
What kind of institution might distribute
your media product and why?

7. ANSWER 3
The type of media institution I think would be interested in distributing my media
magazine would be one which has been linked to the music world through other
magazines that have been able to sell to the target audience im trying to appeal to. I
think it would benefit both the magazine and the institution as the magazine would be
advertised in a way it would entice new readers in to buying it and therefor the
product would be more successful.
I think the institution which would best distribute my magazine would be Bauer
media. They have a great portfolio of magazines which have had a major
success in the grabbing the attention of their target audience. They have also
had previous experience in distributing music magazines. Their experience
would benefit my magazine because it would be distributed in a way that it
would target my audience and I think they would be able to advertise it
alongside the magazines they have already distributed.

8. QUESTION 4
Who would be your target audience for your
media product?

9. ANSWER 4
I targeted my magazine to the audience of 16-25 year
olds who are interested in indie/pop magazine. I believe
I have been able to target the audience that I wanted to
through the use of the colours and stories which are
incorporated inside the magazine.
The different types of stories which have been added to my
magazine would appeal to the teenagers as they are something
they would enjoy reading. The festivals and concerts would
attract more music audiences also there are other stories like
the embarrassing ones which would attract a wide range of
audiences but would still be in the age range of 16-25.
The target audience would be very much up to date with all
the new music trends and would be interested in learning
about new music which they might not have listened to in
the past but are interested and keen in listening to different
types.

10. QUESTION 5
How did you attract/address your audience?

11. ANSWER 5
The way in which I attracted my target audience was through the
clever use of my colours and imagery to entice the readers into
picking up the magazine and looking at it.
The bright bold colours stand out from the rest of the magazine.
The writing is bold and the titles of the other stories inside are in
bigger bolder writing and therefore stand out a lot more. They
would attract my target audience as they are something they
would enjoy reading.
The use of my
pictures again would
The flashes down the left hand side of the appeal to my
magazine front cover advertise some of the readers as they are
other stories which my target audience might of artist (Bruno
be interested in reading. They also use the rule mars) who they
of third and therefore while the magazine is sat would be interested
on the shelf people will be able to clearly see in listening to and
them and this would attract more readers, as would be interested
they would grab their attention. in seeing what the
story was that
matched the photo.

12. QUESTION 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?

13. ANSWER 6
I have learnt a lot through the process of For my masthead I used fireworks to produce the writing.
doing my magazine. I learnt different I think it stand out and looks professional and its not over
programs to use for different editing powering. The red first letter is something people will
techniques I learnt how to target my remember and look out for when buying the magazine
audience through the use of certain
programs and the way I edited everything
on my magazine.
The main image of my
magazine did have a
background on it off a plain
white wall. However when I
added an effect on to the
I tried out many different fonts and photo the wall turned a
sizes of writing and different colours yellow colour which made
and therefore I made a positive choice the magazine look less sleek
of fonts and colours to use for my and professional. I took the
magazine to target the target audience. background off the photo
and placed the photo on the
plain page with no
background on it.

14. QUESTION 7
Looking back at your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?

15. ANSWER 7
From finishing my preliminary task and finishing my music
magazine I feel I have improved dramatically. I think the
techniques I used in this magazine compared to the techniques I
used in my practice magazine have improved which allowed my
music magazine too look more professional and sleeker looking.
The photos I edited in my prelim task were not as creative and
didn’t really sit well on the page. The feedback I got from this
magazine was that it could have easily be improved however it
was pretty much the whole front cover that people didn’t really
like. However now I have finished my music magazine people
who previously didn’t like my fashion magazine cover said how
they liked my music magazine front cover contents page and
double page spread.
The programs I used to edit my magazine and the specific things
inside the magazine were the same as my preliminary task. The fact my
magazine looks better this time around is because I have familiarised
myself with the programs so I know how to use them a little more
then I did in the practice task. I think the preliminary task helped me
to improve on my magazine because I could see where I went wrong
and what I needed to change I order to make my magazine the best it
could be.

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