This document summarizes feedback received on a music magazine project. Five people provided positive and negative feedback on the front cover, contents page, and double page spread. Positives included the front cover looking professional and well organized, and the contents page catching the eye. Negatives included the double page spread needing more professionalism and the contents page having too many images and information. Overall, the feedback highlighted how well presented and professional most of the magazine looked while providing suggestions on areas for improvement.

1. BY NORIK LALA

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real music magazines?
Similarities Differences
Masthead Masthead
•My mast head is a typical masthead which includes the font being big and bold. The reason for this is •The differences between my magazine and real magazines could be that there is a different font
because I want the audience to draw attention to the name as soon as they see my magazine. I don’t selected, also a different colour and size.
want the audience to only pay attention to the masthead so what I did was put it behind the main • The masthead could look positioned in a better place in a real magazine and look more
image, what this would do is draw attention of the audience to the main imagine. professional
• My masthead is right at the top of the magazine as most magazines have it at the top. I also laid it
there because it looks more professional and organised.
Image
• The reason why I picked the colour burgundy is because it goes really well with the background. • The imagine of a real magazine will be in a professional location, this would
Another reason why I picked this colour is because its the same colour as the writing on the boy’s automatically make the magazine look better.
jumper. • The pictures were taken with a professional camera with professional
lighting, this would add more effect in the imagine and look more professional
Image
•My main imagine is presented as the main person/DJ/singer of this music magazine. You can tell this Side headings
because the size of the picture is really big and the magazines masthead and sidelines are presented
• Different fonts which look more professional
around the main imagine which shows its focused on him/her.
• Different colours
• Looks more professional
Side headings
• The side headings are filled with the top stories Contents page
• Framing the imagine, what this does is show the audience that the main story is the main image.
•More professional images
• Spaced out in a column and its quiet close to another. This will add a better look and look more
• Better font
professional
• Looks more organised
• The typical colours for a music magazine are Red, Black and White.
Contents page Barcode
•Mine is placed on the left not the right, most magazine have there barcodes
• More images than a magazine on the right hand side of their magazine
• Smaller images with one reference- A image that stands out.
• Captions
• List of articles- Vertical structure
• Page numbers always on the left.
Barcode
•Date on the right corner
• Price either at the top or
near the barcode

3. Bold and effective masthead
to make sure everyone draws
attention onto the magazine
name.
My Music Magazine Professional Music Magazine
Strap line to
give a rough
idea of what
the magazine
concludes.
Main cover line.
Both about the main
artist to tell the
reader who its
about.
Main image of the
main artist giving direct
mode of address to
gain attention from the
readers and also gives
a idea who its about.
Side headlines to
show what artists
are in the magazine
and information on
them.
The side headings framing
the main image, and
perfectly spaced out. Tis
makes it look professional
Barcode both on the left side
rather then the typical
magazines where its placed
on the right side.

4. Contents page in bold to
show the reader exactly
My Content Page what it is
Professional Content Page
Date of when its being
released
A big image of the main
artist/artists.
The features both placed
on the left side and
really well spaced out
near the main images.
Used more than one
image to attract the
readers eyes on other
things featured in the
magazine
Page number on the
pictures to show the
reader what page you
can find the main
story's.
Topic for each story

5. Bold Headline/Question to draw
attention of the reader
My Double Page Spread Professional Double Page Spread
Questions and answers
all written in a small
spaced out column to
look professional.
A small introduction
about the main artist/ a
small quote said by the
artist.
The main image
attracts the readers
eye to show that
the artist being
interviewed is the
person in the
picture.
Page number on
each side as it’s a
article.
The magazine
name.

6. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
• My media product represent teenagers and young
adults who listen to ‘House Music’.
• My front cover, contents page and double page
spread all represent what ‘House Music’ is all about.
• The way my magazine represents teenagers and
young adults is the choices I made with the images,
colours, font and the way it has been laid out.

7. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
The reason why this
font was chosen was
because I felt it Young man to
represents ‘House represent a young age
Music’. group
Clothes follows the society
The bite of the wire young people wear.
represent the crazy
ness of the genre
‘House Music’, but also
what teenagers are A reasonable price for
about. Teenagers and Young
adults to buy.
Included countries
The use of different
which most young
colours to represent
teenagers & adults like
‘House Music’ in a
to party
crazy way.

8. Font used to represent
‘House Music’
Colourful images with
the theme of ‘House
Music’
The colour blue which
represents ‘House
music’
Young people on the DJ
Simple with not much set which shows that it’s
writing, mainly focused a magazine for young
on the images which is teenagers & Adults
what young people like
to see.

9. A ‘Erupting’ font to show
what ‘House music’ is
about
Again a crazy picture of
a young man doing what
crazy ‘House Music’
people love doing.
The choice of ‘Black, red’
colours all used in this
article. This represents
young people.
A cheeky and crazy
phrase to represent
teenagers and young
adults.

10. What kind of media institution might distribute your
media product and why?
The following institutions are most likely to distribute my product:
• Social networking websites for example; Facebook & Twitter
• Music stores such as HMV
• You tube
• Newsagents & Convenient stores
• Gigs & Festivals
• Digital publishing.
The reason why I believe that Social networking websites such as Face book & Twitter will institute my
product is because a lot of people use these social websites, and all you have to do is press ‘Share’ for
millions of people to see your product. The reason why I have chosen HMV as a example is because HMV
is one of a few stores that relate their store to music and they are most likely to distribute my product.
You tube is another networking website but a website that distribute video’s, and I feel that they could
distribute my product so millions of people could see it. Gigs & Festivals are also a really good way to
distribute my product as that’s where a lot of young people like to socialise. Digital publishing is another
way to distribute my product as you can find a lot of magazines online.

11. Who would be the audience for your media
product?
• Question 2 explains why my magazine meets my target audience, but what I’m
going to explain now is who my target audience exactly is. My target audience for
my magazine is young teenagers and young adults, preferably ages from 16-24.
Both male and female. The reason why I have chosen this target audience is
because I feel that ‘House Music’ is a type of music that generally only young
people listen to as it’s music which is played in clubs a lot which is what teenagers
and young adults like doing. I’ve also targeted my magazine to both genders as it
gains a wider audience.
• I decided to do my Magazine on house music as I personally like house music but
the main reason why I did it is because I’m a young teenager so it was easier for
me to design a magazine and relate to my target audience. I did my research and
found that there isn’t much House Music magazines, but also saw that more young
teenagers and young adults read music magazines such as Rap, R & B and so on..
So what I thought was to do something different for the target audience to focus
on.

12. How did You attract/Address your audience.
A main image to grab my The colour scheme I have used
audiences attention. All images also addresses my target audience
are of young teenagers which is as I used bright and dark colours
my target audience. Also the which represent ‘House Music’.
clothes in which the artist is I have used conventions in order
wearing in my images are the to attract my audience. For
clothes that young people wear example my layout. The fonts I
have used are also conventional
and are bold to attract the
audiences attention

13. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
• Through out this project I have learnt new skills, new technologies and how to use
new software which I have previously never used. I have learnt about blogger and
how to upload my work to keep me and the examiners updated, I have also learnt
how to use Photoshop. What I have gained from Photoshop are many skills, for
example; Editing photo’s which could become useful for me in the future, using
the magic wand tool and many more. I’ve also learned how to use a website which
gave me all types of fonts ‘Dafont.com’. I used ‘Scribd’ which is a website where
you upload work, but also learnt how to use ‘Drop box’ which is a similar thing.
• As well as learning how to edit pictures, using new programs has given me
knowledge on how construct a magazine. Looking at existing products
helped with this and I feel confident that in the future I would be able to
create another magazines from the skill and knowledge I have gained.

14. What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from your preliminary
task to the full product?
• Looking back at my preliminary product, I feel that my preliminary product has
helped me in many ways when creating my final product. One major factor that
helped me with my preliminary product was planning my time, for example when
organising when to take my pictures to allow enough time to edit them. However I
had difficulty in some of the images and the way I had to edit them as they were
either hard to crop out or go into my background. I feel that if I had taken into
account the background of the images I was taking, I would have been able to take
more unique shots through out my product.
• Although my preliminary product helped me with the planning of my time, I have
had to also learn new things which weren't covered in the preliminary products.
For example when we had to create our school magazine we didn’t know much
about Photoshop, and had limited things to use where as my music magazine I
gathered new skills and knowledge on how to use Photoshop and was also able to
be a lot more creative.
• Overall I feel I have improved significantly since my preliminary product and have
created a much more professional and creative product with the knowledge, skill
and experience I have gained.

15. FEEDBACK
I asked a few people to go on my blogger and give me feed back on all my Magazine. This includes the Front
cover, The contents page and the Double page spread. I asked 5 people to give me a positive thing about
my magazine and a negative
Albion- ‘’ Norik’s magazine is really well presented and looks really professional. The front cover looks the
most professional as it looks really organised, the contents page really caught my eye and It really looks
like a house music magazine. What I feel Norik should improve is his double page spread and make it a bit
more professional. Other then that I feel Norik’s magazine is very well presented and looks very
professional’’
Shqipe- ‘’ The main image on the front cover is suitable and goes well with the Headline/Genre. It looks
really professional and well presented. I feel that the contents page has too many images and information
and should be condensed’’
Jazmin- ‘’ The way the front cover, contents page and double page spread has been layed out is really well
presented, eye catching and looks really professional. What you could improve is not having to many
images on the contents page, other then that I feel it’s a really good and presented magazine’’