2. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
I used key conventions of magazines within my front cover by using a
masthead; cover lines, a main image and the house style that I had
created for my own music magazine. I also included a barcode to add
the realistic to my front cover. Within my contents page, I included
images; I put the page numbers before the page headlines that I found
was the way of magazines in my research. I also put page numbers and
taglines on my chosen images as I had seen similar techniques within
my researched magazines. Furthermore, in my page numbers, I
categorised the articles to make the contents easy to read and access.
Finally, for my double page spread I used the typical layout of one page
being used for the main and the second page containing the text,
which in my case was part of my interview. I also used glamorous
images of my “artist” to be in keeping with the general feel of music
magazines and young girls’ magazines. I challenged forms of media
products by incorporating gossip within a music magazine which is not
usually the case with current magazines on the market.
3. Front Cover Title relevant to genre
of music and catchy,
memorable.
Masthead
Main Image – Direct Mode
“Exclusive” – Makes of Address
audience feel as though
they get to know the Buzz words:
gossip before everyone Exclusive
else.
Girly Colours to target
Highlighted key words my female audience
Include articles
with boy bands to Barcode
attracts audience
Date, Issue Number,
Competition for tickets Price and Website of
to a popular artist is an Magazine
incentive
4. Contents Page
House style continued
Page number –
magazine convention
Categorised articles in
Popular pages categories of relevance
highlighted to
draw attention Page number before the
Gossip articles page title – Generic
included and magazine convention
highlighted
Colours are
coordinated and
in keeping with
Popular music the house style
programme to
entice readers
Generic magazine convention that I found was
present In the magazines that I researched
5. Double Page Article
House - Style Quotes –
Generic
Big letter at Magazine
beginning Conventions
– Generic
magazine
convention Different
styles of
Main image,
image is appear to
large, eye have had
catching full photo
and shoot
glamorous
Large quote to entice readers Columns – Magazine Page numbers with title and
and is eye - catching Convention date – Generic Convention
7. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
My magazine represents the social group of
teenage – young adult girls by using the
stereotypical colours of pink and purple. These
connotations connote femininity clearly and I think
this is also a device for attracting my target
audience. I also used the idea of young girls being
big fans of boy bands and included articles such as,
JLS talk girls. I aimed to make the magazine appear
glamorous and well presented which represents the
young female population who are seen to care
about the appearance.
9. What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
I think my magazine would be distributed by IPC
Media who distribute current magazines such as
“NME”. The fact that they are a very large media
institution would mean that my magazine has a
much better chance of becoming successful. I
understand that such a large institution already has
a great number of music magazines but my
magazine appeals to a different audience to the
current ones. Unlike NME, my magazine is aimed at
young girls and the magazine is focused more on
the charts and mainstream pop music.
11. Who would be the audience for your media product?
My audience would be 16-21 females but may
appeal to the younger audience of 14 year olds
if they choose. The target audience for my
magazine are likely to be either at college or
starting work and I have tried to fit the price to
this lifestyle. Within my audience research, I
found that my target audience would be willing
to pay £2. Also, my target audience are the
young females that are interested in gossip and
fashion.
14. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
I have learnt the most about using In-Design and I found
it very useful learning how to use software that I haven’t
used before. I think it has broadened my IT abilities and
I’m sure I will use In-Design again in the future as I have
enjoyed using it and find it very easy to navigate around.
It also produces good work and is the perfect software
when creating such documents as the magazine pages.
Being introduced to Blogger and Survey Monkey were
also very useful as I wasn’t aware of them before this
project. I have enjoyed using both websites and I think
they worked very well for their purpose. I’m sure I will
use both of these websites in the future also.
16. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel that I have a much better understanding of
different software now such as InDesign. I found
InDesign wasn’t as useful for my preliminary task as
it was for my main task and I think this is because I
have a better understanding of the software and
how it works. I also think I used the tools within
InDesign to create much more aesthetically pleasing
magazine pages. I have also widened my website
varieties by using Survey Monkey and increasing my
use of Blogger.
