1. 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
The heading of the
magazine ‘BOOMZ’ also
has a role in the challenge
of the magazine looking
real, as when the
audience think of BOOM
they imagine a sound or a
base which links to music
or instruments.
As i have named the artist ‘RoRo’ it relates
to a nick name for the artist which is easy
for the public to remember and gives out
an indicated of my target audience and
the genre of the magazine. Also looking at
real magazines the artists name stands
out the most which is why i have done
the name in a different colour to my
magazine theme.
My front cover of my music magazine
illustrates the genre of the magazine, as Also having the barcode on the front page
it clearly indicates what is it about as as a real magazine does, helps to make it
you can see on the front it says that look like a real magazine.
you can get a free album track which
indicates that it is a music magazine

2. 2: How does your product represent particular social groups?
My magazine clearly represents urban music. My front cover clearly indicates this through the photo which she is wearing modern
clothing, has he hair half shaved and also has tattoo’s on her arms which shows her modern style and urban sense. In addition her pose
of the picture is very casual but looks the point as she is attractive which also links to the music as it is simple but the truth.
Having the background with brick walls connotes that the magazine is very street and relates to people who are interested in hip-hop
rap or r&b.
My double page spread also gives a interview of the artist and she reply’s in not so formal English which also connotes the way they
speak and who the magazine relates to.

3. 3: what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
IPC is one of the largest magazine publishers in EMAP is a large magazine publisher, though it
England, it targets everyone, including males mainly focuses on publishing magazines for
and females and a variety of age groups. IPC business to other business companies which
has over 20 million customers and is a has a disadvantage to my music magazine. This
company with the largest membership. It is a company is also large however IPC is a more
very successful company and sells a lot of successful publishing company and would help
magazines, E.g. NME. my magazine more.
I prefer IPC to publish my magazine as it
appeals to everyone and has a large variety of
people which it targets considering there high
number of membership. In addition by using
IPC to publish my magazine it would be easier
to distribute for the reason that they have a
large number of viewers.

4. 4: who would be the audience for your media product?
the audience i would target my media product to would be people who listen to urban music, urban music is a
very popular genre of music to teenagers, so my media product would be aimed at teenagers / young adults
who listen to urban / hip-hop music, i think my magazine could be targeted at both males and females but
predominately females and this is outlined by the main image, font and texts I've included in my magazine
however i have used things to attract male consumers e.g. the theme that is used is aqua blue, white and black
which are mainly colours worn and liked by predominately males rather than females. Males who would be
interested in purchasing my magazine would most likely have short hair, cornrows , wear baggy jeans and
always have their swagger on point (matching colours). Females would most likely have wear shorts, tight tops
and skirts, and revealing cloths. The people interested in my magazine would most likely enjoy going to
raves/parties, listening to loud meaningful music, and other up to date things. The music channels they would
most likely watch would be MTV, mainly i believe they would listen to MTV so I looked up magazines such as
Vibe, XXL or NME and tried to base my magazine like there's, i did not copy the layout but wanted my magazine
to attract a similar audience and create a similar magazine dedicated to a similar genre of music. My target
audience would most likely listen to people such as, Drake, Rihanna, Beyonce, Jayz, Snoop Dog, R Kelly, Ciara,
Rita Ora, Llyod Banks, Dr Dre, 2Pac, J.Cole, Lil Wayne and many more.

5. 5: how did you attract / address your audience?
The cover page of my magazine has a large image of a young girl to attract the age range of my audience which is teenagers rather than elder people, it
attracts young people because they can relate to her. The magazine title is in large font so it is clear what the name of the magazine is ‘Boomz’ and the
website is written in underneath the title so it is easily found by the reader. I’ve used many different font sizes and styles on the front cover so that the
magazine looks exiting rather than dull and illustrate attention to my audience. As I’ve written on the cover really short but catchy story’s so that when
reading the front cover you get a quick idea of what the magazine consists of inside rather that going into detail about it.
The magazine is mainly hip hop and urban focused therefore the contents page is designed to attract the younger generation rather than the older as it’s
focused on hip hop. The colour black for the font is destined to that it stands out against the white background therefore draws the reads attention to the
title as it stands out and is easily read as its in a large font. The contents page doesn’t feature much writing and is designed to be quite basic to keep the
reader’s attention. The contents page only has four articles therefore the readers have to read more into the magazine to find out more therefore doesn’t
spoil the rest of the magazine for the audience, The background is quite simplistic as its just three plain colours white, black and blue which fits in with the
text themes as all the text is either white or black therefore it contrasts with the colour. The main image is large to attract my audience’s attention and have
them feel more involved with the magazine.
My magazine could also be a product which can teach and influence young adults in the media industry e.g as they have updates to an artist that they look
up too, so that help the young adults to follow someone who is achieving and is very successful, also for young women there is a lot on fashion as you
could see that front page image indicates a young stylish woman, which is dressed very modern any young women could be influenced on the
fashion media.
My magazine could be used by many different education centres such as high school, music and dance school, also youth clubs, academy school, which the
teachers or trainers could use by showing the classes on new musical updates how even artists have there hard times in life but manage to keep
going as they have a career or something to achieve in the future, and this help young adults who are having a hard time to learn and see that even
very successful people have there bad time but manage to keep going and this could be used in youth clubs.

6. Sound cloud Blogger Slide share
This was an online program that
allowed me to embed my Using blogger was very useful for the task I This was useful to upload a PowerPoint
recordings for my vox pops. I was set. It allowed me to upload my work presentations onto my blogger, you select
learnt how to use this and keep them safe in all one account and which presentation you would like to upload
programme and copy the code if I wanted to change my work or edit or and then get a HTML number which you can
to put it onto my blog. This delete I had the chance to. It was useful paste on blogger and you presentation comes
helped me to transfer my work because everything is on pne page and I up. At first it was confusing to use but after I
onto my blogger without could see my work and also allowed other done it several times it became really helpful
loosing it or going through a people to see my work and comment.
long process.
6: what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this
product?
Photoshop
Photoshop was the main program I used to create Vox Pox Digital camera
my magazine because it allows me to edit the photos
I have taken in a way that no other programme does. Using vox pox helped me record I used this for taking pictures for my magazine
It was extremely useful in the development of my the questions I wanted to ask and take quality photos. Using a digital camera
music magazine because I was able to make my audience, it was very useful helped me because I could take clear pictures
everything perfect to how I wanted it laid out. because it was done quickly and and they could be stores onto the camera until I
For example my double page spread, I wanted I got through a number of saw them largely on a computer screen and
writing to go around my image but on the outline of people which helped me to edited them.
my main image, the tool that Photoshop had allowed improve my magazine with the I learnt the features that this camera has and
me to do this which gave the magazine a very clear responses they said how to get different effects for my photo’s.
effect.

7. 7: looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
From the beginning of creating my school magazine my knowledge For the production of my magazine i used the computer program
of Photoshop has increased considerably. For example I now know Photoshop. I had never used this program before so had to learn all the
how to make elements of my magazine stand out more by using basics before i could start production. I found using Photoshop very useful
stroke around my text. In addition to this, my selection of pictures because it has a lot of functions that allows you to manipulate and edit
has increased and the tools on Photoshop such as cutting the photos to a high standard. It also allowed me to add features, for example
picture out. My school magazine task was to understand how to use i embossed my title, whereas other programs do not have these additional
Photoshop and what to do whereas as my knowledge increased so features. Using photo shop gives my product a more professional look
did the quality of my magazine which now makes my music because i was able to use these features to make it look like any other
magazine look more professional and realistic. professionally made magazine.