Music Magazine

I have used thinglink to add extra notes onto my pictures for my specific research  image manipulation and creation. Unfortunately, this may not be available to view at school so please take note of that.

Evaluation Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Evaluation Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Below is a short video I have created of my discussing how my media product attracted/addressed my audience:

 Unique Selling Points

1. Competition for tickets to see Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club are a popular band with my target audience, so by having a competition to win tickets to see them, my target audience would be attracted to my magazine as it would offer them a chance to see them.

2. My Model
After researching into indie/alternative models, I decided that my model is most suited to my target audience due to certain features of her and how she was styled. I found that most indie/alternative models had long, dark hair like my model and this is why I chose to use her. Then for my model's make-up, I based it on my research which was the the make-up not being too extreme and an eye-catching coloured lipstick. The model's outfits were very bright and unique so that they are able to catch the reader's attention and draw them in.

3. Colour Scheme/Theme
I chose to stick to a clear colour scheme of red, white and black for my magazine. After researching into magazine covers, I found that these were the three colours that appeared the most and so I decided to combine all of these colours to be used on my magazine. These colours are the ones which suit my target audience the most as well and are therefore suited to my magazine. I think this also adds an air of chicness and professionalism to my magazine. 

Evaluation Q4: Who would be the target audience of your media product?

Below is a video which I have made on Windows Movie Maker in order to show the target audience of my media product:

Evaluation Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?

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After researching these two publishing companies, I have decided that it would be best for BAUER MEDIA to distribute my magazine. Since the company distributes a number of music magazines, most of which are of the rock genre which mainly give off a male vibe, I feel that my magazine being of the Indie/Alternative genre would be able to sell successfully as there are no other indie magazine published by my company. I also feel that because I have made my product a more female targeted, this magazine would help to sell my product as there is nothing like it published by Bauer Media.

Evaluation Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Evaluation Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In order to create my magazine, I used the forms and conventions of real media products so I was able to make a professional and authentic music magazine. In order to do this, I looked at many magazine and their features and chose which ones would suit my target audience more.

Magazine Title

This is the most important part of the magazine as it is the thing that first grabs the reader’s attention. I decided to use the concept of ‘Q’ and ‘NME’ magazines titles and develop it into my own. I decided to use the element on the ‘Q’ title of the single letter with the bright background and a slogan underneath to sum-up the magazine. I think this would be more suited to my target audience as it would be the most eye-catching to them. I chose to name my magazine ‘M’ to stand for Music and for this; I decided to base it on the ‘M’ from the ‘NME’ title. However, I altered this slightly as I chose not to outline the ‘M’ as I thought this would be too much with the red background. I also decided to not have such a bright colour as the background as the ‘Q’ title does.

I think that my magazine title suits my target audience of the indie/alternative genre and

Magazine Pictures

I chose to use a female model for my magazine as I think this would appeal to my target audience of females of the Indie style aged 15+. I first researched into how Indie models are styled (what outfits they wear, how their hair and make-up is styled). I then used elements of each of these pictures and used to them to create my final pictures:

Front Cover

I used aspects from other front covers that I researched in order to make my front cover attractive to my target audience.

Contents Page

I chose very specific contents pages for me to create my contents page and took aspects from these contents pages in order to create my own:

 

 

 

Double Page Spread

Again, I researched DPS and used aspects from them in order to create my media product: