Resit: Final Contents Page

Resit: Final Front Cover

Question 7: Looking back at the preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to a full product?

 

 

At the beginning of the year when I first did my preliminary task I had to create a front cover and contents page for a college magazine. It was very clear that i wasn't and expert at using photo even though I had used it before, but over time I learnt many useful tips and skills which have enabled me to produce final pieces for my music magazine. Personally I feel that I have learnt to use Photoshop in a more effective way for example if I was to use Photoshop now I would be able to know what tools to use and what tools to use and the outcome it will have on my work.

Furthermore as i progressed into making my music magazine i noticed that i had to produce a front cover,contents page and double page spread and i hadn't yet learnt how to because i only had to make a front cover and contents page for my preliminary task. So this was an opportunity for me to work on a different size canvas, in this case an A3 canvas.

By doing my preliminary task i learnt i had to conduct some research to find out what my target audience wanted and what i could do in order to attract them to read and buy my magazine ,but before hand i didn't know i had to do this because i didn't think it would have an effect on my magazine at the time.

Finally from doing my preliminary task i was able to use an extremely high quality camera (the canon E05 400D) and by using this camera I was capable of producing good high definition pictures to use for my magazine and also gain the knowledge of how cameras work for future references.

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

My music magazine is aimed at a teenage audience from the ages of 16 - 23 whom have an interest in hip hop. The reason for this is because most of the cover lines and stories in this magazine are in relation to young people because the artist featured in this magazine are young themselves. I chose to target a young which about the same age as me because I will be able to relate to them more and I would have a better idea of what it is the want. However if i decide to target an audience aged 30 - 45 I would have less to say and very little idea of what it is that they wanted because I wouldn't be able to  relate to that audience as much, and people that age may be less interested in music.

The audience would also preferably be people that love to stay up to date with the lastet and people who generally like to enjoy life on a whole .

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product & why?

Condé Nast is a company that distribute magazines like vogue, glamour, house& garden and brides. None of these genres in is relation to music so I think that Condé Nast will benefit from distributing my magazine as it will bring something new to the company and widen their target audience. If they get a bigger target audience this means that they will be making more money resulting in  an increase in  their profit margin allowing the publishing house to invest in other parts of the company for example the marketing and advertising section of the company or to even distribute other magazines like mine. This would be due to the introduction of my music magazine.

Condé Nast is all about culture, fashion, travelling and home, my magazine is about music, fashion and different culture the reason for this is because I wanted it to be aimed at a younger audience as that is the audience which isn't mainly focused on. Hip hop has a culture and fashion off its own so I believe that this publishing house would be the best company to publish and distribute my music magazine.
Finally Condé Nast will not be in competition with any other publishing house as they would already behead with their sells because of the more brood audience they have. Therefore not having to worry about competing with the other companies.

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The target audience which I was aiming to target was mostly teenagers and young adults between the ages of 16 - 23 with an interest in  hip pop/grime. I decided not to narrow down my audience by just making my magazine for males or just for females so ma magazine is aimed at both males and females. As i was trying to represent a specific social group in my magazine I tried to do this by the colour scheme which I used which was black mustard yellow and purple originally i wanted to go for a black and yellow colour scheme but as I wanted to challenge the media conventions I took the purple which was the colour of the hoodie my model was wearing, in order for the colours to stand out more and be more interactive  Another way I represented the particular social group in my music magazine was by the sort of image I took, which was a mid shot. The non verbal communication of the model denotes a passion because he is giving the camera strong eye contact for example is the 'vibe' magazine below we see Eminem looking directly at the camera and by doing this it make the image powerful as well as the him.

Furthermore the costume also represents social groups in this case the model is wearing a denim jacket and a hoodie this is quite a masculine look. Artist like Chris Brown and Jay z current hip hop artist in the music industry follow. The costume is different but has an edgy feel to it, it connotes a more modern hip pop artist.

Resit: Final Double Page Spread