In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
How does your media group represent particular social Groups?
http://www.slideshare.net/AlexMajor/how-does-your-media-product-represent-particular-social-groups-16337257
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The company I think should
publish my magazine is “Future” because Future has a lot of magazines to do
with Technology, Entertainment & Video Games, Sport, Music and Creative
artistic magazines. They are famous for combining award-winning editorials with
outstanding design; I like this aspect of future because a good editorial means
that, they care about their audience and costumers. Also they have magazines on
music and technology so they have experience in creating the kind of style that
they know sells and what doesn’t.
Furthermore Future doesn’t have a magazine like mine, because mine is
about rock music, rock artists, improving people’s instrumental skills, musical
technology/gear and gig/album reviews. And for this reason, I think that future
will be able to reach out to a wide audience from just my magazine, yes future
has whole magazines on just technology and music but mine will be able to bundle
these two together and appeal to a bigger audience across just one magazine pleasing
more of the majority of futures audience but my magazine is age ranged to 16 to
22.
Who would be the audience for your media product/How did you attract/address your audience?
The target audience for my
product is 16-22 year olds and is aimed at 60% towards boys and 40% towards girls
because my magazine has a large amount of technical language about instruments
and musical equipment. And because most artists that use a lot of this
equipment are male dominated I make it more appealing for the male audience but
not too much so that I put the girls off the magazine, which is why I kept the
colour scheme simple and with no stereotypical colour like a lot of pink or
blue, I chose red to be my main colour that way it applies to both sexes. The
reason why I have chosen the age range 16 to 22 is, because the 16-year-old
girls will buy the magazine mostly for the big band articles and also the images
of rock stars and the way they look. Whereas at the other end of the scale the
22 year old males will be mostly interested in the music equipment such as DJ
equipment and mixing decks etc. but that
does not mean that either age or sex doesn’t look at the others main interest
either because they do. Another reason I chose this age range is because that
the age range has the biggest population of people that listen to rock and
heavy rock music that also are interested in making their own music. Another
way I address my audience is through the magazine through things such as
competitions and physically asking the audience to contact the writers and tell
them what they want in the next issue or to vote in on a poll to settle a score
on something to see what the better product/song/album was.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
http://www.slideshare.net/AlexMajor/what-i-have-learnt-about-technologies-from-the-process-of-constructing-my-product-17017327
Looking back on your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
At the start of the course we made a magazine for six
formers, about future education, revision help etc my magazine had prom
pictures as the big article. For this I went to my girlfriends garden and took
pictures of her in her prom dress and used the best one for the front, as for
conventions on my magazine I only included a masthead, a main cover
line/selling line and two pugs/puffs. Also all of the fonts and the house style
isn’t creative, it doesn’t look very good, it’s boring to look at, there isn’t
a lot going on in it and last but not least it doesn’t look professional it
just looks like a picture with words on it, it doesn’t look like a magazine font
cover.
Whereas my front cover for my product is very different to
the prelim task because it has a lot more conventions of a magazine on it such
as a slogan, barcode, captions, banner, competitions, issue number, price,
colour scheme and a house style. Also my front cover actually looks more like a
magazine front cover because it looks more professional, it doesn’t look like a
picture with words on it. That’s one of biggest things I’ve learnt from the
prelim task, I used to look at my prelim task a lot when I was making to see
what I did wrong on it so I avoided it on my real cover. When I was using the
prelim cover to help me make my real cover I used it to help with the structure
and layout of it a lot because I didn’t do that brilliantly on my prelim
either.
Another thing I have progressed and learned from my prelim
was my photography skills even from my good photos I evaluated I still don’t
think there that good apart from the photo I used on my prelim cover because I
like the mise en scene on it, but looking back on them they all just look a bit
rubbish, a bit amateur it’s like I didn’t really know what I was doing I just
turned the camera on and took some photos. But when it came to my real photos I
thought about how bad my photos were and I learned about ISO, shutter speed and
aperture in hope that they would look better and I personally think all of my
photos throughout my magazine aren’t bad the only problem is the front cover
and that my sisters eyes aren’t looking straight at the camera because that
breaks a code in music magazines but the reason I did that is because I wanted
it to look as if she knew she was in trouble and that she was looking to see if
someone is looking for her. And that photo proves how much I’ve learnt about
photos because when I took my first ones I didn’t even think about what or
where I was taking them, I actually thought about what I wanted every little
bit in the photo to look like and what lighting it needed.
