Evaluation Of music magazine

In what ways dose your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convention of real media products?

The Genre of my magazine is a pop/indie music this means it genre specific in some aspects. I believe writing convection i used would be typical to my magazine genre as it is very unformal as it sounds like it is been spoken like off the radio. I haven't challenged any convection's. My magazine is hybrid as its a cross between and radio magazine and "Smash Hit" and "Q" this has effected to the lay out of the magazine you can tell this by its clean cut image with a blue fading to white black ground with quite modern texts The layout like "blazer".

How dose your media product present particular social groups?

My magazine is for people who listen to "kiss radio" therefore i focused on a band that they would be interested in. I did this by using different shots with different types of body languages, this is clear with my photography. by the girl on the front cover looking at "you" this helps to show a particle group of people whom would listen to kiss radio Who are sweet and cute.

The positive representation confirm the uses and gratification theory of audience consumption. Readers are going to enjoy the magazine because of there own values and lifestyle this reflects in there attitudes. This in turned helps me to target my audience and helping with profited and advertisement.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media products and why?

After researching many different institution for my magazine i believe that larger publishing houses in the business-to business as well as consumer sectors will be looking at increasingly dominant, whereas, weaker titles will wither under the strain of the downturn over the next year.

This information suggests that my magazine is going to be publish,by a bigger company like "Bauer"as they are the biggest publisher in Britain, and they are also the people who produce the radio station "Kiss" as my magazine is for "kiss" radio it would be better for it to be published by the same people. This is more reason to go with this larger publisher.

Who would be the audience for your media product?
My magazine targets a wide audience

Demographically 15 - early 50's years old a male and female spilt national audience.

lifestyle subset is it is for people who are in to kiss radio the pop/indie music. therefore i did focus on the Kiss radio to extend this i used real life quotes from the radio station and a list of things which would be apatite for that radio station like the photographs and having fun,cute body gestures. On the front cover the character is looking very sweet as well as looking in the audience eyes as if she is looking at you this links to a particle group with in society as she looking at "you" the double page spread is much the same.

How did you attract/address your audience?

The langauge im my magazine is very unformal as its ment to sound like it is being spoken like on the radio therefore making is accessible to my audienc.The layout of the magazine is very basic in skill but very styless i havnt put my texts in a fliped L shape on the front cover as i helps to move the eye around the front cover and get rid of white space.The colour schem played imporanted part to my magazine as it helps the main images to standed out more. The feature aritcal in my magazine are a new up coming group call the pick-ups which are my double page spread as well as the winning of pink tickets as it used for avitisement like "free posters".

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

The construction of my product took a lot of planning ,and was very demanding at times,i used Photo shop whiles making my final products. Whilst using Photo shop my skill developed over time as i began to understand more about this program and which tools suited what job you were doing the best. I also started to began to edited my own photos , by playing with the lighting and colouring in part of the image too. My lighting I'm my images wasn't dull but i unhatched them to give them more of a profrssonl look to make them more suited to my magazine. props wasn't vital in my magazine so there isn't any. Photography was a very important part of my magazine as it helped to illustrate certain events in my magazine getting them to not looked stretched was the biggest problem for me as they looked out of proportion.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

My preliminary task was to construct a college magazine front cover and contents page. This magazine was called "Enorf Weekly" and i decided to go from a college basic look by using are college logo colour which are bright oranges,whites and blue, And placing my mid close up of a young creative girl doing her art work, in the left hand side heading in to the cent of the page.My contents included one more image that illustrate the work side of college life of one person in the common room reading up on his notes.

Compared to my music magazine, my preliminary task is very basic and very straightforward to make. I have learnt a lot by using this advanced program like this(Photo shop), photography both helped to widen and receive a greater depth in my full product. An advantage of the college magazine was that we only had to do a front cover and contents page, were as in the music one we had to make a front cover contents page and double page spread. This wasn't too much of a problem as we had a bit longer on are main task then we did on a primary.

i believe that the strongest point of my music magazine is that it is that it has a well achieved radio station that will help it sell this magazine as i linked my magazine with "Kiss FM" so there fore used there mainstream high achieved style for my magazine so there for it would be linked, as well as the high gloss design of the magazine. However it is more like "smash hits" and "blazer" in genera and style but amine at a winder audience- with a well lay ed out and a frailly professional look.