How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My magazine has no real stereotype of which people would be best suited to read it. However due to the nature and subject of the magazine, it would target social groups who would be interested in listening to music and perhaps aspiring to be a musician. I represented the target audience by using a relateble model of a similar age who could be seen as a role model to the readers.
What kinds of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for my music magazine would be teenagers to young adults who I found through a detailed questionnaire to be interested in modern day music and a range of artists - most commonly the music in the charts. I used a model of the same age group to represent and appeal to the target audience. The colours I used on the media product attracts both males and females, and the layout is simple - not to busy so as not to intimidate people.
How did you attract/address your audience?
I attracted my audience by using a model from the same age group as my target audience and the bright colours on the front cover would also catch peoples eyes and make them pick up the magazine.I used a variety of codes from real life 'indie rock' music magazine. so i chose typical colours; white green and red, then i colour matched it with the pictures I took as well to match it up and make my music magazine realistic.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt how to use Photoshop to cut and crop photos and to make them look more effective by making the colours brighter, covering and blurring any imperfections and all in all creating a more professional look to the photos. I have also learnt how to use blogger.com to create my blog, and display every element of producing the final media product. I was able to upload pictures and edit posts. At times I found this programme quite hard to use particularly when moving images around, however after plenty of practice I feel that I managed to use blogger.com to its fullest potential.
Looking at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final product?
When I look back at my preliminary task I feel that my media knowledge and computer skills have increased considerably. I have gained insight into the process of developing a media product and now have a better understanding on the research, planning and construction of a magazine. I have also learnt about the kind of things that are generic to a magazine, meaning that I now know what to include and how to lay it out and which colours appeal to certain demographics and most importantly how to differentiate between an upscale, admired magazine and a cheap, tacky magazine; which regrettably was the embodiment of my preliminary task.
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