1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?
4 who would be the audience for your media product?
5. how did you attract/address your audience?
6.What have you learned about technologies from the process of contructing this product?
7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Research into The Music Magazine Market
Magazine title
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Genre of music
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Target audience
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Big cheese
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Punk, Metal, Rock
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16-21 year olds
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Black velvet
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Rock
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14-18 year olds
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The fly
|
Indie rock
|
16-21 year olds
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Hip Hop connection
|
Hip Hop
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18-21 year olds
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Metal hammer
|
Heavy metal, metal
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18-25 year olds
|
Mixmag
|
Dance and clubbing
|
16+ year olds
|
Mojo
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Classic rock
|
14+ year olds
|
New musical express
|
Rock
|
14+ year olds
|
Q
|
Rock
|
14+ year olds
|
Terrorizer
|
Goth, Death metal
|
18+ year olds
|
DJ magazine
|
Dance music
|
16+ year olds
|
Top of the pops
|
Pop music
|
14+ year olds
|
Uncut
|
Rock
|
15+ year olds
|
Kerrang
|
Rock, Metal
|
14+ year olds
|
IPC is a publishing house in the UK, they publish NME and Uncut.
Bauer is a company that allows you to advertise your magazine with, Mojo, Kerrang and Q are joined with Bauer.
Future Publishing is an international online publishing company, Metal hammer are published by these.
The Fly (free) : Channelfly Enterprises Ltd ; 108,827 ; 8.4% - Successful
Mojo : Bauer Consumer Media ; 85,149 ; -2.4% - Losing readers
Properganda (free) : Proper Music Distribution ; 76,339 ; 68.8% - Successful
Q : Bauer Consumer Media ; 64,596 ; -19.7% - Losing readers
Uncut : IPC Media Ltd ; 63,003 ; -4.5% Losing readers
The Stool Pigeon (free) : Junko Partners Publishing ; 54,588 ; N/A
Kerrang! : Bauer Consumer Media ; 40,203 ; -6.6% - Losing readers
New Musical Express : IPC Media Ltd ; 23,924 ; -17.6% - Losing readers
Rock Magazine
Pop music magazine for females and/or males
Heavy metal/gothic magazine
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Evaluation
Evaluation
My magazine cover conforms to the typical conventions of magazine design as i have tried to follow the conventions of other magazine covers. i have given it a masthead called 'College Life' within that i have included a skyline, offering a free voucher for the starbucks in the wicked, i have also included issue number, issue date and have included the barcode. I have got puffs, coverlines and a price in there. I have even introduced a website along with the facebook and twitter links.
My contents page conforms to the typical conventions of magazine design, i have created this using conventions such as, page numbers, images, sub headings, information, i forgot to include the page number of the contents page itself. i have put the date and issue number of the magazine in there again this time and bit bigger and bolder incase the audience missed it on the front cover. I have a feature article however i have not made it stand out above the articles which i shall introduce for the music magazine.
Young people in my magazine are portrayed as beings quite fashionable, as you can see from image of Aiden, they were also portrayed as being quite musical. the image of sam shows him holding a music theory book. The image of aiden is him playing the piano.
my final images are different from my sketches in the sense that it is a closer long shot than i originally planned, which is a good thing because i drew the image too far away from the what i would have liked it to look like on the image.
I have gone from knowing next to nothing at all about the technologies like photoshop and qwark to knowing how to edit the pictures, cutting them out, crating shapes, editing the fonts. on qwark i have learnt how to reduce the quality of images to fit them in the space that i needed to. and i have also learnt how to import. overall i have a much better understanding of these two programs and i will continue to learn until i need it for the music magazine.
My magazine cover conforms to the typical conventions of magazine design as i have tried to follow the conventions of other magazine covers. i have given it a masthead called 'College Life' within that i have included a skyline, offering a free voucher for the starbucks in the wicked, i have also included issue number, issue date and have included the barcode. I have got puffs, coverlines and a price in there. I have even introduced a website along with the facebook and twitter links.
My contents page conforms to the typical conventions of magazine design, i have created this using conventions such as, page numbers, images, sub headings, information, i forgot to include the page number of the contents page itself. i have put the date and issue number of the magazine in there again this time and bit bigger and bolder incase the audience missed it on the front cover. I have a feature article however i have not made it stand out above the articles which i shall introduce for the music magazine.
Young people in my magazine are portrayed as beings quite fashionable, as you can see from image of Aiden, they were also portrayed as being quite musical. the image of sam shows him holding a music theory book. The image of aiden is him playing the piano.
my final images are different from my sketches in the sense that it is a closer long shot than i originally planned, which is a good thing because i drew the image too far away from the what i would have liked it to look like on the image.
I have gone from knowing next to nothing at all about the technologies like photoshop and qwark to knowing how to edit the pictures, cutting them out, crating shapes, editing the fonts. on qwark i have learnt how to reduce the quality of images to fit them in the space that i needed to. and i have also learnt how to import. overall i have a much better understanding of these two programs and i will continue to learn until i need it for the music magazine.
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
My cover and contents sketch and planning notes
The Masthead of my magazine cover is the title of my magazine which is called 'College Life'. The magazine will be about the what is going on in the life of college and will show what is going on in college. I have used cover lines that are going to tell the reader what they can find inside of the magazine itself and what it has to offer. This will hopefully draw the readers attention.
I am going to lay out my contents page in order with similar topics, the page number this way may not be in order however it will be easier to find a certain article you may be looking for if you look for the article.
The feature article will have a larger image than the rest of the images because it is the main article to try to attract the readers attention. i will have the issue date, number and the page number in the contents page. i will also give basic detail of what will be shown on each page on each topic that the reader may want to read just a bit of a taster for them.
Monday, 8 October 2012
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