front cover

contents page

double page spread

preliminary task

question 7

question 7

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

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 PRELIM FRONT COVER  

 in my first front cover my prelim i was using amateur fonts and editing skills from what i used in my main one. Since I first designed my prelim magazine front cover to my main magazine cover. I have learnt a huge variety of different editing skills. I have looked at a huge range of magazine that have had an input on to my final design of my main front cover. I mainly looked at magazines such as ‘NME’ as rock is the genre of my magazine. the back ground from my prelim is very odd and it makes my mistakes stand out, on my man photo it is a blurred view or the sea front on liverpool which i think looks very professional.   

questiion 6

question 6

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



I have used programmes such as: Blogger as It allows me to post the work that I have completed within the lesson online it also allows me to do work at home then post it on my blog for my teacher to see. I have used Photoshop whilst completing my magazine, will doing this I have learnt how to use a lot of different tools within the programme, the main tools that I have to used are the croop tool, adding text tool and also tools to add affects on my text.The equipment that I used will taking my photos where the camera to take the images for my front, content and double page spread images. I used a computer so I was able to add and edit my images on the programmes that I have said above.

question 5

question 5

• I have used a bold masthead so that it is clear and visible for people to be able to see on the shelf.
• I have used a clear colour scheme of grey, white and gold which i have used consistently throughout my magazine.
• I wrote exclusive underneath my main article headline this implies to the reader that they will be able to read things that they wouldn't know this overall makes them want to buy my magazine.
• i wrote my main headline in a much larger font size so that is clearly visible over any off the other writing on the front cover.
• i used a teenager as my main image as that is part of the audience who my magazine is aimed towards.

question 4

question 4

who would be the audience for your media product?

the age range for my magazine is mainly from 16 to 30 which is a large range. the magazine is a fair price. it is for both genders  the magazine is for people who mainly like chart music such as Arctic monkeys, jay-z, the game ect. you can see this because i mention them in contents and front cover so people no thats the audience i am looking for and thats whats inside.

question 3

question 3

what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

i would use companies like Bauer media and social websites to sell my magazine, Bauer media is the biggest owned publishing company in eurpoe. they are very respected, they own magazines such as kerrang and Que. which shows the quality and how high there up in media. using social feeds is good because the internet is very popular now and its free.

question 2

question 2

2.how does your media product represent particular social groups?

my magazine represents the music genre "hip hop/rock" and i have to show that right through out my magazine through the models and images i have used. on my contents and front cover i have used the names of pop artists and rock artists to put it in the right genre for my audience. i have also added social networks such as Facebook,twitter and youtube as todays day and age they are very popular through out teenagers which i am aiming to buy my magazine.

question 1

1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

have ensured that my media product has included as many conventions from a real media product as I have listed. Due to previous research of the magazine industry, I have given my magazine the conventions of magazines that are frequent with every issue. I have also addressed conventions that may only be familiar in singular issues or differentiate from other magazine issues. i wanted to use my stye model to give me a head start with my front cover, which was NME.

For my magazine, I wanted to put original by using NME as a style model. From the magazines I have looked at, my magazine was going to be based with certain aspects that have made the magazine stand out more than others. To do this, I had included the idea of giving the magazine a music feel. Usually, most music magazines are only told by the artist. If a well known artist is used as the cover image, the reader will assume it is a music magazine.  The title 'TMT' has been shown with an image of a guitar that has been put in the title. i have also used well known hip hop and rock artist names so it attracts the audience eye.

For the main image on the front cover I have based it on a fashion magazine but have decided to use the pose for my magazine. but used different props to be unique 

For my contents page, I wanted to carry on the theme by keeping the colour red to show that red is my home colour. I did not have an image to recreate because this was an image taken originally. For the image I used the same back ground from the same photo shoot and linked them to the rest of the magazine.the model is looking straight into the camera to attract the audience eye.

  my double page spread is another picture from the photo shoot to keep the originality and i have kept the back ground in because i love the view of liverpool and the sea in the back ground. i have also kept the rock/hipster look in wills poses to show the audience what type of music he writes.

                        

audience reviews

these are some of my audience reviews, i am going to take these into notice and carefully read them