Before I began to make my magazine cover I studied many different styles of pop magazine cover and tried to stick to the forms and convention that apply in a stereotypical pop magazine, I decided to use one of the pop magazines I studied as an inspiration for my cover, in this particular magazine I looked at it was very colorful and had many different objects pictures and offers on the front page. in most magazine covers I looked at it was the same in all cases, so I used one big eye-catching main picture and got my classmates to dress up in colorful clothes to create a playful attitude as my magazine reaches out to young teens. The magazine I looked at also had clothing ideas and offers in side so I advertised this separately on the front page. I had to give some ideas of the types of things in my magazine so I put more of my class mates on next to their picture, this is the same in the magazines that is looked at they had one main pictures and quite a lot of smaller ones with their own story, I tried to use a similar layout and followed the same colour scheme throughout my magazine cover.
2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In my magazine cover I tried to represent a typical pop star kind of social group. So this meant it had to represent the artists and the typical life of a pop star in a certain way. I feel that I represented it best through the use of my colour scheme and my main picture. In my main picture I had my models wear very colourful types of clothes and paint their face to show a kind of 'mess about attitude' to the shoot, I did this because in pop social groups the songs and the vibe of the artists are usually very fun and very high energy so I tried to represent that in the main picture of my magazine. Also the name of my magazine is pop life because with the typical magazine it has the type of magazine genre in the title of the magazine which makes it easier to understand and can be seen as very eye-catching. As my magazine is reaching out to mainly teenage girls I decided to use a purple colour scheme with very vibrant clashing colours for the writing. I have tried to represent a typical pop social group through the way I represent my magazine, making it colourful, eye-catching and making the main pictures stand out massively.
3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
If this magazine became successful enough then the magazine may become distributed by companies such as Egmont. This company would build my magazine and help it to gain popularity so more people would be interested in buying it. because the company is so big they would have a lot of experience in this type of distribution, therefore they would have a better idea of what they are doing with the magazine. I chose Egmont magazines because they produce 20 monthly magazines meaning it wouldn't be complicated to keep the magazine up to date, also Egmont base their choice of magazine around younger audiences, for example they run magazines such as 'We Love Pop' , Disney magazines and also they run 'Go Girl'. They reach large audiences of people so I believe it would be in the magazines best intention to publish it using Egmont. This company can also have contacts to some of the most popular music and kids shows.
4) Who would be the audience for you media product?
My media product would probably be aimed at young teens aimed at around 10 - 14 years old, I chose this age because this is the kind of age you begin listening to music seriously and possibly idolizing some of the artists you listen to. I chose this age because they seem like the most likely age to start reading this type of magazine to keep up with all that is going on in this kind of social bubble. these are usually the age group that are interested in asking someone to buying the magazine for the free girts, posters and advertisements, my target audience is mainly for girls, not because of the contents in the magazine but because of the colour scheme and pictures mainly, i have made the colour scheme quite girly not on purpose but because i used the colour pallet of my main picture.
5) How did you attract/address your audience?
I think i have attracted my audience from the use of the high colour and playful images, i believe that younger audiences would be interested in what is in my magazine from what i have shown on the front cover, yes my front page is very full of things but that is because in a pop magazine there are a lot of things that would catch the eye of younger viewers. i would say it is obvious for the viewers which type of magazine i have created, so if they walk in to look for a specific type of magazine i would say mine is bold and high colour enough to attract them towards my magazine. I have also attracted my audience with the my use of head lines, i have used the sort of headlines that people would want to read about fro example the 'UK'S top 40 songs revealed in here" this could attract people that regularly listen to music and are into the top charts because it will make them want to find out the downloads chart. the other post such as the posts about peoples private lives would interest certain people into reading my magazine.
6) what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
This task has helped me to develop my level of knowledge in the ICT skills needed for this project. i no understand the use of programmes such as Photoshop and Scribus, i have developed my skills in things such as editing and enhancing images which makes my magazine a lot better.
- This task has helped me to develop different ICT skills by using different programmes such as blogger, scribus and photoshop. making a blog was a new experience to me, for my blog i had to create a new post to evaluate different things i have used and made and also used it for revision notes for my exam, this was a challenge to me as i have never run a blog before. I enjoyed exploring my blog and being able to decorate it in a way that i liked, i enjoyed learning how to used bloggers different aspects for example, making new pages and posts. i enjoyed using the different tools supplied by photoshop to make my magazine look its best wight the photos and decoration. Scribus is not my favourite programme in the world as i find it hard to use.
- Whilst designing and making my magazine i have developed new skills in using Adobe Photoshop, with this programme i was able to make my magazine look like it was at the same standard as the more popular pop magazines, it allowed me to crop and edit the colour and saturation of images so that they would suit the type of magazine i am making, i found using photoshop very easy and it is very clear what you use each of the tools for. it was also easy to edit the images when they have already ben place below or above another picture, this is because the photos or images are layered.
- Throughout the process of creating my magazine i have learnt how to add images, videos and different types of links to my blog, i have found it a lot easier as time has progressed to download different things to my blog, i have learnt different ways to join pages and posts together through the use of an embedded code and a HTML.
- To take my pictures i used a sony bridge camera, this camera made the process of taking the pictures a lot easier as it was such a high quality camera nothing really needed to be edited other than the background, i have gained knowledge in different camera shots that are used to create a sense of different kinds of emotion, this camera has allowed me to create this types of pictures very easily and quickly.
from this task i have developed my understanding of different magazine companies and how they appeal to different social and age groups, i have learnt this from researching my magazine genre, i have also learn how to attract and appeal to different age types through my use of colour and images. i now know how to use a professional bridge camera and how to use programmes to a professional standard, how to use a blog with different pages and posts, also adding in embedded codes and different media files. i have learnt how to upload presentations onto slide share and i have also learnt the importance of saving my work and putting it onto my blog to make sure there is a continuous upload of my progress.
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