1.In what way does your media product use forms and convections of real media product?
When i looked at other classical music magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads i found that my magazine contained all the same aspects as a real magazine and included each code and convection that is found in a real magazines.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
When i look at my media product i can see the target audience it was made for is reflected in the front cover. The images show that the magazine is aimed at people who are interested in classical music and are well educated.
By making my front cover much more appealing and relate more to the target audience i have been able to by
By making my front cover much more appealing and relate more to the target audience i have been able to by
3 .What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
After researching different publication companies I found that for my genre of magazine Haymarket media group would be a good company to publish my magazine through because it offers more classical music magazines than IPC or Bauer media. Therefore they would know how to advertise the magazine, knowing where to sell the magazine and where to place advertisements. However I also found that it would be good idea to use a publisher that does not have any magazines in the same genre as the classical magazine, this is because it would not have any competition with other classical magazines in the publishing company. Therefore they would be able to advertise it much more and focus on selling it.
4.Who would be your audience for your media product?
An ideal buyer for my magazine would be a middle aged to elderly well educated person either male or female who enjoys listening to classical music, reading and travelling. The perfect male reader would be a business man because he would be smartly dressed suggesting that he has a good job to other people and able to buy a magazine every month, he also would be successful therefore he might be interested in classical music, boats or golf etc. The ideal woman reader would be a successful woman who enjoys going to watch ballet and going to watch the orchestra.
An ideal buyer for my magazine would be a middle aged to elderly well educated person either male or female who enjoys listening to classical music, reading and travelling. The perfect male reader would be a business man because he would be smartly dressed suggesting that he has a good job to other people and able to buy a magazine every month, he also would be successful therefore he might be interested in classical music, boats or golf etc. The ideal woman reader would be a successful woman who enjoys going to watch ballet and going to watch the orchestra.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
For question 5 how did you attract/ address the audience? I audio recorded questions being asked and answered.
I asked members of my target audience what they thought of my magazine and weather it appealed to them. The following questions are what I asked them.
Questions
1. Does my music magazine appeal to you?
2. Would you buy my magazine if it was on sale?
3. Do you think the colour scheme works?
4. In what ways do you think I could improve my magazine?
5. Do you think the price of my magazine is reasonable?
6. Do you think my layout worked well?
7. Do you think my images related to my magazine genre?
8. Do you think that my double page article was relevant to the genre of my magazine?
9. What are your favourite aspects of my magazine?
10. Do you feel my magazine relates to my target audience?
For question 5 how did you attract/ address the audience? I audio recorded questions being asked and answered.
I asked members of my target audience what they thought of my magazine and weather it appealed to them. The following questions are what I asked them.
Questions
1. Does my music magazine appeal to you?
2. Would you buy my magazine if it was on sale?
3. Do you think the colour scheme works?
4. In what ways do you think I could improve my magazine?
5. Do you think the price of my magazine is reasonable?
6. Do you think my layout worked well?
7. Do you think my images related to my magazine genre?
8. Do you think that my double page article was relevant to the genre of my magazine?
9. What are your favourite aspects of my magazine?
10. Do you feel my magazine relates to my target audience?
I have recorded myself asking a member of my target audiance and these are my results.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The two images above are collages of the different technologys I used to create my magazine. The first collage is of the three different technologies I used, Photoshop, paint and Quark found all three technologies easy to use however I found photo shop much easier to get started with because I have used it before in years 10 and 11, but when I got stared and became more comfortable with quark I began to enjoy using that a lot more than Photoshop.
Using Photoshop I have learnt how to edit pictures a lot better cutting out images much cleaner and placing them onto a different background. With one of my images (the image below) I was able to cut out the middle section and place the correct image inside it. I was bale to do this by using the lasso tool then scaled the image down to size to fit into the box.
Using paint I was able to adjust the size of the images I used however I did not use paint as much for my production, this is because all the tools found on paint are also available on Photoshop.
When I first used quark I didn’t understand it well but after I begun to use it I found it much easier to use. With quark you are able to create a much cleaner layout for all your information. I used only the text box and import picture box because I had no real use for any others. I was able to create a drop capital in my work by using one of the tools provides. However I did find some bad points to quark, you were unable to spell check anything so when writing my article I had to draft it in word then import it into my magazine. I found that the layout I was left with looked similar to those found in real magazines.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Technology and Differences
By looking at real magazines I was able to produce my classical magazine to follow the codes and convections of those magazines, unlike the preliminary task where I made a school magazine without looking at any magazine prier to the production.
By looking at both my preliminary task and my classical magazine front cover you can see that my technology skills have improved greatly. My presentation is much clearer organised. Because I was able to look at real magazines during my music magazine production I was able to create a magazine much more similar to one found on a shelf. The technology used to produce my preliminary front cover was the same as the technology I used to produce my front cover of my music magazine but you can see that my knowledge for the different tools available has improved. By looking at real magazines I was able to understand the codes and convections of agazines much more, this meant I was able to create a magazine more accurate to a real magazine.
The images I used on my preliminary task were all taken by me and edited by me the same as the images on my main task, but you can see the difference in quality and mise en scene.
By looking at both my preliminary task and my classical magazine front cover you can see that my technology skills have improved greatly. My presentation is much clearer organised. Because I was able to look at real magazines during my music magazine production I was able to create a magazine much more similar to one found on a shelf. The technology used to produce my preliminary front cover was the same as the technology I used to produce my front cover of my music magazine but you can see that my knowledge for the different tools available has improved. By looking at real magazines I was able to understand the codes and convections of agazines much more, this meant I was able to create a magazine more accurate to a real magazine.
The images I used on my preliminary task were all taken by me and edited by me the same as the images on my main task, but you can see the difference in quality and mise en scene.
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