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Magazine front cover

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

When I first started my preliminary task I had a few basic skills which would enable me to complete the first task, from this I developed my skills in photography from using the digital cameras in a less skilled manner to being able to produce better quality images using rules a learnt from reading professional photography books, I have learnt that using natural light is better when taking a photo as it allows for a sharper quality image compared to that of one using artificial light. I found this information useful after completing my preliminary task and decided to take my main tasks images outside, where I could get as much natural light in the image as possible.

From the start I had almost no knowledge of how to use Photoshop to its full capability and struggled when creating my preliminary task, but by using guides which were easily located on the internet I was able to advance my knowledge greatly developing techniques in how to create these magazines.

I think that i have learnt more about how different audiences are targeted by the media and i feel i have adapted to these conventions of targeting audiences as shown by my preliminary and my main task.

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

During the progression of this project I have developed my skills in many different areas, such as, Photography, photo editing, Photoshop, blogging. In terms of photography before I embarked upon this project I had a very limited understanding of how to successfully take a professional looking good quality image. To help me improve my photography skills I purchased a book, called Digital Photography for Dummies (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Photography-Dummies-Julie-Adair/dp/0470250747/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260996008&sr=1-2) this book helped me learn theories such as the Rule of thirds, I applied these theories to the photos I took for my magazine and the quality seemed a lot better.

I had a limited amount of previous experience in photo editing, in photoshop, I was more used to using Adobe fireworks but photoshop seemed quite easy to use and I quickly gathered basic knowledge of how to use it properly, after a few hours of playing around I decided to look for a tutorial on how to manipulate colour in images and taught myself to use a variety of different effects and manipulate an image in different ways. This tutorial I found on youtube helped me develop my image editing skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vd1ZuxAGLU.  This video allowed me to change manipulate specific areas of an image changing its colour making it black and white as shown on the front cover of my main task.

Before starting this project I had never used http://www.blogger.com/ before I was more accustomed to using social network sites such as Facebook, I quickly adapted and picked up on how to use some of the features available to use on blogger. This allowed me to post questions to help with research, upload images and receive feedback from people.

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Who would be the audience for your media product?

I’ve identified from my research that my main target audience is a mainly male audience aged from mid – teens to late twenties and who have an interest in the Indie Rock culture. I have chosen to appeal to the characteristics of this audience as from my questionnaire I identified that my main target audience was male. I handed my questionnaire to forty people, twenty men and twenty women; from my results I established that it was mainly men who purchased music magazines. These fitted mainly into the age range of 16 – 28. I chose to appeal to a popular music genre which can be associated with this age group.

How did you attract/adress your audience?

I have tried to address this audience by making it follow a more mature structure in the layout and the articles used but still making it appeal to different aspects of what people like to read and see in music magazines, such as competitions, reviews, bands and more these aspects appeal to each reader. One way in which I found some useful information was from the forums which are on the music magazine websites, (e.g. http://ubb.mojo4music.com/ubbthreads.php this is the Mojo magazine user forum) I gained a few ideas on what people liked about certain issues of mojo and decided to incorporate them within my own magazine.

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

I fell that from my research into different distribution companies that my magazine would be best suited towards being distributed by The Bauer Media Group (http://www.bauerverlag.de/) . This institution already runs two of the most successful music magazines on sale at the present moment, Kerrang and Q magazine.


As well as being the distributor for Kerrang and Q magazine they also own large stakes music Television (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Television) This runs all the major music channels such as Kerrang, Smash Hits, and Q.


By The Bauer Media Group publishing my magazine I feel that it will be able to be taken to its maximum capability because it has all the necessary assets to promote my magazine to its intended audience. The Bauer Media Group has previous experience in promoting a magazine of this genre and I think it would benefit them and my magazine well to distribute it.

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This is the contents page i have created for my magazine