Final Post

This is the end of my coursework, I have finished my magazine and this is my final post.

Evaluation

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



How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The magazine represents older teenagers, and rock music fans. I have represented them by uding images of people in bands their own age, and also the type of language young people use, except for all the swearwords as this wouldn't be appropriate for my magazine, younger people may read it. It is not completely aimed at older teenagers though some of it is. For example, winning backstage passes are something prehaps younger teenagers cannot do. There are almost an aqual amount of pictures to writing, though on the contents page there are dramatically more words than pictures. My target audience is people of the ages 16 - 20, hence all the pictures and the fact that "The Sound" seems quite a lively name.

The magazine also represents the C1/C2 socioeconomic group as it is cheap, it doesn't seem like a magazine you would keep as a collegection, but I think it is something you may keep a little longer than a magazine such as Kerrang, which is a throwaway magazine.

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

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Who would be the audience of your media product?

How did you attract/address your audience?

Looking at my audience feedback I found that my they would be interested and attracted by blacks and reds and blues, i used black a lot but I felt that yellow worked quite well so i used yellow instead of blues. Also, they wanted one main picture on the cover relating to both the magazine and my double page spread. Also I found that they would be more interested in a magazine about new bands, as there are not that many magazines like that around and they found that young bands were interesting because they could easily relate to these people.

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

I used many different technologies in constructing this product; these were computer programmes such as Publisher, Coral and Photoshop. I have used Publisher before but I learnt more about the detail you can go into to organise a page, such as making columns and organising my photographs in the contents page especially.

Also, with the editing of my photos Coral and Photoshop were harder to use than I expected, it took me a long time to edit them because I did not know exactly what I was doing, if I do this again I may be more time efficient because I now know what I am doing, Coral was easier to use than Photoshop and I think also more effective. I learnt how hard it was to edit a digital photo, especially my front cover image because of the way that it was taken, the fact it was from an angle on a cold day.

I had used a digital camera but I learnt more about a photo shoot and how hard they are to carry it out, some of my models were not necessarily the best posers, and it was hard because I did not know exactly what I wanted them to do, I think I should have organised this better.

This was the first time I used an MP3 recorder to record parts of this evaluation, this was fairly easy even though it was a new experience, however, it had to be a very quiet place when I was recording, because on one of the tries there was a lot of background noise which ruined the recording.

On the internet I had never used blogs or polls before; they were both pretty easy to use I just had to think carefully about my layout to make it look good and also pay attention and reference to my polls in my blog when I was constructing the product.

What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In the progression I feel I have learnt a few new things. I have learnt how to make my front cover professional, my preliminary task did not look very professional, it looked very like what it was designed to be, a student magazine,

with this music magazine I have put a picture over the whole of my front cover, which I did not do in my student magazine and also I have improved the layout of the front cover after looking at other music magazines that are mainstream and popular, at the same time however, I have also made it colourful and lively so it will attract my target audience’s eye.

I have learnt more about what my target audience likes, I have paid attention to my polls and questionnaires. I have studied other music magazines to find similarities and essentials to put in a music magazine. I have also learnt more about how to design a magazine. My front cover is more colourful and organised, my contents page is both busy and sophisticated, and as I had never designed a double page before it was quite difficult to do at first, however, I learnt more about how to write and interview to make it interesting, also, I had to be careful with the title of the article, in case part of it was caught in the gutter of the page when it would be made into a magazine.

This is why my title is split up over the two pages. I think my magazine has improved from my preliminary task, I was much more critical and organised this time around.

Final Edits

Looking at my audience feedback I saw what i needed to change on my front cover, it needed more coverlines and a bit more structure in how and where I put them. Therefore I used arrows to organise them. This cover is bright which I think will attract my target audience, and although the colours clash it is still lively and a bit stylish.

This is my FINAL front cover.

Looking again at my contents page I realised that the text was too large and there were things that needed to be added that I had overlooked the first time, such as, a picture of the editor, the name of the magazine and date. Therefore I added these, in the process I also added a few more things to my contents as things in the magazine. This extra content may make it more interesting for readers.

I think this is my final page

I looked again at my double page and realised that there wasn't very much text and there were some things that I needed to change. I therefore put the text into columns, and moved the title and changed the font. I also realised that I had missed page numbers and the title of the magazine on the page.

This will be my FINAL double page.

Edit of front cover

This is my next edit for my front cover, hopefully nothing more will be needed done to it.

I added more cover lines to make it more interesting, also, even though the yellow and pink clash slightly i quite like it. The way I placed the cover lines means that the faces of the band are slightly framed by the words.

I may need to put more cover lines at the bottom of the magazine, most of the names on the front cover are new bands which will meet the treatment of my magazine.

First contents Page

I think this may be the design for my contents page i will use, however, if anyone has any suggestions on how i could change it it would be nice if you told me

Editors Letter

I decided to try to write an editors letter for the contents page of my magazine. I have never written an editors letter before so I'm not sure if it would be OK for my magazine, I will post it and see what people say about it.

This is the beginning of an era.
Hi guys, get ready, lots of new stars heading your way, we’ve had so many bands this time round we just cant fit them all in. But maybe next time, theres some bands I cant wait to show you. And I cant wait for May, The Sound office is giving away signed CDs and even instruments from old and new bands, such as Breakfast At Midnight, and even Fightstar. All you need to do is enter! Look to the back!

Enjoy, see you next month!

Second front cover

I think this will be my final design of my front cover, however I would appreciate any feedback. I am thinking I may have to change the bottom where it says about Apocalyptica, but I am not sure how. Any idea?