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

I have learnt a lot from completing my preliminary task to making my final music magazine. It helped be be able to make my music magazine to my best potential as I have learnt from the mistakes and problems which I suffered during my preliminary task.

At the draft stage feedback I got for my music magazine I was told that I should inject more colour into my magazine instead of it just being black, white and red, I was also told to add more cover lines onto my front cover and to put captions on my contents page. I have made sure I responded to all of this feedback so now my magazine looks professional and suits my target audience.

The Prezi below shows what I have learnt in progression from the preliminary task, draft stage and the final version of my music magazine..The feedback which I got from my padlet wall from my draft pages also really helped, but the feedback from my prelim pages helped me the most.

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your magazine?

I have learnt about many new technologies from the process of constructing my magazine.

The images below show the tools that I used on photo shop. I used the custom shape tool to make shapes such as the arrow that is on my double page spread and also for the shape that the 100th issue has been displayed in on my front cover. I also used the magic wand a lot when I was editing my images, I used this tool to get rid of the background and cut out the main part of the picture I wanted to so the background was white, so I could then edit it. I also used the crop tool to crop just the part of the picture I wanted so it was easier to continue editing on it. Furthermore I have learnt how to edit images using brightness and contrast etc and how to integrate text and images into my Photoshop to be displayed on my music magazine. 

The photos below show which tools I used on Photoshop. 

I used dafont.com which is a website where you can select from many texts, my favourite text I selected was for my masthead. Its called Cavier Dreams and I think suited my magazine well. It was bold and Sans Serif so was clear to read and also recognisable as the slanted 'e' made it different.

Below are videos showing how I put together my music magazine.


                                                                 Front Cover

Contents Page

Feature Article

                                 

Question 5: How did you attract/ address your audience?

Below I created a Piktochart to show how I intented to attract/address the audience for my magazine. I did this by making sure that the magazine stood out to them. I did this by using images of artists that were appropriate to the music genre, I also used language that would appeal to 16-25 year olds as they are my target audience.

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your music magazine?

This is a mood board for my music magazine. The target audience is for males and females ages 16-25. This shows the types of artist that they would be interested in when reading my RnB magazine and what artists would typically feature. It also shows what type of music shows they would watch or listen to e.g. the official UK top 40. Furthermore it shows that they would be interested in shops such as Versache and Chanel because they are branded shops and high fashion like a lot of these artist, people look up to this fashion. 

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your magazine and why?

The publisher that I would like to use for my music magazine is 'future' publishing. The music genre for my magazine is RnB so the video below explains why I would use 'future' publishing to publish my magazine and the other types of publishers who publish other magazines.

   

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Below I have used slide share to present my Powerpoint on how I represented particular social groups in my music magazine. 





                 

Question 1: In what ways does your music magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real music magazine?

Firstly here are my final pages of my front cover, contents and feature article:

In my music magazine I feel that I have used and developed forms and conventions of real music magazines. My front cover, contents page and feature article have followed the forms and conventions of real music magazines. The colour scheme has also used the conventions of a typical music magazine as they usually use the colours red, white and black but on the other hand I added colours on each page like gold, light blue and purple because these fitted well with my target audience and made the page less monotonous.


Below I have analysed my music magazine pages on Word.

                                                                   Front Cover

Contents Page

Feature Article

Here I have shown how the key conventions from other magazines that helped me construct my own:

Front cover

Contents Page

Feature Article 

Final Pages

Firstly here are my final pages of my front cover, contents and feature article: