Final Front Cover.

Final Contents Page.

Final Double Page Spread

Final Preliminary Front Cover.

Final Preliminary Contents Page.

Evaluation Question 1.

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


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Evaluation Question 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups.

For the front cover of my music magazine the model in my music magazine and Bruno Mars in the Billboard music magazine both show similar style towards their target audience. They both are wearing glasses and well as showing attitude with jewellery and their stance. 

This shows the type of music that my artist's style is. The music that he is written to sing is R&B. This is similar to Bruno Mars, therefore, I made sure to use him a style model and it would clearly attract my target audience.



For the contents page of my music magazine I chose to keep the style the same as the contents page. However, I used a different style model. I used this one as the models facial expressions show attitude towards his music and show a sense of carelessness and being able to do everything. Therefore, I imitated this style with my contents page.



I decided to create my image like this one on the billboard magazine. I decided to create an image that was similar with my artist sitting down on a table to show style and attitude of my artist. As well as this, the picture is very different so shows the model in a different way to the other pictures within the magazine.

Evaluation Question 3.

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

Media Institutions:

A media institution develops the distribution of a magazine and markets the different media products produced by a specific magazine.

Some of the different media institutions develop different types of magazines; as well as the style of magazines.

Distributions of major magazines: Billboard.

Whilst researching Billboard magazine and the different types of distributors of magazines; I found that Billboard magazine is distributed by Eldridge industries which was founded in November 1894 and carries onto be released every week with new content for their audience. Within over 15.2 million visitors per month visiting their website to look at their magazine. The editor of this particular magazine is Mike Bruno; whilst the publisher is Lynne Segall. They were originally advertising there magazine through a bill posting industry which was called Billboard Advertising before it changed to a bigger publishing service.                                                   

Other Magazine distributing institutions:

As well as the ones already stated within this post, a main magazine distributor is IPC media.

My chosen magazine distributer:
I would like IPC media to be the distributor of my magazine as this institution focuses on magazines such as NME, Look and others. The NME magazine and events that NME create are the events that I have decided to put within my magazine. Therefore, using IPC media to be my magazine distributor will allow me to link my magazine to NMe and other magazines like the one I have created.

Their institution also focuses on magazines that are targeted toward the same age range of my audience and also shows the similar headlines that my magazine focuses; with the same target audience and showing the same type of celebrities. However, my magazine focuses on R&B artists specifically.

Evaluation Question 4.

Who would be the audience of your media product?


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Evaluation Question 5.

How did you attract/ address your audience?

For the front cover of my magazine I placed it onto Facebook to find out what the audience think about my music magazine where 98% of the people looking at my magazine stated that "it was a professional looking magazine that they would pick up."


 As well as that, they stated that "the colour scheme is appropriate for the magazine and it looked sophisticated."


They also stated that "the headlines show clear indications to what is in the magazine."

As well as this "you can clearly see what the feature of the magazine is.

One dislike my peers have of the magazine "There are a lack of colours within the magazine except from when there are text."

The bands that are a part of my magazine are: Drake, The Weeknd, Chris Brown... Where each of these names being in white and a little bigger than some headlines. However, smaller than the main features. As well as, the main image being a professional image that follows the conventions from my style models.



Throughout the process of creating my music magazine I made sure to attract my audience by using placement on my pictures and the type of topics my magazine was about. I asked people that I knew like classmate and friends of the different things that would attract them if they were to read my magazine, taking on their comments I created my final product by improving my work to attract my audience. This also helped me to create my magazine to look more professional because of the different style models I had used and the feedback that I had looked upon to help me to create the best work I could. 

For my front cover, I made sure that my magazine displayed common names of people within the R&B genre of music, making sure to pick out male artists to suit the male artist I used for a model on the front cover. However, for the smaller headlines I made sure to include females, suiting my target audience; as my magazine is not just a male dominated magazine. I made sure to use different font sizes and colors that would like to the overall house style of my magazine to ensure that some headlines attracted the audience more than others. 

I made sure to include only 4 different colors so my magazine did not have too many colors but also had a clear house-style. Making sure the black gradient pages and white writing were consistent; whilst there was a red colour used for featured things and to draw more attention to a certain part of t page and to also break up the different text. 

Evaluation Question 6.

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

Evaluation Question 7.

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

Throughout the process of creating my music magazine 'Leftfield' there is some clear differences between this and my preliminary task. It clearly shows the progress I have made throughout my pictures, magazine layout and time management.

When I begun my preliminary task, I didn't know much about positioning on a front cover, how to draw the audience in and what is suitable for my target audience. For this i used style models of other school magazines. However, I struggled to create a suitable front cover from the style models I had found as I struggled to pick out specific conventions; this was mostly due to not spending much time looking at the different style models and not picking out common conventions and creating ideas with the time I had. However, for the music magazine I spent more time focusing on the convention of my style models that suited my audience; as well as different style that contrasted the common conventions, allowing me to find different ways of presenting my work throughout my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I choses specific style models which helped me to achieve a specific style throughout my magazine and to ensure I found it easier to create a magazine that suited more conventions of a professional magazine. For this I spent more time researching into different areas; overall benefiting my work to make it more professional looking and to make sure it looked unrushed and worked upon.

As well as this, I mad sure I planned my work more and put more time management into it. I planned what date I wanted to finish each task and what I wanted to complete in each lesson and at home. This meant that I could spent time on one specific task as I knew I would have time to complete the others.

The biggest difference was my photographs, I had not planned out my pictures, location and costume of my model as much as I had for my music magazine. As well as this, I didn't spend much time getting varied amount of pictures to suit my magazine. I spent time thinking about what kind of stule I wanted and what I would have liked to portray throughout the school magazine for the preliminary task. However, for the music magazine I spent more time checking the location, lighting and other things that would contribute to making my picture look more professional. I took draft pictures to ensure I w able to create a suitable page with this, making a draft and making sure I planned enough time to take the pictures when it came to do so.

Overall my work is more planned out than the preliminary task. Making sure time management was key for my work and making sure it wasn't rushed.

House style for my music magazine

For my magazine I chose a house style using the colours black, white, red and dark grey/brown. I used only 4 colours as common convention throughout the style models I have looked at only use 2-4 colours throughout their house style.

 

I used the whites to show the 'best' articles in my magazine as this is the colour I used for my font. As well as this, white is a common colour that can stand out as well as can show small writing to not be very important like in the top right hand corner where it states "January 2017", "Issue 14" and "£4.99" This also shows to be less important as the font size is small and in 'regular' rather than 'bold'

As well as this I made sure that my footer was slightly a different colour so it was more visible to my target audience and that it was a different part to the magazine, as this states artist names and what type of artist will take be the genre of my magazine.

The red throughout my magazine allows me to break up text and headlines as well as making certain text stand out. I used this throughout the section stating "Chart topper" and the wrote underneath "Beyonce..." as this was less important than "Chart topper"

I also made sure to add the logo 'LF' in the bottom left hand corner of each page to make sure that it is visibly part of my magazine. As well as making sure to add the website next to that on the double page spread

Using Guidelines In My Work

I used guidelines to help centre and correct my work so that everything is in equal spacing and also shows how much I would need to write onto my work. This also helps to make sure that my work is no cut off when it has been printed.

Improving My Front Cover.

After completing the first draft of my music magazine front cover I found that I have placed my headlines and shapes in the wrong place. Therefore, it had took up to much room in particular places and left spaces in others. As well as this a lot of my text was not visibly standing out more than others like my double page spread title and there is a lot of room next the 'chart topper circle'

On the improved front cover I moved things to a placement on the double page spread which would have meant I could include more headlines on the front cover, as well as creating more importance to certain headlines.

As well as this I added a footer allowing me to have more room to add artists names which would attract more readers. As well as, making my double page spread title stand out and placing it across the page.

I moved the date, issue, price and barcode to behind the model so that it would have more room for the headlines.

Improving My Contents Page.

I made a clear improvement from my previous contents page to my finished contents page.

I had chosen to complete my original contents page like this; as I had seen this throughout my style models for billboard.

However, after receiving feedback from classmates. I had found that my contents page had many spaces and also was to cluttered within the contents bar. As well as this, the brown bar didn't show to link to the front cover, as there was not a footer on the front cover at first.

Therefore, I changed my contents page by finding a new style model to follow that still suited the same target audience that I was going for.

I used another contents page as a style model. However this one had a different layout. Therefore, I followed the basic structure of this contents page to create a more professional looking contents page.

                                                               


I followed this structure by placing my model to the left hand side of the contents page and having my text to the right. As well as this, I placed the more important onto the left hand side like they have in this contents page.

I also used the convention from this contents page of having the 'V' in the background to represent what magazine it is. However, I used 'LF' as this is the initials for my magazine.