Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challends forms and conventions of real media products?

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

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

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


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Evaluation Question 3: What kind of institution might distribute your media product?

Question 3: What kind of institution might distribute your media product?

Who?
My media product is aimed at the male perspective between the ages of 13 and 18. This is why my product should be sold in places where my magazine will come into contact with my target audience the most. Places like HMV and Tescos would be appropriate however selling my magazine in a book store would not be a good idea as teenagers rarely visit these shops.

Why?
The reason i will be placing my magazine in shops like HMV and Tesco is because many teenagers go into town during the week and over the weekend. These shops allow my music magazine to be sold in a music based store so i find my target audience which is music lovers and selling it in a supermarket allows my magazine to be seen by a larger variety of people.

I am also using new technology to help sell my magazine. With apple and their new app called iMagazine this allows them to make monthly or weekly subscriptions or to just buy a 1 off magazine. This means my magazine is more accesibl to younger people living in a technology rich age.

Price?
I am making my magazines price £1.99 for one off issues which is called psychological pricing and makes the buyer think they are getting a better deal then thy actually are. I am also using the same method of pricing for subscriptions which are £1.59 which is cheaper than the standard issue encouraging people to subscribe to my magazine for a cheaper deal.

Putting my magazine in a bigger shop such as tesco means that there will be compition against my music magazine which is why the use of a eye catching front cover combined with the lower price than my competitors should allow my music magazine to stand out.


Comparison
Other music magazines like Brink, We <3 Pop and NME are currently offering subscriptions all over the world in over 180 countries. To compete with this as a new magazine using things like phones and internet purchasing is a real vital to get well known and easily found.  Magazines are very popular as last year 625,127 music magazines were sold in the UK. The music industry is growing and therefore so is the variations in music magazines. The most popular magazines seem to lean more towards the multi music category and dont just take in one genre of music most of them take multiple genres and mash them together. This is what my music magazine does, its main focus is acoustic music and pop which pulls in artists like Mike James, Bruno Mars and Olly Murs. This will help my magazine appeal to a large percentage of people.

 

This is a graph with the question asked at the top of the graph to U.S and UK teenage internet users as of August 2012 asking them what their favourit music genre was. Now it is hard to get every genre of music as there is over 100 genres with thousands of subgenres but from this graph it is clear that pop is the most popular with 18.40% of the votes. This means my magazine is selling to the largest audience that use the internet which means using technology like IMagazine all the more important as well as subscription on the Acoustic internet site.

Evaluation Question 4 & 5: Who would be the audience for my media product? How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation - Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

This was the first program i used to start planning designing and to create my music magazine. This allowed me to edit my images as well as add titles and everything i need for the basics of a magazine. It allows creat customisation with over 200 fonts and huge variaty of effects that can be used on the fonts. With the gridlines that can be added it allows you to make everything very organised and structured for pages like the contents and by turning them off you can make other pages stand out and be unique.



Blogger has taught me that it is important to be constantly updating work as you can always go back and edit if it is wrong. It is also a great way of reminding yourself of what you have to do for next time you go on by either posting a update to yourself or a To Do List.


The camera is a key part of a music magazine as you want images to draw in the viewers not just words to make it like a book. Words can be used to describe things well but nothing is as good as a picture. You can turn any ordinary surrounding into something that intrigues the reader.

Prezi is a presentation site which allows you to easily explain pictures as well as keep it interesting. It is a way of breaking up words with movement.

This site is useful as it allows me to keep a diary entry of what i have done this is why using it to show my progression from prelim to finished product is a big help.

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

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

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