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

I believe when looking back at my preliminary task to my full media product, their was a lot more work than I thought, in a short space of time. In my opinion there is a lot you have to plan to publish a media magazine successfully, which includings time magagement, planning and organisation, different types of skills and new technologies to use, the types of conventions you use. All of these are really important to think about and plan carefully when making a final media product. But in my preliminary task, the different conventions that I used, the layout, the colours etc... did not matter in to much detail as this was just a rough magazine to help us to understand how to produce a magazine and also to learn a bit more of how to use the different new media's like Quark Express and photoshop.

Time magagement was the thing I think that let me down. I was taking too long in my planning and preparation for my magazine that I wasnt watching the time carefully. If I had more time in my magazine production, a lot more time would of gone into the layout. Iam happy that id finished my magazine, that was one positive, but I know that it could of been better. Other positives about the production of my magazine is learning more about the new technologies. Photoshop was the main new technology that I couldnt use and I found it difficult to work with. But using it for the production of my contents page has helped me to understand how to use it and now i do, it is a lot easier to work with.

Evaluation:- "What have you learnt about technologies from the processing of construction this product?"

I believe that technology plays an important part in media, because without it the fonts, the use of cropping images down to go well with the magazine, the fonts they use, colours etc... magazines would not be so popular as what they are now. I believe that all the different types of new technologies has helped me to achieve my magazine successfully, including Quark Express, photoshop, the internet etc...

One way I believe new technologies has helped me to complete my magazine is the way of cropping images down to the way I wanted it, which you cannot do on other technologys like microsoft word. An example of this would be of the small picture of the female teenager on the contents page with her punching her fist out to the audience. My first picture of the teenager had a background of a brick wall, but photoshop helped me to cut out the background to just keep the person. The way to do that is to highlight over the image you want to take out of the picture using swatches, then just click it and drag it away. Doing this became very effective for my magazine and makes it look better without the background.

I believe that Quark Express for me was probably the easiest to use compared to photoshop and thats probably the reason why I did my front cover and double page spread on Quark, but that doesnt mean that Quark is the best technology to use. Text boxes were the most difficult thing on Quark as they left the boxs lines around the outside, which doesn't make the appearence of the magazine look as good as it could be. But on the other hand, this technology does have some positives, including tools, which are very easy to find as what you want is either displayed to the side or the bottom. Then going back to the double page spread it was useful because it was easy to add the pages side to side. So eventhough Quark is probably the easiest and quickest to use, I believe that photoshop gives you the best overall result in getting a final result for a media magazine.

The internet also helped me in the whole of my coursework, from the start to finish. It help me at the start of my coursework to research into some magazines to see what the audience look for in a magazine, but also what forms and conventions the publishers use in their media magazines, looking at what different fonts rock magazines use and also colour, layout etc... This turned out to be very useful and helped me to put together my magazine. Youtube was another technology that helped me in my coursework. By using it I could upload my videos of people I have interviewed for one of my questions onto my blog. This has been helpful for my evaluation and I have learned a lot more in using this new technology.

Evaluation:- "What would be the audience for your media product and how did I attract them?"

My media product was a rock music magazine. I researched into many types of other dependant rock magazines, finding out what type of audience they attract and how. Researching into this will give me a better understanding of how to develop my magazine to challenge other media products. My target audience initially was both male and female, for teenagers and early adulthood between 15-24. But I considered that many people over my predicted target audience as rock music is very popular and can capture peoples taste.

In many rock magazines like kerrang, I thought the audience would be classed as a c2, because I believe that they don't have an understanding of how the music industry works compared to other sophisticated media products, such as NME and Q. But seeming my magazine follows along the footsteps of magazines like Kerrang, I thought I would keep the same class, c1/2

Looking and researching at the aesthetics of other media magazines has helped me find out what the attractions are for the audience when buying the magazine. Forms and conventions are important when thinking about how to attract the audience, including the style and the layout of the magazine, the wording and fonts it uses etc... In many other media products like Kerrang and Q, the fonts are very loud and bold, it shouts out what the magazines about. The colouring is quite bland, using colours like black and white. Where as the colours which are used in the coverlines give a more striking appearance on the magazine, as they used much more brighter colours.

In my magazine, you can see the similarities and differences of mine from other magazines, but looking it, I cant see many ways I have challenged other media products with the lack of differences.

Looking at my front cover, the main difference from other magazines is my main background. As it is set outside with a person holding a guitar, whereas in other magazines like Kerrang, they set their photos in studios and other indoor places. The stance of the person and what they are wearing shows the rebellious side of them and the magazine. Apart from that, the layout, fonts and the use of conventions used in my magazine are all similar to other media magazines, which adds to the rebellious main picture.

In the contents page and the double page spread again shows more similarities than differences. On the contents page, the pictures connote the persons well being, punching her fist out to the audience shows the rebellious side. The way the text is layed out into columns shows the similarity from other media studies, the dark colours used for the text, fonts and backgrounds all connotes that its a magazine.

Evaluation:- "How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

My magazine represents teenagers male and female aged around 15-21 in many social groups. Most teens today are seen to be just "lazy" by some dominant people, saying that teens just spend there time messing about in the streets and getting drunk. So to challenge that dominant ideology some people have, I decided to use teens in my magazine to prove people wrong and to show that not just all teens are the same and some have actual plans for the future. The teens in my magazine have been stereotyped as good, clever people who have made something of themselves and the teen generation by receiving a record contract. They are seen to be honest people who just love to play music to large audiences. The colours used in most media magazines today are quite dark because like kerrang, they are rebellious. whereas in my magazine, I wanted to share the same colours, as mine is a rock magazine like kerrang, but not be too rebellious in the colours that I choose. Also I wanted to use colours which showed that this magazine was for all male and female social groups.

The main picture on my front cover of the teenage girl challenges the dominant ideology of peoples beliefs, as they believe men are more dominant than females and they are only their to look pretty and to do jobs. This is not the case for the female on my front cover as she shows a more rebellious side to what others believe. This is shown in many ways including dress sense and posture. The pink hair, black top, the red and black striped gloves, holding an electric guitar shows the more dominant side of females. The posture of her aswell, not looking towards the camera shows the rebellious side and that she doesn't care about the dominant ideology men have.

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

As you can see from my magazine, there are many forms and conventions that I have used which are similar to other media magazines in many independent and major stores. Including the layout of the magazine, the masthead, Sidelines, Cover lines etc... These conventions show the importance of the magazine and how to attract the audience to purchase it.

My magazine in my opinion has not really challenged many forms and conventions of other media products layout wise. But the ways I have challenged it is with the use of language. The magazines that mine is suppose to follow like kerrang, use quite a domineering attitude towards the audience and also quite rebellious, where as for my magazine, I wanted to take that away but keep the coolness about the magazine still inside. As this is what I believe to be the key towards which magazines people buy, because even though some people like the rebellious attitude that are in magazines like kerrang, other don't.

With my front cover I wanted to add something different to what other media products have, which is different colours and also the use of genres. As men seem to be the more dominant over females I thought about changing that and let the women become the dominant one.

The next couple of pages, the contents page and double page spread doesn't challenge any forms and conventions of other media products. I have used relatively the same colours and the layout is the same as other magazines like kerrang.

Production:Final Magazine

On this page is the my final magazine in full. Below is my front cover, contents page and my double page spread. I believe that I have done well in some elements of the magazines, including the layout of it. Some things I think I could of done better on which is the my time management. I belive that that was the thing that let me down as I left most things untill the last minute, including some of the pictures. But overall I believe its good and next I have to do the evaluation of my magazine.

Audience Research: Front cover production

This past week I have been working on my front cover for my magazine and gettin people to comment on how they think my front cover is going. I have ask them in person by showing them a picture of my working front cover and I have also put it on my social networking site, facebook.
Showing my progressed work to the audience has helped a lot to realise what they like about it and that im doing it right or somethings a bit wrong which need a bit of work on, e.g. fonts, colours etc...

Some people believe that my fonts is really good and the colurs that I have used are also good, they believe that they work together well but maybe there might be a bit too much colour in there, maybe I should just use 2 colours instead of the 3, which is a fair point to make and may be something that i think about doing and changing. One person had a negative view on my front cover, saying that they font and the colours that I used doesnt really show the theme of my magazine. Which at first I didnt really believe in and thought that the fonts and colours that I have use does show what the theme is, rock music. But I do have to take other peoples views into consideration and maybe I can have a look at other fonts and colours and see if I can make it better.

Overall Iam happy with the audiences comments and I will take all of the comments into consideration. Below is a number of peoples comments that I have got from facebook.

Production: Front cover

This past week I have been working on towards getting a final outcome for my front cover. At the moment, I believe what I have done is good. I have changed a few things from what I was going to do e.g. the font, which eventhough the audience that commented on my last fonts saying that they were good, I believed that they could be better and so I found some new fonts to work with. I will be putting my progressed front cover on my social networking site and will be printing on off for people to feed back on my fonts, and how they think the front cover is going, is it making progress or does it need changing in small details. This is what I hope to find out from the audience. Below is a picture of my front cover in progress.

Planning:Shot List

Now I have done my first drafts for my front cover, contents page and double page spread, I can now continue and start with my planning for the photographs which will be in my magazine. To help me with my photographs, I will be putting together a shot list to help me organise what im going to do, where im going to take the shots, who am i going to do them with. etc... This way I will be in a better position and be more prepared when it comes to taking some photos. Below is the shot list table and also some of the photos that I took

Planning:First Draft

Now that I have done my audience research and found out what they would like in a magazine, i can now start going onto my planning for my magazines front covers, contents page and double page spread. Below is a number of photos of my drafts for my magazine, which by doing this will help me decide which one will be best in carrying on for my final design.

Audience Research:Results

To get some results in my audience research, I put my mood board onto a social networking site on the internet, which was facebook. Then I got people to comment on my mood board on what they liked and what improvements could be made on it to make my magazine look better for their standards. The feedback which I got from my mood board was good. I got some positive response about a couple of things but also some ways of how to improve things to make it better, which summing it all up, is just the responce I wanted. What they have said about my mood board has given me a better understanding of what the audience want in the magazine so now its going to find it easier for me to know what to put in my magazine.

After looking at the comments of what people have said, I have chosen most of the right things which the audience want in the magazine. The fonts and the colours that I have chosen are good. They believe that their should be a mixture of soft and hard rock music as it will attract a more mainstream audience, and there is so much more which they have said. So there are hardly any changes I need to make. The only real thing that most people said about how to improve the mood board a bit more is to experiment a bit more in the fonts and the star shapes, so that is one thing I will have to try and do. But overalll Iam happy that I have got most of the predictions right of what they would like and now I can move on to the planning of my magazines front cover, contents page and the double page spread.

Audience Research

Now I have researched into different magazines in the music industry, finding out the layout of the mags to where they distribute it, I have to now decide on what my target audience is going to be and to create a mood board (that captures ideas for my magazine) to have an understanding of what my audience wants.
For my target audience, I was looking to sell my magazine to a mainstream audience, so teenagers and also the young adult generation around the age mark of 14-25 is my focus point of who to sell the magazine to and ask the question of what they want in a magazine. In the jicnar scale, I think that it should be classed as a c1 and my audience would be aspirers, as my artist would not be like lombard, hardcore rock artists, who dont listen and care about what others think.

Below is a picture of my mood board that I created so the audience can looked and see whether I have the right ideas of what the audience wants. If not then I can asked them to give me some advise on what improvements I can make to get my magazine to what they like. This can be done by me adding this on the website and on social networks e.g. facebook, bebo etc... and then people can comment on my mood board. I could also do a questionnnaire and ask friends and maybe family members (brothers, sisters, cousins). All of these are ideas so i have a broader idea of what the audience wants.

Research and planning:Distribution

Big named distributor companies like frontline, can distributed over 160 magazine titles and get a lot from them, in terms of profit. Because there such a huge mainstream company, they can afford to distribute and sell their magazines wherever they want. So like from small corner stores to the big retailers such as WHS, Asda, Tesco’s and 55,000 other retailers around the world. Bauer, who is one of the major UK publishers and is the largest privately owned publisher in Europe, is joined with frontline to help publish some of the magazines which are out in many stores today e.g. Bella, Take a Break, TVQuick and many more. One example of their music magazines that they publish is Q, which is the UK best selling music monthly magazine. It has a wide amount of big mainstream artist including Oasis, U2 and this is how they have attracted such a huge global audience. Because they know a little bit more about the music industry and how it works compared to some other companies.
Independent Distributors have their own distributing network and have to think about other ways of how to distribute their music out there, because they don’t have the money to distribute their music out there like many big mainstream distributors. They only really sell their magazines online or either many independent, down to earth retailers, for example urban outfitters and Studio 4. Vice is an example of a small company with a small niche audience. There much more upmarket than other mainstream companies and quite dominant about there magazine being the coolest magazine because it’s more interesting like getting a magazine from them than like taking the boring easy step and getting it from a big store like Tesco’s and Asda etc…

Detail Research into forms and conventions

For my magazine, Iam going to focus on selling my magazine to teenagers and also the younger adulthood generation, because many of the magazines which you can buy today target that general genre. So this magazine is going to be for people who like rock and pop music and who want to be aspirers.

In some ways the magazines that I looked at, they all have some similar patterns to try and appeal their audiences ti buy their magazine. But then in other ways they have used other forms and conventions to try and make it different. The three magazines that I have looked at, NME, Q and Kerrang, title and style wise for these mags are reletivly the same. All three of them use quite dark, bland colouring for the lettering of the coverlines and the sidelines, thenn also for the background. The only thing which is different about the front covers of these three magazines is the layout of them. The audiences are different in all of the magazines, Kerrang are more like based at a teenage generation, just getting into the adult stages, aged around 14-21. In the jicnar scale, I believe that they would be classed around a c2, because I dont think they have much of an understanding of how the music industry works compared to the likes of NME and Q magazine. Kerrang have more of a lombard attitude towards music, so they dont really care what people think about them as long as theie still enoying themselves in the music industry. An example of this would be Hayley Williams on the front cover of Kerrang magazine punching her fist out towards the audience and her slogans around her saying words like "I know who Iam". So Kerrang and their bands give sort of a domineering approach towards their audience, which some people in the UK like and thats why Kerrang is one of the most popular music magazines.

NME and Q magazines audience are based on also teenagers but also the adult generation. They are quite simple in what they do aswell, which what I mean by that is they act like lombards, their more mature in what they do in the music industry. In their magazines and on the front cover, its quite bland and simple.

I believed I had to research into these magazines to give me a better understanding of how different magazines act towards different audiences, So I know what people like in a magazine and so I can find it easier to produce my magazine.

Initial Research into forms and conventions

Before we go into deciding on what magazine we do. We had to find a bit of research into different genres and audiences of other magazine, to give us an idea of whats in the market and how to produce our own magazine.

Title: Wonkavision Magazine.

The Audience: Teenage audience, just getting into adulthood


Main Contents: Many interviews with the band

Brand Identity: A independant magazine for independant music. Down to earth kind of bands.






Title: Q Magazine


The Audience: Teenage an a adult audience

Main Contents: Reviews of albums, Q awards, Exclusive interviews with many bands like U2 and Oasis, Competitions to win tickets for access all areas in gigs. Also bands views on other eachother, e.g. what Arctic Monkeys frontman, Alex Turner thinks of band Take That.

Brand Identitys: Big major label Magazine,






Title: Classic FM

The Audience: Mostly the older adult generation. Maybe a tiny amount of youth people.

Main Contents: Live Music Guides, Free CDs, Interviews on debut albums and talks about the passion of music.

Brand Identitys: Very Upmarket, Sophisticated Magazine. For the older adult generation who know a little bit more about how the music industry works, take classical music seriously.

What I need to do next is to make my final decision on what genre im doing for my magazine. To help me do this, I will be looking at more magazines that are in the market today in more detail. So ive got an idea on what I want to do and to see what the public like to have when buying a magazine.

Main Task:Magazines

The main task is create a front cover and a contents on a double page spread for a new music magazine. It must be an individual piece of work and all text and images used, must be original and not taken from the internet etc... We have been given a list of dates which will be important to follow to complete the task successfully. The most important deadlines I would need to remember is the deadlines. So for the deadlines for the research and planning, the 8th of January, the production deadline, 15th January, so thats the taking photos doing the layout for the magazine etc... Then the Post production deadline on 12th February. The next of the deadlines I will need to remember next is the evaluation deadlines, from the 15th of February to the 5th of March.

3 things I need to do to improve my practical work

After completing my magazine and evaluating what I have done, I need to think ways I could of improved my practical work.

I believe that my magazine that I did was good. But I think one reason it wasnt better than I hoped it would be was because I didnt really watch the time that I had very carefully, so I had to rush abit with my magazine. So really next time I have to use my time more carefully inside of lesson time. But then if Iam a little behind, then I need to use more of my free time, outside of lessons to catch up.

Another way I could do to improve my practical work is to no a bit more about my forms and conventions, cause I thought that was one thing that was lacking a bit in my magazine, but also my evaluation. So i need to look at more conventions and learn a bit more about them.

A third way I could improve my practical work is work a bit more with the technology a bit more. I didnt understands how to use some of the tools and then when it came to talking about how the technology helped me create my magazine in my evaluation, I didnt really know what to put, apart from it had different kinds of fonts, which was good. So I need to work a bit more with the different types of technologies like photoshop and QuarkxPress so i do know how it helps me to create magazines.

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

I used many new technologies which helped me to complete my magazine with not much trouble. The first new program i used for my mag Adobe photoshop. This helped me to load my photo and add text in front of it with no trouble. It has many new tools and new fonts aswell so you dont like have to keep going to other programs, for example paint, if you want to colour in anything on your page as it has it in photoshop already. The picture quality is better when in photoshop compared to in like word. Another new program i used to helped me in my contents page for my magazine which was QuarkXpress. Which helps you in deciding the layout of your contents page.
Media is sometimes not always good for some people who want to reach their dreams or ambition, especially if your not good at it. For example x factor. You love to sing and your ambition is to become a pop star, but if your not a brilliant singer, then you get bad remarks from the media which then your upset about it. As long as the media has got someone to talk about, they dont care who they hurt, at the end of the day its money for them. Also we dont really choose what we want on tv or on the radio, it what the media wants. So then people are paying money for stuff that they dont want to watch.

How did I attract/address your audience?

I believe what would make my audience want to buy my magazine, is by whats in the magazine.
As I saw from the two magazines FHM and Music, the fonts, the layout and the colours were pretty much the same. So I tried to use that in my magazine, by using the simple colouring of black and white and just using simple sans serif text. Also the dark colours for the backgrounds of the front cover and the contents page. From the pictures that I saw in FHM, the moods of some of the models were a bit like they dont give a damn what people think of them. They wernt smiling, there arms were folded and acted like a bit of a lombard. Also actually used bad language in the magazine.
But despite that, some people actually like to see that in a magazine as it comes across them as humor, which everyone loves a bit of humor, but in many forms. The colours of the magazine shows the kind the side of the magazine, so like the colours, black and white, connotates hatred, contempt, hostility, death perhaps. Which shows pretty much what FHM and many rock music is all about now a days. On my front cover though, its kind of different. The colours are the same pretty much, still dark and bland, but just has a bit more colour in it, mostly in the background. Cause I really wanted to make the magazine different to others. The picture of one of my mates on the front cover is different to whats was in FHM. But most rock band singer people as i said before are a bit of a bighead when it comes to them being in magazines and having there picture taken, but makes them look cool to some people. So I took a picture of my mate to make people think that he is the best singer in the world, if he was one. Because of what he is doing aswell will attract people to buy it aswell, as it catch the eye of people. The hair and what he is wearing aswell shows that he is a type of rocker.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

For our magazine, I thought I should base our audience around the teen group, between the age of 16-21. Because I believe that many people are mad about rock music at this stage. In the psychographic profile for the audience, I would believe that some of them would be individualists, do what they want to do. But some other people would want to be achievers and looking at what other rock stars do, they want to achieve what the others have and also live their lifestyle.

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

As you can see in the magazine, it has many key conventions which are the same as any other magazine and which should be in one. So ive got the masthead, which is the title "Student World",
got a puff, which is underneath the title, the barcode and the date which the magazine has been published. Also I have got some sidelines and coverlines that show you what is in the magazine. As I was doing a rock type magazine aswell, I wanted to keep the magazine colours pretty bland and dull, cause thats what they were like in the other magazines we had to look at, like Q mag. So Ive still kept the dark colours in my magazine but changed it a little bit by added more colours in. For instance, the dark red background of the front cover and the black for the background of the contents page.

Front cover and contents page.

Contents Page

Now we have finished the front cover for our magazine, we now have to do the contents page. But the first part we had to do towards doing the contents page was to look at two magazines, aimed at a similar target audience to our own mag, and just see what simerlarities and differences they both have.

The two magazines I looked at were Music and FHM. There are many things you would expect to find on a contents page in a magazine. Including whats in the magazine, like articles, free competitions etc... Pictures of the bands in the magazine, Bold capital lettering in the title and many mastheads. The layout in both of the magazine is pretty much the same, the colour of the background is bland with it just being black and white. Maybe theres a bit more colour in the FHM magazine than the music mag, in like the mastheads, the title and what the people in the band are wearing, but there isnt much difference between the two.

In both of the magazine, they both have simerlarities and differences in the language that they use and also their mode in address in the contents page. They both show in their pictures good dress sense, which perhaps shows the class of there job and the magazine. But you can tell the difference of the language in both magazines from the FHM magazine, where in one of the pictures of the contents page shows he is kind of an individualist, as he wants to do what he wants. He also shows hes a bit of a lombard, as he shows he has lots of money by what hes wearing and his stance, but by whats hes doing and his act towards the people who buy this magazine, hes a bit of a idiot.

In the contents pages, you can see how they appeal to their audience. One appealment for people is the attitude thats the people in the pictures or what the writer has written in the magazine. Some people find bad language funny, so humor is a massive appeal in the magazine.

Another appealment in the magazines are like extras, including talks about the new fashion of clothing for the new season, jokes, attractive pictures like in the FHM magazine. The opera music charts etc...

01In both of the magazines, you can see there is many simerlarities in the house style. The colour of the backgrounds are pretty much the same in the front cover and the contents page. The titles have the same colouring and also the mastheads etc...

Title

For the magazine, our title will be focus on kind of young rock music people who like listening to music all day. So for our target audience, the age group for this magazine is between the age of 16-21, male or female cause everyone really likes rock, I hope. In the jicnar scale, it would be around a c1 and in the psychographic profile I put it with individualists and aspirers, cause most rockers are pretty relaxed and like to do what they want to do in there music videos.

For my audience, I have defined what I believe what type of people my audience are and I have written them into statements.
-Rather go out to clubs and pubs than stay in at home.
-Rather buy a mobile home than a porsche
-Rather buy a takeaway than cook
-Drink beer than water
-Shop at asda than sainsburys
-Rather go to america than spain
-Rather wear there clothes untidy than neat
-Rather smoke than be healthy

"Five things I need to do to target my audience effectively"
-Use basic colouring
-Put extra's in the mag e.g. Posters
-Use simple fonts e.g. sans serif or arial
-maybe use humor in the magaizne
-use quotes from students or put in students views about the college

Research

For the second part of our prelimirary task we had to research into the forms and conventions of similar products to the one Iam going to produce. To do this we had to find 3 covers of magazines which were aimed at the same audience as we have identified and then see if the 3 magazine covers have a similarity between one another.

In subject matter for this type of magazine, it would have to be for people who like the music world and for students who like to do music in school or college etc... The colours used in this magazine are pretty bland. The background are always either black or white. But there is a bit of colour involved in the forground, for example the flames coming off the person guitar and always the logo for the magazine. The layout is always more or less the same aswell. The logo in the corner, the same coloured background, the model people always pretty much in the middle of the magaizne and then the different key conventions around them or on top of them.

The font used in the magazine are simple, just normal Arial or sans serif text. Always bold and in capital letters.

Preliminary Task

Our next task in media studies was a preliminary task. The preliminary task is to produce a front page of a school/college magazine with many photos, some appropriate text and many other key conventions, using DTP and image programming. The first thing we did to get towards this, is look at last years examples of magazines that students did to give us an idea on how to go about doing our own magazine.
One of the magazines we were given was called squash and we had answer many questions about the magazines including how we are able to recognise its a magazine front cover, who we thought the audience was for the magazine and also how the magazine targets the audience effectively.
We are able to recognise its a magazine front cover by how similar it is compared to other magazines which are around today. The many type of key conventions which are on the magazine like the puff, the masthead and the coverlines etc...
For the audience of the magazine, I believed the gender is both male and female, the age is between 16-20. In the jicnar scale i believe for this type of magazine, its between a c1 and a b. The psychographic for the person who did the magazine would probably go under an aspirer or a succeeder as the magazine looks like a student magazine and he has succeeded everything they were asking for in a magazine.
The magazine targets the audience effectively by the bold colours and the font. And by also what is inside the magazine, which the person has shown this by using different key conventions like the screamers and the coverlines etc...

Initial Analysis

For my second task in media studies, I had to undertake an analysis of a magazine front cover I used to show you my understanding of the key conventions. To the left hand side of this paragraph shows this.

Magazine Front Cover: Key Conventions

In media studies, the first task of the year was to learn the different key conventions of the front cover of a magazine. On the left hand side shows me labeling a front cover of a magazine to show what I have learnt.

Introduction

Hi my name is Dan and iam 17 years old. The purpose i created a blog is to record my research and planning for my As coursework in media studies. Also to show you the different key skills I have learnt in this subject.