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.
Monday, 12 October 2009
Thursday, 8 October 2009
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.
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.
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.
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