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In what ways does your media

product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of real media

products? My media product uses conventions that are

already used in well established magazines. It has a

house style like magazines that are sold in shops

do.Masthead. Shows the name

of the magazine and it’s

slogan in big bold letters

to attract readers.

I used what I thought to be

the most shocking part of my

article for the pull quote on

the cover which is used to

pull readers in so they buy

the magazine to read the

story.

How does your media product

represent particular social groups?

The readers of my magazine would get

quite a good impression of the people

featured in my magazine because I have

tried to show that my made-up

celebrity is quite hard on the outside

to fit her style of music but is

actually a very nice girl.

“This was fun. I hope all my future

interviews are like this. Thanks!”

“I did have some friends. The ones

you can depend on, y’know? Now

that I’m…famous, I still talk to

them. Its not like I’ve turned diva.

I’m totally down to earth.“

These two quotes for the

interview show that even

though she is now famous and

considered a celebrity she

still remembers the people

that were there before and

she is very down to earth

She is supposed to be quite a

young celebrity or teen

superstar it could help people

of her age group that listen to

this type of music be seen in a

better light.This image of her that I

used in my magazine

shows her hiding most of

her face which makes her

look very innocent which

should help people to

see that she is just a

young girl making music.

What kind of media institution might

distribute your media product and

why?

Bauer is a

German

company that

publishes

Kerrang!

Magazine, which

I believe is one

of the closest

magazines to my

IPC Media is the company that

publishes NME magazine. This

magazine is also quite close to

what I cover in my

magazine, because the music I cover

isn’t as rock as Kerrang! But more

so than NME, so I think that one of

these publishers would be good

for my magazine.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my music magazine

would be people of my age or maybe

from 13+ who are interested in pop-

rock music more than any other type.

I think that my magazine is suitable for

this target audience because I have tried

to keep it quite young looking and

friendly. I used this font because I

thought it looked quite rough and not

too formal, which younger people seem

How did you attract/address your

audience? I attracted my audience by using words such as “we” and “you” which is a device used to make the reader feel more involved in what is being read.

where we take a different look

at music.

An example if this is my strapline, where I use the

word we to make the audience feel

like they are a part of it:

In the box with the subscription offer, I wrote it very informally, which should appeal to the younger audience that I am targeting.

I also used this pull quote on my front cover of a very exiting and

intriguing part of my article. I used this particular quote

because I thought it would attract readers.

What have you learnt about

technologies from the process of

constructing this product? Whilst making this project, I learned more

about the photo editing website that I used. I

learned that rotating an image can give it a

completely different feel. For example: The image on

the left was

turned into the

image on the

right, which I

think is a much

nicer image of

her face and

you can see her

eyes which

makes her seem

more human

and connects to

I also learned how

to group objects

together, which made

it a lot easier to

move things around

on my magazine. As

you can see, here I

have grouped the

images and the names

so if I were to move

them they would all

move together

rather than me

Looking back at your preliminary

task, what do you feel you have

learnt in the progression from it to

the full product? From the

preliminary

task, I have

learned that

contents pages

need to be a

lot fuller and

have more

information on

them, otherwis

e its not really

worth having

I have also learned from making

the preliminary magazine that it is

quite good to have a more busy

front page because it gives the

audience more to look at and

makes it look more professional

and appealing.