Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my music magazine would have to be teenage to mid twenties year old women, this is because I think that they will be able to relate to the magazine and also the music that is protrude in the magazine, which is pop. Women are defiantly going to be more drawn towards the magazine, because of the way that the magazine looks and also what the magazine talks about. It was always very deliberate that the magazine was only directed towards women, the reason for this is because I think that it would be easier to relate POP music towards women, however some men may enjoy the magazine but it it predominantly related towards women.

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Before I made my three pieces, I looked into how music magazines address or attract their audiences. From my research it all comes down to the front cover. If you can make the front cover interesting and powerful then that’s it your half way there. A powerful front cover will draw in the readers, so I tried to make mine as funky and colorful as possible.

I made little things stand out, for instance I turned the Lover upside down, this was such a simple change but it automatically draws your attention the the masthead which is what I wanted. Making little changes like this is what I think attracts my audience.

By putting some of the writing into a shape, it makes the front cover look more elegant which in turn makes people look at the magazine.

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In the process of making my music magazine I learnt a lot about how to use adobe Photoshop elements like how to crop pictures, how to fade out stuff in the background of pictures, but the most helpful thing I learnt to use was how to perfect skin so blemishing spots and scars out of pictures was really useful in getting the ‘air brushed’ look, I also learnt how to burn eyebrows and eyelashes, this was really helpful when it came to making the eyes stand out more and look more seductive. Publisher was also something that I came to use a lot in the final production of my magazine in this I learnt how to put picture on top of each other and fade pictures into each other also.

Q7. looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in

the progression from it to the full product.

I have learnt so much since I mad my preliminary task, I’ve learnt how to properly edit pictures and also edited them to a high standard, but I’ve also learnt a lot more about magazines in general, I’ve learnt about all the different codes and conventions that music magazines have, I’ve learnt what makes a successful magazine. I’ve learnt so much since I made my first magazine.