Foundation Production Evaluation Q5

Evaluation Question 5. How did you attract/address your audience?

To attract the audience, I would post competitions, interviews with famous singers/bands, the colour scheme and the use of a main photo of someone well-known on the front cover for all to see. These would all be promised within the magazine, and so, would attract the audience to want to buy the magazine and read what's promised on the front within the magazine.

To address my target audience, I would use the modern day slang that would the typical target audience age would use out of school. These would also include abbreviated words the target audience age would use. From audience theories, my magazine would have the 'need for information about our geographical and social world (news and drama)' as well as 'the need for social information through experiencing the relationships and interactions of others (soap lives and sitcom)'. This can be seen through my featured interview with my character 'Drew Taylor'.

*Interviews*

*Use of Slang*

Foundation Production Evaluation Q4

Evaluation Question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

When I first started planning my magazine, I was targeting the older teens - such as 15-19 - and for both sexes. But as I developed my magazine, it had became clearer that this was changing. The front cover itself seemed to be targeting girls only, so I kept it like this. This had meant that I needed to alter my plans for my magazine. I now was targeting girls, with a lower age target. I now decided to target ages between 13 and 17.

Although the actual target group changed, the style of music did not. When I planned my magazine, I always planned the main story to be about a made up musician whom works within the country industry. So, with a character who sings in the country genre and not the stereotypical pop genre, the magazine would become appealing to those who listen to the same music. But, I didn't want it to be too niche. So, with the same character, I made her also include a pop style within her country genre, to open up more to the readers, and become that little more mainstream.

The location in which the magazine would be sold at would be little 'corner shops'. The magazine I produced wouldn't be a big seller, so it wouldn't be sold in the bigger supermarkets. The magazine also would have subscriptions for the audience to purchase.

To help also with making the magazine target a wider audience, I added other stereotypical stories, on show on the front cover. These included little competitions. As a conclusion, the magazine I have created will target the younger teenagers for girls, and have a more mainstream feel than a niche one.

Foundation Production Evaluation Q3

Evaluation Question 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I would not publish my magazine with the more glossy magazines. My magazine is more for teenagers, a less important magazine, whereas those with glossy covers have more of an importance than those that don't and would cost more. The magazines with glossy covers tend to target a wider audience, and would include a lot more more important stories and headlines. My magazine would not be as suitable, due to that its less mainstream than glossy magazines such as 'Q'. I would have a media institution that would publish my magazines in less important than those in glossy covers.

 

 

This would be more of the style in which my magazine would use instead of the featured one above.

 

Foundation Production Evaluation Q2

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

The main character used for my magazine has no obvious in-depth social group. I have represented her to be focused within a more 'country' social group i.e. stereo-typically Texas, America. She is represented also to be the age 19. Because my magazine is targeting the age group between 13 and 17, she can be seen almost as a role model. Again, she shows no obvious ethnic or social group that she would be part of, as this may upset the reader if it were realistic.

The magazine itself represents some particular social groups. Again, it aims to be read by 13-17 year old girls and no one else. It doesn't represent a particular ethical group, but more for social groups. If the magazine were to be published, it wouldn't be a pricey glossy magazine, but a simple, cheaper magazine. This would show that it represents mainly the middle class, and a little bit of the lower class; not really being appealing for the higher class.

 

 

• Compared to the more rock style of popstars, the model I have taken photos of is much more cleaner.
• She isn't completely plastered with bright make-up.
• She isn't posing in a raunchy way compared to artists like Katy Perry or Beyonce.

Foundation Production Evaluation Q1

Evaluation Question 1. In what ways does you Media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

~With my contents page, it uses the conventions. It is a very similar layout to other music magazines such as 'Q'. It has the page numbers and a quick summary down the side of the page, like it is out of the way. Next to it, would have smaller pictures with quotations of the bigger stories, again like a quick summary and to catch the readers eyes. Above it, would say that it is the contents page. At the bottom also, is a little section for the 'Editor's Note', just like in the other magazines for my genre.


~Another part that 'uses' other magazines conventions is the title of the magazine. It is - like others - bold and bright, to catch the eyes. It is also straight forward, and easy to remember. I picked the name 'Ultraviolet' as the title of my magazine simply because 1. It is an actual song name of a few singers/bands, and 2. Ultraviolet itself is unique and different, which is why I used it, even though it has a similar layout as other magazines.

~The photos would obviously be different from other magazines, but what it uses is the layout in which they're presented. On the front cover, is one main photo, typically of a famous person. So obviously within my magazine would have made up stars, and the main one being the front cover. What I haven't done, is smaller photos of other stories on the front as some other magazines do, as most of my front cover is different headlines. In the contents like I've said, has the smaller photos of the other stories inside. The double page spread is also like other magazines. It would have one large photo of the same person on the front, but in a different pose. The text would be around it, with little captions from the text dotted around the page in bolder font and different colours, to keep the reader interested before actually reading what the text says.

~Also for the double page spread, it would have the most typing for a headline, than the other stories in the magazine, like others, apart from if other magazines make several different double page spreads for several different bigger stories. This uses the normal conventions of other magazines.

This is a front cover from the music magazine, 'Q'. The other, is mine. They both vary with the layout of the front cover. Some of the similarities include: the photographed person is in front of the magazine title, the story headlines are dotted around the page, they keep to their own colour scheme and that the main headline is bolder than the others.

This is the contents page of the same magazine, and my own. The contents page for Q has much larger photos for their stories, whereas mine are a lot smaller. They both have captions with these, to illustrate further what the headlines are about. A noticeable difference is that in my contents, I have my 'Editor's Not' included within the front page, whereas the the contents for Q, has it on a different page.

Finally, this is an example of a double page spread from Q and my own. I had to do a third page for my work because of the amount of text I'd written, but I believe it has been quite effective.