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

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

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

Q5, How did you attract/address your audience?

When it comes to attracting my audience it was essential for me to incorporate certain headings as I had a specific target audience that my music magazine was aimed such as; dancehall and bashment, by me mentioning the genre that my music represents not only will it attract the specific audience that it is aimed at however it also attracts a wider audience due to the fact that most people know where the niche genre originates from. Secondly the colour scheme illustrates where the genre is from (Jamaica), I used colours such as green, gold and black which represent culture and tradition in relation to the country that is being represented.

        My magazine also has a range of images both male and female which signifies that the magazine is aimed at both genders. My main artist is an attractive male model on the front cover of my magazine in fashionable clothing to promote an enigmatic look, I drew sketches of what I wanted my front cover to look like and then handed it to my audience to see what they thought of it. I also done a questionnaire and passed it round to a variety of people for my music magazine.

        On my contents page I wrote about festivals that would be taking place for my audience which also signifies that my music magazine promotes functions for people to go to.

        In my opinion I believe the layout of my music magazine is quite sophisticated and elegant which would attract more viewers to read the magazine.

        I received verbal feedback from my peer groups and they  suggested what stood out to them the most and what stood out to them the least.

6. What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product?

7 .Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the the full product?

Over the course of this production I feel that my technical skills to do with Photoshop and other technology devices has improved a lot, before we started this task I never knew how to crop a picture properly on Photoshop but now I am able to:

¨Crop a picture in a professional way by using the eraser tool and magnetic lasso tool

¨ How to use 3 or more colours for my background

¨How to give an outline/stroke around my masthead, I done this by right clicking onto the layer that I want to give an outline to and then when I done this I saw blending options so I clicked on that and then went all the way down to stroke.

¨How to change the lighting in a photograph I done this by clicking on to image and then clicking on auto colour and if I wanted to increase the brightness of the photo I would need to click on image again and then click on adjustment and then go to brightness and contrast

¨How I made my main image look smooth was by using the blur tool

If I was to compare my music magazine and school magazine together

I would say that in my school magazine the colour schemes do not link in with each other and also the typography that I used does not feel as if it was appropriate for an actual school magazine and it did not seem attractive or eye catching in any type of way at all  my layout to me seems very basic it feels like I didn't really put a lot of effort or thought in the magazine, I didn't not put in what issue it was  however with my music magazine I think the colours work well together and the colour scheme works well with the genre. When I look at it I can already tell that its a magazine that is representing the a niche genre and also the country that it could be representing.

Music Magazine Interview 3

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Music Magazine Interview 2

Music Magazine Interview

http://soundcloud.com/gina-25/magazine-interview

First draft and final product

Front Cover, Contents Page, Double Page Spread

Problems that occurred with my first music magazine draft

I asked a few of my peer members to look at my first draft of my music magazine and most of them told me;

1. Front cover: My colour scheme came across as quite simple, also the colours that I used against the background never blend well to some people however they understood why my front cover was black, yellow and green because the genre of my magazine is 'Bashment' which originated from Jamaica.  The quality of the main image was poor, when some of them looked at it they never felt a connection with the artist and the photo itself looked as if not enough input was put in for example lighting and angle shots. Not enough sub headings which meant that the magazine would less likely be able to attract an audience. There was no date of the magazine 
2. Contents page: Not enough contents. The format of a magazine is not the same as the front because i used a red stroke behind the typography which was not used on the front cover nor did it link in with any of the colour scheme or pictures. Most  magazine usually have two or more columns underneath each other and my contents were diagonal from each other.  An image of my artist was not placed on my contents page which made him seem insignificant. Not enough pictures present. The font that i used was not very sophisticated meaning my font was unprofessional, the typography that occurs in most magazines are Arial.  
3.  Double paged spread:  I did not use a  range of different angled shots, such as high angled/low angled shots of the artist. The pictures i used did not blend well with the text, the text did not go around the pictures. the font i used was not the average 12 font size it was bigger than that. I had no pull quotes which is not really needed but it usually attracts viewrs who read an article. No use of effect on the images used

Reason for changing my artist

One of the reasons why i changed my artist is because the person who i am currently using, his style is unique and different compared to the way how some young artist will dress, which means that he would not look uncomfortable if i wanted to place him in a suit or shirt because he naturally dresses that way.Secondly he would be showing off a different representation of youth, the could make some people curious and intrigued to know what the artist on the main front cover is like. Some people will ideaolise the fact that he's steering away from the stereotypical attire youth are usually seen in which are track suits, hoodies and trainers.In one of my pictures i have taken a shot of my artist in everyday casual clothes; jumper and jeans. One of the reason why i done this shot is because after I received my peer assessment feedback and showed my magazine to some of my friends they suggested that i use a casual attire look on my artist so that he attracts a wide range of audiences.