My evaluation of my magazine.

How does your magazine use, develop and challenge forms and conventions?

‘MUSIC MATTERS’ uses the forms and conventions of a real music magazine as it gives information on artist, reviews, gigs, interviews and it gives the reader free offers. The photos I have used are similar to the ones you would see in a magazine as they are facing the camera and draw attention to them, also there is a picture of them doing something like there would be in a magazine. My magazine challenges the forms and conventions of lots of popular music magazines on the market today. As some of the magazines today have loads of colours on their magazines, I have used basic colours because they are simple and attract the reader because it looks interesting. I have used a dark red, black and yellow because the are unusual on the front of a magazine.    

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represents people who want to know more about music and what makes a band/singer and all the things you need to know about making music. People who enjoy music and like different genres so the social groups can changer and mix. The purpose of magazine is for people to find out everything they need to know about music. To appeal to the particular social groups I made sure my cover is bright and fun looking so it would draw people in to read my magazine.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think that my magazine would work better if I published it with a popular magazine institution. My magazine could be published by a institution like Bauer Media as it would make my magazine of a higher standard, Bauer Media has a good reputation for publishing good magazines. Bauer Media publishes magazine of a good quality such as Kerrang!, Mojo and Q magazine, but this institution already publishes good magazines I doubt they would like to publish another one. Bauer also has TV channels to maximise their impact on the public and broaden their target groups doing this they use cross media convergence. As the institution has been around for a long time they have made their target audience all ages and interests.  

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

The audience of my magazine would be 15 and over as this is the target group that are known to buy more magazines and they would be the type of audience that would be interested in my magazine and what it has to offer the readers. 

How does my magazine attract the target audience?

My target audience is 15 and over because this age group tend to buy more magazines then others.
My magazine attracts my target audience because it features the artists that they are fans of, and I have used the same colour scheme all the way through the magazine and I have made the colours bright and eye catching. My magazine contains information on a range of different artist to attract a wide range of audiences. My magazine uses a more formal tone so it can range to a bigger audience and it makes it easier to understand, such as Q an NME. MUSIC MATTERS gives more information on artist that my target audience like and they can get free offers for all their needs.   

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

I have learnt how to edit a picture Photoshop  that I have taken and make it accessible to use on my magazine, and how to make the front page for my magazine appealing to the reader and how to edit words on to my magazine and how to make it more interesting for my target audience to read and look at.

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

The differences between the college magazine and the music magazine is that the college one is less complex and is basically just one picture with a title, but the music magazine has many pictures, titles and sub texts on the same page. The contents page of my college magazine is basic and not very informative but my music magazine is informative of everything going on in the magazine and what you will read about and how I can effect the reader and why you would want to buy the magazine.