My Final Product

Evaluation

                                                    

Here is a link to prezentation that explains how does my product represent social grup ?

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13d2y7MeWwTNb9DFu9xzGVUo9ExlD-bxhBG9Sy0f3f4w/present?noreplica=1#slide=id.p

What media institution might distribute my product and why?

 

 

I have done a research on media institutions that distribute music magazine. I have found that probably the largest one is IPC, Bauer Media Group and Empa. I would like Bauer Media group to distribute my magazine. Bauer is a German media institution distributing magazine is 15 countries worldwide. Their knowledge and experience gained from 1875 is very valuable. I can support this idea with a fact that they sell around 38 million magazines weekly. I have chosen this media institution because they also publish magazines like Q or Kerrang. I see those two as very successful and what’s more important is that they are same genre as my product. This shows that Bauer media institution know how to promote and distribute magazines. Also this institution is known worldwide, this will gain audience trust.  This institution will also invest much money in my magazine. This is because they have a big budget. My product  will also be associated with those two popular  magazines, Q and Kerrang. 

                                                                        

                                                      Audience

My music magazine is clearly Rock genre. When creating my music magazine I looked at the popular rock songs, watch the music videos and research typical rock makeup or outfit. I have done all of this in order to plan my photoshoot for the magazine. For example the image on my front cover, the girl in the picture has army jacket which links to the rock music genre. She also has a strong makeup and red hair, all of this link to rock music. Those rock elements create perfect image of rock music fan, the audience may see the similarities between the person in the image and themselves.

This is NBME music magazine reader’s profile. I have based my audience on the information in this reader profile. Why NME? Simply because it is very similar to my genre, it is rock genre. I have also done my own reader profile based on only couple of my friends opinion, my reader profile wasn’t so detailed as NME one.  Reader profile gives many information about my audience, looking at this we can get information on rock fans as it is a rock magazine. For example 95% has access to the internet and 38% has a mobile phone with building camera. This information gave me an idea to place QR code on my front cover. This allows 38% of my audience to access my website. Overall, from the reader profile I know that the audience that I aim at like technology so I have to make my magazine suitable for their needs.

   What have I  learned?

The best way to represent what I have learned when creating my music magazine would be comparing it to my preliminary task that I have done at the beginning of the year. This magazine is not very conventional . Now I have noticed straight away that the rule of 3 colours have not been applied and the layout is spread around the whole front cover. In my college magazine I have used 7 different colours where on my music magazine front cover there is only 4 colours and the 4^th one is just the price font. Secondly there is a big difference in the image. College magazine image is not edited in any way, it was placed on front cover showing details that are not needed. This has a big influence on the magazine as the text is not very visible. On my music magazine front cover the image has been edited using Photoshop, not needed background has been erased so I could set the red colour so the text is visible. Another thing I noticed is the huge bar code with a date on, this is not conventional and has no purpose in this magazine. On my music magazine the bar code is in suitable size, also I included QR code and the date is on top of, not covering the bar code. This is far more conventional and detailed that on my college magazine.  Another element of conventions I have learned is the framing of the image. I have used mid shoot for my music magazine, it is conventional and effective. On the beginning of the course I clearly didn’t know this as the college magazine does not have any specific framing. Last but not least, I have 5 different fonts on my college magazine, once again it gives effect of magazine not being organized also the layout of the pull quotes supports this idea. On my music magazine all the pull quotes are in the same font and in one straight column. They are kept in two different colours to separate them and not look like a boring column of text.  In conclusion all I have learn the conventions of the magazine, how should it look like and that the details are important.

Double Page Spreads

                     
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In respond to feedback

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/szymon/5028650/?ref=link

In  responce to feedback from my teacher others I understound that i need to follow convenctions more. A good way to do this would be haveing a music magazine next to me when creating my own, I could lay it out in similar way and get inspiration from other convenctions.

Peer Feedback on Contents page.

The use of original images is good. Your text is clear and easy to read. the page is not distracting in any way. Therefore, all information is clear and understood.

I think you could use some colour or a pattern/texture in the background To create some depth in the page.

Luke Hallett.

Peer feedback
Your contents page colours look very effective and stand out and you stuck to the coventional 3 colours.
Your numbers could stand out more down the side of the page

3rd Content Page Draft

2nd Content Page Draft

1st Content Page Draft

Content Page Digital Mockup

Feedback response

When reading the feedback I understound that I need to write more about the process of me makeing picures or working with photoshop. More description is needed.

Peer Feedback

Lucy Richmond

Your blog is good and fits the genre you have chosen. It looks like a lot of work has gone into the blog and you have done some extra work such as behind the scene videos of photo shoots and make tutorial videos which shows you have put some extra effort into your work

Strengths: your front cover is very good and follows the conventions of a magazine. It looks realistic and like something you would find in a shop. It also fits with the genre of music you have chosen.

Areas for improvement: You could maybe make the masthead slightly bigger so that it stands out more. You could also make some of the features bigger to fill in some gaps.

Peer Assessment

Lauren Bird

Simon's cover is very well laid out and all of his blog matches the cover's theme. His research is very in depth and includes a variety of videos and images. His main image is very effective as a cover image. He could maybe improve the design of his magazine logo and the text layout.

Peer Feedback by Sammiie Vickerman

This blog is good, however it would look a lot better if there was more draft posts, if you had taken more images included all of the images you have taken. Your idea spider diagram could be more detailed and a bit more pacific. With the pictures you have taken you could say why you made them do what they did, how the photoshoot went, what you enjoyed about doing it, if you found it difficulty, what pictures you'd use etc. The moodboard could have images of Rock singers/bands, different fonts you want to use. The video of Linkin Park Numb you could writre about why you uploaded that video.

However the blog is good, some aspects are detailed that aren't mentitoned above. The front cover you have uploaded is good, it's a good idea, good use of colour using the genre of Rock music/magazines.