Question 7: "Loooking back at the preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to a full product?"

"Loooking back at the preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to a full product?"

Through my preliminary task I think I've learnt alot on how to apply specific conventions for my magazine for the front cover, contents page and double page spread. Through this I was able to develop and improve my skills on Adobe Photoshop, as well as this I was able to showcase these skills through my magazine's front cover, contents page and double page spread. Comparing my College magazine to my Music magazine I can see a major improvement however I still think that there was alot more I can have done to my Music magazine to show how much of magazine cinventions that I understood. For example in my Contents Page rather thn to use the same fot that I used in my magazine front cover, I've changed it.

Using Adobe Photoshop, I think that I learnt how to use it to enhance the quality of the photos use in my magazine through cloning to airbrush the models blemishes-just to perfect it and adjust the brightness to give it more of a natural glow. However there were a few tools in Photoshop that I still didn't know how to

During the progression from my preliminary task into the full productof music magazine I learnt how to attract my audience from my magazine front cover and throught the mistakes of my preliminary task. By attracting my audience , I had to focus on the social groupthat I was targeting similarly as my college magazine was aimed at college students. Because of this I had to do background research on my target audience and weave it into my music magazine, I had to convey and present this in my magazine.

Through my preliminary task I learnt how to use a Canon E05 400D camera to take great quality photos for both magazines.

Question 4: "Who would be the audience for your media product?"

"Who would be the audience for your media product?"

In my audience Research, it showed what people between the ages of 15- 29 years of age would be interested in and are influenced by Pop music and Pop artists. As my magazine was targeting a national (British\) and International audience, my magazine had to contain world renowned and popular Pop Artists.

Therefore, I planned to target this specific market/audience. By doing so I needed to draw the audience in by using a young female model, dressed in key colourful costume since Pop magazines are often bright or with wild and bold make-up. This has been done often by Pop artist "Katy Perry" who is a prime example of bright colours in the Pop magazine scene. I have attempted to imitate things music magazines contain which appeals to the young audience such as; Tour dates and Concert ticket give aways, and the older with exclusive interviews on non established artists and Gossip filled top stories.

   

Pop Music in the past was mostly listened to by white people, both male and female; but since then pop music has adapted and has become multi-cultural and is listened to by young and old consumers. This is to pop music magazines advantage as they'd be able to publish their magazine internationally.