Question 7. Looking back at my Preliminary task, what do I feel i have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Probably the most important aspect of the what i have learnt is the requisition for time management and appropriate planning skills. To me, this was vital because my own research and planning did not go so well because of these factors and other external ones, so I feel that I have learnt my lesson from that ordeal. In addition, thorough planning and preparation for the production of your final piece is also strategically important. You can place timed objectives of what you want to achieve in a given period making the production run smoothly and without hiccups, provided you have planned for outcomes. Also, what I found vital to my work, was my progression in technical photography skills. In particular, my skills on Photoshop. From lectures we received during the lessons as well as YouTube clips I watched religiously for long periods of time, my skills dramatically improved during the production process. As my confidence grew, i began to get more tempted in pushing the boundaries in conventional music magazine making, disruptive dominant ideologies and replacing them with emergent ones to keep the magazine looking as fresh as possible; a feat appealing to my target audience as demonstrated by my video. My awareness of how much target audiences effect the production of magazines has rose staggeringly. The audience drives everything in a magazine, from fonts, to content. Reiterating then. I believe that the most important thing i have learnt from the production and research processes is the importance of time management and priority allocation. In order to accomplish a good piece of work, one must be organised and focused. Looking back, in hindsigh, my goal was to create a Magazine product aimed at young intelligent educated people. Another factor was that it should break the dominant ideologies of mainstream magazines. I feel i have accomplished this.

Question 6. What have I learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

question 5. How did I attract my audience?

Question 4 and how did I address my audience.

The target audience for my magazine. Is young males aged 19-26. Who have been educated to at least an A-level degree. In terms of the Jicnar scale my magazine is aimed at B (middle class myoung men) with a history and understanding of music.

question 2. How does my media product represent particular social groups?

Question 2 from Jackodude1993

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

Question 3 from Jackodude1993

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

Completed Double Page Spread

Completed Contents Page

Completed Front Cover

Coursework Magazine Analysis and Research Part 1

Masthead

The masthead denotes the words 'Sun' and 'Magazine' in a basic serif font, as well as a conventional use of captions. The mastheads use of colour is interesting, the washed out cream colour is used. 'Sun' and 'Magazine' are essentially self explanatory, due to the large font size it's recognizable as the title of this particular magazine. What's more interesting however is the use of a serif font. Being as this is a folk magazine; the serif font could connote how serious the editors and readers will take that particular genre, perhaps leading us to say that this magazine is quite upmarket, due to its specialist audience. This point could also be backed up by the magazines anchorage as a folk music magazine, a genre stereotypically defined as 'hippie' perhaps. Whereas the serif font does connote a degree of precision and professionalism, perhaps going against the grain with what we typically think of folk music. 

CVI

This is the CVI of the image. It denotes 3 people stood smiling. What is interesting about this use of the CVI is that it goes against the usual conformities of a music magazine. Typically a glamorous woman that is presented as sexually available and thus objectified. If we take that conformity into account, this particular CVI is striking, due to the absence of models and or well known personalities. This I believe is due to the anchorage in genre. Being a folk music magazine cover, we could again say that the audience is very specific, as opposed to a mainstream celebrity obsessive magazine audience. What is also noticeable is the apparent lack of Photoshop on the CVI, in particular the absence of the spot healing tool. Connoting to me, that the focus is on the music itself, rather than the appearance of the musicians

Table of Contents

Schedule

Work Schedule

1. I need to create a varied amount of ideas in order to effectively produce my best work. Looking at alternatives makes you sure on your decisions.

2. Reacclimatise with professional cameras. This will be useful when doing the main coursework also,as a medium close up is needed.

3. Take a medium close up of a student, to go on the front cover and upload it into the computer.

4. Take a Photoshop tutorial to remind myself how to correctly edit pictures to create my front cover.

5. Edit my photograph and apply a Masthead and article overviews along with a date, price and bar code.

6. Upload to my blog.

Final Preliminary Magazine Cover

Layout ideas

Connotations I will communicate

Using a serif font. My magazine will connote professionalism as high end magazines use this particular style as a formality

Magazines also limit their use of colour. As we can see, top market magazines typically use less than four colours. Whereas more downmarket magazines use many more to appear punchy, rather than professional 

More high market magazines also typically use a more mature and formal font. As opposed to children's magazines which use a mass of squiggles to demonstrate the connotation of ‘fun’

Audience Profile

Example Of A Professional Student Magazine

Denotation - A group of students stood on a blue background gazing upward. Sans serif font

Connotation - Because they're all together, it could connote a sense of unity, they are all smiling or appear to be laughing so they are clearly happy. Sans serif font connotes that the magazine isn't particularly formal. Perhaps quirky

Anchorage - A Chinese student magazine. Professionally made

Denotation- A student in a cap and gown sat on steps smiling.

Connotation- the fact that he is smiling could perhaps connote the idea of success

Anchorage - An American magazine, designed to attract american high school students and inform them about College choices

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Hello, I'm Jack and this is my AS Media blog