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Your blog has now been marked for research and planning. Any subsequent evidence of research and planning work will not count towards your final grade.

Main Cover

Contents Page

Main Article 1

Main Article 2

Preliminary Task

Before starting to produce the main cover of our magazine we learnt how to use photoshop by making a practice school magazine image

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

Evaluation: Question 7

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

Blog

• An account for the research and planning was all uploaded onto my blog including the complete magazine and evaluation. I had never used this sort of technology before and it was completely new to me but simply done. After some time I eventually learnt my way around the blog and managed to upload slide shows and other images.

Powerpoint

• I used Microsoft Powerpoint to create slide shows for my questionnaire results and some other evaluation questions. It helped me neaten up my Blog and separate the different sections within each question.

Studio images

• For the first time I used professional camera and the complete settings to take the photos of my models, this was an experience and I learnt how difficult and time consuming it can be to find and take one perfectly acceptable photo.

Adobe photoshop

• Adobe photoshop helped me create the four pages of my music magazine as well as the readers profile. Out of all the other technologies I found photoshop to be the most difficult one to use, however I did eventually get the whole concept and managed to experiment with it in order to create my magazine.

Slideshare

• Slideshare was completely unfamiliar to me and it helped me upload Powerpoint presentations onto my Blog, I found this very helpful and it was also very simple. I uploaded the presentations onto www.slideshare.com and then embedded the code given into my Blog.

Excel

• I used Microsoft Excel to make the graphs for my questionnaire results, it was not difficult as I am very familiar with it.

Evaluation: How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation question 5

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Evaluation: what kind of media institution would distribute your media product?

I believe that the media institute which would distribute my media product is IPC MEDIA. This institute publishes a variety of different magazines that are targeted at a younger audience and they are very successful magazines in the music industry. An example of one of their brands is NME which has been a success for a long period of time and it is also a R&B genre, this means they publish similar magazines like my media product. They have experience and are successful in what they do.

Evaluation: Who would be the audience for your media product?

This is based on data from the questionnaire and audience feedback which was a part of research and planning that helped to make important decisions in the production process.

Evaluation: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My music magazine attracts particular social groups by the use of language and images. The main target audience was generally aimed at people of the age 14 and above as R&B and Hip-Hop has huge likeability and age can not be specified too much.

• The social groups (target audience) is represented by what they would more likely prefer to see, by this I mean the questionnaire helped to understand how to represent the product to a wider audience.

• I would say that the magazine is targeted at both males and females but as the front cover is an image of a male, females may possibly be more interested, however this is not always the case as millions of males could also be drawn to the magazine due to idolising artists.

• By using props and specific costumes for the main artist, I represented particular social groups stereotypically. This was done by mimicry of other R&B or Hip Hop artists, superior poses are also used to represent the social groups that may be interested in the music artist.

• The magazine has also represented the younger audience by using an image of a young artist on the cover, as well as other images on the contents page whom are also young. This was done to show the fresh and edgy side of R&B as there are many young popular artists new to the music industry, such as Souljah boy and Lil Romeo who eventually grew to become very successful.

• My main article also appeals to specific social groups due to the informal yet mature language being used, also the content is seen to be highly worthy and the target audience is likely to find it interesting because the topics being talked about are common and popular.

Evaluation:In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 1

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Contents Production

Working Progress - Continued (screen shots)

Working Process

During the last several lessons I have been working on my front cover and contents page whilst making changes to the fonts and image positioning. It took me quite a while to make the background suit the main image and it involved a lot of adjusting. I started the contents page but eventually changed the complete image positioning and colours due to quick decision making. I asked people surrounding me for advise on what image the page gives to a public audience, nd using their response I made some changes in the process.

Working Process - Front Cover

Working Process - Front Cover

Working Progress

We started off designing a questionnaire to obtain information based of the public audiences view on music magazines, we then used some of the data to make important decisions concerning the name, genre and design of the magazine. We practised how to use photoshop by playing around with it in order to make a practice front cover of a school magazine and contents page. In addition, i experimented with the different types of fonts which linked in to the name 'neon', using a blue colour, after finding the right one i chose a background and main image after several complications including different opinions and blurry photos. Then I started the production process of the main cover of the magazine after analysing several covers and front covers.

Final image for front cover

I have chosen this as my main cover image because the modelis looking at the camera properly with sufficient eye contact involved, also it is the most clear photo taken compared to the rest of the images.