How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
From my previous research on institutions I have found two contenders who would publish my magazine. These are Bauer Media, a publisher with more than 80 media brands including the popular music magazines Kerrang! and Q and Future Publishing who publish the popular magazines Metal Hammer and Future Music as well as many others. I chose these two institutions because they both publish magazines similar to mine in terms of the same target audience and music genres. Kerrang! is a very similar magazine to my own which is why I feel it would be a better choice to choose Future Publishing to publish my media product. I believe this would be best because this institution doesn’t publish a music magazine for fans of less extreme metal genres who are more likely to read my magazine rather than Metal Hammer, a magazine for those who are fans of the extreme genres of metal (black/death/core metal).
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am keen to use Future Publishing because of their more adult approach to the
content of their magazines, in particular Metal Hammer, in terms of language
and register and images. From flicking through Metal Hammer magazine, I have
found that the language and register has been wrote deliberately to appeal very
specifically to the magazine’s audience. It’s almost as if the articles are
impersonating a keen reader of the magazine and therefore gives a heavily bias
perspective on bands and music news. As I previously mentioned, this
institution publishes more mature content that what would be found in Kerrang!
magazine and therefore is aware of the same target audience that my media
product is aiming at.
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| Here is an example of the more mature imagery in Metal Hammer, a magazine published by Future Publishing. |
What would be the audience for your media product?
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How did you attract / address your audience?
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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Photoshop was a dominant technology that I used throughout
the course. I used it from the very start to create my preliminary tasks and
continued to use it up to completing my magazine and starting my evaluation. I
used many elements of the Photoshop software to create my magazine pages such
as the various filters available to enhance and manipulate images as well as adding,
blending and resizing layers. I have shown in the video provided that I am
capable of using Photoshop effectively and can show a high degree of
understanding. For example, I have provided evidence that I can crop an image
that I have uploaded to Photoshop to a suitable size to use for my music
magazine’s front cover. I have also included screen capture footage of me
creating text and changing the size and colour of the font efficiently and
showing understanding of doing so.
I found using Photoshop an easy task as I had plenty of
previous experience and knowledge so I found creating my preliminary task
magazine pages as well as my music magazine pages no problem at all. I still
feel that I have developed by experience of using this piece of software and
feel more capable using many layers at once to create a piece of work such as
my magazine.
I used the Internet throughout the creation of my coursework
to aid me and provide information and resources for me to do so. For example, I
used the popular blogging platform Blogger
to store and present each stage of my development throughout the year and
have used it from the first day to the last. I also made use of many other
resources such as polldaddy.com, imgur.com and Google Images which have all
provided me the necessary requirements to assist my work. I have provided a
short video which highlights how I used each resource online to show that I was
capable of doing so.
I found using each resource rather simple and
straight forward to use and had no major issues throughout the period of my
coursework. I did however have some minor complications with finding a suitable
place to upload my target audience questionnaire as I needed a platform which
was free and provided me with the necessary tools to share my questionnaire
online without any complications. Looking back on your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Link to flowchart on Google Docs
