Evaluation: Question 7

Question 7

Evaluation: Question 6

Evaluation question 6

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Evaluation: Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

I used a number of different methods and techniques to attract my target audience. My target audience is teenage girls aged 15-18 who are into mainstream pop/chart music. I used InDesign to present my media product and annotate my magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread to evaluate the ways in which I attracted and addressed my target audience.

Double page spread

My front cover

Contents page 

To conclude I have attracted/ addressed my audience by reinforcing dominant ideologies of the interests of my target audience to appeal to potential buyers. Throughout my magazine I have stuck to the style of the genre of my music magazine to give it a pop feel, while also addressing my target audience. I have used a number of techniques such as adding puffs, pictures and cover lines which I believe will attract my target audience most.

Evaluation: question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product? 
I created a social profile for the type of people who would be my audience of my music magazine. My target audience is teenage girls from 15-18. When examining my media product I believe that the audience for my magazine will be girls who are interested in mainstream pop/chart music. I believe that I made a wise choice in designing my media product to appeal to this audience because this is a wide and easy qaudience to attract. I myself am 16 years old and buy magazines on a monthly basis and most of my friends do aswell.

Evaluation: Question 3

Evaluation question 3

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Evaluation: Question 2

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups? on Prezi

Evaluation: Question one

I made this video by filming a powerpoint I made and then recording my voice onto a camera. I think used 'Imovie' to detach the audio file and place on top of the filming of my powerpoint.

Music magazine: Final Contents page

This is my final contents page. I think this would really appeal to my target audience because it matches the genre of music and has used typical girl colours. 

Music magazine: Stages of my contents page

Stage 1

I started designing my contents by adding the title, I played around with fonts and colours but went with pink because it is a typical girl colour and would attract my target audience of teenage girls. I used a font which went with my genre of music (Pop). I added boxes which included what was 'On the cover' and what my magazine 'Features' this is a typical convention of a music magazine however I just adapted it so it went with my genre of music, by adding a bold 'stroke' on the boxes making them stand out.

Stage 2

To make this actually look like a contents page from a music magazine, I added a smaller version of my masthead from the front cover. This makes it easily recognizable to audiences as a music magazine contents page and also gives it a 'pop' feel. I then added an image that I took, which is of the same girl on the front cover. I also added a bold stroke around the picture to make it stand out.

Stage 3

I then added two more pictures of different sizes, overlapping each other however they still stand out because of my use of the stroke around the pictures. By adding pictures of different sizes it makes it look busy and full of information attracting potential buyers.

Final contents

To finish I added the finishing touches such as the date, and page numbers onto the photos, these are all typical conventions of a music magazine contents page. I added a puff with our website on it to make it look like a real music magazine. I used the same font for my page numbers and titles so it would draw audiences eyes to them, making them want to read on. The use of the puff, colour palette and font all appeal to my target audience of teenage girls.

Music magazine: Draft contents page

Draft contents page

I did my draft contents page on Indesign. I played around with the layout as well as pictures and colours. I decided that I would used the picture I took of the guitar however not the other photo. I also decided that I would use the idea of the boxes 'on the cover' and 'features' because they look stylish and the colours go with the genre of my music magazine.