7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

In the progression from my preliminary task to my final product, I have learnt a lot. I’ve learnt how everything should be situated on the pages that it is on; I’ve learnt how to piece together a magazine, how to use techniques to attract the audience and how to make text stand out by changing the font and the colouring of it. How the positioning and angle of a photo is taken and put onto the magazine tells us about the character and whether they’re a strong or a weak person. In a group picture of a band, we can usually establish who the lead singer is, and the order of importance from the image and how the members are positioned.

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

From the constructing of my product I have learnt that there is a meaning behind absolutely everything on a magazine, what looks to be a normal picture, tells a sort of story, the way they’re stood, where they’re looking, what they’re wearing. The lighting and the positioning of the picture. The fonts also have a massive deal to do with the appearance of the magazine. And what the creators want the customers to focus on, and see first. There is a colour pallet rule, on which you only use certain colours on certain colours for it to stand out and become appealing. The way that everything is displayed on the page is all part of the look too. On most music magazines, they have an F or a Z style. Where everything of the cover either resembles the shape of an F or a Z. they also use many layers on magazines, it isn’t just all put onto a page. Every bit of text/banners/pictures will probably have their own layer. So they can be placed anywhere on the page and moved easily.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

I attracted my audience by looking at magazines of the similar genre. I then took bits from each magazine and made mine from the pieces from chosen favourite magazines. I believe that my magazine will attract my audience because of the contents of it. And the information it supplies. It will have all the new bands and their albums. Lists of gigs and who is performing at them. The look I went for with the magazine fits the description of the audience as well, and I’m hoping that if they see people with a similar interest and fashion sense to them, then they’ll be attracted to the magazine and share the contents with friends.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my media product would be teenagers, around the age of 16-19 who have an interest in fashion, music and especially the indie/ indie rock genre. I chose for these to be the audience as I can relate to it a little. I have an interest in fashion and I do like the small indie bands that not many people have heard of. I also like mainstream indie bands like Arctic Monkeys or The Vaccines. So I decided to do my magazine on a genre similar to them, and try to collaborate the genre of music that i will be analysing and creating my magazine of will be indie/ indie rock. I have chosen to use this genre as my own because it’s the type of music that i like to listen to, and over the past year or two the music has grown on me. Indie rock is a type of alternative rocks that originated in the UK and the US in the 1980's. It has around 20 subgenres within it. These include Indie pop, grunge, jangle pop and many more. The name for the genre of music deprives from 'independent' and mainly consists of small indie groups that create music themselves, and not with the help of large studio producing teams. In the mid 1980's the term 'indie' was not used to display the bands, but the music they made. This is where we get the term ‘indie rock’ from.

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

The type of media institution that may distribute my media product is an NME type business. Or a production company interested in the indie/ indie rock genre of music. The magazine tells the audience the top 50 albums and singles of the month that are available to buy. Or they give a website where you can download for a little less. I think that the smaller indie groups may be interested in helping out with the promotion and distribution of the magazine. As they would get a shout out, or a page about themselves. Definitely some sort of mention within the magazine. Which will promote their band/ group and hopefully people will hear about it and tell others and before you know it, the group becomes slightly known. I think that someone would invest into part of the magazine and help with the distribution, as it shows that they are willing to help the people that are just starting, and if the magazine was to get to a bigger more popular level, then more people would be interested in who promoted and distributed them, and then they would possibly get more people wanting help from them. By promoting the magazine, they would be promoting themselves also.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
 

My media product represents the social group of indie/indie rock. It represents this particular group because of the music and the bands featured in the magazine, the colours used and the style of the photos that I’ve put into the magazine. The clothing I got my models to wear during the photo shoot or the preparation for the pictures added to this group, as it fitted in with the description and the style of my music and social group. The group that my magazine is aimed at has its own sort of style but it is varied a little. As some of the music featured would go under the category of indie, and other would go more rock. So two different styles of music are joined/ collaborated together to make one