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Overall i think that my media studies coursework has turned out really well and i am pleased with it all. I managed to sort out the errors and just kept working at it and the work payed off. I have leart a lot over the past few months and it has helped my skills a lot.

images

The next image i used was on my double page spread, i chose just a simple body shot image to be placed just next to the interview to clearly show the readers who the magazine was interviewing. The image shown above was the original photograph but then to make it look more professional i cut around the image in photoshop and placed it onto a white background which in the end looked effective because the background on the article was also white so the photograph just fit in well.

The main photograph i included was on the front cover, i made it so that it was also black and white but this time with a black background to fit the colours on the page which were black red and white, i chose these colours because i thought they were the most appropriate for the genre i was focusing on.

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Making my final designs took weeks to complete but was worth it all in the end, i learnt a lot whilst creating them, using indesign(ID) and also Photoshop. Learning new techniques on photoshop and just starting from scratch when using ID, this was a really good experience but also challenging at the same time.

For my final designs i took a series of pictures and chose the best three out of the lot that would sum up a recording artist of the 'indie' genre, the pictures i chose are shown above. I cropped the images and converted them into black and white for a more magazine style/professional look.

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After completing my questionnaire and handing them out to my audience, i recieved and read the results and found out that they were all possitive it connection to my music magazine.

It was very helpful to see what the public thought about music magazines and how much they would pay for one etc...
These resulta helped me a lot to create my magazine, it helped me because i knew what the public would want in a magazine and what the majority of them were interested in, if they were interested in music at all. Knowing if they were interested in finding out about new artists was interesting to know so that i new to include this in my magazine and the same for the other subjects brought up in the questionnaire.

Overall this part of my work helped me a lot and turned out to be very successful.

Process

To get to my final magazine, i needed to go through some stages in order to reach my final target.
After completing my internet, shop and magazine research i then decided to continue with audience research to see what they thought about my magazine idea, i handed out the questionnaires to 5 people and here were my results.
here are the questions i asked- Q1. Are you a big fan of music and/or music magazines?
A. yes- 4/5

Q2. Do you buy CD's in the shop or prefer to download them?
a.buy- 3 b.download- 2

Q3. How interested are you in discovering new artists?
a. not at all- 0 b.slightely- 1 c. very-4

Q4. Do you go often go to live concerts/gigs?
a.yes-4 b.no-1

Q5. Do you like to read reviews about live music?
a.yes- 4 b.no-1

Q6. (show the person rough draft of magazine) would you be
interested in buying this magazine if it hit the shops?
a. yes-5 b.no-0

Q7. If yes to the previous question, how much would you pay for the magazine?

a.less than one pound- 0 b.one pounds-2 pounds- 3 c.two pounds ten or above-2

finished magazine

continued

As i have done previous research focusing on different websites, i am carrying this on further to create an image for my magazine and also an image of the kind of reader that the magazine would attract.
By doing this i have looked around at different magazines/shops/websites etc... and have researched what type of people the fans are of these companies already going. The companies i chose all fit in well within the genre of my magazine being a 'vintage/mod' style. This is a hole new genre to this form of media and this is what would be the unique selling point when thinking about selling the magazine to this particular audience.

Research

For my magazine i have been looking for different websites and shops or even products that fit the theme of my music magazine.
First i decided to look at the websites of shops that fit the theme, the first website i looked at was a clothes shop, this clothes shop is in a vintage style and the pictures and style of the website fits well for the fashion aspect of my magazine- http://www.retro-rehab.co.uk/retro-rehab.html

The next website i looked at was the fashion magazine called 'Wonderland', i looked at this website because i read the magazine and I can link it to my magazine quite a lot, by looking at the different colours used in each issue of the magazine and also the layout, i can focus on looking through an issue of this magazine to get ideas for my contents page and main articles.
-http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/fashion/index.php

And of course the most obvious of products to focus on is the famous music magazine, 'NME' i chose this because of the music side of the magazine and how they write the main articles and link to these articles by images on the front page. I have also been looking at the styles of the photographs inside the magazine and on the cover, the colours chosen also apeal to me, the red, black and white are the colours that i also would like to use and this is where i got the idea from.
http://www.nme.com/home

Feedback 26/3/09

A good prelim task Jess and evaluation.
However without research you will lose alot of marks - see my previous post!
Now you need to scan and upload your mood board and your rough outline of your pages.
Remember you should be blogging every week - on your progress etc...
Miss McNulty

Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task I completed the task of designing and making a magazine cover for the college magazine. 

Most of the front cover was a photograph that i took of a member of my class, this was successful an worked very well, i also made titles with boxes round with different borders around them. 

Like any magazine i also included a bar code and the price the magazine would be. The difficult part of this process was layering all the different sections and boxes of the front cover, but this got easier the more i did it. 

By completing this task i have learnt how to use the 'ID' programme and different skills needed to complete this magazine task well. I will maybe use all these points again in my real magazine but this was helpful to practise.

Feedback 12/3/09

Good Jess- but you need more research on here.

Who will be your target audience? Age range , gender, interests?
Also use the Project Phoenix research to outline your potential readers.
What is your USP that will make your magazine be competative and stand out from others in the magazine industry?

You need to put your completed audience questionnaire on your blog , to research your potential audience- and then your results!

You also now need to analyse a front cover, contents page and double page feature - of a music magazine - in relation to whether or not they follow the conventions of magazines (these are outlined in the PDF under practical projects on the AS Media Moodle site.) Who is the target audience for the magazine and how has it been put together to appeal to this audience?

Look at similar products and get some inspiration from them - upload or scan pages onto your blog.
Miss McNulty

Introduction

The project i have chosen to work on your my coursework is a music magazine, i thought this would be interesting as i am very into music. The style of my magazine will be a  kind of 'indie/rock/mod' style. The target audience would be around 15-25.