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

Well my product during this task has majorly surpassed my preliminary task, as I used a whole range of different tools, I done research, more technological resources which also allowed me to explore different features for example. With Photoshop at first I wasn’t so confident and struggled with adding shades and effects on things. However with this task I have shown a broader knowledge in this. And another technological factor was the use of font websites which allowed me to be able to download representative fonts and fonts what will best suite my work.

Looking at my preliminary task there were effects I liked I the filmstrips however what happened was that it was not accurate and looked quite bad,(Quality Wise).

When I look at my preliminary task I can easily say that I have improved drastically in the skills, fundamentally there are also many things I could have done in order to improve my preliminary task.  I remembered doing research on different magazines, for example mixmag which helped my base my final product, with the preliminary task I didn’t really do this, this is altered my grade for it. 

I looked at mixmag at mixmags which then helped me allocate those conventions which make magazines look pleasing to the eye, especially with the genre i chose, i based my magazine on Dance and partying, Preferably Mixmags genre and i looked at those elements they used for example to vivid colours and badges which Potentially lures the target audience, 

To conclude this I feel that  my work conpared to the preliminary task was exceptional, and there were factors which made my work look much more conventional.

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

One technological device I used was the Olympus FE4040 digital camera which has 14 Megapixels with auto focus.  At first I wasn’t too clear with photography, and didn’t understand what shots would be recommended for my product, however because I was using it quite a lot my skills then enhance, and taking shot were quite good, futhermore in reference to my product, I should have taken a wider range of shots for example groups shots and an establishing shot which therefore shows background "An Establishing shots may use famous landmarks to indicate the city where the action is taking place or has moved to, such as Big Ben to identify London". Essentially showing use with different types of shots would then maximize my marks overall.

Another use of technology I used for this work was Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS5 and Elements which allowed me to modify images, whether adding effects or managing the size.  Using this program essentially allowed me to do my work, as I used different types of Layers and filters to design my product  (all four pages) one basic effect Photoshop allowed me to do was added a shadow effect on the wording, this also allowed my work to look more magazine conventional. 

Photoshop also allowed me to manage my pages, and calculate what areas need to be cut out, for example developing my double page spread. The mistake I made was that instead of using Microsoft publisher I used Photoshop which then made me have to separate my double spread pages.

And finally I used the Dafont.com website to download different font packages, in essence I done this to see what font suited my product and also the genre of my product.  I used Dafont.com with virtually every text on my product. Therefore it can then lure my audience, and be more user friendly as in them becoming attracted.

dafont.com essentially made my work seem and look much better and therefore this means that my work was quite conventional.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Essentially what I did was that with every source of texting I added that shadow effect therefore it makes wording stand out. In essence when it came to wording I tried to keep things short and snappy as because my target market isn’t the reading type, however they will like to know what is going on.  For example with the featuring I just kept it basic, but understandable “Basshunter; Top 30 Tracks” I addressed my audience in informal way, and essentially this is also in reference to the gratification theory where   12the when as because in modern society teens tend to speak slang or shorten words, and by using this technique teenagers feel that the context is also talking with them. I also i have added those elements that will also attract buyers for example adding the special Issue element with a badge and also showing The “FREE MIX CD INSIDE” and everyone loves a freebie therefore using this technique also drives my target audient.

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

Again my audience is likely to be teenagers, gender isn’t a problem, as because the genre which I am basing my product (Magazine) Is quite gender diverse, essentially my primary market is teenagers, however I will also use young adults and adults as secondary as because there is a percentage of those that will buy it. My audience will be into musicians like David Guetta, Katy B, Basshunter, Daft Punk, Flo Rida & those musicians that have made it big in the sector of music genre, ideally I feel this is good because of the fact that having musicians like Wretch 32 or Drake would not actually attract my audience, these musicians tend to be RAP and RnB.

My magazine will also have events advertisements as because this is another factor that lures consumers into buying the magazine. Having latest information on Events makes buyers feel that they have exclusive information and everyone wants to have that exclusiveness. And then again this can be linked to advertising free music CD Demos or free mixes as because my magazine is a dance one, and knowing that consumers can get a free Mix inside is another factor of enticing these people.

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

What I did was researched the main companies that magazines are published by, because my magazine is a dance magazine I searched for those types of organisations that develop these

·         Development hell

·         Uncut  (Tracy Cheesman)

·         DJ MAG (James
Robertson)

Essentially these magazine companies have been acknowledged for the major sales of magazines and other sources of media for example development Hell Ltd publishers of mixmag distributed Over 21,500 copies in Britain alone. And due to the fact that my magazine is a dance/ Party magazine, development hell seem quite representative.
again however we could argue the fact that if uncut distribute my magazine it will expand their markets too.

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

The corporate social group I wanted my magazine to be aimed at was the teenage mind/ however it is also for those into party animals and those into dance. So in order to make my make my magazine seem more professional and realistic for those into dance music and partying I will and features like adding advertisements like concerts/Gigs and other types of events.  Teen agers both male and female are both my primary audience therefore I will understand their needs and wants, and therefore my magazine will seem more conventional.  In order to get this I looked at the attitude of David Guetta, and his facial emotion and how it responded to the potential buyers and target market – and that’s what I have done, In order to get that response. I looked at David Guetta and Stole a few ideas and elements from him like the shades for example.

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

Fundamentally I believe my magazine seems quite professional as because looking at my front cover which I based on Mixmag I seemed to grab the vital information & and the key conventional components which makes my magazine look much more professional.

In reference to the heading and font – I tried to make the heading seem slightly different compared to the mixmag, were the heading font seems slightly rounded and no effect added onto it. Looking quite basic, however I what I have done in order to make it seem professional I copied the font sizes

And with the wording I added the shadow effect to make it stand out, and the actual font seemed quite similar, quite bold and vivid.

Also I looked at the way the image as taken a mid-shot which seemed quite ideal, essentially what I also done was looked at the image and seem now conventional it looked and used it to support the shot I was taking.

In essence I added badges and symbols in order to make my work seem much more realistic

when designing my front cover I looked mainly at the mixmag's conventions - and how it is user friendly i also took into account the predominate vivid colours used, in this case Yellow. When developing mine i used the same technique but used green instead.

with the also Looked at the layout of this, to help me base my concept.