Looking back at my preliminary tasks and the final outcome of
that task I feel the final product of my task now are of a much higher
standard. I feel that, by learning how to use Adobe Photoshop to a higher
standard this has increased my work standard. My music magazine cover, contents
and double page spread is of a higher standard because I learnt how to use
Photoshop better, and also because I feel I now fully understand the
conventions of music magazines and how to make them look good and appeal to an
audience. By evaluating many covers, double page spreads and contents pages I
was able to see how real magazine companies layout their magazines and was able
to reproduce this in my way. Overall, the longer the task went on the more
skills I gained in different areas making it easier for me to produce a good
quality music magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.
Sunday, 3 May 2015
Evaluation Q5: 5. How did you attract/address your audience? How did audience feedback help you to make important decision?
I used the
results from my Questionnaire to help me to know what the popular choices my
audience chose, this would help to produce my magazine based on what the public
wanted. I attracted my audience
by using colours such as 'orange' to grab their attention. This was important
as when the magazine is on the shop shelf surrounded by similar products it is
vital that my magazine would stand out over the rest. I also placed my masthead
at the top of my magazine so that it was easily visible to my target
audience. I
also used superlatives on my magazine. Superlatives are signs or symbols that
attract the consumer to the magazine, for example 'NEW' or ‘WIN’ these
immediately make the magazine look interesting, therefore I used a pug feature
on my magazine cover. The audience feedback is very crucial in order for me to make important decisions as it would help me include things that would only appeal and attract my audience, and that they wanted as having what the public want will help me make it sell successfully. All together I have successfully addressed and attracted my targeted audience.
Evaluation Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?
My
target audience is for males and females ageing from teenagers to there 30’s. The reason I have targeted this age of both genders is because
Bhangra is highly popular for that age range and it attracts both genders. I
chose to do an Asian magazine as my questionnaire showed me that Bhangra was
the most popular choice so that was the genre and target audience. I also
incorporated a famous Bhangra singer, H-Dhami who famously known for singing,
that was the Pug feature for the magazine cover, which would target mainly
females to buy the magazine as he has a lot of female fans, which would also
act as an incentive to buy the magazine so they would be more interested.
Evaluation Q2: How does my media product represent particular social groups?
My magazine represents a particular social group of young
males and females. Bhangra is for all ages for Asian people, but is highly
popular for younger males and females. The age can range from teenagers to
adults in there 30’s. On my cover the main image, which is the background is a
group of young males playing the dhol to Bhangra music. Also the pug I included
to win tickets to a H-Dhami concert that has a lot of females fan is targeted
towards young females. The image I have used on the contents page is of a
festival, which a mostly young Males and females attend, that also represents
the social group that I targeted and have successfully achieved it.
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