Researching My Production Work

(UPLOAD PHOTO'S OF RESEARCH)

evaluation

For media studies coursework i have designed a preliminary task front cover, main task front cover, contents page and a double page spread. Here is how the main tasks were completed.

Before i even started this project i knew that i would not get anywhere unless i planned Thoroughly. Meaning i had to do background information on all music magazine genres. Such as Mixmag, Q, NME and many more. throughout my blogs you will be able to see just what research i applied.

Within this slide i have compared the ways in which my front cover uses, develop's or challenges forms and conventions of real music magazine (Mixmag) i have highlighted and arrowed all of each the forms and conventions.

As the previous slide Demonstrates and compares the forms and conventions within a real music magazine and one i created, i now have compared the contents page of both mine and another professional magazine (NME).

Finally as well as comparing the forms and conventions of the front cover and contents page, on this slide i have also highlighted the conventions of a professional music magazine. i felt this one was most hard to compare as all double page spreads have many Different forms and conventions. this points gave me the Initial ideas of the target audience this slide shows what type of audience would be intrested in this music magazine. (ALL POP ACCESS).

On this slide i have selected key features on my magazine which i feel attract APA's audience, and arrowed the reason why. this healps to clearly define to audiences what my magazine offers.

This is a comparison of my first Preliminary task to my main task. i feel that my first task was a little weak, it was my first attempt of using 'Photoshop' so i was getting use to how it works. it looked rushed and i feel there was too many images overlapping making the front page look "too busy". On my main task only used one primary image setting the other two far back. The colours and layout looks so much more appealing.

As my previous blogs show, i was reserching media Institutions & decided that 'bauer media' was the most suitable choice for my personal music magazine. The reason for this is that it already has major successful music magazines on the market, Of which none sells the same type of genre meaning bauer is a good source for advertsing which is Essential to begin. On the website bauer also has a clear and easy layout showing what magazines they publish. This is very helpful as IPC media and E-map came across as a little confusing.

Over the duration of this coursework i have learnt ALOT, Especially Technology!

• Blogging/blogs
• Photoshop
• Power Point

It has taught me how to use these technology's in their more complex and professional ways. Of which i will be using in the future.

On the above slide is listed of the topics i have covered throughout this coursework.

Main Task

Front Cover

Contents page

Double page spread

The magazine Industry

The magazine Industry...

The three of the biggest magazine and multi-media publishers include:

• IPC


• E-Map
  
• Bauer
  
  Researching these three bigest multi-media publishers allows me to gain knowledge and understanding of which publisher is most suitable for my music magazine "ALL POP ACCESS"

IPC

IPC Media is the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher with approximately 90 brands and selling 350 million magazines every year. IPC is said to reach approximately 70% of women and 50% of men within the UK.

This is a great amount of our population and shows how this publisher has become a success by producing the wide range. This would be great for my magazine a company that has experience in publishing existing successful music magazines which will benefit my magazines auidence & promotion.

http://www.ipcmedia.com/

E-MAP

The smallest publishing company out of all three selling 59 magazines. On their website it is very unclear as to what magazine they publish.

http://www.emap.com/

Bauer

Bauer is the largest privately owned publisher in Europe, publishing in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and the UK. playing a primary role in the Women’s Weeklies, Women’s Interest, Women’s Lifestyle, TV Listings, Puzzles, Men’s Lifestyle, Music & Film and Specialist magazine markets. These magazines include music magazines such as MOJO, FHM, KERRANG and Q. These are top leading magazines which shows that the company are successful in dealing with this genre. Bauer is successful with 282 magazines in 15 countries.

www.bauer.co.uk

Main Task Photographs

As i learned from my preliminary task planning the photographs for the magazine is Absolutely crucial for organisation. For my main task music magazine, i needed alot of pictures so i could be fussy when picking out what ones are most suitable. I decided to take a trip down to westfield shopping centre- where i knew i would capture the images i knew i could find. My Target audience of my pop magazine is FEMALES aged between 12-30. It is such a range of ages for the simple reason that it covers a wide range of areas. The idea of images i wanted to include were:

• Gossip
  
• Fashion
  
• Bright
  
• Bold


• Unusual
  

Here were a few:

Planning Writing articles, Tittle and Logo!

In The last few lessons i have been Organizing and writing my double page spread.
After getting started and completing my magazine mock up, my basic idea created and i then could Concentrate on details.
For my double page spread i decided to have one page focused on a real life story-
and the other page dates on performing artists (at 02 arena like britney spears) and major club dates (Matter (02) & fukny Budah). In the next lesson i will write up the entire article.
Mean while i choose the title of my magazine to be called "APA" - All pop Access! After a long time of thinking of title name this name seemed the most appealing and catchy for my pop music magazine. i will now create a magzine logo.

Mock up of main task!

I was given a homework task to produce a general mock up of my magazine.
I had to think about images, words, the information included, title, price ect...
I found this task a little hard, i knew everything i needed to know it was just a matter of being creative and putting all my knowledge together.