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.