EVALUATION Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

EVALUATION Q6: What have you learnt technologies from the process of the constructing this product?

To create my magazine I had to use many technologies.One of these technologies was blogger. Blogger is a blogging software where I created my own blog to update and post my progress on my magazine. Blogger allowed me to keep track of all of my task and enabled me to see how my magazine has developed and changed. Using blogger encouraged me to become more organised with the things all the tasks I do. This was beneficial because now I am able to plan, organise and embed my work more effectively.Another technology that I was introduced to was Prezi. Prezi is a software where I can plan and create a presentation. This software is easy to use and very interactive when presenting. I used prezi to create my pitch for my magazine and when planning my evaluation as it is very easy to edit, save work and present later on.I found prezi a good software to use as it makes presentations more appealing compared to other presentation software such as google slides and such. Using prezi helped me to work on my presentation skills and I found this very important when making my magazine. One reason why is because I learnt that the way things look to the reader and audience is important. Because I found the use of google slides and other software boring I realised that people are more likely to be engaged in your work if it is more eye-catching and appealing. Prezi allows this to happen through the moving background and interactive presentations.

To create my magazine I had to use two design softwares, photoshop and indesign. These two applications allowed me to create my magazine from scratch. I used Indesign to create my double page spread and my contents page. I created these two parts in indesign because indesign allows more manipulations when it comes to editing the writing in the actual magazine. InDesign is mostly focused on text editing meanwhile PhotoShop is all about editing images.To create my front cover I had to use PhotoShop. Photoshop is a very well-known common editorial software. This software allowed me to input my front cover image and edit it in the way I wanted. It allowed me to change and play around the fonts and sizes to find the perfect  layout for my magazine. With the use of these tools I was able to develop my editorial skills. I find this important since presentation of the magazine needs to be flawless in order for the reader to be interested in it. I learnt how to create an appealing and creative piece of work.

Photoshop and Indesign allowed me to be more creative work and successfully assemble my magazine.To take the images for my front cover, contents page and double page spread I had to make the use of the college studio and DSLR camera.I used the Nikon D7200 in additon to otheer photographic equipment such as softboxes to make sure my front cover image and te image in the contents page is of top quailty. Because I am a photography student, using the studio to take my pictures allowed me to practice my skills in a different situation and context. It also helped to develop my planning skills in terms of photography as I had to plan what my model will look like and what I want the outcome to be.

EVALUATION Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

EVALUATION Q4: Who would be the audiance for your media product?

The % Of Female Readers. (Ages 16-25)
Create bar charts

For my media product my audience would be teenagers and young adults if both genders from the ages of 16-25. I chose to focus on this audience as I think that they are the people who would still be interested in keeping up to date with their favourite bands and latest information. Because I am also a part of this age group I tried to relate my audience to myself as I not as often but still do buy music magazines and keep up with the news from my favourite magazines. Even if I don't buy physical copies of the magazine I tend to look at twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages of magazines to see what kind of articles will be featured in the future issues and if they are worth buying. Because my audience are young people who tend to be less confident with themselves and their skills, I decided to appeal to them by featuring an artist that is also in that age group. By doing this I wanted to send a secret message to the audience to be more confident and try to pursue their ambitions as that is what the artist in my DPS has done therefore, I imagined that the audience would find her inspirational. Because the age group is still quite young I added posters into the magazine as they may be interested in putting up posters on their walls. I also featured job opportunities to give the audience a chance to look for a job themselves and encourage their independence.

These are examples of my audience.
My audience may have hobbies such as : listening to music, playing instruments and attending concerts. They also live in the main cities in the UK, such as London or Manchester which will gives them a bigger access to live music venues. I made sure that my magazine somehow relates or targets to my audience as they are the most important aspect of any magazine. My audience may also be interested in being up to date with the newest magazine issues and any articles or work done with their favourite artists. Because of this, they can use social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or the magazine website so that they can be always informed with any latest information. This makes the magazine have more attention from the viewers as the magazine becomes one of their main sources for music updates.

EVALUATION Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

EVALUATION Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION Q1:In What Way Does Your Music Magazine Use, Develop Or Challenge Forms And Conventions Of A Real Music Magazine?