Audience Questions

What stands out from the front cover?

On a scale of 1-10 what do you like about my front cover?

Does the contents fit in with the house style of the front cover?

What do you think about my double page spread?

What is your favourite thing about my whole magazine?

Is there anything I can do to improve?

Double page changes

This is the the first draft of my double page spread. I was fairly satisfied with it, however after receiving some audience feedback for my product and acknowledge that i needed to make some changes. Most of my audience group said that the model in the article didn't fit with the style and genre of the magazine.

I agreed with their opinions, so i found another model to use in the article who I thought fits the style and genre of my magazine. Even though it took time and effort having another photo shoot and editing the article again I thought it was well worth while in the end and my magazine benefits from it.

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Contents page analysis

This is a contents page from Vibe magazine. This is a very unusual contents page because it’s very simple as it only contains on main image, title, and a small section of text on the left hand side of the page. The colour scheme is dull and not bright at all, which switches all the focus on the image of the artist.

The camera shot of the image is from a low angle so the artist is looking down at the audience, this makes him seem powerful and slightly intimidating. He’s also not wearing a top which is a bit domineering towards the audience. The subject is wearing a number of chains around his neck and jewellery around his hands, which suggests that he is very wealthy even though the tattoos suggest he may be from a lower social class. The cap is conventional accessory item of a rapper and because it’s flipped backwards suggests that he does not obey rules and does whatever he likes.

The background is a plain red and there is a large dark red 'V' shape behind the artist. This subconsciously reminds the reader that this is Vibe magazine. The feature text on the left hand side leaves a lot of empty space on the page which is unusual to see in a contents page.

The simplistic look of this contents page is very refreshing to see as too many contents pages seem very clustered as they try to use every space on the page.



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Semantic Field

Safe
Beatz
Blood
Swag
Sick
Chillin'
Dawg

Language target audience may use:
"Whats poppin' "
"Was up man"
Why you trippin foo"
"Dats fly Gee"
"Thats the shizle"

Questionaire Result

Here are the questionaire results for my audience research:

Double page spread

This is a double page spread from vibe magazine and is the inspiration for the the article in my magazine. The article is very simplistic because it only includes two images and the the text is on a white background. These features make sure that it doesn't takes any attention away from the artist  himself who is the main attraction. The article also includes a quote from the artist in bold large red text which immediately draws the attention of the reader and encourages them to reader the article. For my double page spread i will try and implement some of these features to make appealing to my audience and make it look professional. 

Two covers

This is the image cover that i have chosen for my music magazine. i have chosen this one  over the one below because it looks more appealing because the subject really connects with the audience.

This is the other image that i was contemplating whether to use or not. I concluded that i shouldn't use this because its doesn't stand out to much and it doesn't fit the criteria of a rap magazine. The subject's arms are also positioned in a very unusual way which make him look very uncomfortable.

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Reader Profile

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Reader profile

1. Demographics is breaking up the population into 6 groups based on the work they do. 
2. Psychographics is grouping audiences based on their behaviour, personality traits and their spending habits.
3. Audience profiling is used by magazine publishers and other media institutions to define an audience for their magazine and attract advertisers.

History of the music press

• Melody maker and New musical express were one of the first music magazines in the UK, but they were very uncritical of musicians. The nature of music changed in the 1960s after the arrival of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and drug culture
•  In the 1970s NME began to away from simply music and began writing about serious issues such as politics and philosophy. 
• In the 1990s new technology changed music as music video became very popular and changed the way music is consumed.

Sub-Culture

• Subculture is a group of individuals who are united through a common value system and tastes such as cloths, music, politics ect. 
• Its  group that is also positioned outside of the mainstream and who unify as a response to the mainstream.

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Focus Group Profiles

Name: Harrison Payne


Age: 17


Subjects: Media, art, product design and business


Hobbies: Music, planking, coursework


Favourite Genre: Grime


Favourite artist: Devlin


Hours of music consumption a week: 10

 Name: Joshua Beecham

Age: 16

Subjects: Media, theatre studies, religious studies, english language

Hobbies: skiing, film

Favourite Genre: Rock

Favourite artist: Rolling stones

Hours of music consumption a week: 12 hours

Name: Louise Fraser

Age:16

Subjects:Media, art, english language, psychology 

Hobbies:Baking, listening to music 

Favourite Genre: Indie

Favourite artist: The Killers

Hours of music consumption a week: 8 hours

Name: Emily Brant

Age: 16

Subjects: Media, psychology, Religious studies, Biology 

Hobbies: Drawing, kick boxing

Favourite Genre: Alternative rock

Favourite artist: Nickleback

Hours of music consumption a week: 21 hours

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Media Literacy

The OCR AS Media Course
There are two unites that cover three areas of study.

• You are required to create two pieces of media and evaluate the process and outcomes.
• you will study a range of media texts from either television or radio
• Will research a area of media in relation to institutions ( the people, companies and organisations that make, distribute or regulate media) and audiences.

Media language - refers to written, verbal, non-verbal, aural and aesthetic communications and usually a combination of these.

Form and Style - the form of a media text is its shape and sturucture and the combination of the 'micro' elements such as dialogue, sound effects, editing and ambience in the case of radio drama. The form of a text is instantly recognisable to the audience , for example soap opera or historical drama.

Conventions - conventions are the ingredients of a particular genre. for example a period drama, a sub genre with a range of necessary ingredients which are expected by the audience , making the conventions 'contractual' in nature.

Specification - is often applied with in a theory called semiotics, the study of signs. everything we see carries a meaning. Pair of shoes: as a signifier they are just a pair of shoes. But as signified everyone that sees them will construct their own meaning. when analysing in media we deconstruct signs for what they might signify. remember polysemic - every sgnifier has the potential to be given meaning differently by every person who sees or hears it.

Representation - We see media texts as mediating between our sense of reality and the fictional or factual representation of reality - of people, places, ideas, themes, time periods and a range of social contexts.

Audiences - The simplest way of analysing this concept is lookingfor a target audience for a media text or product. But it is often more interesting than that  -  many texts appeal to a range of seconadary audiences and the ways that different people respond to texts often challenges expectations.

Narrative and Genre - Fictional TV and film tends to operate on a simple structure of balance, conflict and attempts at resolution. Narrative describes the process of balancing what we actually see or hear and what we assume in addition. it is fundamentally to do with order, usually linear, and the relationship between information and enigma.

creativity - Creativity is a key performance descriptor for a media student. Creative skills operate in to levels: first, the ability to use didgital technologies to make meaning so that the audience can respond easily to the text and second, the ability to engage and interest the audience.

Connecting the micro to the macro - The micro elements of a text are the technical and symbolic features which you will need to identify, recognise and describe the function of.We call this plausible macro sum of the micro parts 'verisimilitude' (authentic) and it will be your job to describe how this process works in specific cases.

Multimodal literacy - Critical multimodal literacy is about users making their own trajectory throughj hypermedia environments. The general 'wall-less' nature of the internet are actually changing the way we read texts altogether.

 This is a photograph that i have taken and edited using iphoto. I started by by cropping the image,whilst thinking about the rule of thirds. I then added effects by changing the contrast and saturation to make the image more vibrant and colorful.

This is another photo that i have taken and edited on iphoto. I first cropped the image so the subjects are at the centre of the image. After that, i used the black and white effect because its is timeless and flatering colour.

How to take a good picture

• Composition - what's included within the frame, rule of thirds 
• Focus - using the correct depth of field 
• Lighting - Direction of the sun
• Camera angle - experiment