In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?My media product follows the majority of conventions that are used by real products. I took a lot of inspiration and influence from the music magazine ‘Rocksound’. The contents page and convention of the purple colour scheme were used in this magazine for young people who are interested in the ‘Rock’ genre. I wanted to make my audience more music-specific, and used the genre ‘Pop-punk’, which applies to mainly an age group of 11-18 year olds.The contents page’s layout was based off of Vibe’s1 and Rocksound’s layout [one main image with the contents listed]. I liked this style of the contents page as it is simple and not complicated to navigate [unlike other contents pages such as Kerrang! Which have multiple photos, sections, textboxes etc]. So it would be more suited to a younger audience who do not wish to spend as much time searching for an article they would be interested in; younger audiences are much more likely to use the internet to gather information that could be found in my magazines, so I tried to make it as easy as a search engine to navigate through.In Rocksound’s issue where they interview Mindless Self Indulgence [who are also on the front cover]3, they use purple as a theme colour as it is a part of their outfits. The masthead and parts of the article were in purple, which gave the connotation of continuity. I wanted to expand on this idea so I made it a base colour throughout the magazine pages. I also felt that purple was vibrant enough to stand out and catch the attention of the audience. Purple is also not seen as a particular colour specified to gender [when in the right shade], so by using purple I made sure equal representation of my target audience was achieved.Vibe magazine also used greyscale [aka monochrome, black&white] and colour together to make colours stand out. On the cover of an issue with its main article on Rhianna2 it used a bright blue as a key colour and the greyscale made this colour ‘pop’. I used this same scheme with the colour purple to help attract attention and make sure that there are no clashing colours.Almost all magazines have a consistent ‘key’ font that is used throughout the issue. It is often the same font that the magazine’s masthead uses that is used as the title of an article or section. I used the ‘Stencil’ font for this conventional method of creating a professional-looking product. A research example of this method is Kerrang! using the font ‘Birth of a Hero’.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?Music [music mag, festivals]Pop-punk genre [those interested in that genre]

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?MagazineOnline

1 -Vibe’s contents page2 – Vibe’s front cover

3 – Rocksound’s ‘Mindless Self Indulgence’ issue

Who would be the audience for your media product? (Refer to your research)

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based my research off of the ‘Find your tribe’ results. I took the quiz a few times and got a range of different results, so I knew what kind of teenager/young adult to aim my product of. Most of these teenagers will be listening to music constantly and are often very loud. They usually wear dark colours or dark colours with a flash of bright colour [this also inspired my colour scheme]. Loud or rather ‘undiscovered’ musical artists would attract this audience’s attention as they are strong believers in being ‘original’ and ‘individual’. As my ideal audience would be listening to music and finding music online, I would have more features on online events and music events than on events that were related to TV soaps, for example.

How did you attract/address your audience?CompetitionUsing bands of the same genreAttractive colour schemeMegaphone – loudFestivals

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?I used inDesign, slideshare and blogger for the first time in this project.I also used a canon digital camera to take my photos, paint.NET [a free photo editing software] to edit them, Microsoft Publisher for my preliminary task Used InDesign for it allows text and image to work on simultaneouslyInDesign has more features than publisherInDesign files could not be accessed at home so conversion to adobe fileInDesign can ‘outline’ textPhoto editing software – paint.NET, free, used it before, layers

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

Too much purple?

InDesign better [import word document?]

7: Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

inDesign vs Publisherpaint.NEThttp://

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