AS; keeleyjones

Question 1)

The codes and conventions are followed as all magazine looked at had followed the codes and conventions of music magazines. All the magazines that i had looked at where successful so i thought that i was best following the codes and conventions in order for my magazine to be successful. Also i thought it would be easier for my target audience to recognise that my magazine was an indie magazine. Following the codes and conventions i think that my magazine will be successful as it looks and fits in with all of the other music magazines but still looks different to magazines already existant, so my magazine should still stand out and attract my target audience.

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Name: Charlotte Edwards
Age: 16
Occupation: school
Interests: i have many interests i love to go to music festivals i previously attained Leeds festival last year and this year i am attending Wakestock. My friends are one of my main priorities i love them there always there for me so i like to spend time them. i like to go and watch movies and like to keep up to date with all the current charts. i am really into reading gig reviews and i watch mates perform as bands and help them with their music.

Name: Charley Kenyon
Age: 16
Occupation: school
Interests: i like to listen to a variety of indie artists/ bands my favourite though is the Arctic Monkeys. I like going to gigs the feeling and the atmosphere when your at one is amazing! i like going to the festivals i have been to a few over the years and i liked them all thats why i am continueing my presence at them and this year i am attending Wakestock with friends. Other interests are clothes, my hair, bags and FRIENDS i love hanging about with my friends having girly nights and just being with them.

Question 5)
I attracted my audience by looking back at my questionnaire results as that told me exactly what my target audience wanted. I used those answers to develop ideas which i thought would attract my target audience. I attracted my target audince through different ways-
• Colour- I used colours that reflected my genre and that my target audience wanted so that i knew it would attract them.
• Main image- I used an unsigned indie band as the main image as my target audience wanted to see bands on the front cover rather than artists. the band looked serious but fun giving them an edge which would attract my target audience and set the tine for my media product.
• Layout- It is serious but eye-catching which makes my target audience want to pick it up and read it.
• Content- My media products content is different from any of its kind as not only does my media product include gig reviews, gig dates, gossip, music updates, festival dates and information about them which is everything that my target audience wanted to feature in my media product but i have something extra i have information on unsigned bands and artists. My market research helped me a lot to attract my target answers as it contained all the answers to what they wanted.
• My focus- I have attracted my target audience because my focus is different to other music magazines, the established music magazines focus on bands and artists that are signed and are big but my media product mainly focuses on unsigned bands but also signed bands. This makes my media product stand out to the rest attracting my target audience.

I mainly attracted my target audience by looking back at my market research which contained the answers for my magazine to be successful and attract my target audience all i had to do was make mine stand out from the others which was why my focus was different to others.

Question 6)
From producing my preliminary task to my main task i have found that the more i use the technologies and programs the easier they get to use but they are stil hard to use. During producing my preliminary exercise i found it very hard to understand how to use all the media programs such as Quark and Photoshop but i then found it easier as i started to construct my main task. I think that shows in my final piece. The more i used the programs i developed my skills on them and asking questions on how to do things certainly helped. As i started to produce my main task i found that the programs got easier to use and my photography skills got better too as i looked for what was already infront of me making sure that i had the correct mis-en-scene and that the lighting was alright for the camera. I found that Quark was an easier program to use rather than Photoshop i found it more straight froward and i progressed it that well. Once looking at other media proucts and than at my own in Quark i found the guide lines a lot of help to show me guidence of where to place my photographs to make it look more realistic.

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