5) How did you attract/address your audience?

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

Looking back at my preliminary task I definitely feel that during the progression my skills have improved.

I have been able to develop my skills in Photoshop and for my main task I used it to produce a more aesthetically pleasing product.  I also feel that my final product would be a successful brand and would develop much stronger brand loyalty from its readers in comparison with my school magazine.

I think that my main task has enabled me to consider much more feedback than my previous task and therefore create a more professional product.

In the progression from my preliminary task I feel have learnt how to appeal to a more specific target audience. This is because I learnt how to carry out more in depth research into different social groups to develop my own clear audience. Although I used the same research techniques for my preliminary task, in the progression I learnt how to make my research in multi media formats, for example, using an online tool to create a questionnaire for my focus group - making it more accessible for my audience, therefore making my findings more reliable.

In the progression from my preliminary task and my main task I have also learnt how to incorporate more forms and conventions of real media products. This is because I could carry out more detailed generic research, analysing existing media products. This meant I could use, develop and challenge more conventions when I created my front cover, contents page and double page spread in comparison to my preliminary task where I only produced a front cover for the school magazine.

Since the preliminary task I have learnt how to present my work in multi media formats. For example I used iMovie to present my audience research and some of my evaluation. I also learnt to use Prezi; an online zoom presentation tool which I used to present my generic research.

Overall I can definitely see an advance in my ability and skills in the progression from my preliminary task to now. I am definitely more pleased with my final product however, I think my preliminary task allowed me to gain the essential skills I needed to make a successful music magazine.

Audience Feedback

Audience Feedback

To undergo my audience feedback I decided on five important questions.

Here is the written transcript of the video response I filmed for my audience feedback.

What attracted you to the magazine and why?

Female Aged 17: 'The Nicki Minaj article attracted me to the magazine because it is in a bold colour and it's in pink which is appropriately chosen because she is often associated with pink. Then for a similar reason the artists at the bottom - it shows diversity and they're in bright colours as well so it draws you to them.'

Female Aged 16: 'I was attracted to the 'Best of 2010' list on the cover because it is something the target audience would be interested to see. Also the colourful, diverse bands at the bottom were quite attractive.'

Do you think the magazine is appropriate for it's target audience of 16-22 year olds?

Female Aged 17: 'I think it is appropriate because the girl on the front is a similar age to it's readers so they'll be able to identify with her.'

Female Aged 16: 'I think it is appropriate because all the bands featured on the front are really diverse so they'll be appealing to different groups and different ages who like different music genres.'

Do you think the price is reasonable?

Female Aged 17: 'I think two pounds is reasonable because it's a monthly magazine and most magazines that are monthly are more than that so in comparison it is cheap.'

Female Aged 16: 'Yeah I think it is a reasonable price for a monthly magazine because you get quite a lot of content in it, and more people of the target audience will be more likely to spend two pounds because it's quite cheap.'

Do you think there is a clear brand identity?

Female Aged 17: 'I think there is a clear brand identity because they have used a clear brand identity throughout like the contents page and front page. They've used mostly red, white and black.'

Female Aged 16: 'Yeah there is a clear brand identity because they've used the same font for Eclectic on the front cover and in the contents page. Also the same typography for the titles of each article.'

Would you buy this magazine and why?

Female Aged 17: 'I would buy the magazine because it is reasonably priced and the bright colours would attract me to it.'

Female Aged 16: ' Yes I would buy this magazine because it is a good price for what you get in the monthly issue and because of the variety of articles and music.'

Editing My Photographs

Editing Photographs

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Chosen and Rejected Photographs

My Photographs

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Planning for Photo Shoots

• To plan my photo shoots I have chosen various places and I have also chosen clothing and make up for the model to wear as aspects of the mise-en-scene for each .
• The first few shoots will be outside. I have chosen three separate locations for this. The first is outside a house, the second is in front of a derelict shop with spray painted boards which read, 'If you tolerate this, your business will be next' and the last is in front of a public house which has a chalkboard outside. I have chosen a vintage beige fur coat, a knitted christmas style vintage jumper to portray the artist to have an 'Indie' style or 'look'. I have chosen this because Indie as a social group often wear such items of clothing. I have also chosen red lipstick and glittery eye make up for the model to wear to make her stand out especially for the close up shots. For the second shoot I will choose a different setting and for the third I plan the photographs to be taken inside.

These three locations are all along Victoria Avenue, shown above in this screenshot from Google Maps.

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• For the third shoot, photographs will be taken in front of a wall with graffiti on. For this shoot I have chosen white converse, denim shorts a studded leather jacket, laddered tights, a red headscarf and a printed t - shirt for the model to wear. I feel like these aspects of mise-en-scene and setting of the graffiti wall will portray a 'rock and roll' image for the model. 
• For the fourth photo shoot I will use the setting of a stage and I will use props such as a microphone, possible a guitar and a music sheet stand. I will use this setting to portray the model as an artist performing on stage. I have chosen sunglasses and a denim jacket for this shoot to show the artist performing at possibly a local summer festival of some sort.
• For the last photo shoot I will use two different models and I plan to take close up shots of them so that I can show diversity and various artists on my contents page. I will most likely use these photographs as thumbnail images to tease the contents.