Final front cover, contents page and double page spread!

Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In my front cover I copied the dialect such as "cute", "pics" and "OMG" to demonstrate friendliness  and fun. I then I put a picture in a box and put the sell line within it making it look conventional, this also makes it pop out and the white is good colour contrast towards the pink background. I then tried to copy the speech bubble that says "we love pop" this tells the audience that it's a pop magazine and makes the cover look interesting. The banner of the name is chunky and curly connoting a bubbly personality and the font's name called "ravie". The exclamation mark demonstrates loud and crazy.The world exclusive at the top tells the audience that it's a special interview that you wouldn't find anywhere else.  I also copied the font of "inside" but I put it at the bottom because of my skyline. 

In my contents page I used the traditional layout of the columns and pictures.  The arrows pointing at the page numbers demonstrate that those pages are must be read and the highlighted numbers makes demonstrates that it's important. At the top the title of the contents page is ''inside the mag'' it's free style hand writting this demonstrates how a girl would maybe write her wish list of what should be inside the mag. The title of page is also very conventional but unconventional too because it doesn't identify the contents page as contents, it's not a stereotypical contents page it doesn't list features and regulars. I included love hearts making it conventional and a fun way to categorise the magazine this also represents the young teen audience because usually they're in to flowers and hearts.

In my double page spread I also included all the conventions, I used a fancy font on my drop cap because it's very feminine. I used pink through out the magazine keeping it in continuity. The font of the models name is the same style as it was on the front cover. This demonstrates that Emily is the main story. The sub heading is in big speech marks this is a conventional way of making the page look fun. The music notes tells the audience that this article is about a singer. The pull quote is conventional as it appeals the readers eyes first so I stroked it black and filled it with hot pink demonstrating that this article is inspirational, the date and website is always highlighted because it's key information and lastly the page number is in semi colour filled with black, this makes it a conventional double page spread.

Q2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I have represented a particular social group as I made the model make direct address towards the camera to connote confidence, this will appeal the audience and make them feel welcomed.

 I wanted the model to wear a white dress because conventionally pop singers like Alexandra Burke and Cheryl Cole wore white dresses for Top Of The Pops music magazine to connote purity and innocence but my model wore a white vest instead.Which isn't a problem because looking casual makes the readers feel a bit comfortable rather than posh and I knew that you won't see her top because the front cover would be packed with with information and pictures.

 

Her hair style is very simple and easy just like how girls would have it normal day I noticed that Cheryl Cole and Alexandra Burke had their usual simple hairstyle. They also had simple make up on that made them look clean and happy rather than dark make up usually represents artists who do rock music perhaps and therefore I kept her make up natural with just false eyelash and pink lipstick. I chose the lipstick to be pink to contrast her white top and because it's a stereotypical colour that represents girls.

 

 

Conventionally male pop singers are the main attraction for female audiences in the magzine. This is because the male pop singers are opposite gender and naturally girls connect with them quicker. Male pop singers have 90% girl audience and therefore featuring a young male is important.

The posture of the male model connotes he's open and confident because his arms are behind him. he's also smiling and making direct address to connote he's happy and fun. The white top also conotes his innocence and purity and I chose it because his top will contrast the pink theme colour.

 

Q3) What kind of Media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

Q5) How did you attract/address your audience?

In my Front cover I attracted/addressed my audience my audience through colours, pictures and style of language. In order to find out if I really attracted/addressed my audience I did a small questionnaire;

1)Can you tell the genre of the magazine I have produced?
2)Does my front cover, contents page and double page spread look conventional?
3)Do you think I have represented my audience through my design?, if so how?
4)What has appealed to you the most?
5)What is a good factor about my magazine?
6)Would you buy the magazine
7)How do you think I can improve it?

These questions allowed me to understand if I did attract or address my audience and from the feedback I know that I have because I got positive feedback on my house of style colour scheme and design. However I was told to improve on the models clothing which I agree with because it's very simple and not appealing.

I also attracted my audience by giving a free nail varnish "USP" because this represents my young audience as they're quite fashionable. This also makes the magazine expensive.



Part one of my audience feedback by nusuribibi on GoAnimate


Part 2 of my audience feedback by nusuribibi on GoAnimate

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

I used this digital camera to take my photos for my magazine. The quality of this camera lens is very promising and good the picture is high pixelated so that I can edit it on photoshop. With this camera I used lighting so that the picture doesn't come out dark in the room.