Analysis Of Feedback

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Audience Feedback

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Feedback Analysis of Final Designs

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• How did you attract/address your audience?

I attracted my audiences by offering a different spin on a music magazie. Through my solgan ive made it a Lifestyle magazine but focussing on music fashion and life. this way it offers more than just a music magazine, this therefore is like buying three magazines in one but without the price tag giving readers a good buy. Through my front cover ive used vibrant colours that stand out such as the lipstick on Emilys face to project her pose as attitude. I made sure that eye contact was held to the camera giving interact with the magazine and its audience providing attractiveness. I used a bold, stand out font in order to make it "jump off the shelves". The title itself "One Way" is short and carries good slogans that ive used like "leading you on the right path in music"
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Through having background knowlege of photoshop from the preliminary task i was able to go into this task with confidence and an understanding of what and where i was going. Through this task i used numerous tools on photoshop but found the most effective and well used tool was the magnetic lassoo tool allowing me to cut objects out and place them onto different backgrounds in order for them to stand out. During this task i learnt and explored the different varietys of text and how to add effects on them to make practically anything you want. As i showed in screen shots that some texts i created using complex effects but didnt use them in the end showing how far ive come since the preliminary task. I also got to grips with Adobe InDesign and that helped me create a perfect double page spread with all the custom measurements in place. 
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression fromit to the full product?

I felt that as i gradually moved from the preliminary task to the full product i familiarized myself with the tool of photoshop and indesign. During the preliminary task i only used a selection of selective tools that i only felt comfortable with and in my own depth. but as we worked up to the full product design i found myself exploring effects in depth and adding them to pictures and fonts. I understood as we got further into the task what the layers actually did and the swatches and channels. I never fully realized the capability of photoshop until i undertook the full product print task.

• Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my print production as ive already planned would be of the ages 14-30. The pop genre is popular in these ages. Any lower than the age of 14 would restrict the magazine production and would have to appeal to these ages and wouldnt be able to be as sophisticated as ive made it to be. I would use the audience type of abc1 - c2de as magazines are cheap and doesnt often affect the socio-classes of society, yet my magazine would uphold a sophisticated layout attracting the abc1 type class. As i researched earlier that the three largest magazine sales are male magazines, female magazines and tv and entertainment magazines, therefore i came up with the theory to combine all three to broaden the spectrum of who we are appealing to. The magazine wouldnt specifically appeal to the pop soft rock fans and would instead involve other aspects of music features to attract wider audiences. By offering "new music" features every week it offers somethng for everyone to enjoy. with the slogan ive used "music ... life ... style" it offers much more than music appealing to the wider audiences.

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

I belive that my magazine is similiar to a magazine like gq or nme. Its about "music..life..style". A print production company might distribute the magazine, one recognisable to lift it off the ground. due to the toughness of the market place a big company would need to be involved to guarantee a sucsessful print production company. This company would need to have links with the music business to be able to advertise easily ect. a media institution involved in the music buisness already could give the magazine tips on upcoming artists to feature to give them good resources and background knowlege. exclusive and photoshoots will be easier to book with a hand in the music buisness already and the magazine would be able to meet contacts in higher places through this institution. Background resources through institutions such as internet, Tv and newspapers could alsways be a possibility to enhance or even expand the media product, therefore reaching more of an audience by placing it on a broader spectrum to reach out to people.

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my media project i have planned to focus on a particular social group for my magazine, this being pop music lovers. I had to think about the clothes my models would be wearing, the genre of music they represent and the style and layout of the magazine to represent my target aimed social group to attract them to buy it. Firstly my model on the front cover is stylishly dressed, abit eccentric with the oversized gold necklaces and the waistcoat shirt combo which would easily be seen at pop concerts alike. The features listed down the side give off that its a popular music magzine by featuring the top 100 albums you know its a generalized magazine due to its broad spectrum. By calling it one way i aimed it at the younger 14-mid 30's age group as the title sounds fresh and funky giving it a young vibe for the middle class generation. The contents page is filled with pictures of bands and model shot singers giving it that teenage girl vibe which has proved very popular in the music magazine industry.