the key ingredients of a front cover of a media magazine are a masthead, cover lines, pictures, barcode and a price .
My magazine utilises the power of attraction with such eye grabbing features as pictures and co-ordinating colours: yellow and purple..These pull the potential buyer in, raising questions in their head about the articles inside; this means they are intrigued about what they will find if they buy it so they HAVE to buy it to satisfy their curiosity. I also added to these cover lines such as 'we find out why...' this lures the reader into wanting to know what the magazine holds. i also used questionnaires to find out what my audience wanted from student magazines and toher aspects of the project to point me in the right direction. everything i did was directed by public opinion from the colour scheme to the layout of thye front page itself.
these images images are examples of front covers and contents page; the two on the left hand side are my final designs formy pre-liminary task. my front cover has many of the aspects that already published magazines use; for example, i have my mast head on the top and my smaller articles with cover lines on the side.
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
yes, my magazine represents students in their prime; showing what they are good at and portraying them as they see themselves. i also took the press's angle on teenage culture and life and turned it t be on the teenager's side. this magazine mainly represents teenagers and students, however there are other social groups in it as we have a goth/emo on the front cover, but, this does not signify its target audience specifically; it could have been a boy in a burberry cap and tracksuit bottoms it is about the person themselves and their achievemnt as a student. my articleon teenage stereotypes usesthe images of a group of 'hoodies', a knife, a cigarrette and a spliff; i used these to portray what society has deemed stereotypical for teenagers to engage in. however, i used this prejudice to form an article that would attract teenager; the other side of the coin, so to speak.
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
it would not be a media institution that wqould distribute this, it is about college life and college students so it would be aimed for distribution within a college itself. it contains articles and images from around ludlow college so it makes sense for it to bo distributed within ludlow college.
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
my target audience is teenagers and students attending their final year of high school, attrending collegeor university. this particular magazine would also be aimed at, specifically, student musicians.
• How did you attract/address your audience?
i attracted my audience by forming articles that teenagers would be interested in, such as their self-image, music, video games etc. i also used a rather unusual colour scheme to attract their attention. using student lexis and semantic fields i related to my audience so they felt that this was written by one of their own. i used my feedback from ym questionnaire to adapt and change anything that didn't attract my audience correctly.
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
throughout this task, i have used Blogger to record my efforts electronically. i also used my digital camera to take the photos used on my front page. i used microsoft publisher to make my front page and contents page. throughtoutall of this i have learnt how to make a blog, how to use publisher to form pages of documents, how to analyse and organize myphotos a bitmore and how to textually analyse other magazines, take the information i can learn from thema dn finally apply them to my own product.
