Final Production

Music magazine: front cover Music magazine: contents page

Music magazine: Feature article

Preliminary task: front cover

Preliminary task: contents page

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use , develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

These are the ways in which my media uses the codes and conventions a music magazine. I recorded the audio of these video's in the radio production suite using Adobe Audition.

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Many examples of the social group represented in my media product are featured on youtube. Below is several examples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X-InF5tub0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?UPb0C2wVjQm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlskboOROkk

Question 3: What kind of media institution may distribute your product and why?

http://www.ipcmedia.com/

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 5: How did you Address/attract the audience?

To address and attract the audience, I used many different techniques in the production on my magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Feature Article:

Contents Page:
Front Cover:

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

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

I feel that I have learnt alot about the different software used in progression from the preliminary excercis to the full product. I now am able to succesfully use an adequate amount of tools on each of the different software.

These are some articles which I researched to gain knowledge of writing skills:

http://www.prefixmag.com/features/arctic-monkeys/arent-fooling-around-part-1-of-2/12565


http://www.spin.com/articles/kings-of-leon-bigger-we-wanted-to-be

Editing images

I edited this image to make it look more proffesional on my feature article.

Editing

I edited my standfirst text to a different colour as I did not think it stood out enough in between the main title and the body text.

Editing

I edited my puff to make it stand out more. I made it so that the 'win' part was the biggest to sttract the audience. I also added a glow effect around the outside to make it stand out from the page more. I made the title font sans serif to help it stand out.

I also edited the main feature title using an inner and outer glow in order for it to stand out from all the other features further.

Work in progress: adding text effects

Work in progress: Editing Text

Work in progress: Designing a puff

Work in progress: Designing titles

Work in progress: changing texts and images

Work in progress: Changing my contents page - deleting editors letter

Images: Not used

This image was used on my contents page to represent a band 'Low Shoulder' but I decided that it did not work and replaced it.

Images: used on contents page

Images: Not used

This was going to be used on my feature article but in the end I decided not to.

Images: used on feature article

Images: used on contents page

Images: Not used

Was originally on contents page

Images: Not used

Images: Not used

Images: used on contents page

Images: used on contents page

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Images: Front cover image

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Images : Not used

For my front cover image I took around 150 pictures in total.

Publication Plan

Title: Pause

Positioning Statement: There's nothing like music.

Price: £2.80

Publication Frequency: Monthly
Distribution: Music stores, newsagents, supermarkets and train stations

Rationale: Pause magazine will be based mainly upon gig reports, upcoming concerts and exclusive artist interviews.

Regular content:

10 concerts you must see
a month with...
pause on the radio
pause forum
express it
get to know pause
opininon

Feature Articles:

Kings of Leon highway hit
Metro station kick it off
The rising of Bloc Party
The Kooks get creative
Getting started
Cage The Elephant
Florence and the machine fire
Unsigned

Front Cover Artists:

- The script
- Coldplay
- Radiohead
- Mike Mckay
- The Afters

Housestyle:

Coverlines: Garamond Pro
Headlines: Impact
Standfirst: Impact 11pt
Feature first paragraph: Times New Roman drop capital 5 lines down
Body text: Times New Roman 11pt
Colour Scheme: Red, white and black

Sketches: Feature Article

Sketches: Contents Page

Sketch: Front Cover