Final Preliminary Front Cover

Final Preliminary Contents Page

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

After become much more comfortable with the software I was using and researching alot of style models, My second attempt at creating a magazine was much more professional. We can see this through comparing the contents page of my Preliminary task magazine and my final music magazine. 


Here we can see that almost every aspect of my music magazine looks more professional than my preliminary task. 

Regarding my Contents page; the text is much smaller, there is more information, and the overall formation is better. These are only a few improvements that all go towards making my magazine look as professional as possible.

My front cover has greatly improved. It's quite hard to compare side to side as both magazines have different purposes, one being a rock orientated music magazine, the other being a school magazine. Even with there differences it's clear that my music magazine is much more professional.

 I have learnt how to make these professional changes by researching magazines such as 'Kerrang' and 'Rock' sound and have incorporated some of their aspects into my magazine. 

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

I used an Apple Mac to create most of my product. This was something I had never used before but I am now confident I could use it again after spending so long working on it. As for editing programs, we mainly used Adobe Photo Shop which I had had previous experience with in my preliminary task as well as other previous use, this meant I was quite familiar with the software, yet I can still say I have learnt a lot more about the program throughout creating my magazine and will be confident using Photo Shop in the future. 

Some websites I had never used before this task are Prezzi, Slideshare and the program garageband. Since some of these questions are answered with use of these three programs it's clear that i am now have some knowledge on these applications and would use them again. 

Question 5: How did you attract/address you audience?

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

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

HERE IS MY ANSWER IN THE FORM OF A PODCAST

A media institution that is likely to distribute my magazine is Bauer Media. This is because they are a large company with a lot of different media platforms and genre's of magazines. Although, I wouldn't have my magazine published by Bauer media as my magazine is quite similar to 'Kerrang' which is already distributed by Bauer Media. This would mean that my target audience would be aware of this new magazine quickly, yet as 'Kerrang' is so popular my magazine would not stand a change being in competition with it.

Another media institution I looked into was 'Hearst'. This institution again has many different platforms and reaches 1 in 4 UK adults. Yet this publisher does not have any kind of music magazines or any magazines that reach the audience that is my magazines target audience. Therefore this publisher would not be good for my magazine.

'Dennis' publishing are very proud of their different platforms and how strong they are in this area, knowing this I decided to look into this publishing company to see if they would be correct for my magazine. This company have 3 very specific headings that each of their magazines can fit into; Current affairs, Cars and Technology. My magazine does not fit into any of those categories and therefore would not fit in with this publishing company.

A publishing company that does publish Music magazines is 'Blaze' publishing. They have magazines such as 'Acoustic', 'Bass' and 'Drum'. This would be perfect for my magazine as although these are music magazines they focus on the particular instrument in the title whereas, my magazine is an all round music magazine. This way I could reach the target audience of my magazine yet my magazine would not be competing against any magazine from the same publishing company.