Final Product: Major Task Media AS 'BASS MAX' music magazine:

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

Looking back at my Preliminary task at the start i thought it would be alot easier that i first expected. The Preliminary task only needed a background immage - possible medium or extreme close up. Once this had been added - we then needed to ad text box's and a title. This was nothing compared with the progression to our Major AS task. Personally i felt at the time of my Preliminary task - i belived i had come up with a substantional piece of work. Looking back on my progress now to my media product (music Magazine) it has made me realise how poor it was to my final Major Task. Below is an image of my Preliminary task:

i took some pictures around our school/collage _ as the Title breif was to create a school/collage front cover for a school magazine. bellow are images i had taken:

I used these pictures in my Preliminary task as they related to a school/collgae and the task was for a school's magazine front cover. once i had completed the task, and began to design my major task, i realised how hard it can be to design a proffessional looking cover to my music magazine. I new the basics of Adobe InDesign so i had a ruff idea how i wanted my design to look, by using images from festivals eg bellow is my picture of Deadmau5 on stage when i took the image with his agreement:

this would be my main focus point to my front cover. I belive it works really well and the Red hat he is wearing contrasted with the yellow top band with my special slogan in it. it also contrasts with his name which i typed in bold white - to stand out from the dark background. This then brightened my ideas by looking for the front cover i wanted and bellow is what i found to guide me along through my designing:

Once i put all of my ideas together i came up with this as my front cover:

Once i had this as my finished front cover design - the other pages i found easy - using the image bellow, it inspired my with my contents, and bellow that is what i had created:

I used Constrasting electric Green as a border - but kept the relations between the yellow text box's - relating to the Reading logo on my front cover:

Once i had both my front cover and my contents, i then moved on using Reading festival as the main focus point of my media product (music magazine - BASS MAX') and designed my final two page (double) spread. I used pictures of festivals - Dj's and using text box's with slogans etc. Bellow is my design:

Overall - looking back at my Preliminary task, i feel i have learnt alot about Adobe InDesign and i belive i have deffinatly progressed from my first task - to my major task. And equally belive my product is of high standard!

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6) What have you learnt about Technologies from the persons of constructing this product?

The list bellow are all programmes and Technologies i used for the process of my media product, i created my music magazine (media product) in Adobe InDesign CS. I used Microsoft Word to produce my Notes, and my diary for installation when my blogger had problems. I used Internet Explorer to gather information about other simular media products and information about ect: Facebook and Mspace. I used Painshop pro 7 to eddit my images if they needed to be, and Paint to crop images to size eg: with the Dj who i couldnt get a reference to use an image of him, so i had to crop his head and face out of the picture.

- Adobe InDesign CS
- Microsoft Word
- Internet Explorer
- PaintShop pro 7
- Paint

Also above is a screen capture of http://www.blogger.com/.

This was my 'diary' of my progress and my base for my media product.

Before i started my Media AS major task, i had no idea how to use Adobe InDesign and had no clue on how to even start on one page. It took me a couple of weeks before I fully grasped the concept and basic tools of this application - but once i had a basic idea of what to use and when to use it, i managed fine with the creation of my media music magazine. It was complete trial and error with my magazine, but after i had completely eddited it and finished i was really pleased with the outcome. And would use these technologies  with advertizing later in life, because this is what i want to achieve - so using this software and technologies it is really helpfull to me!

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5) How did you attract/address your audience?

I have tried many different ways to attract and adress my audience, these include celeb's and pictures of their gigs from London gigs, to Festivals such as Reading 2009. I also used slang and emphasisms to target my young age groups - using slogans at the top of the pages to relate to them.. my product also contains people of their age groups, such as the croud picture i took of young people haveing a good time!
The main purpose of this magazine is not only to inform but entertain audience members. This made the presentation, structure and character of the magazine very important so it easily appealed to the audience. The front of the magazine is almost the most important as it is one of the first things that the reader will see before opening it, and is often the deciding factor when coming to purchase a magazine. On the cover of Bass magazine I made al of the titles big and bold, making sure that the font was easy to read and that the colours complimented each other in such a way that it has made the titles stand out.

The picture above is of a magazine cover i wanted to relate to.

Reading festival addresses my target audience. As young people go to these festivals.

the pictures above are off http://www.google.com/ but it shows how i got these images as a base image for my target audience, and i belive it works well.

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

Bellow are some images of colours i have used - the type of audience i want to relate to, for example bellow is a flyer for a T.Pain gig. Using a picture which is super imposed draws the readers eyes in etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44CZnPY5BVw&feature=related

DEADMAU5^^^

The picture above relates to my target audience as this is the sort of logo teenagers and young people would wear on their t-shirts. As i siad before the audience i want to achieve for my media product is teenagers to young people. Ruffly the age of 16-30 years old. I wasent aiming for any typical gender to aim my media product. Personally i would say it is aimmed at male young people, but that wasent my intenttion, thats just my own opinion with the final product. 70% of teenagers get a weekend job by the age of 16-18. This is why i have aimmed my media product at the price of £2.99 - meaning it is affordable for the reader, and also would give the distributer and edditing team, a gross profit and overall profit outcome. My product is popualarised with this audience through promo's and advertizing. it is a primary level of involvment. For these reasons this is my audience for my media product.

My audience references:

Beth Kavanagh (aged 17) female.

''This magazine has related well to the target audience. The colours are all reating back to eachother which is a good thing! Personally i really like it and would tell my friends it is really cool!''

Tom Sulavan (aged 19) male.

''This mag is sweet! it looks like a music mag which i would buy. I love the bold front cover - and using images of Deadmau5 as the main image is wicked because i have a mag at home, all about his new album and personally i prefer yours mate! The contents is also really cool, and looks pro.. i would have used more information on your double page spread but all in all it all adds up to being a wicked mag - and i would promote/advertise it if i could!''

Kate Swallow (aged 48) female.

''Your magazine is cool. Personally i wouldn't buy it as i dont think im hip enough to have this around my house! i only say this as your using slang and emphasisms from younger age groups, (which i dont understand!) although i would deffinatly buy this for my son, who is 16 coming up 17! he'd love it!''

Paul Jones (aged 35) male.

''This magazine is pritty cool man.. i would deffinatly buy it! but i think after a few more years i wouldnt. This is just because im trying to be up to date now, but in 5 years i wount have the time for it. I think im just about the top end of your target audience man, but it looks professional''

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

There are many different publishing houses for magazines, although most magazines are made and published by only a select few major distributers. These are for example:
- Emap.. Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by Apax and Guardian Media Group.
- IPC.. IPC Media (formerly International Publishing Company UK Ltd) is one of the United Kingdom's leading consumer magazine and digital publishers, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. This company’s portfolio includes big names such as: NME, Look, Now and Rugby World.

My magazine ''BASS MAX'' would connect to IPC as they make NME for example. this then indicates that my magazine would fall under the same title as NME production. My magazine is aimed at young people, from teenagers to adults under 30 or there about. This also relates to NME as they have the same target audience. For these reasons this is why IPC would be my intended distributer for my media product.
My media product could also be designed on the internet and could also appear online, for example screen captures of the pages (eg: the front cover) could be posted on web search enjines such as www.google.com/images

The adverage cost of IPC's NME magazine is.. £2.99
My media product would be in the same price band as NME, this way its affordable - but also gives the Entrepreneur an overall revenue profit/income.. making sales more affordable for the distributer and resulting in mass production, world wide.

Below are some URL http//'s of some worldwide music example distributers for different products, and could also be used to advertise my media product:
http://www.musictechmag.co.uk/mtm/links

http://www.djadvantage.com/links.php?op=viewlink&cid=10

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

My media product represents particular social groups by identifying different target audiences and age groups. I have targeted my audience around the ages of teenagers towards young people. I have managed to find an image bellow of the 'Facebook' logo. This represents my social net-working sites. Facebook
is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Since September 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address can become a Facebook user. Facebook's target audience is more for adults than youths. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. This is my main relation to my target audience.
Facebook:

Myspace is also another social net-working site. MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, News Corp. Digital Media, owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors. MySpace employs 1,000 employees, after laying off 30% of its workforce in June 2009; the company does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 9, 2006, in the Netherlands. Below are some images relating to Myspace.
Myspace:

My media product represents social groups, its not just based at one social group, i have tried to use images of teenagers in the croud and then contrasting it with Dj's from festival pictures i took. With the target audience in mind i decided to brand my music magazine towards colours relating to the Reading Festival logo.. i used yellow with my borders etc, to relate to the eye catching logo, with also ties in with Reading and my Target audience as Reading festival is aimed at teenagers and young people. I have also used slag/ abbreviations/ contractions/ emphasisms etc.. to relate to the music magazine, using NME as a focus point, i got the idea of using slogans at the top of the frount cover and the double page spreads. This draws attention to the audience - and relates to the readers eg: about 'summer time'.

For these reasons this is why my media product represents particular social groups.