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

Conventional mastheads?

Conventional main image?

Conventional main feature?

Conventional barcode/date

Conventional selling line?

Challenged forms with sexual images

Challenged with equal columns

This shows how a well known magazine has done certain conventions and also challenged them

Conventional Masthead

Main Image

Issue and barcode

Buzz Words

Cover lines

Main Feature

Left third is heavily utilized

Direct mode of address

Quote

The colour scheme of her outfits fits the colour scheme of the magazine

1. Conventional Heading

2.Headings to group the pages

3.Features, to attracted the audience

4. Main Image; slightly of angle, like its stuck down.

5. Main Feature; used ¾ of the page to make it stand out.

7. Introduction to main feature to attract the reader.

6. subscription, buzz words ‘Only’

8. Grid Spacing. Conventional

Inspirations from Q magazine.

Masthead: linking to the front cover.

Main Images Heading: Relating to the front cover. Same font as the font cover

Feature

Grid Spacing

Smaller additional images

quotations

Age group?

Gender?

Interests?

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups

Direst mode of address

Youthful casual clothes

Knee high socks ‘preppy’

Winter headband to represent the season

Fashionable fur boots

The main image is there to attract other women.

Laddered tights to show her own sense of rough edgy style

High street brands

Models used...

Social group...

Targeted to a younger female audience Young models

Bubble writing

Younger generation stories

Posters show the age.

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

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In partners with the

A huge family successful business.

Distributors for many magazines

Magazines distributed through Frontline

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

Young fashionable girls

My targeted audience are young quirky stylish females

Magazine inspirations

Artist inspirations

Quirky and cute.

5.How did you attract/address your target audience

We did a questionnaire to ask our target audience what they would want in my magazine.

We put the results in a pie chart to gather data together and come up with a conclusion.

Using a model who’s in the same age gap

High street fashionable clothes

Buzz words ‘free’

Artist who target the same audience/age group

Quirky fonts

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

Clone stamp worked well with editing my images.

Using guide lines to straighten the magazine.

Quick selection tool; I used this when cutting out my images from there background. Learning to do so without cutting any parts of the image out.

Liquefy; using to edit my images, making eyes bigger/smaller etc.

Erasing the background

How I added JPEG images of my magazine onto my blog

Learning to convert my images into JPEGs and to upload them of my home folder onto my blogger.

Digital photography

Cameras we used. Pictures I took with the cameras we used.

We found it blurred with quick movement

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

Change of mind

Same image

Similar fonts

Used the same layout

Change of image