1. Media Project..... In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?
My music magazine uses the basic
conventions that can be seen in magazines.
This can be the likes of,
Title (masthead), cover lines, selling
line, date, barcode, price, web address etc.
As you can see in my analysis of a magazine
front cover, it uses every thing I mentioned in
the above, it has a medium close up image of
an appropriate model. It will have a very
striking title which draws attention to it. Then it
would have possibly catchy headlines as well
as sub headlines to make you want to find out
what these interesting phrases mean. These
conventions are all used heavily in the
magazine industry, and it was only correct that
I followed this successful trend to make my
magazine seem genuine.

2. Media Project..... How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
My genre is the festival, to specify on types of
music this really does range from everything you
can get. To people who are interested in
this, they would easily recognise a picture of this
scene from something different. The title would
relate to my customer as they understand that the
festivals ‘main stage’ contains the best acts, and
they would adopt the feeling of this being the best
around. The colours that should be used to
promote the feeling of the festival would be
relatively bright colour, and to be quite packed to
make it feel busy and happy. Also the language
that should be used within this should be very
informal, if it was formal it would feel very
organised, which is what a festival is, but that
makes it seem more upper class which is not
something that has anything to do with this scene.

3. Media Project..... What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
This question is quite tricky for my magazine, you
could argue the point for it having a niche or mass
market. It could be niche as I am selecting a
specific thing. However I would say that it is
appealing to a mass market. It is about
Festivals, millions of people a year go to
festivals, surely if they want to know who is where
and they see this magazine on the shelf they
would buy it. It would not be a local magazine as
there are not many festivals in a single area, so it
would be a national magazine, this would then
mean that it would be in mainstream commerce.
Someone like ‘Bauer’ or ‘NatMags’ would publish
this sort of thing as it is done on a larger scale
than the sort of thing that ‘art house’ would
promote.

4. Media Project..... Who would be the audience for your media
product?
The people that we are aiming at is aka my target
audience, I stated that my audience is people that
go to Festivals and those who are interested with
that scene. With my magazine front cover I feel
that I have half met how it should be presented to
them. It is quite in your face and has a loud
feeling to it which some festivals bring. However it
seems to be a little dull in comparison to a
festival. However with the double page spread I
feel it really does have the feeling of summer and
festivals. It seem very bright and happy which is
my view on festivals so I feel for that page it
would be appealing to the target audience I am
trying to meet.
Usually when choosing the audience you would
also specify where you would be targeting the
magazine within the social class scale, I would

5. Media Project..... How did you attract/Address the audience?
The audience would be very interested in this
magazine if it communicated with the reader in a
way that was formal enough to sound decent and
fitting, but to be seemingly common enough to
feel like it is all fun. The language used then
would be happy and quick paced, short sentences
used to keep the attention, not dragging things on
and explaining them in essays to bore the reader.
The fonts would also have to share the feeling of
being fun and exciting not dull etc. If you used a
type like this “French Castilla” it makes it seem very
formal and book like, it is wanted to be a short
and sharp magazine, so you would want to make
it very simple to read and therefore be more
attractive to the audience. Who don’t want to be
bogged down with very small fonts that you have
to squint to read.

6. Media Project..... What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
Before I started doing this project, I had not really
used a digital camera as much, or tried it out to its
maximum capabilities. When taking my pictures I
used different setting to come out with a higher
resolution picture and tried different colour schemes.
The software I used during this was mainly
Photoshop and your basic Microsoft office products, I
had use d them before but Photoshop was brand new
to me. I played around for hour trying different things
and finding it extremely hard to navigate, however I
eventually understood and got the hang of this
software and can use it in the future when it is needed
or could be used to perhaps enhance something. I
obviously have used the internet a lot, however I was
not fully aware of how much here is about, I was
doing much research on there and found so many
pieces of others work that I could look at to compare
my efforts to that it made me realise what had to be
done so found it very useful.

7. Media Project..... Looking back at your preliminary task, what do
you feel you have learnt in the progression from
it to the full product?
When I made my first magazine, this being the
school one, it was my first attempt of using this
software. In my eyes it looks a little bit poster like
compared to a front cover, this is due to it having
a big block of colour at the bottom rather than
keeping the background like magazines do. When
I did my final one I wanted a small part of colour
to write sub-headlines in, to make this look more
professional I blurred it so that it faded out rather
than a straight line. When I realised how to use
most of the Photoshop tools, I was able to write
more and edit my document more, this allowed
me to add commonly used things like a barcode,
price, date etc which were not on my school one.
If I was making another one I would make the
picture closer and make it feel a little more closer
as if we’re getting closer to the subject, I would
have it to one of the side leaving the other for the