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Question 6

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

question 5

What did you do to attract/ address your audience?



Chloe Judd
age:17
ocupation: studdent
hobbies: sports, art
gender : female
interests:kick boxing, art, sociology

Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

my music magazine is aimed at a mixed gender group of 15 to 22 year olds interested in indie music; because of my target audience’s age there is a very high likely hood that the majority of my audience is in full time education as they are teenagers or young adults. the importance of their age means they are very unlikely to have a form of income that is disposable. meaning they will not be able to afford something too expensive. this is why I’ve chosen the price of my magazine to be £1.50 as this price is not likely to put my target audience off. 

my target audience will have priorities in school, family and social lives. studying for exam, spending time with people. they’re likely to want to spend money on cinemas and contemporary affordable clothes shops. they will be interested in new trends in technology, social media and fashion but they’re likely to not want to go extreme with spending and look out for comfortable expressive clothes. 

they will likely socialise in town centres, educational areas, and the older age bracket could be meeting in pubs and clubs where new music is played.

due to the age range of my ideal audience, the majority of them will be just learning or thinking about starting to drive, due to low income possibly part time jobs they are likely to go for the cheapest car that they can find with the cheapest insurance. they are likely to live with their families or in student accommodation. 

due to trends in technology, they are likely to have a new smart phone, which they can listen to music on. they can do this through many apps including: iTunes and Spotify. 

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question 2

How does your media product represent social groups?


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Contents page research

contents pages:
column  structures
pictures (different sizes)
page numbers with article titles and on pictures.
title "contents" at top typically
sometimes has the name of the magazine on.
some are just one big picture with the contents columns on them
double pages have continuous factors (the red header in Q, how contents is split over two pages 

Draft interview for double page spread

Interview with Steph .s

When we met with Steph .s days before preforming up on the big stage up at Indie fest she seemed so overwhelmingly excited, when we asked her about how she felt that she would be going on stage with a 4 thousand people audience in just under a week she replied “oh gosh,  Im a little nervous but over all im just so excited to be here so quickly” she says “I always dreamed of preforming infront of audiences and this is the biggest one I have yet.” When we ask her about how she’ll prepare herself for the show she tells us that she’s “not going to take it too far, I’ve always had people tell me not to over do practising before hand, that’s how you her yourself or your voice” she advises.

We spoke with her for a while and when we asked her about how she felt about the atmosphere of the festival she mentioned “its just like when I came with my friends, I can see how excited everybody is and later on I can see how absolutely exhausted everybody is but it’s always been so inspiring to see how excited everybody was for the next day” she recalls some of her own festival experiences like the tent placement and bad weather, how close you were to the next people over and how “it felt oddly comforting not knowing who was next to you perfectly but knowing enough about them to know they are like you and are here for a good time” she remenises back to when her and her friends would camp out and how many people they had actually spoken to and continued to keep up with. She also warned us about all of the “drunk kids who throw up on you”. Which thank fully nobody had experienced yet.

Magazine Covers

Here are the best in my opinion of the front covers that i have created for my magazine. with different photos from my photo shoot

Possible photos for magazine front cover

1.I chose this photo due to the space on the side as well as it give the impression of two friends taking photos, it doesn't look all that professionally done, as the photo isn't serious or framed perfectly, which really conveys the indie style because of the intimacy in the photo.









2. i chose this to be one of the photos i considered using as it involved the audience and gave a place for the name of the artist (on her hand) and also had space around her for cover lines and a masthead on top









3.this photo i thought would be a good cover as the eye contact involves the audience and the pose and the guitar on her back her back give an impression of youth and the indie genre









4.i liked this photo and think it could be a good cover photo as there is lots of space around her for the cover lines, and space above her for a masthead slough because her hands are cut off by the photograph  means i wouldn't be able to make the photo wider, but hopefully the space on top and below would mean that wouldn't be necessarily an issue







5. i like this photo because it gives an impression of anger/confusion with the expression and it suggests there might be something weird or new about the artist or music.

Blog feedback

feed back on my blog and work through last term and my response to the EBI targets that have been set for me.

Photo editing research

editing

photo editing includes things like getting rid of 'undesirable features' of somebody ie: getting rid of spots or stray hairs. it's often used on women in the male gaze to make them more appealing, making their legs thinner, removing cellulite making their eyes bigger etc.

photo magazines edit photos to make them more appealing to viewers.

companies use softwear like Photoshop to make the edited photos still look realistic.

this can also mean getting rid of red eye in photos of editing out things in the background, like buildings or signs, or wires on those who have them. 

for example: 

http://www.boredpanda.com/photoshopped-celebrities-before-after/?image_id=photoshopped-celebrities-before-and-after-9.jpg

Photo lighting research.

lighting

Broad lighting is softer than narrow. for example a naked bulb versus one with a cover, while the naked one makes a lot of a room bright the one with a cover will only light up a specific part, just like a spot light.
the connotations a photo brings can be reliant on the position of the light or the temperature of the light (colour).
for example: red, orange, yellow lights would make the photo look warmer, soft  and more comforting while blue, green, purple lights would make the photo look cold, abrasive and sharper

lighting position:

http://www.diyphotography.net/portrait-lighting-cheat-sheet-card/

as seen in the picture the position of the light gives different meanings to the picture. a light which is straight on to the face or not angled away reduced shadows on the face, while angling it up or down could change the model from looking friendly and approachable to looking scary and evil. changing the position of the light from the front to the side of the model creates more shadows on their face, adding atmosphere, the further behind the more dramatic.  

main image research

All of the magazines I've seen, or most of them at least, have a lot of things in common.
For example:

• close ups, focused on their faces.
• a lot have flat on views of the person, with direct mode of address, some have a slight low angle shot of them looking slightly down but not enough to be really noticeable.
• the have quite plain backgrounds, some have gradient colours, while others have simple backgrounds that don't have much going on in them, probably to focus attention on them. 
• the lighting of the photos are usually high key. although a few have natural bright lighting.
• while most are posed looking straight on to the camera, I've seen quite a few with their bodies facing away or with their hands by their face.
• their costumes seem pretty normal, or cultural in some cases, or maybe slightly strange or out of the ordinary but in the way that some one was stuck in the past.
• from the ones i found today a lot of them focused on singular artists, but previously an indie magazine i found focused on groups.
• quite saturated colours or natural colours.
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Hand drawn layouts

Although they do not have colour, I think I would try to make the background the lightest colour if the person is darker and make the title the darkest colour, and viscersa if the person is lighter. 

Audience research

From my audience research I can gather that most people prefer the masthead "droplet empire" but there is an even split between font preference

And the prefered colony scheme was 

And that the masthead should be in the top middle

Front cover, Contents page and double page spread layout ideas.