Monday, 28 April 2014

Final Media Product


Evaluation Question 7 - What Do You Feel You Have Learnt From The Progression To The Final Product?

Evulation Question 6 - What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media and Product and Why?

There are several media institutions involved in the distribution and creation of music magazines in the UK, they include; writers, editors, publishers and critics. The most common institution involved in music magazine creation and distribution are publishers in the UK. 
There are several online magazine publishers in the UK such as www.ipcmedia.com. IPC Media receive all the templates and the designs of magazines including all the content for the magazines which are laid out ready for publishing and the publishers put the final layout together and make any minor changes to the magazine they feel are necessary.

With more than 60 iconic media brands, IPC creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and events. The publishers engage with 26 million UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and over 40% of UK men. There award winning portfolio of websites reaches over 25 million global users every month.
IPC Media might distrubute my media product, as they are a compnay which creates layout for Music Magazines. I would want them to distrubute it, as they have extremely succesful stats on how incredible there buisness is.

Monday, 7 April 2014

Evaluation Question 5 - In What Way Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

Evaluation Question 4 - What Have You Learnt About Technologies?

Evaluation Question 3 - How Does Your Media Represent Particular Social Groups?

Evaluation Question 2 - How Did You Attract / Address Your Audience?

Evaluation Question 1 - Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?


When I choose my genre for my music magazine I had no idea who else read Hip Hop and Rap magazines, other than myself. So to be able to find my audience I had to do some research. I recorded my research and put it into this video. The video shows me googling and gaining knowledge of exactly who my audience is. While researching, I managed to draw up this picture, which you can also see me creating in the video. 



After finding out who actually reads Hip Hop and Rap magazines I needed to research theories which would help me construct my audience. Graeme Burton identified the difference between socially grouped audience, such as age,gender,place in society and media audiences, grouped by their relationship with the media, such as computer uses, film goers. Hartley expanded on Burton’s classification, he developed 7 subjective's. He believed if you applied them to your audience, you have identified a more specific audience and should offer motives appropriate to that audience. The more specific your audience, the more you can target them directly.  



Hartley believed that an audience can be grouped by their aspirations.  So my audience will be aspiring to break the stereotypes of what the general public assume rap listeners look or act like. As my magazine has an audience of young people, they will be aspiring to hopefully reach their dreams and complete school.

I want to be able to encourage my young audience so I have included stories of artists who have experienced hardship and came out on the other side brighter, hopefully this will inspire your audience. My audience could also be aspiring rappers themselves, therefore my readers will share the same goal and hopefully encourage each other.

Hartley also believed there are associated motives depending on gender. We traditionally offer different gains to these audiences, or use different methods of targeting them.
(Click the Link Below to See a Prezi Presentation on the Gender of my Audience)
http://prezi.com/dh9cigm95zcd/gender/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Monday, 16 December 2013

Flickr

I have signed up to a photo sharing website called flickr, this website has enabled me to upload all of my draft pieces and add little notes to them, so when you hover over the picture it shows this I would like to change. I have left a link below so that you can visit my photostream and see all improvements I need to make.

Click Here To Visit My Photostream

What I Need To Change On My Double Page Spread Page 5

Draft Double Page Spread Page 5 I have looked over my work and found many mistakes, which I need to change. I have uploaded the picture to Flickr and added notes to highlight the mistakes I nee to change, feel free to click on the picture, then hover over and see my comments.

What I Need To Change On My Double Page Spread Page 4

Draft Double Page Spread Page 4 I have looked over my work and found many mistakes, which I need to change. I have uploaded the picture to Flickr and added notes to highlight the mistakes I nee to change, feel free to click on the picture, then hover over and see my comments.

What I Need To Change On My Double Page Spread Page 2

Draft Double Page Spread Page 2 I have looked over my work and found many mistakes, which I need to change. I have uploaded the picture to Flickr and added notes to highlight the mistakes I nee to change, feel free to click on the picture, then hover over and see my comments.

What I Need To Change On My Second Contents Page

Draft Contents Page 1 I have looked over my contents and found many mistakes, which I need to change. I have uploaded the picture to Flickr and added notes to highlight the mistakes I nee to change, feel free to click on the picture, then hover over and see my comments.

What I Need To Change On My First Contents Page

Draft Contents Page 2 I have looked over my contents and found many mistakes, which I need to change. I have uploaded the picture to Flickr and added notes to highlight the mistakes I nee to change, feel free to click on the picture, then hover over and see my comments.

What I Need To Change On My Front Cover

Draft Front Cover I have looked over my draft front cover and found many mistakes, which I need to change. I have uploaded the front over to Flickr and added notes to highlight the mistakes I nee to change, feel free to click on the picture, then hover over and see my comments.

YouTube Tutorial For My Double Page Spread Image

As this is a media course, I wanted to make the most of different ways inwhich I could possibly share how and why I did some of my work. So today I have recorded my screen and uploaded it to YouTube. The video shows me using photoshop to delete the background of an image and changing the colour. Hope you enjoy.

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Peer Feedback


Created with Padlet

I went around and shown my peers my first draft, I decided instead of using a traditional powerpoint to use a website called Padlet, which allowed me to organise all my peers comments using new technology.