Note to moderator

Dear moderator,

 

My brief for my AS Media work was to create a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a new music magazine. I did a generalised music magazine that looked at popular and R&B music especially as these are commonly liked genres.  I decided on the target audience of 15-25 years old, as I feel this is the most likely group of people to be interested in this type of music and all media surrounding it. A new, up to date and stylish magazine that also contains a lot of interesting gossip and information would be well suited to this group of people. I have tried to incorporate this into my magazine.

 

I have used labels on my blog to make it easier to navigate around and see my work.

Yours Sincerely,

Nicole Bailey, Edgbarrow School.

 

Candidate Number: 4020

Centre Number: 51111

Question 7

https://www.powtoon.com/c/d6sqfklBsEU/1/m

Question 6

https://padlet.com/nicolexbaileyx/ez8371wilwva

Question 3 -

https://my.visme.co/projects/z4yp6qwx-question-3

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine is representing cultural interests in young people who are interested in the music industry. Where some genres of music for example rap are often represented as gangsters and troublemakers. But the artist I came up with for my magazine is represented as an average person who could be seen as a role model as she says she loves to inspire, but also she has a gossipy side, shown by her later comments from the interview.

Having a gossipy side is important for music artists sometimes because drama brings publicity, and with a young audience I felt that publicity and drama would be interesting for them to read about.

   represented in casual and every day clothes makes her a relatable person. Shown as a musician as she has a guitar so is quickly recognizable.
A woman, young, smiley, wearing make up- these are all conventions of what we think of when we think young woman (it fits conventions) Although she is well covered up when some artists may not always be, this automatically makes her more suitable for a younger audience and she can be seen as more respectable and serious.

Evaluation question 4/5

https://padlet.com/nicolexbaileyx/92eob0v0n6ed

Evaluation Question 1

https://create.piktochart.com/output/30344444-new-piktochart

Real media analysis

https://prezi.com/view/wGh6xZ5kQqI0HUPbOaAd/

Final Contents page

Final Double Page Spread

Front Cover Final Draft

Product placement

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bp4k2txLyrLYCLyZ-fzcbn-xLK3XXqcWj549hQXx9LU/edit?usp=sharing

How research will inform planning

https://app.emaze.com/@AOIRIQCWI/how-researchwill-inform-planning

Analysis of second questionaire

Analysis of Second Questionnaire 

I presented the questionnaire and my first drafts to 50 people, all aged between 15 and 25 years old, as this is the proposed target age for my magazine.

For the first question, referring to the colour scheme 41 responded positively, 8 liked it ‘somewhat’ with only 1 participant feeling negatively about it. The comments alongside these questions indicated that the colour scheme was a little plain and flat. This suggested that I should keep the red and black colour scheme but look at adding dimensions through layered captions and a more interesting background for the 3 pieces keeping the colour scheme more uniform throughout.

The second question referring to the images of the chosen artist got a higher number of negative responses. Only 21 of the 50 respondents liked the artist shots. The reasons the remaining 29 responded negatively indicated the artist shots were too generic. The comments suggested that the model shots looked like they could be of a fashion model, film star or reality tv personality. This indicated that the genre of the magazine was not instantly clear. The solution to this would be to add cues and props to the 3 pieces.

In response to the third question referring to the topics on the front cover of the magazine, 7 participants said they would be interested in the topics, 43 said they would be interested in some and none weren’t interested in any of the topics. This suggested that the topics were appropriate to the target audience but there may be other areas of more interest. 

I asked friends, colleagues and classmates to list 3 things they would most like from a music magazine and overall the three top topics were:

Early information on concerts and festivals, dates, information and tickets relevant promotions and discounts, such as merchandise, VIP passes or backstage giveaways. The latest gossip and inside stories to share with their friends

I took these suggestions into account and changed my cover captions and contents pages accordingly.

Doing this meant I kept some of the articles the same but altered them to be slightly more tailored to new and unheard of information. As well as advertising events and the new songs being released. 

This questionnaire was very helpful because it showed me what a consumer would think of my magazine if they  had seen it. This was very benifitial because it showed me how people would change it to make it better in their opinion, which gave me a clearer view than a questionaire that was just in general, this was i could get very specific and personal points to work on. 

Second questionaire

https://app.easyquest.com/q/Ea32H