Note To The Moderator

Dear Examiner,
I hope you have enjoyed looking through my blog posts that I have been working on over the past few months. All of my posts are labelled and can be found on my blog at the top right hand side of the page. I have enjoyed the firs year of media an AS and have put a lot of effort into my final magazine, I hope to carry on with the course next year.
Thank you! 

EVALUATION 7

Q7

EVALUATION 6

EVALUATION 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

My audience age range is 16-24 year Old’s, older teenagers to younger adults. I designed my magazine so that it would attract this particular age boundary. I used both genders on my pictures that I took to attract both to buy the magazine; this has also helped me publicize my magazine. 

Although as the cover has a 'attractive' girl on the front page it will sell more to the male sex as due to the 'male gaze' theory. I feel my magazine will attract an audience of 16-24 year Old’s as it’s my target market and also because it’s like other magazines that have already been published. For example clash and Fader have used a bold title to attract the audience so i have tried to do the same however my masthead is slightly to the left. 

My front cover, Contents page and Double page spread feature both male and the female sex, both in juxtaposition to each other to get the correct balance. Through the images I have taken you can see what sort of personalities they have, however in these photos they have more of a serious face so they look moody looking directly at the camera. Rob looks like he is more dominate over Carly as he is looking upright and has good posture; both took it very seriously whilst we were in the studio.

When I was writing my article I didn't want to bore my audience so i had to keep it flowing to keep the readers interested.

The contents page will attract the audience because it’s easy and clear to read and understand.  It shows pictures of what’s inside the final magazine and brand new news for the reader of the age group 16-24. My audience will want to read on as I have exclusive interviews inside. Also on my double page spread again showing pictures on the band members attracts the audience the way my article is written is to inform the readers of the bands success so far, it’s not a question and answer layout.

EVALUATION 4

EVALUATION 3

EVALUATION 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The age range for my magazine is 16-24 and my genre is indie, so I have tried to show this through my images for example if we take a picture I took and then a picture from a real magazine we can see how I have tried to make them similar, after looking at some very important information on the UK tribes website, I picked to use both male and female models on the magazine as it would attract both genres of sex, and encourage them to pick it up off of the shelf and buy the magazine. On my font page of the magazine i have used two models one aged 16 and one aged 17, both falling into the age gap i am aiming my magazine at so hopefully this will attract more readers. I have dressed here with the current trend reaching a niche market, also fitting in with my genre of 'indie' 

 

• I have chosen to use a photo of Carly standing on her own (on the left) and i will compare it to the other picture (on the right)
• Carly's bold curly hair  captures the readers attention as soon as you look at the magazine.
• I liked the way the model on the right was standing so i showed Carly some images of how i I wanted her to pose and she did it and over all i think they look like good pictures that i captured. 

I needed to dress both rob and Carly in a way that suited my genre and my target audience age range. so i asked them what items of clothing they already owned that looked indie to fit in with my theme to attract the social group of indie and alternative. From looking at UK tribes the best group that fit in with my genre and age group is the indie and alternative, they are looking for the newest music around and the newest fashions. They have their favorite bands and interests.