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Question 4 –

(Script)

My target audience for ‘The View’ magazine will be mainly female teenagers at the age of around sixteen years old. This is due to the content of the magazine and essentially what the magazine is about. All other audiences are welcome but due to the specific nature of the product, only a certain audience would be attracted. The reasoning for the specific age range would be the simple writing such as the interview on the double page spread. Teenagers wouldn’t buy a magazine and sit down to read an entire article as it would bore them. The audience this product would attract would be country music fans who listen to country music and like to keep undated within the music industry. Due to the age group, the audience would either be full time or part time students either in school or college for example. Part time students would most likely have some sort of income from part time work. Attracting this kind of audience would be more productive to the magazine as they would actually have the money to buy it.

Question 3

Question 2 –

(Script)

My front cover represents particular social groups through the use of images. The style, pose, make-up and props such as the guitar and the costume like the floral top and jeans suggest similar groups of people. Obviously, as it is a music magazine, certain groups of people that are interested in country music would be represented through the magazine as it is quite specific. For example, a pop magazine would appeal to a larger portion of people but due to the country genre and the fact that it will be distributed and produced in the UK limits the audience. My target audience is mainly female teenagers so using a female teenager on the front cover will make the readers want to pick it up as she the model is essentially representing them. This links in with Laura Mulveys Male Gaze Theory as they will aspire to be like her. This is the same with the contents page as another female teenager is used. The colour scheme represents the target audience but the content of the actual magazine represents the people who are interested and enjoy country music. The double page spread not only connotes the country genre as its background is yellow which represents freedom and happiness. This could also represent certain musicians as she is holding a guitar. Overall this magazine does represent  particular social groups.

I have created an evaluation of the entire process of creating this Country music magazine through many different types of technology such as Keynote, powerpoint and pages.

Question 1

Targets for today were to demonstrate an understanding of magazine layout conventions and to be able to evaluate my own media product.

The tasks I did in order to complete my target were:

1. Complete all work.

2. Upload all work to the blog and make sure they are under the relevant categories.

I completed the tasks by having a tick list of what I had completed and whether I had uploaded it to a blog or not.

I went through all my work such as Initial Ideas, Questionnaire, Audience Analysis, Skeleton layout, front cover practise, final design, development diary, content skeleton layout and evaluation.

I had already completed all work so I just needed to finish my evaluation.

Evaluation

Now that all of my work is completed and uploaded to the blog, I can now go through and check all dates and links work correctly.