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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Contents page also includes pictures of additional artists, headings for each section of the magazine, colour similar to the ones of the front page and a picture of my artist featured on the front cover.

Main article conventionally features a key image of my group "High Spirits"

Main article heading is printed across both pages of the double page spread.

-The composition of my magazine is conventional of music magazines as the front page shows the main image positioned in the middle of the front page in a mid-shot.

- Additional images are located along the right hand side .The price is below the masthead and the barcode is located in the bottom right hand corner. The website appears at the top of the front page and the tie-in ‘free poster’ offer is located at the top of the page below the key title with a picture of main band.

-The contents page features the page numbers before the page topics and the editorial is positioned in the top right hand corner .

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I aim to target a niche indie/funk alternative audience, with no paticular race
-By using an 5 people from 4 different origins I have shown a modern day representation of an multicultural artists who appeals to niche and mainstream audiences.
-Using models in fashionable clothing, looking extactic, yet rather ghoulish due to the glow around them,the audience can identify to the group a high spirits ( happy/ghosts..), however, other polisemic readings may perceive the group as being under the influence of alcohol or "spirits" due to thier jollyness, which is common among indie/rock bands of all eras( happy/ghosts..)

Post-feminist representations of my female members of the group could connote them as equal, and have some empowerment of men as there are more girls, not so likely for typical rock bands. Juxtaposing to this, there are plenty of woman-orientated bands on the scene in the modern age, The Gossip, The Like, And The Long Blondes for instance.
However other critics may believe the girls to be Bhavik's "groupies" As he could be seen to have adopted The "Kid Rock" role, the main performer, smoking a pretend cigarette, looking like the boss... Feminists would argue a patriacal attitude is evident.
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What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
-Independent music stores
Online music stores e.g. http://www.insound.com/
IPC as they also publish leading magazines e.g. NME, Rolling Stone MOJO


Who would be the audience for your media product?
Ethnic minorities
25-55 year old
proletariats who enjoy jazz, soul and indie music.
Enjoy arts and crafts Scented candles


Peer Assessment :Peer assessment conducted by Adil proved that the mode of address for my magazine was present in the form of “colloquialism had an inviting effect on the reader as it identified with them” and through the use of direct address.
He also stated that many of my additional images were “eye-catching” and demonstrated “conventional style of the jazz genre”.
Audience responses also mentioned my “colour scheme promoted a sense of professionalism within my magazine”.
Other audience responses mentioned that the style of the main article was “conventional yet unconventional” as I use a range of bold and subtle colours and included interesting bold quotes featured within the interview. The unconventional aspects were said to “fit-in with the unique style of my magazine”.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
-I learnt how to manage my time by prioritising what needs doing to what aspect of the magazine.

-Using the technologies Photoshop offered e.g. using the magnetic lasso tool ,I had to make sure I focussed on precisely cutting out the image I desired for a slight slant of the hand could make you have start all over again, however although frustrating, i knew I could perfect every detail, my own skill of patience also developed.

-In addition with DTP packages such as Photoshop allowed me to produce a full creative control over your chosen images e.g. changing the model's physique , skin tone and airbrushing blemishes by using clone stamp tool. DTP packages are an exceptional tool when creating a magazine as it is quick and has a high level of quality , which is very important for magazine producers. None of this software could be available on any other program on the system such as Powerpoint.

Using layers in Photoshop allowed me to alter images size and positions on the spread allocating them to specific regions in order to create a perfect lay out for my magazine. These features could not be used in word or publisher.

I learnt you must be precise and thorough when deploying an idea from the sketch onto the computer, be sure to save work frequently as you are working and always have a copy of your work on the network and USB stick to ensure if anything goes missing or malfunctions you have a copy of your work to fall back on.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I have learnt how to manage my time responsibly and effectively

I learnt how to combine images together and manipulate images on the spread to promote a specific idea or representation linking to the type of genre my magazine is.


Furthermore I learnt how to use Photoshop tools at a high standard such as magic wand tool, magnetic lasso tool, customs shape tool, slice select tool and many other tools which helped me develop and create an appropriate image according to my product.

Compared to my preliminary task, my music magazine is of a better standard, considering I had more time to spend on it, altering the layout and modifying images making it of a much better quality. The contents page featured more categories to appeal to the reader and had appropriate fonts. The preliminary task allowed me to refine my DTP skills in order to produce a polished music magazine.

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PLANNING

Iva, if you are free Monday lunchtime could you please pose as a band member for my media magazine coursework. If you can, dress up very casually, baggy shirt, and perhaps a denim skirt. Can you also bring a change of clothes, perhaps your tartan trouser and a wintery coat. I will take care of make up and hair. Meet me by the cage in the field, Thomas , Bhavik, and Kai have already emailed me confirming they’ll be there, so you’re not alone!, Thank you miss model

- this was an actual message sent to Iva for the photoshoot.


I made sure that there was no other existing magazine with Dysfunctional as it’s main cover, through websites such as google and yahoo. : http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBF_en-GBGB250GB250&um=1&sa=1&q=dysfunktional+magazine&aq=f&oq=
http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A1f4cfVoV9pJM7QA4dhLBQx.?ei=UTF-8&p=dysfunktional%20magazine&rd=r1&fr2=tab-web&fr=yfp-t-501

PROGRESSION

When looking back at my preliminary task and comparing it to my Actual magazine, I realise that I have progressed greatly and my technology skills have flourished.
For my preliminary task, I only used a simple background colour, differentiating to “DysFUNKtional” which has a variety of different shapes including a scroll images, different blocks of colours, (black/red)

I’ve managed to make DysFUNKtional reasonably expensive looking, compared to the preliminary task, which lacks diversity in fonts, text sizes, etc.
I’ve managed to include many suitable images for the magazine, the contents page for DysFUNKtional has other images of items that will be appearing in the magazine, where as the prelinimary task only had the picture of the editor.