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Friday, 28 March 2014
Evaluation 3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
What kind of media
institution might distribute your media product and why?
My magazine would be new to the market. It would be key that
I chose a good distributer. I would need one that could reach out to my target
audience and social group and also giving my magazine an excellent status. In
this question, I am going to look at two distributers who are probably the
biggest in the world. These two distributers are IPC Media and Bauer. I am
going to explain why these would be good distributors to my music magazine.
IPC Media
IPC Media produces 60 brands that has the capability to
reach out to a wide audience. Their audience is huge as they can reach out to
almost two thirds of woman in the United Kingdom and 42% of the men in the
United Kingdom. Many well-known magazines such as NME are distributed by IPC
Media and NME is a huge music magazine and consequently they would be a great
company to get involved in with my magazine. There aren’t many similarities
with my magazine and the NME magazine because of the genres which are shown in
my magazine and the genres in the NME magazine are very different from each
other. Even though there isn’t a strong link with my magazine and the NME
magazine, I think that IPC Media would be a great distributor for my magazine.
This is because the genre of my magazine which is Electro house is a huge genre
across the world and have many big names in this industry such as the likes of
Tiesto and David Guetta etc. This distributor would benefit me and my magazine
because it would be a great opportunity for me and my magazine and would
benefit for this genre which there aren’t many magazines made for this genre
and could increase the market for my magazine. There aren’t any problems with
this distributor. This is because a lot of the magazines distributed from IPC
Media, the genre is Indie for a lot of them so if they distributed my magazine
it would be a different one for the market.
Bauer
Bauer music offers many magazines from up to 15 countries. There
are over 300 magazines in these 15 countries as well as online, radio stations
and TV. One of the biggest music magazines ever made is Kerrang. Bauer is the
distributer for this magazine and as it distributes one of the biggest music
magazines out on the market, I believe that this one could also be a good
distributer for my magazine alongside with IPC Media. Even though my magazine
isn’t the same genre as Kerrang, I believe that is Bauer distributed my
magazine one day it could be up there as one of the best on the market with the
likes of Kerrang and NME etc. Bauer media is also a multi-platform United
Kingdom based media group therefore once my magazine became recognised, it
could be possible for them to help me launch into other areas such as radio and
TV like Kerrang has done.
Both distributers have their own advantages and
disadvantages. Overall, I think Bauer would be the best possible distributer
for my magazine. This is because the likes of Kerrang have made their magazine
well-known across many countries and have places on TV and radio stations so
for my music magazine to go that far and get on these many things would be a
huge success for me and the genre of music.
Evaluation 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In my magazine cover, contents page
and 2 page spread, I tried to show different features when creating the
magazine to make it represent my target social group with is teenagers and
above. On my 2 page spread, I have an image of one of the artists in my
magazine who is the main feature of the magazine. This image includes a snap
back hat to show the coolness side of the artist. Also, I made it look like he
was at a music festival and he was about to go out on stage. I made him wear
casual clothes as DJ artists wear them when they’re performing. This indicates
the teenage look as they wear casual clothing most of their childhood. I think
this style reflects the style of my target audience and so the magazine
represents their social group. Costume has a big part in my magazine. I had
made a feature in my magazine that there was a music awards in my magazine. I
had used pictures I had taken of my mates in their suits. I had used these
images for the music awards in my magazine. The reason I used this was that
schools have end of year proms for students leaving school and they like to
dress in a smart way with the shoes and tie etc. So this is why I used these as
teenagers like to dress this way on special occasions. I feel that my images
set a teenage look on my contents page as there is a big picture of lads
dressed in the smart way. This represents the teenage look on special
occasions. Also, my magazine has a happy feeling towards my images and with the
people on the images smiling indicates the happy feeling towards my magazine. The
main reasons used these images is that music awards are common throughout each
year and I wanted to do something different to what everyone else did in my
class. To some extent, I think that this idea can link in with the audience and
social groups in which I have done my magazine for. This is because music can
be a big thing in a teenager’s childhood and music awards can get really
exciting for them in their childhood as they want to see their favourite bands
or artists win big awards so this is why I have done this in my magazine.
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Evaluation 1- In my music magazine cover, contents page and two page spread, I wanted to grab the audience’s attention by making it look as professional as I could. I came up with the name ‘ElectroMag’ for the masthead of my magazine cover. I came up with this name for the masthead because the genre of my magazine is Electro House and I wanted to merge the genre into my masthead by using the word ‘Electro’. From some of my research I did, I learnt that the names of the magazines I researched are names that aren’t merged with the genre of the magazine. I wanted to do something different with my masthead and merge it with the genre of the magazine.
Title of Magazine
In my music magazine cover, contents page and two page
spread, I wanted to grab the audience’s attention by making it look as
professional as I could. I came up with
the name ‘ElectroMag’ for the masthead of my magazine cover. I came up with
this name for the masthead because the genre of my magazine is Electro House
and I wanted to merge the genre into my masthead by using the word ‘Electro’.
From some of my research I did, I learnt that the names of the magazines I
researched are names that aren’t merged with the genre of the magazine. I
wanted to do something different with my masthead and merge it with the genre
of the magazine. This is my masthead
compared to the ‘Vibe’ magazines masthead. As you can see, mine is a lot
plainer than the Vibe masthead. I wanted my masthead to fit in with the dark
background without all the edits and shades in my masthead. The white font
colour would hopefully be the first thing my target audience would see in my
magazine. This is because the white font colour is bright and it goes with the
dark background colours. Also, my masthead font doesn’t look extreme, as it
would like on the ‘Kerrang’ magazine masthead. This is because the genre of my
magazine isn’t very extreme compared to the genres heavy metal etc. my genre
has the chillness and the relaxed way you would want to feel when listening to
the music from my genre. This is why I have used the basic font and the colours
etc. In the Kerrang magazine, the heads of the artist are covering the title.
This looked very appealing to me. This is an example of that the producer of
the magazine wants to let their target audience know that he is the main
feature of the magazine. This is why I did this in my magazine so I could let
my target audience know that the people in my magazine cover are the main
feature in the magazine. 
Images in the
Magazine
The images in my magazine are all basically around the same
thing. I had an idea of having a music awards section in my magazine, which I
put into my contents page. I used pictures I already had taken of people I knew
in suits and smart clothes. This made it look like a music awards because
people where smart clothes on occasions like this so this in my mind was a very
good idea to think of. This represented that this addition of the magazine I
made would be a big one. I made it look like the awards was a big thing in the
world of music so I used various pictures of this. Also the main feature of my
magazine I had a picture from this music awards of the person who was the main
feature of my magazine.
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