Feedback - 28/11/09

A promising start Jack- but you are a little behind the other students - you need to do more work at home on this blog - and try to be more detailed in your posts -

The first genre you should be analysing is music magazines - outline the conventions and then look at covers, contents pages and feature articles and think about the following questions...

- Do they follow typical conventions of music magazines? If not why?

- Who is the target audience (GRASS) and how have they been made to appeal to them?

- Do they successfully make the audience want to read on? ( Cover and contents?)

- why do they work?

In research you need a little more on audience - who is you target audience (Demographic - GRASS and psychographic profiling - Young and Rubicon) Also how will your product appeal to its audience - use MAslow too.

Audience questionnaires are needed - to your target audience - and feedback on this - charts and graphs are always good!

Go onto the ABC website to find out audience/circulation figures for magazines too - is there a market out there for your product?

Now move onto planning this week - ( see the last two sheets on the 'before you blog' handout) Start your mood boards, rough mock up of pages, props list, shooting schedule etc....

This is my contents page for my preliminary task. It is hand drawn so detail is very hard to show. It is a rough sketch but does include what all contents pages should, for example; a big picture to dominate the text, a clear title, a list of contents. However, my contents page is not bright and colourful as I did not spend enough time doing it.

Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task I created a college magazine. I like the fonts that I have chosen and the colour schemes. However, I feel that I could have organised the lay out better. The picture on my cover fits in with my main headline although, the background of it could be better positioned.

Introduction to Project!

My name is Jack Haining and for my media project I will be creating a music magazine focusing on the music genre of Dubstep.