1. In What ways does your media product use, develop orchallenge forms and conventions of real media products?My magazine SPIRIT follows the conventions of a real music magazine asit gives the reader the latest information on the specific genre in this caserock/indie. Also the magazine offers the reviews and interviews which istypical of an NME or Keerang magazine. I have used photography skillsthat follow the conventions of a music magazine as the models I haveused pose in a interesting and appealing manner.SPIRIT challenges the conventions of rock and indie magazines that arepopular today. Keerang and NME use typical colours that relate to therock genera such as red, black and white. The way I have challenged theconventions is by using an old black and white feel to my magazine thatyou may not see on a typical rock/indie genre. I have still kept the redand black colour scheme to add contrast to the magazine.

2. How does your media product represent particular socialgroups?My magazine represents a teenage social group as it has interestinginterviews and photos that a teenage audience would enjoy reading. Therock genre of my magazine makes it appealing to the rock audience as itwas intended and designed for people that like rock music, I feel that Ihave achieved this by the colours and language that I have used.Click icon for audio 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your mediaproduct and why?Bauer media group would be a great option to distribute my magazine asBauer has a huge reputation and a high standard that people expectwhen they buy a music magazine. Customers trust Bauer with thecontent that they produce and have a wide audience that read theirmagazines.Bauer media produces similar magazines to mine such as Keerang andQ, I hope that as my magazine is similar to Keerang the audience wouldbe interested in buying the magazine as it follows the same conventionsas Keerang. Even though my magazine might be similar to some musicmagazine it still has its own house style that will set it apart from theother music magazines on the market. 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?I have aimed my magazine at a teenage rock audience as they are themajority that buy music magazines, plus the audience has more interestand enthusiasm than other age ranges. Having a teenage audience givesme an advantage when it comes to adding content and designs, this isbecause I fit into my target audience. Magazines such as Keerang have asimilar target audience to me so I can relate my and design my magazinearound NME and Keerang. Many teenagers buy magazines to skimthrough the content, they do not want to read a lengthy article that willtake them an entire week to read, I have added a ratio between text andpictures to keep the reader interested. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?I addressed my audience by first researching the target audience andseeing what they liked and disliked, this helped me improve my ideas andmake them more suited for the audience. As I have picked a teenageaudience I needed colours and pictures that relate to them and to keepthem interested. For my main image on the front cover I have used propsand clothes that a teenage audience would use and wear, for example theguitar and modern clothing.Using language that a my target audience would use themselves givesthe magazine a more personal feel and let the audience relate to themagazine more. I have included modern fonts that you often see musicmagazines in the shops today. 6. What have you learnt about technology from the processof constructing this product? 7. Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feelyou have learnt in the progression from it to the fullproduct?There has been a lot of progress since I first started making my schoolmagazine, I didnt really think about the pictures I used in enough detailsuch as the props and background the image. The fonts were basic andmade the magazine and boring. I have since learnt that thinking aboutthe main image is more important than I first thought, I needed to usemore than one font and have a specific house style such as the red andblack I used through out my magazine.My Photoshop skills have improved over the last weeks and enabled meto think of new ideas to implement in my music magazine. I used to thinkI couldnt produce a magazine that looked good enough but now becauseof the skills I have learnt I now can. Click icon for audio