Brief

Candidate Name: Neil Toner
Candidate Number: 8358
Centre Number: 71615
Preliminary Task: Using DTP and an image manipulation program to produce the front page of a school magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in Medium Close-Up plus some appropriately laid out text and masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
Main Task: The Cover Page, Contents Page and Double Page Spread of a new music magazine.

Finished Products

Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 

Evaluation 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Here is question 5 for my evaluation, I used windows movie maker:

Evaluation 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

For any magazines it is essential to have the perfect amount of media convergence. Meaning that when it comes to social media sites, apps, games etc. the correct media institution is essential. Considering the genre of my magazine and the overall look of the magazine I believe the correct media institution is vital for production and distribution.

My magazine is reasonably priced considering I have a target audience of a young age. It is crucial that the magazine is viewed as a fair ‘worth it’ magazine. In my opinion I think stores such as HMV and WHSmith would distribute my magazine due to its genre.

There are three media institution that I have previously looked at:

•      EMAP
•      Bauer
•       IPC

EMAP

They would not be suitable in the distribution of my magazine because they are more of a business-to-business sort of institution. This means they specialize in business related magazines and the organization of the conferences that take place within the business world. It is clear that they do not distribute any kind of music magazine. Their magazines include ‘Construction News’ and ‘Drapers’ two of which are clearly not in the same genre of magazine of mine. This is why EMAP would not distribute my media product.

Bauer

Bauer media are basically the biggest and most popular institution in the word in terms of media convergence and big name brands. It is clear that Bauer would be first choice for almost any music magazine considering they work with Kerrang and all the major Radio stations, as well as TV music stations. Bauer are responsible for the production of over 300 magazines in 15 countries, this means more audience and more popularity. In my opinion Bauer would be the best institution for my magazine as they specialize in the music industry.

IPC

A.K.A Time inc. They are famous for being Britain’s leading publisher in print and digital copies for magazines. They also have a great variety of media convergence and work with many other magazine companies in terms of distribution. NME for example, they ae very similar to my own magazine in terms of Genre and forms and conventions. Although being widely known in the UK IPC would not be the best institution for my magazine because due to their location it would give me a very Niche audience.