Evaluation

My media product I believe challenges the forms and conventions of real media products by introducuing amagazine to a gap in the market. After much research it became apparent that since the end of Top of the Pops and Smash Hits magazine, there seemed to be no sunstitute for a music magazine soaked in pop/chart music aimed at younger girls aged around 11-17.

My media products represents the particualar social group of younger teens, in a worl today where much is revolved around the media and what we see on television, I believe its important to give the best example possible to new generations, in my magazine I would hope to covey a friendlt, chatty appeal and for young girls to look forward to reading it.

A media institution that might distribute my product may be the BBC - they were behind Top of the Pops magazine and tv show amd also a popular girl magazine Girl Talk, which I also took as inspiration for my magazine. the BBC also appeals to a wide audience, old and young so I think they would be interested in distibuting an up to date glossy magazine to compliment their modern style.

The audience for my product is young female teens, to encourage younger teens to read rather than watch television all the time but make it enjoyable. A magazine full of recent music releases, charts, interviews I think is a perfect reading companion for a young girl.

I tried to attract my audience by putting relevant subheadings on the cover to intise the reader - I also tried to use attractive colours to catch a young persons eye and the front image to be friendly and inviting. I adressed my audience in a way I hope to be friendly and coversational - not in any way trying to talk down or exclude ay person who may be of lesser education or social class.

I have learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product. those being the use of in-design and Photoshop, also the format and what consists of a magazine. Also the use of editing photos and manipulating them. In the process of making my magazine I learnt the rules to what consists of a magazine and the importance of colour, font, style and size.

Looking back at my preliminary task I feel I have learnt from the progression from it to the fill product a in depth understanding of Photoshop, also I feel much more awre of what goes on in a magazine and how important the mode of adress is to attract the audiece and how the way you speak to the audience reflects on the target audience. I also feel much more aware of how much more there is to think about to put in the magazine since the preliminary task and how much of an impact the front cover picture has - it reflects the whole attitude and implications of what the magazine is trying to achieve.

SPOTLIGHT double page spread

SPOTLIGHT contents page

SPOTLIGHT Music magazine cover

School Magazine

Myself and Milly have been working on producing a magazine cover and contents page about/for the school. We have all equally contributed and shared ideas towards the magazine, discussed and built on our suggestions resulting in it being a group effort.

The name of our magazine is a Class Dismissed, we negotiated over a few names, but ultimately decided on this one as we thought it would be appealing to the student body - as this is the audience that we are aiming our magazine at. We also chose this name because we thought that a majority if not all the students look forward to the breaks throughout the day and hometime, so we wanted that to reflect onto the magazine by it being something for the students to look forward to and like to read.

Calendar

By the 18th Febuary I hope to accomplish:

• Complete phtotshoots (Saturday 22nd January)
• Chosen phtots for cover, contents and double page spread
• Designed and drafted a cover
• Designed and drafted a content
• Planned double page spread (including article)
• Editited videos (interview, music)
• Organised blog

Music Magazine research

My music magazine is aimed at younger people aged around (12-17). I wanted to target audiences slightly older than what Top of the Pops target audeince is - because i think there is a gap in the market for a chart music magazine for young to older teens - specifying in chart music. so I looked up magazines of a similar style, one of which is Smash Hits, which stopped publishing in 2006, leaving a gap in the market for a mixed gender music magazine. My aim is to create a music magazine



Smash Hits:

   

Smash Hits, which became less focused on Teenpop and more of an Entertainment magazine
in the 1990s the magazine's circulation slumped and it was overtaken by the BBC's spin off magazine Top Of The Pops. You can see in the pictures above how it has developed and changed over the years.


Features

• Top 10 predictor
• Free stuff
• Your stories
• Our favourite tunes at the moment

Top Of The Pops:


Top of the Pops magazine is a monthly glossy publication published by BBC Magazines. It features chart information, star gossip, fashion and beauty advice, quizzes, song lyrics and posters. It is a supplementary magazine for the TV show Top of the Pops.

The magazine was launched in February 1995, and is famous for giving the famous girl group the Spice Girls their nicknames. Alongside a revamp of the TV show. It was originally marketed as the missing link between Smash Hits and NME, but its format was gradually changed, with less music content and a demographic shift to young girls. It is still in publication despite the cancellation of the TV show.

Features

• Oops, Shameful Celeb Slip Ups - The magazine picks the funniest celebrity pictures and associates them with a witty quote
• Your Oops - Readers send in the most shameful stories
• Gossip 2 Go - The month's hottest celebrity gossip
• Shayne's World - The X Factor series 2 winner Shayne Ward takes us over what goes on in his world
• Don't Miss - The magazine picks some of the hottest films, TV programmes and games, plus the latest single reviews by a random celebrity.
• Top Of The Shops - The magazine picks out some of the hottest bargains, where you can buy them, and their price
• Real Life - The magazine draws our attention to situations that happen in the real world
• The Surgery - Originally called Star Therapy, this was hosted by a random celebrity who tries to sort out readers' problems. Along with the name change, the section is now hosted by BBC Radio 1's Aled and BBC Slink's Dr Mel.
• Your Letters - Hosted by Dick and Dom who take a look at some of our readers' gossip about stars, clothes or just real life situations.

Frequency: Monthly
Pages: 88
Price: £2.20

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