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Thursday, 18 April 2013
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Monday, 15 April 2013
Question 4 and 5! Who would be the audience for your media product and how did you attract them?
My audience was aimed at 11-16 year old so therefore, the language had to be kept quite simple so they could understand it. The colours needed to be bright so they would be kept interested and there had to be a variety of images for their interest too! It's been kept friendly throughout and various prizes to be won! It's cheap so many young people could afford it which may attract them to this magazine over other magazines!
Here is a video I made :)
http://youtu.be/5XNVkc88OD8
Here is one of the questionnaires I got someone to fill out!
I did have more but this was one of the key ones!
Here is a video I made :)
http://youtu.be/5XNVkc88OD8
Here is one of the questionnaires I got someone to fill out!
I did have more but this was one of the key ones!
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My media product is a
magazine based on the pop genre. Once I looked into other pop magazine and
their typical audience I noticed that they tend to aim their product at teenage
girls. This then became my aim whilst I was creating my magazine. On the front
cover, my main image is of a girl dressed in a black glittery playsuit with
large ear rings and other jewellery. When I looked into other pop magazines I
found that when often females would appear as the main image but they were
dressed in a ‘pop’ way. They never wore particularly revealing clothing as it’s
aimed at young girls and they always stood in a casual way as it’s suppose to
be a young girls magazine. I took this into consideration whilst creating mine
so my main image is only posed slightly and is more friendly than ‘revealing’.
When I took these photo’s I booked the photo studio out as this looked to be
how many other pop magazines in particular did theirs. This meant that the background
was pure white and allowed me to fill it with other plugs/puffs/taglines. As it’s a pure white background, it implies
that the magazine is completely innocent and there aren’t any hidden messages
within the background. However, if my background was taken in a run down place
it would clash with the typical ‘pop’ theme and probably wouldn’t suit the
target audience.
My product is quite
colourful and contains a lot of information and text which was something I
found nearly all pop magazines did. This is once again as the target audience
are young girls so stereotypically they prefer more feminine colours and need
something that will attract their attention.
However, I didn’t want my main image to be dressed is extremely bright
colours like some other pop magazines do as it would make her blend in too much
with the rest of the text/images. Also by dressing her in feminine colours it
would distant the secondary audience of boys away as not only would the colour
scheme of the text be ‘girly’ colours but now the main image has also followed
that stereotype. Whereas, if she is dressed in more neutral colours, it would
allow young boys who ‘like’ this particular artist to feel more comfortable
about reading the article.
I do believe overall that my
magazine probably supports dominate ideas about my social group as it does
appeal to girls more by following typical feminine colours and involving
ideologies linked to boys and dieting such as “boy crush” and “new diet crazes”
as this is what is stereotypically linked to females. The use of the words also
reflects younger girls, ‘crush’ as it implies it’s nothing serious. However,
the fact that the main image still complies with main ideologies about females
such as wearing make-up and jewellery, it does challenge it slightly by wearing
more neutral colours that apply to both males and females.
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Question 1: In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
http://www.slideshare.net/Shannonn_mayy/question-1-19167607 Here is the URL in case the above doesn't work.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
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