Note to the moderator.

Dear Moderator,

My brief for my AS media coursework was to research, plan, make and produce a music magazine. I also had to make a preliminary college magazine before hand to gain some experience on how to make the perfect music magazine.

On this blog you will find all of the tasks i had to cdo to complete my coursework appropriatley, including the preliminary task, the research on existing music magazines and all of my drafts for my own music magazine.

Thankyou.

Lucy Stoyles

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

I have completed question 7 on a PagePlus application.

Question 6 Prezi

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This is the link to my Prezi

Question 4 and 5 Prezi

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Question 3; What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation: Question 3:

There are many forms of media institutions that could distribute my music magazine. These could include existing music record companies, because it involves the artists that are being featured in the magazine and who have been signed by famous record companies. For example, Sony Records could put money towards printing for the magazine, because their artists making them money are in those magazines so (in a way) it could help promote both the artists and the record label. This is because the particular genre of this magazine (pop) is popular among the target audience, who listen to the artists being signed by the labels, therefore making them more popular and well known as a label to the audience who listen to the music. Independent record companies could also help distribute my music magazine, because it could help make them better known by the audience which could make them more money if the audience starts listening to their artists. This is also a form of cross media conversion, because the artists are being promoted by both the label and the magazine. Another form of media that could help distribute my music magazine is the internet. Due to the advance in modern technology, more and more people are starting to make more use of the internet for anything and everything, especially the target audience (teenage girls), so having a website for the magazine would help to promote the magazine around the world, because it would be available to everybody, not just people in local shops. Also, a website for the magazine could help promote the artists featured, because more details about them could be included, which could interest the readers more and attract to them to buy and read the magazine weekly. This website would be available to the whole country and others around the world, so more and more people would be able to see it which would help promote it worldwide. Another form of media that could distribute my media product would be Television. For example, MTV, because this particular music television station is also known worldwide and represents modern pop music, which is what my music magazine represents. This is also an example of cross media conversion, because both forms of media would be promoting the same artists and the same genre of music in different forms of media, which could be useful for both forms, because they are both being promoted around the world.

Question 2; How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I wanted to use a positive role model for the young readers of the magazine, to encourage them to be respectful in society. This could also be useful for promtoing the artist, because the more people who like him, the more people will buy his music and the magazine.

I completed this question on a popplet account.

Question 1; In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media media products?

On my front cover i challeneged the use of codes and conventions, because i used a more simple structure for my magazine. Also i used a more rock based title even though it was a pop magazine

For this question i compared a real magazines front cover, contents page and double page spread to mine to compar what codes and conventions were similar and different. Thus was useful for writing this question because i was easily able to identify all the codes and conventions that i used and ones that a real magazine (Q Magazine) used. This technique for identifying these conventions was more useful than just writing a paragraph on its own, because they can be seen and more easily udnerstood by me.