In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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

as you can see i have compared my magazine to kerrang. although the colour theme is different both magazines are very similar with big main titles and main sub headings kerrang magazine is distributed and owned by Bauer Media they own a large selection of magazines in a large variation of varieties, they also seem to own a lot of radio stations that also range in genre type. i think that Bauer Media would be interested in producing and owning my magazine putting it though the various stages of editing and producing on a mass scale.
i cose to do a music magazine as i have realised that their doesnt seem to be that many major music magazines that are sold in the shops, i chose the title to connote the genre of music its based on just like kerrang is.
having someone to distribute my magazine would raise my budget substantialy and help get it selling in the shops. the toubles of having a major distributer is that they may take over creative controle, therefor opting for a independant distributer may be a better option.
i have also taken into account the fact that i could distribute the magazine myself within the company possibly saving money keeping all creative desisions.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

i chose mikey to be lead scream vocalist the pictures are very similar they're both medium shots of them from the torso upwards and are both lit from the left which creates deep shadows showing that they may have a darker side, ether in music or personality. both obviously like heavy metal as they are in heavy metal bands, although the kerrang mag is in black and whit we can assume that the singers t-shirt is black which makes them both wearing coulerless clothes and unlike my model he is bald wich connotes the stereotype of that rocker life style where you ether have long hair or non at all.
both postures seem violent but it more links to the intencity of music that they play, both shots are at fairly the same angle though my magazine is from slightly below and the kerrang is from slighty above which allows us to see more. of the model.

Who would be the audience for your media product? and How did you attract/address your audiance?

title on Prezi

What have you leant about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Photoshop

things i learned in photoshop:

• touching up photos with phothoshops clone and stamp tools
• being able to resize an image so it fits and flows with the everything else
• adding guides to the page so everythning stays inline
• inserting othe pictures and getting rid of white with the magic wand tool

i used photoshop for creating my front page of my magazine

InDesign

what i leaned in InDesign:

• grids are in place already
• you can choose how many columns each page has for text
• you can make text mold around pictures
• i learned that you have to make pictures the exact pixels so that it does not become pixelated

i used InDesign to create my content page and double page spread

Blogger

what i learned about Blogger:

• easy to upload things
• easy to document each stage
• easy to inserting pictures and videos

i used blogger to document all of my media corswork for this unit

The studio

what i learned when using the studio:

• how to test the light settings and exposure
• settings for the flash lights
• how to connect the flash lights to the camera its self
• getting the tripod at the right hight
• knowing what shot to use

i used the qe photoshoot studio to take all my photos that i would need for my magazine

Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have leant in the process from it to the full product?

i have learned things throughout the process of making my final product (left) that has improved my skills since my print prelim (right). as you can see the image quality of the photos has increased and my final product now looks more clean, crisp and more professional, the actual choice of photo is better as in my prelim i have used a white t-shirt on a white background which makes the models head seem to be floating and just makes it seem amaturistic. the layout is simmilar but the over use of the same text, colour and shadow drop in the prelim just make it look plain and no longer makes ether the magazine title or sub headings stand out from the page unlike my final product that varies in text and the red 'exclusive' stands out from everything else. i have learned that i need to add more text into my front page as seen from the 7 sub headings on my final, compared to the 3 on my prelim, making it seem more well made and improving the contents quality of the magazine.