7) Looking back at my preliminary task, what do I feel I've learnt in the progression from it?

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6) What have I learnt about technologies in process of constructing my product?

5) How did you attract/ address your target audience? - double page spread

5) How did you attract/ address your target audience? - Contents page

5) How did you attract/ address your target audience? - Front cover

4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

The ideal reader

The ideal reader for my magazine would be people of both genders from the ages of 16-30 this is because I want to target my magazine at a niche audience and this is the age group that would listen to Bhangra music the most, the people with in this ages group who listen to this genre of music would be interested in some of the same things and would come from similar social groups.

The way in which the target market for my magazine would listen to the music would be on an ipod/Mp3 player, this is because cds are hard to get hold of with this type of music, they would have to buy the songs off Itunes because applications like spotify would not have many songs from this genre on it but they would have a few. Most of my audience would still be in education, being in school, college or university. Indians are usually stereotyped as being doctors, dentists, lawyers or teachers so they would be either in group A or B in the Jincar scale. They would shop in usual places like Tesco or Asda as my audience is young they would want to go somewhere where the food is cheap and they would go to the usual high street shops like new look, topshop to buy their clothes as they would want to save as much money as possible. My audience would either live at home with their parents, in a flat or have a small house; this is because again my target audience is a young age so they would not have that much money to buy a big house to live in. Asian people are seen as being quite religious, so they would value religion in their life, they would also value family status as in the asian culture this is important. When they spend their free time you would usually see them drinking, especially if they’re Indian, Bhangra music is made around drinking and most of the songs are about drinking so this is a big part of their culture.

What my ideal target audience would look like...

Some of the questions that I would ask my target audience

1)      Would you buy this magazine in the shop if you saw the front cover?

2)      Would you pay £1.99 for the magazine?

3)      What attracts you to the magazine?

4)      What is your favourite page?

5)      What improvements would you make?

6)      Any other comments?

Response to the questions by someone from my target audience.

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

2) How does your media product represent social groups?

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

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Final products

Front cover

Contents page

Double page spread

final improvements to DPS

I have improved this double page spread by adding some page furniture on to it, this adds more content on to the double page spread that people would be interested in, I have also added most of the different conventions that are needed for an effective double page spread.

DPS improvements from previous idea

From this you can see the improvements that I have made, from before this now looks more professional then how it looked before, I still need to improve it to make it look more like a professional double page spread.

dps mock up

After changing the background, i have finally chosen this one, to improve this I need to change the fonts and add more features to it to fit my magazine housestyle.

DPS mock up

This is one of the first mock up ideas that i had come up with, as you can see I have made massive improvements since.

dps development mock up

I have changed the the colours of the background and moved around the font, this is so that it added more effect and when you are using your visual syntax then you would usually start reading from the left to the right, although the page looks over crowded so i will need to move the things around again.

dps mock up

Here I have created another double page spread mock up idea, I have changed the font to make it look like the front cover, i have changed the font of the quote to link with the contents page. The background does not look that great against the font so I need to change the background again.

DPS mock up

This is a double page layout that I have come up with, there are some good things about it and some not so good things about it and things that need to be changed, the background and the colour of the masthead could be changed as it doesn't look effective.

mastheads

To improve my double page spread I have been trying out using different mastheads as the one I originally had (the one in blue at the bottom) didn't really link well with the page, even though my housestyle font is blue I feel that to make this page more effective I would have to use a dark shade of blue to make it look professional.

double page idea 2

From this idea you can see the development that I have made, I have added a background image and I have added a title and a pull quote in to draw the audience into the writing in the paragraphs. More text needs to be added to make the page more full and I feel that the writing needs to be changed that has been used on the masthead as it does not fit the layout of the page.

Double page spread layout 1

To start off my double page spread layout i put in the guidelines and added some pictures, although this might change through out the process as it does not look very professional at this stage, a title also needs to be added to it and some other conventions of a contents page.