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CENTRE NAME - NORBURY MANORE BEC
CENTRE NUMBER- 14343
CANDIDATE NUMBER - 9501
UNIT - G321

FINAL DPS

FINAL CONTENT PAGE

FINAL FRONT COVER

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

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

Looking back at my preliminary task I feel I have progressed a lot far from my prelim task to my actual full product. The difference between the two is clearly significant from the fact the new skills, I have learned on the way proves in the work and how Photoshop is much easier to use. Some of the conventions at the beginning I wasn’t too sure how a magazine should come across is why my prelim seems very random and not very focused on the point and the actual target audience. It has changed because of the research I have done on what the target audience wants an may respond to where as in my prelim I didn’t really get behind the meaning and take in other examples which ended up in a unsuccessful prelim, unlike in my full product of my music magazine the techniques in Photoshop like changing the lighting, opacity and how to organise the layout more effectively

Question 6: What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 3: What Kind Of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product And Why?

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

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge real media products?

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Double page spread comparison

Double page spread interview

Double page spread image choices

These are the images of my artist that I have used on the double page spread. In both images his poses are demonstrating what hip-hop artists usually do. His outfit is being shown through medium shot on the left to show the 'swag' of a male hip-hop artist. On the right I shot a medium close up to show him slouching and using hand gestures. In both images he is using direct gaze to engage with the readers. He looks laid-back and may show how his approach to music is. 

Audience research analysis

 The questions that I asked in my market research were: what catches your eye on a magazine, what music genre do you listen to, what colour you associate with this genre, have you ever purchased a music magazine, how much would you be willing to spend, and how often do you buy a music magazine.

For the first question: What catches your eye on a magazine?, the results showed the 54.55% were most attracted to the artist on the front cover. For my front cover I will make the artist the most important thing on the cover.

For my second question: What music genre do you listen to?, the results showed the 54.55% listened to RNB and 36.36%. From the data I gathered, I was able to know what type of magazine that I wanted to show to my focus group and also what genre I wanted to do for my music magazine.

For my third question: What colour you associate with this genre? the results
 showed that the highest colours were black, red and blue. From this I have given a thought as to what colours I will be using for my front cover.

For my fourth question: Have you ever purchased a music magazine?, the results showed that majority of the people that I asked answered yes. Majority of my target audience said no and this showed me that many teenagers don't read magazines.

For my fifth question: How much would you be willing to spend, the results showed that most people said £1-2 which shows teenagers don't want to spend a lot of money on magazines. This give me a rough idea of how much to price my music magazine.


For my last question: How often do you buy music magazines?, the results showed that 80% of the people who answered said they had never bought a music magazine. This correlates with the results of some of the other questions.

DPS MARKET RESEARCH

PEER ASSESSING REALLY

This is my double page spread so far. I have been peer assessing it by feedback from my target audience.  The feedback has been positive although feel the layout is not strong enough and eye catching therefore I’m still in the process of development of any changes I may be thinking about now.

Content Page Feedback

CONTENT PAGE COLOUR CHOICES

The colour scheme for my content page is very obvious as you can see an it is based on my front cover, to the magazine to follow the same colour scheme so that you can tell it’s from the same magazine also my target audience has allot to do with the colour scheme because these are the colours that go with my type of genre, which is UK rap hip hop and the feedback on the colours has been great as in my decision for using these colours for my magazine.

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