Halfterm questions.

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

A1: My media product challenges forms and conventions of real media products as it has a different kind of look and use of colours. An example of this is that the convention colours are slightly different as i have used black, maroon red, and mustard yellow as my colour scheme. Whereas conventions of real media products use black, white and bold normal red. My media product will develop the same sort of form as a real media product as it will be set out in the same way throughout. It may look a little different because of the fonts, colours and pictures that i will be using, but the form will be similar.

Q2: How does your media product represent different social groups and why?

A2: My media product represents different social groups by having different types of acoustic music such as slow acoustic, rock acoustic, and a little of folk acoustic. This allows it to represent different types of artists and the type of music that they do. This will help my audience relate to the magazine and what type of things are in it. I have done this so that it brings in lots of different music lovers as some people may not just like the typical slow acoustic but may like different genres within acoustic type music. By having this it can appeal to lots of different social groups of people.
The pictures below have many similarities as i tried to make my model look a bit like John Mayer and also to have the same sort of style. I like the style of the picture and how it is set out as it works with my magazine cover well in the way things are presented. they are very similar in the way the model are sitting and the type of pose they are doing, they also have the same look. The differences are only minor by having my model closer and looking into the lens, i did this to try and engage my audience more, and so they can see his face.

Q3: What type of media institution might publish your media product and why?

A3: The type of media institution that might publish my media product would be Bauer media magazines. This is because they produce out many different types of magazines. Although they produce out loads mine would be something new to what they normally sell. My selling a new different music magazine it would bring in a big profit for Bauer. Publishing is something that is opened into the public and is the distribution on work. distribution is how they are sold for example on a magazine stand or on the internet. There are three main categories of distribution and they are, paid circulation which is sold to people for a price, free circulation which means that there is no actual price, and controlled circulation which is only available to qualified reader and most of the time is free but includes a survey for feed back.

Q4: Who would be the target audience for your media product?

A4: The target audience for my media product would be young adults mainly but it will be open to a variety of ages. I think that the look of it may attracts males more it is set for both sexes to read and enjoy. My media product would also attracts a lot of different types of music artists. People who are just starting out can learn from it and other artists will find it interesting to read. So my media product should be open to a lot of people. The picture below shows the type of person who would but my magazine, they dress casually but smart and would shop in places such as next or Topman. The sort of music that they listen too is a mixture of different acoustic artists such as Ed Sheeran and John Mayer and they also listen to some rock bands such as Nickleback and coldplay, both these bands also do acoustic songs. The sort of TV programs that my audience watches is The big bang theory and scrubs or music channels. So they are very big into music.

Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

A5: I attracted my audience by relating to the sort of colours and looks that that type of audience would like. by having it use the same sort of colours they like or wear and having a particular look that they would like apose to bold blue with a picture of a rapper on the front i knew that my target audience would not relate to it for the music i want in my magazine. So by using black, maroon red, and mustard yellow and a picture that is quite calm it matches the style of music and my target audience will relate to this better.