Prashanna Sri Balakumaran AS Media Studies
Monday, 13 May 2013
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In researching my target audience I
found that it was a lot easier to use the internet to obtain the results rather
than going around ad asking questions to each one of them to fill out my
questionnaire. I have used an online website (QuestionPro) in order to create an
online survey. By pitching my
survey online I was able to get reliable data/information and it’s a quicker
way. This because I have asked people to fill out my questionnaire through
social media, such as Facebook and Twitter.
I have used Adobe Photoshop to manipulate the
images I have used in my magazine in order to make “the hyperreal effect”. This
was the first time using this software so I learnt the basic function on the
software, then using the software was easy and quick in editing the pictures.
Front Page
Contents page
Double Page Spread
The disadvantage of using this software is that once the image is edited, and that imagine is modified this will destroy the original image, where as other editing software will allow you to preview and process the photos without destroying the original.
After I have edited the images, now
I was able to construct my music magazine. In order to do this I used Microsoft
Publisher as it was easy to create the magazine. Obviously compared to major
publishing houses, Microsoft publisher is not a high standard software, however
I still managed to produce as professional as possible. Also I knew how to use
Microsoft Publisher therefore there was no needs to learn how to use it as I
did for Adobe Photoshop.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
At the end of the presentation I
have created an “Audience Profile” which concluded and summed up all the
results and directed me to the audience which I should aim my magazine at.
As you can see from this audience
profile reveals that my target audience is predominantly males. However I will
have articles for females as well, this because from collecting the data I
understood that females want me magazine, which means a larger demographic
audience. Therefore my magazine is aimed at teenagers between 15-24. As my
audience are in a young age they are most likely to not to earn much money,
however I’m going to start to sell my magazine from £1.50, as I think it’s a
reasonable price and more people will be able to afford it. To make my magazine unique I will try and
make my magazine inspirational, where teenagers could find themselves in the
same situations.
On my audience profile there are
many images that portrays my audiences youth through mobile phones such as
blackberry’s and iphone’s and through consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?
I could choose either a major
distribution company, EMAP and IPC or smaller companies which are cheaper I
have researched both EMAP and IPC, but also smaller independent companies. I
had initial to choose a smaller independent company as they target a smaller
niche market, however urban music used to be underground steam music, but as
time went on, people have started to accept it more and therefore it has become
a mainstream music which means that I would require a bigger company to
distribute my magazine.
I believe IPC would be an ideal choice as it
does not have urban hip hop/RNB music magazine which means that I may be able
to open up a new market for them. IPC have expertise in making a magazine and
they have connections to sell my magazine to big shop brand names, whereas
independent companies could only make a small amount and the quality may not be
as good which means that it may not appeal to my audience. I also understand
that I could self publish my magazine due to the proliferation of new
technologies, although I believe that I do not have the resources to pull this
off by myself. I will use social media to market my magazine via social chat
rooms such as facebook which creates a synergy between my magazine and
facebook, but also my own website.
I will use the internet and digital
technologies to market and distribute my magazine in various ways such as
putting an advertisement on the most common website that my audience go on. I
decided to use Facebook and YouTube as I found out that most of my demographic
use YouTube to listen to music and they use Facebook to talk about various
things such as music.
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