My Final Front Cover

here is my final front cover

i decided to go with a pale pink as the background colour as it connotes valentines day and i decided not to have a block colour behind my mast head as it takes away the attention form the main image

Finished contents page

This is my finished contents page. My font links to my mast head which starts created a barand identity for my magazine

My Final Main Article Pages

i had finally finished my main article and i decided to have these layouts as it looks professional and looks easy to read

My perliminary task

My perliminary task was to create a school magazine front cover and contents page. we took photos of our class members and i used natalie as my model for my front cover. i tried to make the magazine looks authentic by even offering a free gift for the readers of the magazine.

Evaluation

My media magazine uses conventions of typical k-pop magazines as the front cover is mainly centered around the main featured star with with a block colour in the background surrounded by the sell lines.

Also my contents page layout was inspired by the magazine Bromide as it had a clear and easy to read structure and it was well organized.

My magazine challenges the conventions of real music magazines as most magazines published are to do with mainstream music such as pop and R'n'B with popular artists from the USA or UK. Where as my magazine i used a niche genre that is quite unknown to the British public as k-pop has a niche audience in the UK. however this would make my magazine unique and stand out from the ones already n sell such as Kerrang or XXL.

Young people are represented in my magazine as being interested in all different types of music and Korean culture and also the fashion that the celebrities endorse in their photos. I have represented young people who are interested in k-pop stereotypically as i used Korean terms such as oppa in my main article which means older brother and many young people who are interested in this type of music pick up these simple words through listening to songs or watching the interviews with the celebrities. My magazine is aimed at teenage individualists as it demonstrates all different types of Korean music.

A audience profile for my target audience would be

50% male

50% female

Interests:

Korean culture

Korean music/drama/movie
Gaming

Travelling

age: 14-24

top places to shop:

G-market

Yesasia

ebay.co.uk

Topshop/Topman

Spends most money on:

magazines

games

drinks

music

clothes.

Spends most of their time:

Listening to music

Youtube.com

Facebook.com

I think Bauer media would distribute my magazine as they don't sell a magazine of this genre. As it is a popular company who sell top magazines such as Q, FHM, Heat , Grazia selling my magazine would draw in K-pop fans from around the UK and it would gain them more money as most fans would subscribe to the UK magazine as it would be unique. This would give my magazine more marketing and advertising opportunities and would also make them a lot of money.

I have attracted by target audience by having the following

Also using common Korean terms that k-pop fans would understand. e.g " Taeyang and his cordi Pippa"as one of the cover lines and in the main article " so oppa" and in Michael's response " me and Jessica noona ".Also the use of free items would attract my target audience as they were getting something for free when purchasing the magazine.

When constructing this product i have learnt the importance of photoshop when creating a magazine as it allows the maker to edit photos and easily crop pictures or certain elements of a photo and place them else where. It also allows the features of blurring certain sections or even feathering the edges of a object that has been cut out so it looks completely professional.

I have also learnt how you can use other media to do audience research for example i used a voice recorder and interviewed various people in my target audience and then uploaded the audio software into adobe audition.

Once in audition i was able to manipulate my audio files and remove the sections that were not needed resulting in just having the information to help make my magazine successful.Also using sites such as edublogs and slideshare allowed me to upload my audio and slide shows of my graph results onto my blog.I have made a blog before however i did not know that these various online mediums could be used to upload various types of media onto a blog to make it more interesting to read through.

Looking back at my preliminary task and comparing it to my finished project i have seen a improvement in understanding how to attract a audience with a front page and how to make everything clear and understandable instead of making it complicated.

i have learnt how important the layout of a magazine is as the is a important element for the reader as it has to clear , organised and not overloading the reader with too many things. Also using to many colours on the front page make it very busy looking like my preliminary task does however with my final product i limited the number of colours used making it more effective and eye catching.

Message from Ms Prince

Your blog has now been marked for research and planning. Any subsequent evidence of research and planning work will not count towards your final grade.

Final Touches

Jasmin, well done for meeting the deadline. You need to make a couple of minor adjustments to your magazine: 1) bring your from page main image to the front so that ir overlaps the masthead 2) you need to show connotations of Valentine's Day on your contents page e.g. hearts. Please do this by moderation day and email me to confirm you've done it. If you haven't got photoshop at home then come into the clc before 11am on the 19th.