Quizlet on Institution

Prezi

I bought 3 music magazines, Rocksound, Mixmag and Q magazine and analysed the front covers and contents pages, along with researching their history and presented the information in this prezi. This task helped me in understanding how current music magazines are laid out and how they attract their specific target audiences, in order that I can apply the same techniques to my magazine. I also now have a better understanding of how magazines change their mode of address depending on their target audience, something I will employ when targeting my target audience of late teens to middle aged readers. I also have a more in depth understanding of how much a typical music magazine costs and which type of shops stock them.

Wordle

I have created a wordle of all the UK music magazines I could find. This task has helped my in understanding how many titles of each genre of magazine there are before I chose which genre I would make my music magazine. From this, I chose to make an R&B magazine, as I am a fan of the genre and I can see from this wordle that there are not as many R&B magazines than other genres e.g. there are more rock music magazines than R&B. This wordle also opened my eyes to the fact that there are still many music magazines around, and that although there has been a drastic increase in online magazines, print magazines are definitely still alive.

My expectations of the course

I am looking forward to learning about different media products and what they are used for. I expect to gain a more thorough understanding of how to use certain media programmes, such as Photoshop and Final Cut. I expect to develop my analysis skills further, and I am looking forward to begin by analysing existing music magazines, their front covers and the content within, to inform my decision making when I come to create my own magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.

I also expect to be doing lots of research during the planning processes of my work. This will further my ability to do audience research and then show my findings when I come to represent audience's and social groups. I am looking forward to developing my knowledge and ability of being able to plan and produce a piece of work, starting from the Research and Planning all the way through to the Evaluation. As I am planning on going in to the media industry as a future career, I am looking forward to looking at different areas of the industry, in order that I can find what I enjoy the most, and what I may wish to carry on in the future.