Final piece for my EDM music magazine

Contents page

Front cover

Double page spread

Here are hand drawn drafts I designed as what I projected all three parts of my magazine to look like:

Contents page

Front cover

Double page spread

EVALUATION

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

http://www.slideshare.net/jjsmaje/q1-evaluation-44985067

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your product?

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

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Here is an Avachara I designed of what I hoped my target audience would look like:

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of consulting thus product?

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression?

https://www.powtoon.com/show/eEw9IEMZY2E/paper-cut/

Here is what I thought my final copy was, until feedback I made some small changes as identified in a later post showing the final piece.

After sending out my survey of questions for ideas for my front cover of my music magazine, I have got my results. Here I will analyse them:

Here is one of the questions I asked with a bar graph to represent my results. The title BPM was the most popular for people inside my target audience who answered my online questionnaire. I like this name very much and I will be using this title for my magazine because it is short and 'punchy'. It will not be forgotten by customers. The word beat can be used in a musical sense as a musical beat depicting a tempo, meter or a specific rhythm. For example Electric vibes is an effective name but I would argue that it is too long.

Here is the next question I asked my target audience. There is one clear favourite fort this question which is A DJ on the decks. I presented these results in a pie chart as it conveys clearly which answer was a favourite to my target audience. I think that A DJ on the decks will be a good image for my main cover photo because it portrays the genre correctly as I would argue that a DJ reflects EDM in a correct way. I will not be using fans in a nightclub as it would be harder to produce the photo. However I think that with fans in a picture there is no real focus whereas with one DJ and his decks you can really focus on the image and see all the different features of it.

The next question I asked was related to the cover line

For the cover line of my front cover I have been researching on the internet and have found some DJ name generating websites. For example http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/3675/#.VIV5of1B2Iw and http://www.fantazia.org.uk/interactive/djname_generator.htm

The name that have come up are effective and relevant to electronic dance music. However I will not be using any of them as some of the ones that appeared were inappropriate.

Here is a list of fonts I have shortlisted for the masthead of my magazine from the website: www.dafont.com.

I have chosen the name "BPM" (meaning beats per minute) because I think it will be the best for my magazine genre and target audience. One reason being that it is a short and punchy title that will not be forgotten. I hope that people understand that it stands for beats per minute. The word beats conveys a musical tempo, meter and rhythms.

Another popular font that some of my target audience chose was "Shuffle". I think this is a good font but not as effective as "BPM". One thing that "BPM" offers that none of the others do is that it is a name that customers will not forget as it is short and easy to remember.

The font I am deciding to use is the one which was most popular to the people I asked inside my target audience. This one has proven to be the most effective and I like this font very much. the most popular is the one with the largest quantity of ticks. I asked my audience to the tick their favourite one. I also like the most popular one because it has a style to it that links to my chosen genre of EDM.

Here is a link to a survey I have created on survey monkey. This survey is my audience research on the ideas I have got in my mind for what I want my magazine to look like. The results of this survey will be important because other peoples opinions are vital in designing a successful magazine. It is not compulsory  that I follow these suggestions but they are a guideline of advice to help me when making the magazine.


https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2ZSYWY7

I have shortlisted some ideas for the title of my magazine. Here I have presented it as a canva which is interactive and engaging to my target audience. From this list I hope my audience will give me an idea of which they like and which ones they are not so keen on. These questions will be asked in a survey. This will help me to choose an effective name with the help of my target audience.

 

This is a mood video I made on Final Cut featuring icons, artists and fans with a relevant backing track. We did this task to gain more information on what our chosen genre is like and possibly get ideas for our magazine ww will be making in the near future.  

I have made a word cloud on my competitors for my music magazine. These are music magazine with the genre of electronic dance music. After my research, I have learnt the style of dance music and have identified the similarities and differences of the styles of the magazines. This will help me when I produce my own as I now have a clear idea with what comes up in avery dance music magazine.

This is my Pow Toon i have created on my chosen genre, Electronic Dance Music. I have done some detailed research on the history,  the development, the fans and the style.

Summary

So far I have learnt the skills how to analyse a magazine. I have also learnt how to state the similarities and differences. I have learnt the four key concepts when analysing media products (Genre, Institution, Representation and Audience).

• Genre- How media groups are categorised
• Institution- Who produced it
• Representation- In society, how is it represented
• Audience- Who is the media product aimed at (target audience)

In addition to this I have learnt that within music genres there are sub-genres both niche and mass. We have looked at different genre research and the key points on why genre is so important.

This topic of my research and planning will influence my future work because in order to make a successful magazine, I will need to take all these things I have learnt into account. This will ensure that my magazine is well made due to the successful research and planning done beforehand.