Evaluation: Task 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation: Task 4

Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?



Target Audience Profile

Name: Joe Chamberlain
Age: 17

Gender: Male

Occupation: High Grade Student 

Lifestyle: Social goes to parties, quite wealthy, shops allot and listens to music

Ambitions: 

• to have a job in the media but really wants to be a manager of an magazine company
• Live in London
• Have multiple homes

Likes: 

• towns and shopping centers 
• music to be shared 
• Parties 
• Individuality 
• Socializing (eating out ect)
• Opinionated people
• Looking and sounding up to date
• Technology 

Dislikes: 

• messy people
• Fake people (people that hide allot of what they think)
• Unreasonable people 

Musical Preferences:

• pop music 
• Less mainstream music 
• dubstep 
• not affraid to go against the grain and listen to music that other people (peers) dont like

Media Consumer Habits:

• magazines 
• Social networks (blogs, twitter, facebook ect) 
• Uses the internet regularly 
• Downloading music 
• Owns iPod 

This is how i would feel my audience would spend their

time when thinking about media.

Disposable Income 

• spends money on clothes and shoes
• shops in H&M, Topman and Wellgosh
• likes to wear brands 
• shoes is a big part (Nikes)
• shops in towns and online to find a bargain

Hobbies

• go out with friends to cinema, eat, town
• watches movies

Evaluation: Task 3

When It came to thinking about who would publish ‘ECHO’ there was only one choice and that would be IPC Media. This was because in it portfolio of magazines it has the biggest music on (in my opinion) NME and with such a powerful music magazine in the same publisher as mine would not only show that IPC believe ‘ECHO’ is a good magazine but it is also possible to easily print an advert for ‘ECHO’ in NME and to some extent “ECHO’ could become a subordinate of NME that mainly focuses on the electronic side of the magazine. Not only is it that IPC has NME as a name in its portfolio it has other major popular brands art NUTS, Now, TVTime and Marie Clair. As a company ICP began in 1963 and produce over 60 media brands and they claim that through print they reach ‘almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men – almost 26 million UK adults’. Which would mean with the backing of IPC Media my magazine would get a wide circulation that would give allot or profit allowing the magazine to grow bigger and get a huge reputation for being on the forefront of music.

Evaluation: Task 2

When creating my group for the magazine i thought instead of trying to come up with a group and have to make allot of the information up i decided to copy an existing group, this meant that focusing on every part about them meant I was able to come up with an outstanding and relatable group. To do this I went for a group in my genre and one that I knew would be easy to recreate with the time and resources I had; this is why I chose Magnetic Man. The obvious similarities are they both consist of 3 males; this was one of the reasons of choosing said band as I knew three males would be easy to get for my photos. One other thing that are the same but only by coincidence is the base colour of the outfits are black, I would of done this weather they not be wearing black in the press shot of MM as it gave me a strong and versatile base in to add text to. Where I did draw exact influence from the photo on the right as Skream and Joe are both wearing a tie, this adds the formality and sharpness I wanted to put across in the group – however I did change the colour of it in post production as I needed the colour scheme (black, white, purple) to be in the photo somehow. Another direct copy of the right photo is that Skream is standing slightly forward in the shot and so is Joe in mine, although in MM there is no leader as such I wanted there to be one in my group and seeing as Joe is the one doing the vocals I figured it should be him. It is purely by coincidence that they both similar hairstyles but this does a good job of strengthening the bond.

Along with allot of similarities I did feel that there needed to be something that made my magazine and the group on the cover independent. My group are an all white group, this was by intentions but I also don’t think that it detracts from the genre or overall feel of the magazine. There was one thing I dint like with the press shot of Magnetic Man and that was that all of three of them are wearing different expressions I thought I doesn’t show good unity between the members of for my group I made sure that all of them have the same expression on their face and were looking straight at the camera. Finally as I just mentioned I have all of my models facing the camera unlike in MM where they are slightly facing the middle man.

Evaluation: Taks 1

Evaluation

Feedback

This is the feedback i received on my own magazine

These are magazines from the class that i evaluated the first is George Hextall and the second Daisy Milburn

These are from past years that allowed us to see what grades you can get for what work

Improvements On My First Drafts

These are my updates that i made to my draft hand in, my main improvement is the contents page where i completely re-designed the style of it so it has more of a music magazine feel of it. on the cover i made the image bigger so it drew the on looker in and added a better cover line and gave one to the main band of the magazine. finally on the double page spread there wasn't much improvement needed, all i did was changed the size of the columns so that they fitted all on one half of the page and then i changed the title fonts to fit in with the font on the cover.