Abbe's Foundation Portfolio

I decide that I should create a main stream music magazine, meaning that the main features will range each issue. Each issue will feature many up and coming music and artists. I have stuck to the typical layout of magazines, simply by using the main feature as the central image with a direct mode of address. With the title block across the top so that the magazine can be easily identified when on the shelves in store.

The media institute that might distribute my media product is IPC this is because the magazine is aimed for an older target audience from the UK. The range of magazines that IPC produces are woman’s magazines to men’s magazines, TV magazines to music magazines, motor magazines to wedding magazines and much more. Here is a list of some of the magazines that they have published loaded, Marie Claire, NME, Ideal Home and Country Life. Although this publishing company has music magazine I feel as if this magazine will stand out and be a niche in the market, because it will be the only magazine aimed at females at the age of 18-25 and be able up and coming artists and up and coming music, there will be reviews of artists, albums and singles.

The main target audience for my magazine will be females located in the UK ranging from the age of 18 to 25, this is because there is a gap in the market where there are many monthly magazines for females which feature many articles on gossip or fashion, there isn’t a magazine for females fully focusing on music as a genre. I will attract my target audience by featuring same freebies, reviews, exclusive features, special offers and in-depth interviews. The main things that will attract the target audience is the up and coming music and artists. The central image will have a direct mode of address to attract the reader. The title block will be across the top of the page so that it will be visible when in store on the shelves. The title block will be bold so that it will stand out for the audience. From my research I decided that the colour scheme for the magazine should be black, white, grey and red. All of these colours easily co-ordinate and they stand out. The red and white will stand the most, hopefully catching the reader’s eye, attracting them to this magazine.

The world wide web is one of the main technologies that helped construct this product. I was able to research similar products and I was able to construct feedback from blogging websites such a Blogger.com. From this site I was able to develop polls so that the target audience were able to vote for the title block that they were attracted most. This means that I will be able to create that product to their desire. Another main part of technology that I used in the process of constructing my product was adobe Photoshop, I hadn’t used this software before, I research from you tube for some tutorials on photo editing, I learnt how to airbrush images much like the professional ones, I left how to delete the background from an image, I even learnt how to change the colour of the image for example some the models make up.

From my preliminary task, I feel that I have improved because I was able to use a range of images; using different shot types for example long shots, mid shots and close up shots. I realised from looking at real magazines that I can attract the target audience by using a direct mode of address. I feel like the preliminary task only targets a small range of readers, but my final product can attract a range of different audiences.