Media Preparation work

Media Preparation work

The work in media that we had been asked to produce was a front cover of a magazine and the magazine could be anything of your choice and any genre and for my magazine I had chosen to do a music magazine and the genre of music I chose was K-pop and on my magazine I included a variety of things like an interview with a famous kpop group, other musician well known in the kpop industry, free CD and much more.

This meets the codes and conventions of my genre of magazine and the reason this is, is because it is made to appeal to my target audience and my target audience is mostly girls (but can be for anyone boy or girl and can also be for anyone not matter the age as well) around the age of 16-18 who are either university students college/6 form students who either like to socialise , like to read magazine, use social networking and live in the city and when it comes to what the magazine is about it is mostly about the latest news on Kpop so I won’t be using slang words or celebrity gossip news this is to make it feel like it has a more professional feel and the price for the magazine will be about 1-2 pound. This is because a while back we did a magazine survey and went around asking people about our magazine and on the survey I had a bunch of questions and most of my question were open questions however I did have some closed questions and some examples of the questions ask relates to the colour of the magazine, the text, pictures, the things included in the magazine and etc.

On My double page spread I have made it about an interview on a world famous Kpop band called Girls generation and to make this I have to do research on what other Kpop magazines did when making there double page spread and so once I found out what they did and how the presented it I also tried to do the same and follow suit in there style of layout and I also used the questionnaire as a guild line to understand what font I needed what the double page spread was going to be about and how it was also going to appeal to the target audience  and I didn’t want my magazine to be using only one font so for my headline I used a different font from the same website it was called Ij Studio and this was because it was the second best choice that was really like on the questionnaire and it’s not only that I also used the next best color for the font and this was pink and this turned out really good because the pink stands out on the page so you know that this is the page that has the interview on.

Then when looking at the survey feedback it told me that I should use either purple or pink and the text should fancy and have some kind of music look to it and the picture on the front page should be a close up picture and then the other stuff which makes it look like an official magazine and this had influenced my layout a lot because when I was first designing it I had pictured a guy or girl standing on the front page in a body shot holding a guitar with different text and then the name of the artist in a slanted line going across with the background in like a  dark blue or purple colour and the magazine headline on the top of the page however most of this changed later on.

Then moving on from and layout of the magazine and the double page spread to the focus group when in the focus group I was paired with Daniel Williamson and this helped me and my development in work because when looking at my work and wondering what I could do to improve it Danny told me to get first hand pictures for my magazine and for my double page spread and then told me that it was good for a magazine cover and that he thinks if any Kpop person seen the magazine then they would be able to recognise the magazine and so then I used that and changed my work to look good and kind of look like what I set it out to be.

My analyse had told me that the genre of kpop when it comes to magazines likes to keep it simple but just enough to attract readers for example when looking at the magazine front covers they like to keep the image of the kpop band or musician at either a close up or a body shot and also when looking at the magazine they like to include other Kpop artist on the side to try and intrigue readers more  to buy the magazine and then they also like to make the image of the person on the front on of two things depending on gender if it’s a girl then they will try to make her look cool sexy or beautiful and when it comes to the guys it the same except instead of sexy or beautiful they use  mysterious and undesirable to most readers. This influenced my decision because kpop magazine are simple and effective so I have tried to make mine the same by using a lot of the same codes and conventions an example of this would be making the image of the person who is going to be on my front page look cool or mysterious it’s not only the image I have also used a font which is simple to most Kpop magazines and that font was from a website called font space and the font was called odishi.

In my research of institutions I had research a lot of publishers and one that caught my eye was called billboard magazine and the reason this is because when looking at Billboard they maintain several internationally recognized record Chart, which track the most popular songs and albums across several categories on a weekly basis. Its primary charts are the Billboard hot 100 and the Billboard 200, respectively, ranking the top songs and albums regardless of genre and have also sold around 16,327 copies so I would say they are the best choice in dealing with 16-18 year olds and as well my genre of Kpop fits the Bill because they publish around the world and not only that they also release weekly magazines. And so when looking at my codes and conventions it fits the corporate image because the image of bill board is to tell you about the latest new music and what’s good and so mine fits because it also gives insight of the newest and best music however it may not be around the world but it’s doesn’t give insight on the best new music in Korea so it still does fit their corporate image just not they whole image.

My magazine represents the people who published it because just like in their types of magazines they like to keep the magazine short and simple with not that much distractions around because the people buy it already know, however there is still enough information for people who don’t know. And the person on the front of my page does have the same representation as most of the other kpop magazines with ethnicity being Asian, gender male and the male being a cool looking pose, the age not fitting but I have made it out to look like the male is starting his career and yes my magazine does confirm the stereo types of kpop magazines and when it comes to the star and the image of him the mis sen scen has been used to make him look cool the camera angle is him looking away on a close up , the dress was just casual like he is going out with his friends.

Finally when looking at my work and comparing with the work of theorist I can say that my work doesn’t follow the same codes and conventions as they do an example of this would be the hyper dermic needle method like in newspapers were all the information if feed to you my magazine goes against that by including social media links and also website links on my magazine front cover.