Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the final product?

Looking back on my preliminary task I think I have learnt that creating a magazine is harder than it originally seems, I thought that creating the magazine would be simpler and have less complications. When creating the flat plans of my magazine I had and image in my head of exactly what I wanted to create, making this was frustrating as I didn't fully know how I would create the image I had. I have learnt how to take a better photograph, how to make a magazine look professional, how to use the basics of Photoshop and how to look into my genre in more detail. When I first decided I wanted choose disco as a genre I didn't have any idea of what music it was, all I knew was that roller skates and Afros were a convention of my genre. I have learnt a lot about my genre and the history of disco and where it is now.

                         

Who would be the audience for your media product and how did you attract/address them?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I think my media product represents teenagers and young adults as at this stage in most teenagers’ lives they will be experiencing going out to new places and finding new types of music they enjoy. My magazine shows teenagers enjoying music and being open to new types of fashion, I think my magazine represents teenagers as it shows teenagers enjoying a new type of music and being open to try and listen to new things which are what teenage years help us with. I think the young model on the front of my magazine helps to show the audience who the product is aimed at as the model isn’t an adult or child. I also think the use of bright colours represents teenagers as this draws them into the product and shows the age range. I think the stereotype of teenagers is of them going out to parties, raves, drinking and doing drugs, my magazine interprets this stereotype but in a fun, safer way which doesn’t give teenagers a bad reputation of doing drugs and alcohol but shows teenagers appreciating music and having a good time. My magazine could be for girls or boys, I have used a girl and boy in the magazine making it gender friendly, both models look happy and fun to be around so they would be good role models to teenagers. 

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your magazine and why?

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

Final frontpage

For my final front page I chose a photograph of Molly with her hand above her head with her finger pointing keeping with the signature Disco move, this helps present what genre the magazine is straight away. I used Photoshop to edit the background to complete black which i think gives the effect that the model is at a disco or some sort of club which is what I wanted to show. I have used a bright pink for the title as bright colours represent disco and what it's about, it also makes the magazine more eye catching.

Final double page spread

This is my final double page spread, I have used an image of Molly and Artie on the right hand side of the page, I have edited the background out of the photo and made it completely black to make them the main attention of the photograph. Molly is wearing the same Roller skates which are on the contents page on my magazine to show that the magazine links and flows consistently. I have made boxes with quotes in such as 'We had such fun posing for this shoot!', I think this makes it look as if the two models are talking directly to the audience. I included some silly photos on the bottom left hand side of the page to look as if they had a professional photo-shoot done and to make them look fun and outgoing so my audience would feel comfortable and maybe aspire to be like them.I also included an interview with the two artists with casual and funny questions so the audience would get to know them better and feel included. I made sure I put the name of my magazine in the right corner of the magazine to constantly remind the reader what the magazine is called so it they would remember it better, i also included a faint 'M' on the left side of the page which I thought looked interesting and again reminded the reader of the magazine.

Final contents

This is my final contents, I have used a black background to keep with my consistent house style and also because I think it links with disco being in dark clubs with only the bright lights showing up. I have the title contents at the top written a little bit differently as to entice my audience and be a bit eye catching. I have then put a huge 'M' which stands for MISCO behind that to constantly remind the reader of the magazine they are reading, this could make the magazines name stick in their head therefor increasing the popularity of my magazine, I have also put the name of my magazine at the top of the page, for the same reasons. I have included a large picture of some legs with roller skates on which links to my genre as roller skates were a big fashion statement in disco, they are bright white which stands out on the black background. Above that picture I have put in a bright pink banner with some extra pictures on to make the contents page look more full and exciting, i kept it quite simple as I didn't want the page to look overcrowded and wrote 'Learn how to be disco!', I thought this would make the reader interested therefor making them read on and buy the magazine. At the right hand side of the page I have included all the features of my magazine, to make it look as real as possible I have included 99 pages which a normal magazine would probably have. I thought of things that related to Disco and would also entice the audience such as 'Exclusive interview with Kylie Minogue', I used the word 'exclusive' because I thought this would make the reader feel involved with the magazine and like they are finding out some secret information if they buy the magazine. Lastly I included an editors note in which I spoke informatively and spoke directly to the audience which I thought might make the feel comfortable and make their reading experience more enjoyable. 

Pop music magazine deconstruction

I deconstructed a pop music magazine cover because I found out that a lot of disco music today has evolved into pop music. I thought it would be important to deconstruct a pop music magazine because my magazine will probably include quite a lot of pop's conventions. 

Extra photoshoot!

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Front cover Photoshoot

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Photoshoot!

                      

Editing using Photoshop

Here is one of the photos that i took for my double page spread, I used black card as a background and stuck it to a wall and parts of the floor with Sellotape. I put the photo into Photoshop and tried various different ways to make the background completely black, firstly I used the clone tool to get rid of any background which wasn't black and to smooth over the creased bits of paper and the parts with Sellotape on, i then drew around the two models and feathered the edges of them to make them have a softer edge. I then selected 'Inverse' which selected the area around Molly and Artie, I clicked on 'adjustments' then 'curves' and adjusted this till the background was as dark as I wanted it to be.

Front cover so far

Contents page so far

Double page spread so far

Slogan research

I asked 50 15-19 year olds which slogan they would prefer for a disco music magazine. I put the results into a chart to show which ones were the most and least popular, the most popular slogan was 'bringing disco back', so that will be the main slogan i will use.

Audience research

This is my audience research video, the last word of the video is cut off but i say 'magazine'.

Example of 'modern' Disco music

This is an example of the disco music that is around today, this is Daft Punks 'Get Lucky' song. Daft Punk is a French electronic music duo, they have elements of techno, electro, dance and disco music in them. Although daft punk are not classed as a 'Disco band', they have borrowed elements from disco and created a new, fresh type of music which is similar to many old disco tracks.

Preliminary Task Flat Plans

Possible slogans/tag lines for my magazine

I have come up with some possible slogans and tag lines for my magazine which i will later test out on the public to see which ones people like the most!

1) "Bringing Disco back!"
2) "Bringing Disco back for good!"
3) "Never miss a beat with MISCO Magazine!"
4) "Bringing Disco to you!"
5) "Disco to your doorstep"
6) "Disco on your doorstep"
7) "Because every day is disco day!"

Preliminary Task Photo-shoot

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DECONSTRUCTION

How the Magazine cover looks so far..

This is the front cover I created but not the final one I am going to use. I like the layout of the magazine so I am going to keep this the same, I think the left hand side of the magazine looks busy and eye catching but the right hand side needs to have some writing on also as it looks quite bare. The photograph I am going to have to retake as the quality of the image is not very good and the colours are not how I would like them to be. I'd like the image to look more fresh and energetic. I also think some of the colours on my front cover such as the writing should be a little brighter brighter as they look quite dull and uninteresting (They are brighter on photoshop but when i put the picture on here, the colours have changed slightly). When I retake some photos I would still like to keep the black background and the models outfit the same but I will try and get the image looking brighter and more fun!

DECONSTRUCTION

Letter from the Editor

Welcome to the world of Disco! With the help of you and this magazine, we are bringing Disco back for good! MISCO is a brand new magazine which lets you peek at the newest disco music before anybody else can,  this magazine gives you an insight into what disco really is and how you probably listen to disco music without even realising! Get the latest disco fashion and win prizes every week, you'll never miss a beat with MISCO magazine! 

Enjoy reading fellow disco divas!

Florence

-Editor of MISCO magazine

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