Evaluation: Question 4/5 - Who would be the audience for your media product? How did you attract/address your audience?

The target audience I had in mind while creating my music magazine 'Volume' was young girls aged 11 - 15. Many girls around this age are big fans of artists such as One Direction and Taylor Swift. I have included these in my plugs and puffs on my magazine cover to make it more appealing to this audience. A lot of my audience will probably consume many other types of media as they have been brought up in a world surrounded by them. These other types of media include: The Internet (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr), Television (channels like MTV) and other magazines (gossip magazines). As these social media sites are extremely popular with my target audience, my magazine would also have an official website, a facebook page and a twitter page. This enables my audience to access my magazine through other sources.
I have created a survey for my target audience and will gather some information, using it to find out what attracts the audience and how I can use these answers to help with the design of my magazine to make it more appealing to my target audience.

Evaluation: Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation: Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation: Question 1 - In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My music magazine uses the forms and conventions of other pop music magazines in many ways. Above I have put a screen print of my music magazine next to We Love Pop magazine.

I have used a bright colour scheme, blues and pinks, like the other magazines orange and blue colour scheme. I have put the fashion article in the bottom left corner like We Love Pop. I have used popular artists names on the cover to appeal to my target audience. These plugs and puffs use and develop the forms and conventions of other pop magazines as they appeal to the magazines target audience and are used in similar ways.

Double Page Spread: Drafts

This is my first draft of my double page spread, I have written the interview into the columns. I have added coloured backgrounds to the text and put in a pull quote. I have added the page numbers in.
I will add a masthead at the top of the page with another quote from the interview underneath. I will then add in the pictures I have taken for the double page spread.

I have now added a masthead and a quote underneath it.

Flat Plans

This is the flat plan for the front cover of my music magazine.

This is the flat plan for the double page spread of my music magazine.

Contents Page: Second Draft