Construction of my final media product

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Construction of my final media product

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Year 12 as media

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Contents page preliminary task

This here is my contents page, As you can see like the front cover it is also very basic.

Front cover preliminary task

This here is my font cover preliminary task, as you can see it is very basic and has barely any detail on it.

Front cover

Contents page

Double page

Missing poll results:

HOW MUCH WOULD YOU EXPECT TO PAY FOR A MUSIC MAGAZINE? (£)

1-2 +2
3-4 +3
5-6 +0
7 or more +0

This here is the 2nd double page that I have produced.

I feel that this is a very messy layout this is because there are a large amount of spaces that are open and not filled with anything. For example on the left there is a larger amount of space with nothing in it. I feel that there is nothing that will be able to be placed there this is because there are 2 images on the double page already and it is a prorate space, and not a landscape space, so if a image had to be placed there it would stretched if not taken in a prorate angle. Overall I think that this is a very untidy double page spread and I will not think of using this layout for my final product.

This is is 1 of 3 double page spread sheets that I have produced by hand.

As you can see this double page spread looks nice and large and the title and picture form to be a decent size, and so do the columns, each column can contain a formal amount of text. At the start the first paragraph there is a large amount of text. This is adding more detail to the work and it makes the reader interested. There is also an image next to this larger amount of text, this image with have something to do with this larger text size. Overall I think that this is a very good formal layout for a double page spread and I may consider using this for my final design, but I would swap the image from the right to the left. This is because I will make the page look and fell more neat due to the fact that the text runs over it.

Design ideas

This here is the 3rd and final contents page idea.

This content page is very similar to the 2nd contents page, but with this contents page it just has chunks of text and not columns of text, this is not very good because a reader and get very board form reading chunks of text. On the contents page there is 1 large images and one fairly large image. These 2 images take a massive amount of space wish is not very good cause yet again I cant fit a lot of text in telling the reader whats in the magazine. This contents page has a pug that is within a page fold, I think that this is a good idea, but yet takes up room, I could place the pug on an image, or on the front page.

Overall this is a very basic contents page, and therefore I will not be using it for my final design, the idea that I will be using the 1st idea simply due to fact that it has more within the contents page, and it has a very nice layout that can be moved around on like the 2nd and 3rd contents idea.

Design ideas

This is the second contents page idea.

This contents page looks very basic, it has a very large image taking up most of the contents page. The title for the contents page is very large, with the image and contents page taking up so much space that there is barely any space for text, there is 5 main columns and 4 side columns. This is not a large amount of text for a contents page and doesnt tell the reader a lot with whats in side the magazine. I will not use this layout for my final contents page due to the fact that there is to little space to work with due to the fact that the image and title are so large.

Design ideas

This here is one of 3 contents pager design ideas, yet again I have drawn these out by hand.

This contents page is a very large contentes page this is due to the fact that there is so much on the contents page, there iis 3 columbs of text, 3 large pictures, a pug, and 3 small poster pictures. This is making the contents page look big. The title for the contents page is fairly large, it is on the left and side of the contents page. Overall I think that this is a very good contents page and I could consider using the layout for my final contents page.

Design ideas

(will be used as a layout for my final front cover)

This here to the left is my 3rd and final idea, If feel that this could be a real possible for my final design, this is due to the fact it looks clean, and it hold a lot more information than my previous designs it has 3 stories, spaced out, a main image a pug and plus images of a free gift wish is included, The title is nice and large, there is a pug which is easily visible. Everything on this design idea is a great idea and good layout for a final font cover. So I have decided to make this my final front cover for my music magazine.

Design ideas

This here to the left my my second front cover design, This front cover looks very neat but yet lacks in certain areas, The placing of the title on the left hand side looks to small and the it makes the top look bland, It is a very simple design it has a pug with two stories on it making it look very small (as in page wise). The main picture is just 2 people standing there, and not doing anything fun or attractive to make the reader want to buy it. I also fell that if I had to produce a magazine with in the form it would look very tacky and horrible. This will not be possible for my front cover due to the fact it looks really plain, boring and small.

Audience Profile

This here is Mike, Mike is a person who enjoys listing to rock music, he is 19 years of age and he is the typical audience that I am trying to attract to make my magazine successful, he enjoys listing to most genres of music but his two most favourite genres are Rock and Metal. Mike is still currently at collage and he doesnt have a job, so I dont want to make my magazine to expensive so he doesnt turn it down, I need to make it just the right price, I did a questionnaire to help me find out a price, I asked students in a collage who dont have jobs how much they would be willing to pay for a magazine from a store, most of the students said £2.99, So this is the price that I will be going with. This will encourage most students to buy the magazine. As my magazine is going mainly consintrate on Rock music, it would on attract a fraction of the students to buy it, so I would maybe have to mix 2 different genres together to attract a bigger audience, I would consider of putting in Metal, this is due to the fact that rock and metal are the same, this is also because most people enjoy listing to Rock and Metal, instead of just rock. This magazine would highly appeal to Mike and maybe even some of his friends, and other students within the collage with similar tastes.