Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

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Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

All types of media products mould their decisions on content and design in order to suit their desired audience. In order to do this, demographics and VALs (psychographics) are used to determine who their audience is and gain as much knowledge of them as possible and therefore are able to shape their products content and design in order to suit their audience (i.e. if it is shown that a magazine is starting to attract an older audience they may start to write their articles in a more formal style).

I used demographics and VALs (psychographics) to produce a readership profile similar to NME as part of planning, so that way I could also understand my target audience.

What a demographic is:

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/demographic-factors.html

What a VAL is:

http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/vals/ustypes.shtml

 

 

 

The majority of my audience is female and are between the young adult to adult category, and they fall into the Strivers and Innovators category.

Contents Page Analysis

CONTENTS PAGE

I decided on a simple layout for my contents page in order to avoid creating lots of mistakes. I kept the 'traditional' titles for my contents such as 'News' and 'Features' as well as adding in a new one 'Around The World' to suit the theme of my magazine.

Double Page Spread Analysis

 

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

For my double page spread, I used the Leighton Meester interview done by Marie Claire as inspiration. It helped me to create an idea for my pull-quote design.

FRONT COVER

For my front cover I took inspiration from mainly 'Interview' magazine mainly because I liked the way it looked since it had a very sophisticated yet edgy style which is the type of the style that I was going for, for my front cover. I used the font 'Bakery' as my typeface since it has a fun look to it. Like my mood-board says, I included foreign stars since that is the theme for my magazine.

Readership profile

For my magazine I included a readership profile, this helps me to understand my audience, thus allowing me to create better content for them.

Mood board

I created a mood board in order to express my ideas and plan carefully for my magazine. For the mood board, I decided to follow the style of 'Interview' magazine because of it's edgy yet, sophisticated look. I chose the colours white, grey and black to go along with it.