Question 2: How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

My magazine is distinct from others as I used bright eye catching colors to pull my audience towards my magazine when comparing it to others. My target audience is a wide range, this is male and female from ages 15-40 as these people could be intrigued by how they haven’t seen this type of magazine or foe the older audience it may bring back past memories.

My magazine includes Entertainment and Diversion therefore an Escape from everyday life making the audience laugh, cry and overall experience emotions. Personal Identity is another aspect my magazine includes, meaning Media texts reflect your own personal values and beliefs or they provide the opposite that you will disagree with. 

My magazine would be a hard copy and not an online magazine but instead something people can buy from a shop and that is why if I were to choose a magazine distributor I would choose ACH Publishing as they publish and distribute new magazines and aim them at the correct audience. One way my magazine fits with their existing publications is that ACH publishing publishes both mass-market and high-volume newspapers and weekly magazine titles, as well as low volume specialist/niche monthly publications meaning they do a mixture of everything leaving room for my magazine to be one of a kind.

The sort or Adviser I would like to attract would be clothes adds as well as an all round variety, therefore making sure that the wide range of my audience feel included meaning they can relate to my magazine and feel as if they are meant to be reading it them self.

Question 4: How Did You integrate technologies (software, hardware and online) in this project?

To help my explain some of the Technologies I used while doing this project and how I used this I created this on piktochart.com to help explain what I used, for example different types of software, hardware and online technologies.

https://create.piktochart.com/output/52067323-my-visual

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Question 3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

My Production Skills

To reflect on my final draft and my overall project I thought about the skills Id used and I figured there were three, these being technique skills, creative skills and transferable. I then thought about how I had developed these skills threw out this project as well as learning new ones. After that I thought about the individual skills I had learnt in these categories and started to write a letter to a future Media A level student explaining these skills, how I developed them and how they effected and helped me. Once writing this letter I made a power point then recorded my own voice over the slide on voicethred.com while reading the letter. This also helped me make the letter make sense as reading it out helps me understand what went wrong when writing if for example if I made any mistakes. The PowerPoint is show below…

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I am a media prosumer

These are some examples of the type of media I use. Some of these medias I use everyday for example snap-chat, I use snap-chat everyday as a way to contact people and I even have friends who don’t live here anymore and its a good way to keep in close contact and easily be able to message them.

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My use of media is very social as I only ever usually use media to keep in contact with friends and post about my life as well as listening to music. I use mainly Netflix and you tube as my form of Entertainment as i find it fun to watch as you can change over whatever your watching if you get bored, you also get to subscribe to people you like therefore being able to keep up with them and their content. The media i use for Social Interaction is mainly snap chat and sometimes messenger or whatsapp as I use snap chat to chat to my friends but I have to switch to messenger or whatsapp to talk to and keep in contact with my family. For Personal Identity I mainly use Instagram as its a way of showing my person identity and updating people on my life without have to let everyone know desperately, I also can do this by snap chat stories. For Information I also use snap chat and Instagram for the same reason as personal identity.

 

Hello media studies!

Hello, My name is Annabelle, as well as media I am studying Art and Sociology. For media I have noticed that you need a wide rage of skills. An Example of one of these skills is the skill to be creative, I 5 Reasons Art Is Good For You, The Soul, And The World. | OBX Art Studiothink I have this skill as I enjoy art and design and ill be able to widen these skills as I’m doing art as an A level. I like he idea of making posters, magazines and designing things and I know this is a large part of media studies so i’m looking forward to this part as well as learning more about this subject and widening my skills to then help with with further work in the future.

Another skill that is needed in media is the skill to be organised, I believe that i’m fairly organised although sometimes I can be a little forgetful but I wouldn’t say i’m too bad as i’m trying to improve on this skill as I know I will need it in the future as I know I need to keep up with my work and stay on track, you also need to be able to use this skill in media as it becomes useful to be able to keep up with your work and to be able to study and do work at home as well as in class so you can always hand your work in on time and keep up with the rest of the class.

I don’t have many other skills I could list but I would like to learn some new skills that are necessary in media such as time management skills which means you know how long a week or day you need to be studding for a certain subject and you are able to do this in your independent studies, but I need to practice and widen this skill to make sure that I am doing my work right and therefore am not behind the class. Other skills that are needed are some transferable skills so I can learn to work harder and be more productive so I can then get more work completed easier and faster.