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My media product uses quite a lot of the same things that a typical music magazine would, that was aimed at young girls.
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The audience for my media product was aimed at young girls, aged between 9-14. I felt that this would be a good age because this is usually the stage that a young girl is finding herself, who she is, going through the motions of growing up, starting puberty, becoming aware of the opposite sex and developing crushes on male celebrities and boys. They would also typically want to know the latest gossip in the celebrity world, and typically 'falling in and out of love' with boys that they begin to fancy at school, and their embarrassing moments they experience with them.
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The process of construcing this product I found very very hard indeed. Getting used to all the different things you can do, and how you can construct it in very different ways. For example, one of my models needed to be edited, so I had to use the tool in photoshop that allows me to hide the spots that he had. It also taught me how to take photos correctly, and learning the different camera angles, and what my model would look best doing.
I also found it hard at first to be able to understand my desired audience, drawing from personal experiences of magazines that I bought when I was younger, I decided to buy a few music magazines, and to see if they still address the audience the way they used to, which I found they did.
I also learnt how to use blogger, because I never have before. I think it has been extremely helpful and it has also allowed me to express the difficulties I have had in constructing it. Things with images constantly kept going wrong, and to this date it still was. I had completed my contents page a few weeks ago, and it went off the schools system, and I could not retrieve it, therefore I had to re-do it again.
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Attracting the audience of young girls aged 9-14 proved to be, for me quite simple. I realised immediately that the male singer, is the typical guy a girl would fall for, however there was more than that. By using the title I did, about "Chris talks to Glimpse, about fame, fortune, and the love he is still searching for."
Typical girls of this age would not be attracted to a celebrity that has a girlfriend, because they would either be heartbroken, or see him as unreachable. However if he is single, girls seem to get in their mind that somehow, one day, he might find her, and they could be a couple. It is a typical girl thought that this would happen, therefore saying he is still searching for love makes them think they have a chance with him, and the crush they have on him is worth having.
Female icons such as Alexandra Burke is good because she has just achieved a dream that a lot of young girls would like to achieve, as she just won X Factor. Fashion tips from her would be attractive to the young girls because they would potentially want to look like her, they would be likely to deem her fashion sense as something that helped her along the way to stardom.
When I purchased a few music magazines, it was evident to me that they ALL included free posters of MALE celebrities. I decided to include one in mine, and use the typical features that other magazines would, an boy that is from a group, with his top off, because this is what every other music magazine that I looked at featured.
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Since I first attempted to do my magazine, the preliminary task, I have learnt that a lot of images are not necessary to obtain attention, and infact the busier it looks the more unattractive it looks, as it looks like there is too much going on to take in.
The main lesson I learnt from the preliminary task is to keep the house style the same, as that was something that I faulted in, when I first done the magazine.
Images should be arranged in an attractive and appealing way, not just chucked on the page and rotated anywhere, they also need to be appropriate to the content the magazine has.
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In ways my magazine is the same as general pop magazines, but it is generally the smaller things that are evident. For example, I used the general colour scheme of purple, pink and yellow, to attract the young female audience.
The general idea of attracting a female audience of using a quote from the celebrity that has the main interview in the magazine.
My magazine is different because it appears to be more organised, as the other magazine seems a bit more 'messy'.
Also features that are the same are obviously the barcode, and the basics every magazine should have.
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