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I intend to cover the following criteria:
Forms and Conventions
Institutions and potential distribution
Audience
Technologies
Progression
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%y cover to attract the
magazine is called
Pure Sound. I named
it this because
acoustic music as
something pure and
not tampered with. I

attention grabbing and
this is magnified when it is
put onto a white
background. I got the idea
from Q magazine who use
lots of red and bright
colours all across the front
audience.
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shot is of me as the
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used a big text like Q The picture being
magazine so it stands right in the centre
out along with the signifies its
picture. importance and
being on a white
background makes
the picture stand out
more and everything
else has to revolve
around it.
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used this as the same type of
introduction to text for my
the magazine contents. I did this
which explains so when people
to the audience think of the
what's in the magazine they
magazine think red writing
instead of just so this also adds
the page to the brand
numbers and identity of my
call outs. magazine. I really
like the way the
% The writing curls down
natural lighting in the the back of my
background really main picture. It¶s
brings out the red something
writing and makes the different instead
writing leap off the of putting a text
page and catch the box in.
readers eye.
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The call
outs I used where
ones I think would
attracted the
audience and want
them to read on such
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This makes the
reader really think. It
also makes them
Again it follow¶s
the theme of red. This
helps create a theme for
the magazine that would
become iconic as not
many other magazine
use the same colour as
a theme throughout. It
also helps the page look
more colourful and
bright.
want to find out the
rest of that answer.
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I used these pictures for
my article because they represent
the character of whom the article is
written. They blend in with the
back as the black t-shirt she is
wearing stands out on the white.
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%y main picture was created to
give an iconic feeling to the so
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positioning shows this well as he is
covering most of the picture and
the writing has to revolve around
the main picture. This gives a
sense that every thing revolves
around this character. The white
light %ise-en scene is giving of a
sort of godly effect to the picture
and signifies his importance to the
magazine and how much of an
iconic article this will be. The
picture also bleeds right to the top
and bottom of the page which
shows he cant be restricted to one
page of paper.
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If my magazine were to be published and sold, I would want
IPC %edia to publish it. IPC is responsible for such magazines
like N% , nuts, soap life and women's weekly. IPC produces
over 85 media brands and appeal to almost 27 million adults.
IPC's diverse print and digital portfolio offers something for
everyone, with a focus on three core audiences: men, mass
market women and upmarket women. %y magazine would fit
in well with IPC because of its views and ideas. I think my
magazine is very similar to magazines such as Q and N% . But
also my magazine is something new and there isn¶t really
anything like it out there. It mix¶s with the new talent in
acoustic music and also shows the edgy side to acoustic music,
showing artist¶s such as Paolo Nutini in a different light.


I believe my magazine appeals and targets to two specific
audiences.
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  ëesponsible young adults that have the
right amount of income that allows them not only to buy the
magazine at r


But also allows them to download the
songs the magazine represents and go see the artist. Likely to
be males aged 18/25 social groups B-C1: %iddle class and
lower class workers.
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 "ounger audience that can still buy
the magazine at full price. %ost likely to be students so there
is less of a disposable income as some might not want to
spend the money on a magazine. I have classed them as
social group but the readers that do grow up will keep
reading as they move up social classes.
  

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 A price that denotes quality but also
is cheap for younger audience.
New acts but also showing edgy artist and different sides
to acoustic music bad and good.
xclusive articles and interviews with up and coming
bands and artist¶s and well known artist¶s.
S

 Pricing is lower than some music
magazine so student and younger audience can buy it.
Free CD from ëadio 1¶s live lounge helps lets people here
new covers of songs before the CD comes out and also
before most the friends.
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At the start of the course I had no idea what Scribd was or

how to make a blog. I had a knew what Photoshop was but
had never used it before. I feel I have improved immensely
from when I first used Photoshop and now find it easy to
use. Once I got my blog up and running I found it a useful
and easy way of doing coursework instead of have a folder.
Blogging saves the stress of maybe loosing your folder. I
haven't really used Scribd to much on the course but I find
it easy to use and its not too hard to upload features to my
blog from it. I feel my computer skills have improved on
this course as I have used more programmes and feel
confident on all of them.
    
%y photography has got better
over the course. I know now to
plan the context in which the
picture will be in before you take it.
Also to consider what the
background is like so it blends in
and stands out on the page. Such
as the picture of Claire the girl my
double page article was on. It on a
white background as the
background to the article was white
so it would blend into the page.
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I feel I have improved immensely since the Preliminary
task. I was new to everything when we first started the
music magazines and didn¶t really know what I was doing.
But it helped me learn how to use all the things like
cropping a picture on Photoshop and also uploading thing
through Scribd to my blog. The result was my magazine
cover looking more professional.
   
 



"ou can see a vast improvement between

my student magazine and my music
magazine. %y magazine looks more
polished and professional than my first
student one. One of the examples of this
is that in my Student magazine I put big
white boxes round the writing and I think
it doesn¶t look good like that and isn't up
to the standard I wanted to set. Where
as my music magazine has a black
outline around the red writing, which
makes it stand out on the white, but also
gives it less of a scrappy demographic.