2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
Masthead
Coverlines
Competitions &
Incentives
Main Image
Secondary Images
Model Credit
Banner
Guttenberg Design
Principle
Badge
Price/Date/Barcode
6. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Teenagers/Students
/Young Adults
Both genders/majority
male audience
Rock
7. What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
• Europe’s largest privately
owned publishing group
• Collected around two main
divisions – magazines and radio
• Publishes over 300 magazines
• Kerrang!//Q/MOJO
• Kerrang – 43,000 prints weekly
• Q - 81,000 prints monthly
8. • The UK’s leading consumer magazine publisher
• 90 magazines
• UNCUT/NME
• Three core audiences – men/mass market
women/upmarket women
• Reaches almost two thirds of UK women/42% of
UK men
10. Who would be the audience for your media product?
What attracts you most to a
magazine?
11. What would you like to see Conversational
most in a magazine?
Informal
Informative
12. • Males more suited to genres such as
rock/metal/indie
• Females more suited to mainstream
music such as pop/RnB
My magazine is aimed at both genders. However, because it focuses on
rock music it will be more appealing to males than females.
13. How did you attract/address your audience?
Direct Address
16. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this
product?
Labels e.g. Product Research
Videos/Images/Office
Documents
Organisation of
my work
25. Conclusion
Success
• Appeals to target audience
• Variety of bands
• Consistent house style
• Even distribution of images & text
Improvements
• Coverlines on cover
• Length of the article
• Image manipulation
• Small details (price/date/issue number)