Brief

In order to construct my magazine I needed to do a number of things involving researching such as secondary and primary research I had to analysis existing media products and identify the cods and conventions this therefore enabled me to construct my magazine. I also had to construct a number of different draft pages and ask a focus group which they preferred, this helped me come to a decision on how I wound construct my magazine. I have been given a preliminary task to complete I needed to construct a school magazine, this magazine had to be constructed and coded to a specific target audience and have the right mode of address, I constructed a front cover and a contents page.

I started my research by constructing existing text of media products to show my understanding and knowledge of the codes and conventions that make up a magazine therefore allowing me to use them in the construction stage of my magazine. I then created a qualitative on-line survey to find out my targeted audience, demographics, needs and aspirations. As I wanted my questionnaire to be varied had to ask a large amount of people therefore I posted it on social media websites like Facebook and twitter where I got a large response from my targeted audience. This helped me in the planning and construction stage due to the fact that I knew who I was going to aim my magazine at and find my mode of address. By the end of the process I was able to create an audience profile was I have put together images along with statistics which displayed my audience dislike, like dreams, and hobby’s.

Before I started the construction process of my magazine pages I needed to ask a focus group of my target audience what they throughout of my magazine idea to help me come to a final decision. In order to do this I created 2-3 templates of a front cover, double page spread and contents page.

I then moved on to constructing a range of different mastheads for my magazine on a planning sheet I also designed my front page, contents page and double page spread with annotations of the codes and conventions. This researched combined with my magazine templates it gave me a good knowledge and understanding of what I wanted my magazine pages to look like. I then started to plan my photographs of the models I was going to use as I have done a lot of planning I researched into existing text I knew my photographs  where important as they needed to fit the mode of address for my magazine and appeal to my target audience so my audience could identify the magazine brand.

At the end of my research and planning I need to present my work therefore I  pitched all of my qualitative and quantitative research therefore enabling me to have an understanding of my audience demographic.

I have been asked to create a photography document to give detail on where I took my photographs and any hazard that would of occurred. Therefore I have enabled that the photo-shoot has taken in a safe place.

After I finished all of my research and planning I could start constructing and designing my four pages for my magazine with my own photography’s

To finish my  project I have answered 8 evaluation questions discussing who I would distribute my magazine to and If I have codes my pages in a way that can be identified by my target audience. I also have created the right mode of address for my target audience.