Feedback - 6/12/09

See my previous post! You need alot more on here to get a decent coursework grade Liam

It is pretty poor when the next post on your blog is mine- you should now be working on this (research) as homework and all the planning you are doing in class should be put on here also.

This blog is currently a grade U.

Research : Essential - research your target audience - use your demographic and psychographic profiling - do some questionannires and put yourresults on your blog

- music magazines
-your chosen music genre
- institution - Which publisher will publish your magazine? Look at ones with similar magazines.

Also look at some audience/circulation figures for music magazines.

Planning ( see the 'Before you Blog' handout - last 2 pages)

Include..

- Moodboards

-mock ups of pages

-location shots

-props/costume list

- rough draft of feature article

- It might be nice to outline your artist and their image - and why they are good to be the featured artists in your magazine

- photographs taken and final chosen ones and why etc...

Miss McNulty

Feedback - 28/11/09

Liam - you have alot of catching up to do - remember this blog is homework too!

Make sure you put your prelim tasks on here with analysis on their strengths and weaknesses.

Research:

The first genre you should be analysing is music magazines - outline the conventions and then look at covers, contents pages and feature articles and think about the following questions...

- Do they follow typical conventions of music magazines? If not why?

- Who is the target audience (GRASS) and how have they been made to appeal to them?

- Do they successfully make the audience want to read on? ( Cover and contents?)

- why do they work?

In research you need to examine your audience - who is your target audience (Demographic - GRASS and psychographic profiling - Young and Rubicon) Also how will your product appeal to its audience - use MAslow too.

questionnaires are needed - to your target audience - and feedback on this - charts and graphs are always good!

Go onto the ABC website to find out audience/circulation figures for magazines too - is there a market out there for your product?

Now move onto planning this week - ( see the last two sheets on the 'before you blog' handout) Start your mood boards, rough mock up of pages, props list, shooting schedule etc....

Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task i choose the create a

magazine cover and contents page for a new college magazine for St Mary's.

Introduction to Project

My name is Liam Smith and i have chosen a music magazine for my As media project, i'm going to create an indie magazine