In my product I tried to make it as much like a music magazine
that I could, without breaking the copyright laws so I used existing magazines
as templates but I also tried to make it unique so that it would sell but still
have a place in the market, the conventions that it follows are that the name
of the magazine which is ‘sound wave’ is in the top left of the page and this
so that when it’s on the rack it can be seen.
I also had Mickeys
(who’s my main image) head over the title and once again this is something that
I noticed in my research that the majority of big magazines did this. Further
down on the front cover I put on sell lines and this is so that it will catch people’s
eyes and make them want to read it, it could also draw people that wouldn’t normally
buy the magazine in as it has something in it that they are interested in so in
turn this could bring more buyers in the future if they like the magazine as a
whole.
My magazine is aimed more for the people who are into indie
music so it has a niece market as not many people are ‘indie’ but as time goes
by more and more people are starting to listen to it but my magazine could also
open up the market for this genre of magazine
as you mainly get rock.
so this could mean that if I was going to sell my product
and I sold it with the right company then it has potential to be a big hit but I
am also running the risk that it won’t work as there isn’t that many magazines
on the market that are the same genre so it’s not proven to be a good seller
but on the other hand this could be a good thing as there is a gap in the
market so it could sell.
The age that I was hoping for was for sixteen to twenty four
so then I would have to keep it up to date and modern but this will also have
in the types of articles that I’ll wright about, but I am also aiming to go for
both sexes so to make sure that I didn’t offend anyone so I tried to go for a
colour scheme that I saw would fit in both sexes.
The institution that I will use is Electronic Arts (EA for
short) and this is because they are the institution that kerrang uses
but also they have a gap in the market or a magazine like mine but the fact that
they have kerrang shows that they can handle big magazines so there would know
what to do with mine and how to sell and market it so this would be a big help
for my magazine as its new so they would help to get it known, but also the fact
that they have kerrang people would see that and then it would show that my
magazine is worth buying.
The things that I’ve learnt about technologies is that they
are an amazing thing if you know how to use them for example to get my pictures
I used a Nikon 400D which is a good DSLR so I was able to capture some good
images which I then used in my product but I also got images that I couldn’t use
as they were out of focus, so on the other hand they can be a pain and cause
you problems photoshop was the programme that I used to create my product and edit
my images but once again if you have an idea of what you are doing then its
really good but it can also be really frustrating as you can easily do
something wrong but you can get some amazing results out of it.
I think that I’ve made my product look a lot better than the
one I did for my college magazine as I feel that I have made it look a lot more
professional and felt more confident in using photoshop so I edited it a lot
more and added more sell lines but also in a way that all of the big magazines
would do so it would fit in the market of magazines so I would be able to sell
it and people would buy it but it would also survive in the market.
