My front cover while didn't have too much focus on it still had thoughts planning it out however I did move around a lot in general to experiment and see what works best. While I had a general plan in paper and plan, a majority of this was done on the fly since the plan was very flexible and allowed me to change quite a lot of it.
My media product uses lots of the same conventions that many of the real media products use, such as incentives such a competitions and such, it uses a majority of subtitles to grab attention with one of them as they vary in topic appealing to all different types of people. Moreover it uses the big title with a simple typography so to not clutter the cover and steal all the attention to the subtitles on the sides.
My product represents a majority of students in the society but within that social group of students resides more groups and cliques, but my media product doesn't necessarily focus on one, it varies in topic and branches out to all different types of people allowing it not to focus on one group in particular which could be seen as a bad thing however I feel it allows the community of students to feel more at one instead of segregated by likes, dislikes, opinions and such.
The kind of media institution who would distribute my magazine would most likely be the schools that it is about, and the neighbourhood that it resides in, moreover if it did particularly well it could even in some cases be sent to the homes of the students in the education institute.
It challenges many of the electronic forms of which people prefer to use to potentially have 'school news', or even in some schools; they choose to use social media to get the school news across, some use Twitter, others use Facebook and perhaps a few even use blogger regularly, it seems they've been catching up on the latest use of these many electronics, and what's more have found someone who actually know what they're doing. Whereas the traditions would be to send newsletters on paper something that's being veto'd more these days in favour of the cheap and easily accessible internet.
The audience for my magazine was originally planned for be for 11-18 year olds in the education gap, however it may be inching towards the female gender more as they are more likely to read stuff like this and actually want to try some of the things in my magazine. I have attracted this audience by use of devices such as the aesthetics such as the colour and simple layout of the front cover and the contents page. Furthermore I used incentives such as competitions and interesting articles as part of my way to draw my audience. The picture I chose is also something I chose with the audience in mind as this allows them to see that the magazine is quite on their level and contains stuff they would be able to associate themselves with due to their age and their likes and dislikes.
While compiling my two products I have learnt that it's not particularly the use of technologies of which allow you to make the cover and contents page particularly appealing or even looking professional but simply the understanding of the use and the creation of the cover. You could also say that I have learnt that in order to make it look professional you need to be able to see from the eyes of your audience also understanding that positioning is incredibly important and even a small change can make an enormous improvement on the cover making it seem less like a child has simply stuck things down.
Representation is incredibly important in the media industry as the knowledge of this and understanding of your audiences interpretation can make an entire change of their view on the piece of media. See from a students point of view I would see this cover as not as professional as many of the published magazines in that part of the media industry however I would say that with my tools of technology I have accomplished a good cover as I made sure to remember the rules of colour coding and such, not so much with the contents page and the cover however. But on the whole while I think there could be many improvements on the colour scheme, and the idea of who to aim it at as I think I was getting a little confused who I should aim it more at. Also the font needs dire improvement because at the moment it's incredibly dull and what's more can be seen as not much individuality. Choice of font has a big effect of the appearance and the appeal to the many audiences.
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