3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

What kind of media institution might distribute yo by Emily Kuhr-Jones on GoAnimate

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The media institution that I decided would distribute my music magazine is Bauer media. I decided that Bauer media would be the best institution to distribute my magazine because they already distribute many music magazines such as Q and Kerrang!, therefore, it would be successful in attracting my target audience and distributing my magazine on a large scale.
Bauer media has also been very successful in creating many other media outlets for their products, such as websites, radio stations and TV channels, and I believe that choosing Bauer media would be the best thing to do for my magazine to create a successful music magazine that is popular to many different people and on many different outlets. I think that Bauer media would be able to help make my magazine a brand (as they have done with Q and Kerrang!), and because many of their music magazines that they distribute are existing rock magazine the fan base for their existing music magazines will be similar to my target audience therefore it will be easier for me to attract my target audience if they are already associated with other, successful music magazines.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The top front cover was one of my original drafts, and while I was making the changes I decided that I needed to make my front cover more appropriate for my target audience. I found that this first draft greatly lacked conventions and did not give the connotations for my target audience that I wanted it to. 
I found that the main image and masthead did not really give people a sense of the sixties/rock genre that I really wanted to give off, so, after getting audience feedback and discussing with peers what they would like to see different to make it more appealing and conventional, I decided to completely restyle it in a way that would attract my audience and represent my target social group in a better way. 

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

To maintain a house style and achieve continuity throughout all 3 of my products, I have used the same font as the masthead on the front cover, contents page and double page spread. I have also kept the colour scheme the same throughout by using dark pink/red colours for the anchorage text underneath my main image on the front cover, then I have also used the same colour for the 'Contents' heading on my contents page and for the quote, banner ('Lilia Eve') and introduction on the double page spread.
I have used the same artist on the front cover, contents page and double page spread and have made sure that the page numbers on the contents page match the page numbers on the double page spread, which also helps create continuity and connect all 3 features of the magazine together.

My layout matches most conventions for music magazines, however, on the front cover I have fewer stories than most music magazines. The reason I have done this is because I have used a close up for my main image (to help capture the iconic sixties/Twiggy theme) and I wanted this image to be the main focus of the front cover, and if I had included lots of other stories on my front cover than the audience's attention would be diverted away from the main story. If you compare it to MOJO music magazine, they also have not used many cover lines because they want the David Bowie cover line to be the main focus of their audience's attention, which is what I have attempted to do on my front cover.
However, similarly to MOJO, I have still included a few minor cover lines on there, to make my magazine more conventional and give the audience more than one thing to look forward to reading. For the contents page I have used most conventions, such as large clear fonts, page numbers referencing the story, 'Features' and 'Regulars' section as well as images relating to the different articles featured throughout the magazine. Also for the double page spread I have matched most conventions for music magazines; pull quotes, introduction, images, article being set out in columns and in a clear font as well as a main image that dominates one of the pages.

Questions For Audience Feedback

Here are the questions that I asked  a group of students about what they thought of my front cover, contents page and double page spread to use as part of my audience feedback in my evaluation:

1. Have I used the conventions of a music magazine successfully?
2. Can you identify what my target audience is?
3. If so, does it appeal to the target audience?
4. Can you tell what my genre is?
5. Are there any changes you would make to improve it?
6. If there is anything you find unconventional, does it fit in with the rest of the magazine?

Double Page Spread Draft

Video Feedback for Front Cover and Contents Page

Double Page Spread- Digital Mock Up