Evaluation Question 1,2,3
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Codes and conventions throughout my music magazine Media Evaluation – Music Magazine F ox D aish 1. Codes and conventions Evident on my music magazine front cover Before creating my magazine I looked at existing music magazine products and took note of what code and conventions these products used so I could include them in my magazine. I have done this so my magazine will be easily recognisable to those who will regularly purchase music magazines, this will help me attract an audience early on. The codes and conventions that I planned to include in my magazine were the most noticeable and important on the front cover, this is why on the front cover I have included a masthead, price and date, the splash, sell lines barcode, subheading, box out, pug, price
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Codes and conventions throughout my music magazine
Media Evaluation – Music Magazine
Fox Daish
1. Codes and conventions Evident on my music magazine
front coverBefore creating my magazine I looked at existing music magazine products and took note of what code and conventions these products used so I could include them in my magazine. I have done this so my magazine will be easily recognisable to those who will regularly purchase music magazines, this will help me attract an audience early on.The codes and conventions that I planned to include in my magazine were the most noticeable and important on the front cover, this is why on the front cover I have included a masthead, price and date, the splash, sell lines barcode, subheading, box out, pug, price and convergent links. (See main task slide for detailed codes and conventions)
Codes and conventions throughout my music magazine
Media Evaluation – Music Magazine
Fox Daish
2. How does my magazine represent particular social
groups?My magazine represents particular social groups by associating itself with a popular style of music that has a specific style of person that listens to it, this style of music is rap and the style of person who listens to it are normally young with a fair but of money, I kept this in mind while pricing my magazine. I have used bright, modern and eye-catching colours in an attempt to attract my target audience, I believe this will work as my target audience is of a relatively young age. The title of my magazine also represents my target audience as “Underground” has connotations surrounding it of being dark, harsh and grimy which represents this genre of music well.
Codes and conventions throughout my music magazine
Media Evaluation – Music Magazine
Fox Daish
3. What kind of media institution might distribute my
magazine?I have looked into different media distributing companies but I believe that Bauer media will be the most likely and the best to distribute my magazine. Bauer media currently own the Kerrang magazine which is one of the biggest music magazine that there are, they also own 25 other brands of magazine and over 25 other types of media for example radio stations, radio podcasts and websites. One of the main reasons that Bauer media is so successful is due to there USP’s (Unique selling points)these are important as it is what the audience will use to differentiate between different media conglomerates, this group of similarities that a media conglomerate will use across all of their forms of media is called synergy.
