Preliminary Task- Stockley Magazine

Preliminary Task- Stockley Magazine

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

My media product consists of a massive headline that stands out called ‘Runway’ like most magazines have. Most magazines fashion magazines have a female as their main character but I have chosen a male character to represent men’s lifestyle as well as fashion to change societies view and to give them a different sight to look at. More to this, it is a black male which makes it even more interesting as there not many black people that appear on magazines. My contents page has columns to keep all my images and text in order and in place. I did this to make it look more professional so it does not look like it’s all over the place.

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

My media product are aimed at men mainly as it is a men’s lifestyle/fashion magazine so it will not interest women as much. It is targeted at men aged early 20s late 40s. It shows men how to dress appropriately for certain events such as interviews, work place, wedding events or going to somewhere fancy etc. It stands out as there is a background of a catwalk and my male character is standing at the end of it in his formal wear costume. This helps show what my magazine will be about inside.

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

Stockley Academy as that is my institution that I got to and it is aimed towards male students in Stockley Academy mainly teacher, 6formers and Year 11 students. In this case magazines would go around quick in a school as people would see their friends featured in it so would support them by getting a magazine. More to this, it is constituted in one building so makes it easier to go around.

4.      Who would be the audience for the media product?

The audience would be male students and teachers that are interested in looking and dressing good. The magazine consists of how to dress fashionably good and how to dress formally for certain events as mentioned earlier.

5.      How did you attract/address your audience?

I used black grey and white as my main colours because they are the main three colours that men wear in terms of formal wear, such as suits, blazers and shirts. I used bold text with certain heading for example the heading of the magazine name of course. I used the same colours throughout as I wanted the magazine cover and contents page to have a colour coordination to make it look professional and sophisticated.

6.      What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have used many technologies through creating my Stockley magazine such as Photoshop for editing images and cropping them out to make them look professional. I have use InDesign to actually create my magazine on there and using the columns and grids to help put my images and texts in place. More to this, I also used Microsoft for certain things to get to my magazine point such as Word document for initial ideas.

7.      Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt?

I have learnt how to use many different technologies that I have never used before. I have learnt what GRANITE is and the different type of codes and conventions within a magazine. I also learnt how to sue different software’s that I haven’t used in ICT so it was good learning something that was not being in a class that is all about computer based topics but something completely different.