Question 6/7: What Have You Learnt About Technology & How Do You Feel You Have Progressed From The Preliminary Task?

When you compare my Student Magazine from the preliminary task to my final Front Cover for my Music Magazine, you can tell straight away that I've progressed alot.
Firstly with my pictures, the photo on my Student Magazine is stretched to fit the frame and it's a really average shot, theirs un-needed bits of the wall in the background which makes it look messy and unprofessional and also the pose of the model is a really unconnected shot as it's looks as though it wasn't planned and was taken off guard.
Another thing is that my Headlines are small and they don't stand out at all, the colours of the fonts fade into the background and the photo (although it's suppose to be) is the main focus and it's the only thing that you notice. Altogether the magazine looks rushed and quickly made. After looking back on the finished Student Magazine, it made me more determined to make my Music Magazine front cover look much better.

When you look at my final front cover of the music magazine, you get a more professional feel from it. My picture is well taken, it's edited so the picture pops out at you and the pose is structured so it's shows a connection. My masthead stand's out and looks more like a magazine title than the one on my Student Magazine. All of my Headlines stand out, they're readable and i was able to use many different fonts, but with that make them look good all together on the page. I made the colours all fit together and all together put a professional looking magazine cover, contents and double page spread together. I believe with this i have progressed far from the preliminary task and learnt many skills and techniques that are obviously shown  through the comparison above.


I edited it on Photoshop, which before the Music Magazine task, I'd never used it, but as you can tell from the way my magazine is headlines, masthead and magazine in arranged, my skills in the production of making Photoshop products have increased. I know how to make texts, changing the font and colour of text, change layers and make a magazine look professional through this. This was extremely useful when it came to the creation of my products, i believe i choose the right option to use photoshop to make all my products. I only used Photoshop when it came to all my products, but also from the Student Magazine my ability's in In-design have also risen. Also before this, I wasn't used to using Mac products on anything but the basic Safari and an occasional Word Document but no i know how to work my way around a Mac computer including many of it's featuring like Screen Grabbing.

Evaluation Question 5: How Does Your Magazine Appeal To Your Audience?

Evaluation Question 4: Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

My target audience is mostly those of an Asian/Korean descent, although some who may not understand the lyrics will still enjoy the music as k-pop is becoming a worldwide likeable genre. Mostly aimed towards girls ages 17-25. They enjoy fashion and have a good taste in style along with a positive outtake on life, they have individuality and are always their self.

This is a portfolio of someone who would be a likely member of my target audience.

Name: Cara Stones

Age: 18                                                                                                                                       

Gender: Female

Education: University of the Arts London – Fashion Merchandising

About: Cara is an American born in Korea, growing up as an only child in an Asian family; she took a creative outlook on life and found her love for Korean Pop (k-pop) and fashion and has a great fashion sense. She moved to London to study fashion. In her spare time she designs her own clothing line and reads. She has black hair and brown eyes.

Likes: Listening to K-pop, Reading Books, Glee, Designing Fashion, Vogue and Cups of Tea.

Dislikes: Ignorance, Arrogance, Rock/Metal Music, Conformist’s, Flat shoes.

These are pictures of some similar k-pop celebrities who may have the same similar style and part of a target audience:

                                                                          Hyuna:                                                                                   

Sohee:

IU

Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

IPC MEDIA

IPC media, or International Publishing Company is a british comsumer magazine publishing company which with it’s large portfolio it holds, sells of 350 million copies a year.

Magazines

IPC media owns many magazine’s, with many different categories ranging in genre’s. A few of these include NME, Now, Ideal Home, InStyle and Woman’s Weekly. Tcompany is open to many different brands, each of which are popular with men and woman

DIVA

•Considering that my magazine is something new and totally different from anything a UK publishing company usually owns, with the current new incoming k-pop music artists coming in from around Korea, IPC media could have a space in their broad range of genre’s to fit in their first k-pop music magazine.

Seoul Cultural Publishers., Inc.

•Seoul Cultural Publishers., Inc is a publishing company formed in South Korea in 1988 and are currently publishing two weeklies, two bi-weekly and seven monthly magazines, as well as 850 books per year. In comparison to company’s around the world, this would be considered a small company.

DIVA

•When it comes to my magazine, Seoul Cultural Publishers, inc would be a suitable company to sell my magazine as k-pop is the most popular in it’s country Korea, it would fit my target audience as well as the Ethnic fans will more likely be able to find the magazine in stores in Korea. Although it’s a small company, DIVA could be it’s first groundbreaker to making the publishing company something more.

Evaluation Question 2: How Does Your Media Product Represent A Particular Social Group?

When it comes to my coursework pieces, I believe they relate to my genre of K-pop well. After researching into magazines of the K-pop genre that already existed, I took parts from different magazines, and also put in idea’s that already interested me as possibilities for my own creation of a K-pop front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Front Cover:

When it comes to my models on the front cover, they both have the look of a K-pop artist. One of the models is putting Party rings on the other and it makes them look close and playful as though they’re really close as a group.

The mis-en-scene of the cover is just a plain white background, the models are in a cute and playful pose so it makes them stand out, so you know it’s all about them and the look, also it gives a look of purity and makes it more clean.

Everything screams fun, cute and playful, just like the generic music of k-pop is. This is also shown through the clothes, as one girl is wearing a shirt with American Girl on it.

It represents my social group in different ways, it’s all bright and fun which makes it look happy and fits with the usual kind of music that K-pop represents. The fonts on the magazine are mostly bold and outgoing; everything stands out, just like the models on the cover give the impression of.

Contents:

The picture of the models changes on the contents page. They are both pulling separate poses to each other. I think this shows that although they are close as a band on the front cover, they have personality differences; this is shows through the expressions on their faces. One is stood in a bold pose, looking strong and could give the impression of the hard one in the band, but the second girl is stood looking cute and playful, this fits with the opposites attract saying. Usually the girls in K-pop bands all have a different look, so this represents the social group in that way.

Double Page Spread:

The poses of my two pictures of my models are classic to the style of a k-pop artist, as it’s shows a really close connection, the k-pop girl bands are always shown this way as usually the bands have 5-20 or more girls in the group, so they show more of a connection as it’s only 2 girls. Although it's a bit less outgoing and fun, the colours and pictures are still fitting into the social group. They still look like k-pop artists, and the colours and fonts of the writing all fit together and have the same style of the contents page and front cover. 

Evaluation Question 1: In What Ways Does Your Product Use, Develop Or Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real Media Products?

Final Outcomes:

Front Cover:

Contents Page:

Double Page Spread:

Research: Possible Target Audiences.



Pop

The genre of Pop music, is one of the most known and most popular genre's in the world. Also it has a large amount of sub genre's that include other well known genre's including Pop-Rock, Country-Pop and Dance-Pop. Pop comes from the word popular, and usually Pop music has infectious tunes and catchy chorus's. Pop is a genre that is liked by all people, and all genders. If I was too choose this genre for my magazine, I'd explore all the different sub genre's and possibly look into the old fashion pop music, coming back to the limelight today. People like Michael Jackson, Madonna and The Beatles are the most know classic people of original Pop music, nowadays the young generation will know Britney Spears, Christina Aguliera and Lady Gaga as big icons of the Pop genre.





Here's two posters for pop music festivals. Both for Bestival. They're both bright and bold, and have funky logo's and icons on them that make it seem as though the festival is something for everyone. You can see it's a more popular genre when you compare the amount of names on the Pop posters to the Country music one.
But they're two very different genre's, appreciated by people from different countries.


If I was too do something to do with pop music, I'd use a sub genre which would be unusual and new to British viewers. 
That would be the genre of 


K-POP 

K-pop is Korean music, Korean pop music, which originated in South Korea, By tapping into social media networks, such as the Bill Board 200 and The New York Times, the ability of K-pop to reach a previously inaccessible audience with the Internet is moving towards more popularity of the genre, for those of us in Britain, only the song Gangnam Style would be recognisable, but as a K-pop listener myself, i'd find this an interesting road to go down.

Here's a poster for a K-pop music festival. It has a simple design and is filled with pictures of who the artists are, showing that it's got many popular acts playing, another thing is the fact it's in sydney shows that the genre is something that has recently become appreciated by many people world wide, people of all ethnicity's, yet for British listeners, it's more likely to be a feminine genre. 









Country

Country music is a very uncommon genre of music when it comes to British people, as it's more of a common thing in America, where the genre originated in 1920
Stereotypically country music is believed to only be listened to by hill-billy's, an old term used before the 1940's, but the term of country has evolved and with it's many sub-genre's has become a very popular appreciated type of music. In it's prime, country would have been a genre that was most common with older men and woman, but with the style's being twisted with artists such as Taylor Swift, Shania Twain and Miley Cyrus bringing in their combinations of pop and country, it's become a much more popular genre with the younger generation. I'd talk about both the country and modern twists on the genre if I was too choice this as my magazine theme.


Here are a couple of Country Music Festival Posters, you really get the feel that country music has a fondness for the outdoors, with the light blue sky background on one and the dirt road sundown of the other. It's also a simple design, as unlike most bands in genre's of rock, metal and other popular music genre's the artists and bands are written in a simple black font, where as other bands usually have a logo of a sort.

Student Magazine Contents Page

Student Magazine Cover