Nicole Jarman-Pearce Media

Final Post of AS Level Media

Name - Nicole Jarman-Pearce
Candidate Number - 7306
Centre Number - 17131
School - John F Kennedy school
Chosen Brief - Print - Front Cover, Contents Page & Double Page Spread of Music Magazine

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

I think that the image I used in the preliminary task is better quality than the one i used in the main task. This is because the image on the left is clear and bright, whereas the image on the right is a bit darker and I think that it is less appealing. I think that I learned which angles worked best when taking a picture, which I think shows in the image on the right.

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

From using an online free photo-editing website named picnik, I learnt how to improve images I’d taken to make them more appealing. From using the camera in a more professional than casual way, I learnt which angles worked best and where to position the model in the photo.

How did you attract/address your audience?

My magazine front cover consists of a different colour scheme which doesn’t fit in with the conventions of a rock music magazine. I decided to use orange and yellow because they’re eye-catching and bright colours, and to make my magazine stand out from others, this is a unique selling point. I chose to use words such as ‘exclusive’ to catch the audience’s attention; this was to influence them to want to buy and read the magazine for the article as ‘exclusive’ suggests that you can’t get the information elsewhere. The prop that I chose to use was a guitar; this was to tell the audience that the magazine is a music magazine, and to hint the genre of it (rock, metal, punk etc) because guitars are a convention of the roc culture. Another way that I tried to attract the audience was to advertise a competition to see a popular and well-known band. This was also to widen the audience range, as people who don’t listen to rock music like bands such as Pendulum; this could influence people who aren’t into rock music to buy the magazine in the hope to win the competition, and they would hopefully read and be intrigued by the magazine and culture. The magazine would also feature conventions of a magazine that aren’t specifically for rock music magazine such as posters, tour guides, interviews etc.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

They would buy my magazine because it has details about gigs in the area and exclusive interviews with popular band members. There would also be posters of popular bands which High Voltage readers would like to collect.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

These images bare some similarity. Their posture is similar in the way that there head is facing and the way that they are holding their guitars. They're also wearing similar costumes (both are wearing shirts) although they are different styles. The picture on the left is more of a close-up shot, whereas the image I took is a mid-shot.