RESEARCHING THE MARKET PLACE.

Q magazine- Price: £3.99                            
                    Frequency of publication: Monthly on the 10th.
                    Issue size: 202 pages.
                    Regular content: new releases, music compilations, reviews-(film, music, radio,television),
                    the Q50, cash for questions crossword and ten commandments.
                    Feature articles:  Front cover main image article.
                                              Plus.
                                              Exclusive interviews.
                 
                    http://www.qthemusic.com/
                    http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/
                    

Mojo Magazine - Price: £4.50
                           Frequency of publication: Monthly
                           Issue size: 154 pages.
                           Regular content: Albums, Reissues, Mojo playlist, All back to my place, Ask column and Hello.Goodbye.                            
                           Feature articles: Front cover main image article.
                                                    Interviews.
                                                                 
                           http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/
                           http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/



NME Magazine - Price: £2.20
                            Frequency of publication: Weekly.
                            Issue size: 66 pages.
                            Regular content: Band index, reviews, radar crossword, letters and live.
                            Feature articles:  Front cover main image article.
                                                      Plus article.
                            http://www.nme.com/magazine
                            http://www.ipcmedia.com/contacts/index.php?lookuptype=magazine&lookup=621
                 

INITIAL IDEAS.

Type of music magazine - Indie
Target Audience - indie magazine for people 16-26 years old.

MAIN TASK - MUSIC MAGAZINE.

For the main task I have to research the market for music magazines and use what I have found to produce my own music magazine with front cover, contents page and double page spread for a main feature article.

EVALUATION OF SCHOOL MAGAZINE.

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My media product uses the basic form and conventions of a real media product. My media product doesn’t really develop any of the forms and conventions as it is a simple version of a media product. My media product doesn’t really challenge the forms and conventions, except for my main title as it is really detailed and different to a simple magazine title.

How did you use new media technologies in the construction of your media product?
For the production of my media product I used two new products which were Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress. I used Adobe Photoshop to develop my front cover, I learnt what tools there were, what they did, how to use them and how to bring them all together to produce a final magazine front cover. I used QuarkXPress to develop my contents page I used it to make a typical styled contents page and incorporate my ideas into it to make a complete contents page.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of both the product and your use of new media technologies?One of the strengths of my product is its weaknesses, the more weak my school magazine the more I can show how I have developed during my music magazine. My strengths in my media technologies have grown during my magazine production as I have developed more new skills; however I still have some weaknesses as I am only confident in the basics of the technologies.

SCHOOL MAGAZINE CONTENTS PAGE.

PRODUCTION OF SCHOOL MAGAZINE CONTENTS PAGE.

SCHOOL MAGAZINE FRONT COVER