QUESTION 3: WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?

Bauer Media

Bauer Media is Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. The Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations.

Bauer Media joined the Bauer Media Group in January 2008 following acquisition of Emap plc’s consumer and specialist magazines, radio, TV, online and digital businesses. Collectively, the Group employs some 6,400 people.

Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media Group consisting of many companies collected around two main divisions – Magazines and Radio - widely recognised and rewarded as being industry innovators. Today, Bauer Media spans over 80 influential brand names covering a diverse range of interests including Heat, Closer, 4 Music and Grazia.

Because of how established and versatile Bauer Media are, they would be able to appeal to its audiences and effictebly produce a music magazine which will be appealing to a range of people. It deals with everything from magazines and radio stations and also runs a range of popular magazines. This means that it has backgroud understanding of the characteristics that a succesful music magazine should have. In terms of the genres/music types that it would be likely to publish, i think it would look to sell music which is currently very popular in order to be current and sell more. The more modern they are, the more relevant they will be and they're more likely to have a bigger audience. because of this, i believe that it would a very appropiate instution to distrubute my magazine as it currently doesnt have products which specifiy in urban music or culture. they are very much based on pop singers and music therefore with my media product it would allow them to appeal to a wider audience and be more versatile with their brand. 

QUESTION 2: HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

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QUESTION 1: IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS

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FINAL CONTENTS PAGE

This is my final contents page, I had initially completed my contents page with a different design but after evaluating it, I realised it was letting down the rest of my magazine as it didn't have the same effect and it had a boring, plain look to it. Because of that, I decided to change to a full image which would be of my model that is the main feature of my magazine. I believe that this image is much more appealing to the eye as it gives the page more vibrance.

This was my previous contents page:

Although I kept the colour scheme the same, I personally think the new layout of my contents page is more effective.

FINAL DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

This is my final double page spread, and after looking at inspiration from various magazines even those which aren't music related, I was inspired to play around with shapes and colours for my spread as I found that it worked quite effectively on pictures with simple backgrounds. I chose the colour scheme blue, white and black in particular as I thought it matched quite well with the pink my model is wearing. Although in the brief it does state that the colour scheme should be consistent, I thought it was unrepresentative of existing magazines as they don't tend to continuously use the same colors. Because of this I wanted my spread to be very simple, fresh and easy to read. In terms of the design however, I kept the text fonts and style the same to the ones I used before to show a level of consistency.

Over all I am happy with my double page spread and believe I have produced something which I wanted and is also representative of existing music magazines.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD FIRST DRAFT

I am currently in the process of designing my double page spread. Im trying to mix colors and create something fun but also keep the color scheme of the blog without all my pages looking too similar.
So far I am pleased with my progress

BASS FRONT COVER

This is my final magazine cover, I decided on this look as I was aspiring to achieve a very urban r&b related cover and after looking at inspiration from other covers such as Vibe and XXL, i believe I achieved this. The main parts of the cover that I think are effective is the colour scheme and the main image. I tried to keep this as simple as possible because through looking at other already existing magazines, they tend to have 3 or less colors. In terms of how I chose my tag lines, I wanted to make sure that readers could easily identify the magazine as being a urban genre. I also featured already existing famous artists as that would automatically appeal fans.