Evaluation Question 4

   Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience is one of the main things to think about when creating and designing any media product, in my case a magazine. I decided who my target audience were before i designed the magazine as i had to take into account the cover images, colours, and font. I also had to think about which audience would make the most profit.

The target audience I chose to use was young adults aged from 16-24. I felt it was very suitable for the magazine i wanted to promote. The price i picked for the magazine also links to the target audience. The price i chose was specifically cheap as i wanted it to be affordable for my audience, some of the young people will not have full time jobs to afford an expensive magazine, so i improvised.

In my magazine i considerd making my gender target audience both male and female as i didnt want to be seen as stereotypical. After giving it alot of thought however i decided the main gender target audience for my magazine would be female. This is because being a girl myself, i know how to relate to females and what kind of subjects they would find interesting and like to read about. I do not think it will reflect badly to have a magazine which is aimed for one gender as alot of other media products have done this and is rather common to do so, Although some minorities of males will enjoy the content within my magazine which is great.

The music genre 'house' is becoming very popular in modern day music according to my research statistics, which is why i thought it would be a great idea to choose that for my genre, which is what i did. In my questionnaires i discovered that alot of my the age group which like house are 16-24 which is great for me as this means lots of people will want to buy my magazine.

The main message that i would like my magazine to get across is that house music isnt just all sounds and beats, it takes time to create and is a skill to do which i want my target audience to see. Hopefully some of the women who read the magazine may decide they would like to do a courier in DJing or music related.

Evaluation Question 3

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

Evaluation Question 2

   How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convention of real media products? 

In my Music magazine, I generally used the conventions of a magazine most of the time, which I thought was the safest option as I knew they were correct.
My colour scheme of my magazine is Pink which suites the target audience of my magazine which is teenage girls. This is because Pink is the commonly used colour for girls and attracts girls attention, which is what I want for the magazine. I also used bits of Green on the front cover of the magazine which is a colour of youth, which also relates to my audience.
The images that I took for my magazine were all related to the genre of my magazine and again suited my target audience, young adults/ teenage girls. The images were all of girls, a Female DJ and examples of girls having fun on a festival. The main image of my double page spread is a female DJ who is featured in my magazine. She looks like she's having a good time doing what she is doing which i wanted, as the readers would feel like they are in the scene and more involved.
On the front cover of my magazine, for the masthead i used a thick, black, bulky font which challenges the usual conventions for a teenage girls magazine. The reason i did this was because by having a big masthead that stands out, it is able to catch peoples attention when on a magazine rack in a shop, black also represents power which i though would suite the magazine., The pink backgroud means that even though the black font may look boyish, it is still clear the target audience would be girls.
   For my contents page, i feel like i challenged the conventions of a magazine as i put the brand name on the page. I also decided I wanted to put the the title of the page 'Contents' down the side of the page. This was because I didn't want the layout of my page to be boring to my target audience, i wanted it to be fun and interesting to look at, which i feel like this brings.
   In terms of the price of my magazine, i feel like the price was following the conventions of a real life magazine. This is the average price that a magazine is sold at. The reason ive set it fairly low is because my target audience in young, which means many of them will not have full time jobs. By setting the price low it allows by audience to purchase my product at a price that is affordable for the age range.

Final Double Page Spread

This is my final double page spread

Contents Page

This is  my final contents page of my music magazine 'Sound'. I looked at a lot of different aspects when I was designing it, which meant looking at other magazines contents pages and getting ideas from them. I wanted to put the name of the magazine on the contents page, which isn't very common, but my reason for this was because I wanted the readers to remember what the brand name is and what information my magazine gives.

How magazines make their money

When purchasing a magazine, the profit from those sales makes money towards the magazine company. This profit however is very little in this type of sale; it’s called a single copy sale, once you work out the price it costs to make the magazine, the cost to transport the magazine, and the commission the magazine company must pay the newsstand company for providing space to sell their magazine.

Magazines make a lot more money on one to one when people sign up for subscriptions. This is because they are getting rid of at least one of the intermediaries and are able to get their magazine directly to the customer with no trouble.

It varies for a lot of different genres of magazines on how they get their source of money and what makes them their most profits. Music and lifestyle magazines are the main magazines who get most of their money from advertising, they would not survive if there was no advertising.


This is NME's rate card for their magazines. A rate card is a document that is provided by any print publication, in this case a magazine, showing the organisations rate for advertising. It may also include more information and details like the one above about demographics, policies, additional feed and artwork requirements.