Final Front Cover.

Final Contents Page.

Final Double Page Spread.

Question 7.

7.    For my prelim task, I had to create the front cover and contents page of a school magazine. In comparison my prelim magazine compared to my final music magazine are very different due to the development in my Photoshop skills. For my prelim I planned what I thought the magazine should look like and the photos that I needed to be included in it. I also attempted to use the magic wand tool for the first time and as a first attempt believe it looked effective, which is why I developed my skill using this and used it in my final magazine. I feel that completing the prelim task was an effective way to teach me how to use Photoshop as it meant that my music magazine's final outcome looked professional. As the prelim was the first time I had used the Photoshop software, by using it I would learn and develop new skills on it which would allow me to create my music magazine to what I think is a good quality.

Question 6.

6.    Whilst I designed my music magazine, I had to learn and develop my skills in order to use new pieces of software, enable me to edit and enable me to create my music magazine. The first thing that I did was take photos using the camera. I already knew how to do this in depth and was able to take high quality photos which I believe look professional. I also used an SD card to store the photos and upload them to the computer, which I also knew how to do in great depth as I already had experience at doing this previously. Then, I had to edit the photos to give them the effect which I used in my magazine via iPhoto on the Apple Mac. This app also allowed me to view all of my photos and select the one which I wanted to edit and use for my magazine.

Question 5.

5.     During the creation of my research and planning I completed, I looked into my target audience and focused on what they would want to see in a music magazine. I looked through music magazines which are purchased by people in my target audience and looked at the codes and conventions which I could see were similar throughout. I also used websites and blogs to research choices that were made for the magazines. I noted that there were nicely contrasting colours which worked well together, as well as photos which were relatable to the target audience as well. All of the magazines had a modern structure of language used but did not include and slang or youth terminology showing that the target audience is young adults throughout the types of magazines.

Question 4.

4.   The main target audience of people, who I believe would listen to my selected genre of music, is young adults from both genders. The age of this target demographic ages from 16-19 as people of this age are classified as young adults and they commonly listen to Alt-Rock music. Both genders listen to the genre of music as. More commonly, people in the age range I have selected would see alt Rock bands live as well as listening to their music on a CD, however going to see a band live is trendier and modernized meaning that it is most likely that they would do this instead.