Final Pieces!

Below you will find my final pieces for my foundation portfolio. I have taken comments and advice from peers to improve my magazine. This is what I ended up with:

My peers views!

Film on the 15th November 2011:
Below you will find a video of one of my peers describing the advantages and disadvantages of my magazine. I then took some of advice and appiled it to my magazine:

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

Looking back I feel I have learnt a lot about the technologies, my preliminary task wasn’t up to scratch and could have done with more work. I’ve tried to change that in my full product, by spending a greater deal of time and editing and changing items, making sure the little details are just right.

I also really feel that my organizational skills have been greatly improved, I made sure all deadlines were met and kept to my own personally schedule which could ensure success in A2. I feel I didn’t keep to a schedule during my preliminary task and that’s what let me down there. 

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

I haven’t learnt a huge amount about different types of technologies but however I do feel that my skills in Adobe Photoshop have become more advanced and I am now able to create a range of items without a problem.

I also feel my skills in Adobe illustrator and fireworks have vastly improved, which before I feel they were limited and weren’t up to the scratch they should have been.  My blogging skills were not existent before this project but now I feel comfortable in what I am doing and will happily blog every day.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I tried to attract my audience by using attractive, eye catching images that would draw the target audience’s attention towards the magazine. I did this is many other ways, such as using glaze theory and reception theory, I believe that the way the text is written gives off a welcoming and relaxing feeling towards the audience. I also used models that were of the age I was trying to attract. I made sure that I used as many codes and conventions as possible for my music magazine. 

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The ideal audience for my magazine would be 20s onwards, but unfortunately it will more likely be late 30s early 40s and onwards. This is due to the fact that Jazz is quite an old Genre, starting in the very early 1900s. The mainstream popularity of Jazz was from the 1920s to the 1960s, but the popularity in Jazz started to decline. However research has showed that interest has started to grow.     

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

I would like to believe that my magazine has the ability to be sold in all well-known retail stores. But more realistically, it will more and likely be:

• An instrument store
• Jazz related shops
• Even advertisements on websites relating to my chosen genre.