How did your attract/address your audience

Since my audience is targeted for females around their teenage years, I design my magazine in way in which I thought would appeal them, such as having the colour scheme a very light pink as this is generally associated with the female gender. I also made the text on the front very bold, simple, and minimalistic to keep the reader engaged and intrigued to find out about what is inside. I also had a front facing image which was very simple.

Another way which I attracted my audience was through the use of style. Pop is majorly about the way people look, and so for my imagery I used a white dress to symbolise the how innocent pop usually is. However this trend can sometimes come across as provocative with artists such as Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande. I also did my make up very fierce because people in pop are made to be the perfect image even if the perfection is achieved by artificial means. Artificial means could be plastic surgery or make up, on example that I used is eyeliner is a major trend in pop. 

Who would be your audience for your media product?

My audience would generally be female and of a younger age, because I have found that many people in the older generation either don't keep up with pop music or they just aren't interested as they prefer music from their generation. Another reason why older people aren't as interested in pop music is that some times the magazines are not about the music but the artists and the things they do and this is included in my magazine such as Rihanna's best outfits and this may cause them to dislike my magazine because it features things they are not interested in or comfortable with.

However the older generation could be a part of my audience.  This is like the Penumbra effect, the sun is like the minute unexpected audience that magazine producers do not expect to see, and the moon represents the typical audience that producers expect to see.

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

one thing I learned is that you need multiple editing websites. this is because one editing app will not have everything you need and so you will have to know several if you want to be able to do everything you need to do to the picture. this was the case when I went to remove the back ground on one picture but then once I had completed that I needed to editing the person in the image and so I had to use a different website to do that.

Another thing I learned was that a good camera wasn't as important as it seemed, although I did use the camera to take some photos my main image was taken with a phone and then transferred to a computer to edit it. I did this because I had a lack of equipment where I wanted to take my pictures so I just used what I had and in the end they turned out really well.

Photography

I have put in a lot of time towards researching photography and how to take the best picture for my magazine. some general tips for photography were to play with focus, to make the main thing in the image slightly off centre. there is also the rule of thirds, this is when there is a grid on the screen and it helps you to proportion the photo. I found these tips very useful when taking my photos. I had to take my photos around three times before I had the images that I wanted each time I perfected different things such as the lighting, the background, and the focus. Did not realise until I looked at my first attempt at my photos how important it was to know your way around the camera. Once I realise this I tried to look around on the Internet for some tips that would help I also asked some friends that I knew could work a Camera quite well if they would teach me some things they knew. Overall photography played a very big part in the construction of my final product and without researching photography the way I did I do not think that my magazine would've turned out as well as it has

My front cover

This is my front cover. Throughout the whole magazine the colour scheme is light and soft colours, this reflects my chosen genre of music because pop is generally not very out there and it is more about producing catching songs.

I made the front cover of the magazine very simple and not over crowed because pop artists are very identifiable, I relied on this because fans of a certain artist would automatically pick up the magazine because it is featuring them.

For the picture I had to take into account that I was going to have storylines around the image, however when I thought about it thought that it would be better to make it about a single artist. this defies the conventions of pop music because it is usually very exciting and over crowed but I decided this would be a better choice.

My Magazine