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

Analysising and comparing to my peliminary task , my magazine layout , technique and just general production has improved vastly:

If you look at my preliminary task, I didn’t really use a range of fonts or colours. Although my main image is quite representative of my audience and directly appeals to them, it is probably the only really good thing about the magazine. The colours aren’t really co-ordinated and don’t really represent what a magazine should look like. It looks slightly messy and not really well thought out with colour schemes and technical codes like there is no bar code or pricing on my magazine. The strap line is hardly visible and the colours I’ve used aren’t really conjoining with the magazine as a theme. My Magazine front cover challenges all of those mistakes and looks professional and well thought out. It also represents the magazine a little more. In regards to both photo's although they are representative of the audiences reading them, the college magazine image wasn’t edited too much and I didn’t really have the proper skills to edit it and the knowledge of other skills and forms and conventions of magazines.
I learnt a lot from the time between the preliminary task and the music magazine. I didn't do as much research and planning for my college magazine as it was more about just getting to learn to use the technologies on InDesign.
On InDesign and Photoshop I learnt how to over lay an image over the title, in my preliminary task the title had to go around the image, but in my music magazine I decided to put the subjects head over the logo as this is a common trait of magazines, I selected the subjects head with the quick selection tool and copied to new layer. Then I decided to delete the background layer and saved it as a PNG file, then pasted it over the logo on InDesign. This is professional and was well done.
I also researched a lot and planned my music magazine extremely well as I wanted to make it professional , compared to the college magazine which didn’t have much research at all and just went off of some other college magazine layouts.
I have made many large developments from my college magazine to music magazine but I still made some mistakes in my work such as, one of my titles on my front cover was in lower case caps. And my feature has a few spelling mistakes and the text sometimes had breaks at the end of the columns, I should have proof read it more and made sure it was perfect.
But overall I believe my Music magazine is a great success and has been constructed very carefully.

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

I also learnt about putting in images onto a magazine by making a box for the image to put in then pressed place, selected the image I wanted on there and put it in. these explanations are demonstrated in my progression of my magazine.
With the images I used Photoshop to edit them. With Photoshop I learnt how to make the subjects face clear or flawless by using the brush tool, and changing the opacity to 20% and selecting the colour on the persons face to match the skin, and then brushed over the skins area to make the face look clearer.
Also, I learnt to get rid of spots using the spot healing tool, and then I chose to change certain elements of the photo by using the quick selection tool and making a new layer to change the contrast on the part of the image (new layer) I wanted. Also to slightly change the colour of the image I changed the hue to want I wanted it to be so that i could change the tone (like on Baby Sol's picture) to a greener colour. 
I also changed all the images to CMKY colour to have a better quality colour range when printing my magazine.
Overall I believe I learnt a lot about the precise skills that are used to make a magazine and image look perfect to a professional standard.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I attracted and addressed my audience by appealing aesthetically to their likes and incorporated their styles into my layout and presentation of my magazine:
Firstly, I used dark colours and stayed away from bright in your face "happy" colours as those are a little more childish or more for magazines that promote rave music or pop music.
So I used grey and blue for the title and as a running theme throughout the magazine, they're more themes associated with black music the same with the deep red & black. They are more seen to be used in more established magazines and as they are associated with those magazines they will attract the audience of the music.

They are also so less "in your face" to convey a more classy image.
The photograph I used is very similar of the type of imagery they use on the same kind of magazines. I decided to make the image the centre of the magazine and have the head over the logo; this is to enforce the importance of imagery in these magazines. The image is strong and that is the first thing you look at , which in comparison to a magazine like “super super" there are many different images , text and colours , they override the front cover and aren't really clear about what the magazine is about:

This is completely different to what my magazine represents. This magazine also represents the type of music it promotes, grime and electro pop, loud busy music. My magazine represents the type of music it promotes, soul, jazz and hip hop music within its conventions.
I also made my magazine £3.20 as this was the average price the audience would pay for a magazine like this.

Who would be the audiences for your media product?

My audience would be of ages 17-30 black of the C1C2D classification as they will be looking to aspire to be the people in the magazine or university students and people who aren't quite at the top of their careers yet.  

It attracts an explorer and reformer psychological demographic because people want to aspire to be the people in the magazine and want to maybe change their perspective on music. 

It would be someone who listens to music with an open mind but wants to hear something new that's not been “processed". 
My audiences like to go out and hearing new music, so by putting in features such as "gig's list" this would mean that is appeals to their everyday activities. Also with the age group I have they are very interested in personal appearance so having a style section and a list of stylish stars (who they aspire to be) within the magazine caters to their image preferences especially as this age group like to look like they're in a part of a collective group and have a collective identity therefore my features would encourage and go along with what my audience would spend their money on, clothes and music.