Jason Woods Stills Blog

1) My media product, which I designed, I feel goes against a lot of stereotypical magazine covers you see on the market. My product is fairly plain in content and colour, I did this because I feel it is very different from the standard cover you see which tends to have a large proportion of the cover as a really dark colour, usually containing a large picture which covers around half to three quarters of the page. This is done to show boldness of the cover and emphasise the main stories or articles in the magazine. My cover contains two smaller pictures at he bottom. Mainstream magazine covers also tend to seem very crowded because they also contain a lot of sub heading on the front cover which are placed to try to get readers enticed into buying their magazine. I did not place loads of sub heading on my cover because I feel that some readers would not like a magazine that is to ‘busy’ This goes against the ‘norm’ and I feel it does it very well.

2) Media products, which are available, now seem to be aimed at certain social groups. Magazines tend to be aimed at certain groups of people ranging from ‘Goths’ to ‘Grebos’. My magazine goes against this conformity because I feel it does not have a very specific audience, which it is intended for. My cover is quite plain and uses neutral colours. This gives my magazine a broader potential audience as a variety of people can buy it as they do not feel it is stereotyped at a different social class to them.

3) My media product I feel would be distributed to the public in a lot of different media institutions. I would like my media product to be distributed in large retailers such as tesco and asda because they have quite large magazine sections but also have a large number of customers that pass though the supermarkets every day. I would like my product distributed in this way because I feel it would get out to the larger market and I would have potentially more customers. This way of distributing shows that my magazine does not have stereotypical readers. It does this because it is being offered to a very large section of the public, which ranges through a wide variety of social classes.

4) The audience for my media product I feel would be very varied I tried to focus my magazine not on a specific audience but on the audiences needs as a whole. I tried to make my media product seem like anybody could feel like they could pick up and read it. I did this by not focusing on a certain class of music. I tried to make my product seem available to a large amount of different social classes.

5) I tried to attract my audience in a few different ways with my media cover. I did this by making it so that my product was very easy on the eye and simple yet being professional enough to attract everyone. I used plain colours on my cover and then contrasted this with black faded writing. This gives the magazine a clear contrast and I think it will show to audience the contrasts between different music styles and different magazines.