Mock Marking Exercise

The mock marking exercise consited of parking the blogs of our peers on what they had accomplished so far. We used the assesment criteria when doing this aswell as adding our own comments

I have learnt that i had to add to evaluation to gain higher marks. I also had to add more detail about the contents page and talk about it. I was told by my peers that i had to add print screens to my evaluation and the different type faces i had used. I further learnt how to evaluate and analyse other peoples' magazines, which helped me to see what i could do to my evaluation in future to improve it.

Target reader profiles and focus group

Stereotypical Reader

Lauran- This person would be about 16 or 17 and loves partying and booze. She would possibly like raving and listening to RnB typically Nelly and Rihanna. And also old school and slow jam which come under RnB. She would most likely have blonde hair and stereotypically side swept. She would like modern clothes such as leather jackets and skinny jeans rather than a 60’s look.

Elli- This person would be about the age of 17, who wears hooded tops and baggy jeans quite authentic for the time we are in, which would appear to listen to hip hop and RnB, which are sung by Beyonce and Jay Z and Alicia Keys. She would have long hair with a short fringe and possibly dyed in the colour red. She would be on higher education. Significantly she would be very social, easygoing and funny.

Tara- This teenage girl would have plum coloured hair. She would possibly assume that she rules the world. She would most likely listen to black music e.g. reggae, black rap artists and most of the types of music that comes under RnB.

Characterictics of a specific musical genre

This is my mind map that has the different types of music that come under my chosen music genre.

Typical Features

Genre- Style, Form, Type

Genre is the style or type of format something is e.g. a film, drama soap etc.

As the producer of a music magazine I am concerned with the producers of the types of musicians that will be put into the magazine as I need it to be engaging my audience. Following from audience one important factor is marketing as I will need it to continue to existence of the magazine and to make profit.

Genre of magazines found in HMV

Classical
Rock
Indie Rock
Pop
Rn’B
Dance

Jazz
World/Folk
Electronic/Dance

Chronology (time)

Early-classical-romantic-modern
16 17-18 19 20-21

Denotation & Connotation

I analaysed two music magzines regarding their front cover and contents. I had to compare and contrast the differences and what their denotations, connotations and design layouts reflected about the magazine. I distinguished the reasons as to why a certain image or design was there. For example looking at typefaces, i learnt the differnce between serif and sans serif and why they were chosen specifically to be applied on to a certain part of the magazine. Furthermore, i learnt why certain colours were picked, what they meant and what was trying to be achieved. For example on the magazine classic rock there was a variety of colours chosen like purple, red, black and orange etc. once identifying the colours i was able to say that red for example was used to make the magazine front cover look eye-catching however most importantly to show that the magazine had an exciting contents. I also looked at the typical page layouts and alignments of texts of two magazines, how they differed and how i could apply what i saw and learnt to my magazine. Moving on i further learnt that a very busy background does not look very good as it does not allow things that you want to stand out look eye-catching. In spite of that i learnt that a busy background has an advantage of being well memorable for a person therefore they know what they are looking for when they want to buy it or in another sense the magazine is estblished in their heads.