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

When creating my magazine, I used my computer and the programme Photoshop CS5 and CS4. The software makes just about anything possible and has helped me a lot. I used Photoshop to edit my photographs and text and to construct the pages. I found Photoshop easy to use as I have it at home too. I used Microsoft Word when writing my article as it is easy to use and has a spell checker. I used Google to research other magazines during the process of designing mine to help me with ideas.

For my images, I used my Olympus SLR and took the photos in the woods as I thought it was different as many magazines have just a plain background and do a shoot in the studio. The angle I took the image at was a long shot to capture the whole of the bands pose and I liked how objects where hanging off the trees. The Photoshop techniques I used were things such as ‘Stroke’ and ‘Drop Shadow’ for the title as I wanted it to stand out with a black outline so people looked at the text first. For the ‘First Edition’ text in the bottom left hand corner I used ‘Inner Shadow’, ‘Inner Glow’, ‘Outer Glow’, ‘Colour Overlay’ and ‘Stroke’. I chose all these edits as I wanted to make the text look effective and stand out contrasting against the black background.

I used Blogger to show my work and I think it is very helpful, everything is really organised and by placing my work in here I don’t have a risk of losing anything. However, it is very difficult to place text and images exactly where you want them and can be quite frustrating.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

For my magazine, my target audience would be people aged between 16-25 and it would appeal mainly to females. They would most likely be middle class people who would fit into the psychographic profile of mainstreamers and aspirers; young women who aspire to look like celebrities who are featured in my magazine. My target audience would be interested in spending money on beauty products and fashion. They would shop in places such as Topshop, River Island, Superdry and Jack Wills as they are affordable but very fashionable outlets as some celebrities do shop in high street shops as well as designer. They would listen to a variety of artists like Rihanna, the Saturdays, Eminem, Pixie Lott and Ellie Goulding and possibly listen to Kiss Radio Station. Their favourite TV channel would be E4 and watch programmes such as One Tree Hill, 90210, Friends, Skins and Inbetweeners; this is because they are very popular and each programme relates to what students do and go through. Their hobbies would be going to music festivals with friends as it includes drinking and seeing artists they love playing live. They would also go shopping most weekends. I think they would eat at places like Burger King and McDonalds as they are quick and affordable. They may also have a Saturday job working in a retail store near home so it would be easy to get to if they did not have a car.