Analyse one of your media products in relation of audience:
PLAN
8 paragraphs
paragraph 1 = memorise quote, intro- describe media product (genre, ect), target audience, link back to the Q
paragraph 2 = hyper dermic needle theory, reading theories, mass/niche audience
paragraph 3 = demographics, audience profiling
paragraph 4 = specifics of product, technology: how it has changed product
paragraph 5 = commodification, uses and gratification, frankfurter theory
paragraph 6 = preferred reading...
paragraph 7 = successes/negatives in terms of audience
paragraph 8 = summarise media theories, success of media product
Practice Essay
Quote?
I have created a media product in the form of a fashion magazine. Although the genre of my magazine is fashion, I have made it with a regional slant to fit with the brief. This mixed genre will effect my target audience because some of the references in my magazine will only apply to people who are from Cornwall. Target audience?
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I have included specific elements on my magazine cover such as the title of the magazine (covering 1/8 of the page), a bar code, date and price. These things in particular make my magazine into a product that can be sold and bought. Other specifics? The technology that I have used to create my product has effected the quality and overall look of the magazine; this is because I was able to use equipment and software that made my product look professional. If I were to have made my product 50 years ago for example, it would have looked a lot different; not only because different styles and themes would be in fashion, but because the technology used in order to make it high quality would not have existed. I used a Canon EOS DLSR camera for my images so that I started with high quality photographs and then edited and created my product using Adobe Photoshop.
