Media Demographic Powerpoint

First of all I made a powerpoint which I presented in front of the class. It dealt with media demographics and what ages: consume which media texts, watch/listen/read and use.

The four ages I used was teenagers, the twenties, 30's to 40's and the older generation 40+. I found out that they all had different tastes and interests in the media due to there generation e.g teenagers nowadays have phones, consoles and laptops, and buy tabloid magazines such as The Sun etc. Whereas the older people years ago didn't have things such as that so will obviously have a different taste of what the watch buy, and a phone would probably just been invented!

Magzine Cover Analysis

Smart, mature and sophisticated magazine with a simple black and white colour scheme with the idea of royal colour of red (showing dominance.) The central image reflects the consumer of who would read and buy this magazine to find out what this has in store for them. The only thing is doesn't have is it doesn't stand out and grab your attention, needs to be more eye catching. It is not very dynamic, there is not a lot going on and it looks a bit too plain. Maybe it wants to give it simple to keep a form of class and style, otherwise it is a powerful and presentable magazine.

I like this magazine because it poses for all ages due to the vibrant colours appealing to a younger generation, but still keeping a mature house style throughout. One thing which stood out was the graffiti which makes it quite cool. Although the variety of the colour scheme doesn't really match and looks a bit off putting, very busy and looking a bit amateur. Also the way in which the central image overlaps the mast head shows that it is an established magazine and can afford to cover it up and still be recognised by its audience and consumers. Finally i also like the idea of it being an urban magazine, also that theme is represented by the artist as the central image.

This magazine really caught my eye due to the way in which it stands out to me. It looks to be a professional, informative yet entertaining magazine which has been taken seriously. The easy following colour scheme of gold, black, red and white show class and relates to the central image of a world icon, who is also a professional himself, of high status and power. Along with the subtitles, it also has a little snipet of what is going to be in the magazine and other images which is a idea that i quite like. The only thing that I don't find appealing is the solid background, but sometimes it does work by emphasising the image so it stands out and dominates the magazine.

Ideas of Magazines

First of all before I started my AS magazine cover, I went into a bit of research of front covers.

I took at look at a lot of covers which dealt with the ideas of: music/sport/fashion/health/girls. Mainly these magazines were: FHM, GQ, Vibe and FourFourTwo.

I took my inspiration from magazines such as that and studied there similaities, differences, good/bad points and why/why not I liked them. From doing this research, I gathered a better understand of how front covers are layed out, developed, formed and presented which then could lead on to helping me create a front cover of my own.

I found out that all of the magazines I came across only had one main/centeral image, dominating the cover, always relating to the type of genre the magazine is. E/g FHM - good looking women, Vibe - successful artist, GQ - someone in the spotlight/good looking/healthy and FourFourTwo - well known athlete/sports player or someone performing well.

Another thing that I noticed is that the magazine also has short and snappy subheadings that do not over fill the cover, but are enough information to catch the consumer’s attention and make them want to read on. The main articles that the magazines feature often stand out with bold or bigger writing than all the other sub-headings on the front cover.