Introduction

Hello and welcome to my blog, during the next 6 - 7 months i will be updating this with regular posts including details of my coursework and the research i have done. My overall aim is to provide a portfolio of my work, for the readers to clearly understand how i have completed my coursework and how it has developed over time. If i have achieved this by the end of the allocated time i will judge this project to be a success.

The brief i have been given is split into two tasks. The first task is preliminary task and will consist of creating a front page and contents page for a school newsletter/magazine, the second task will be the main task and that will consist of creating an front page, content page and double page spread for an original music based magazine. Primary and Secondary research aimed at my target demograph will be used throughout the task to shape what the final product will look like.

My intentions are to successfully create a product that fans from a specific music genre can identify with, it will have to include features and colour schemes relevant to the genre, while being original in its own way.

The first thing I intend to do is start on my preliminary task of creating a school newsletter/magazine, to achieve this i will first look at existing school papers and possibly blogs from other students, this will give me a better understanding of the conventions and features that school newsletters include.

Finally on the subject of research, i plan on carrying out as much of it as possible, this is because as of now, my knowledge of target audience's for, conventions and colour schemes is very limited. I believe the best way of doing this would be to analyse existing products and point out the reasons why certain features where included. By doing this i will hope to achieve a better understanding of what appeals to their customers and implement some of these idea's into my own creation.