1. Mix Mag Project

2. Connotations of an existing Mix Mag
magazine (front cover).

3. Connotations of an existing Mix Mag
magazine (double page spread).

4. Purpose of the research conducted
Mix Mag Project
On the slides 2-3 I have discussed the areas based on the Mix Mag project. I needed to
understand the codes and conventions of how a particular magazine was set out and the
immediate emotion I would feel for the overall look. It helped me understand where
specific aspects of the magazine were to positioned for example the main image, the
cover lines or the selling line.
Some may think that this would be a primary and secondary source. However, due to
comparing and writing up on the existing Mix Mag front cover it would be a secondary
research method. The strengths I had for this over all task would be that understanding
the various aspects of an existing Mix Mag magazine. It enabled me to learn how an
original magazine should be set out having a more depth understanding of it. I think that
my weakness would be that when first being taught on this It was hard to understand the
standing codes and conventions of the Mix Mag magazines. This meant that I had various
queries about the topic, in time I started to have more confidence in how discuss and
analyse the standing codes and conventions.

5. Outlining the codes and conventions of
a Mix Mag magazine with its current
profile readers

6. Mix Mag Profile Reader

7. Annotation of Mix Mag profile readers
This task was based on finding out the starting history for a Mix Mag reader. The report discuss
the history background and how things have changed to this current year. Doing this assignment
enabled to have an insight as to who I was targeting my future magazine product too. When
selling a product target audience is a key focus in order for you to sell that specific project. By
researching the history background of its profile readers it help my understanding of what the
whole idea for this specific magazine was about. I learnt various aspects of a typical Mix Mag
profile reader. It also helped my understanding of how the magazine originated and the changes
of its genre etc. This report would be a secondary research as I have used standing websites to
help support my information which was gathered from the official Mix Mag website itself. At lot
of statistics were used which were taken from the Mix Mag website as well as referring to
another website called the ABC Audit Bureau to help inform the median age and gender of a
Mix Mag reader. Having doing this report it would help my understanding of how to use
professional methods to find out a specific profile reader or on the other hand a selection on
target audience. It also helped me to understand the conventions of when finding out the target
audience for Student Magazines. This enabled me to transfer the existing skills to the new
project, Student Magazine.

8. Mix Mag codes and conventions and
annotation
The reason for this report
was to understand how the
Mix Mag magazines would
peruse their product in
terms of the layout for the
magazine. This would be
seen as a secondary
research as I using an
existing magazine to help
identify each aspect of the
magazine. The strength of
this was that I could apply
them conventions to my
own magazine.

9. Mix Mag layout and
conventions
Primary and Secondary

10. Layout conventions for Mix Mag

11. Layout convention annotation
This report is based on looking at my final cover and double page spread for
the Mix Mag magazine and compare within an existing Mix Mag magazine.
The reason was to see if the page layout shows professional, technical
standards with creativity. This document could be seen as both primary and
secondary research. The reason being is there are references being made
from a secondary source to my own finalised product. The strengths of this
report was that I actually highlighted aspects of my finalised cover which
shows clear relation to the existing mix mag cover. My weakness of the
overall report would be that I did not follow the codes and conventions of the
price and bar code. I think as it was one of the last appliances to the product I
didn’t follow the existing magazine as much when first starting the project. If I
were to do this again I would make sure that I refer to each secondary content
to ensure that every aspect of the product shows both professionalism and
the technical convention it needs to get that higher grade.

12. Questionnaire templates and
results

13. Mix Mag Questionnaire template
This is a questionnaire that was used
within the Mix Mag project. The reason
why we used this was to find out opinions
from students based on the finalised front
cover and double page spread. The
strengths of this was that it enabled me
to understand different views and
likeability's based on the product. It also
meant that within the future I could
outline the aspects of which areas I could
improve on etc. This was the same
scenario for the Student Magazine
however the information I was gaining
was about what would be published
within the magazine, such as the topics
being discussed or the actually naming of
the magazine.

14. Mix Mag questionnaire results
This report was based on the results I received
when gathering all of my questionnaires back
from the mix mag finalised product. This was
primary research as I did it myself from my own
assembled results. Overall I think that the
process of the report was fairly easy as I had
current skills from the questionnaire write up
results for the student magazine project. The
weakness would be that the answers provided
from the students were quite bland and un-
informatitive.