CCR Draft #2

  How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?


           My magazine engages with audiences in many ways. My magazine engages with the audience first by putting ourselves in the audiences shoes. We do this by having articles that will help them in an abundance of ways. Also my magazine demonstrates that we understand the audience's experience with fishing and we help them become better. Another way my magazine engages with the audience is by creating a booth or pop-up shop at an event, social media accounts, and sponsoring and being involved with things related to the topic of the magazine such as fishing tournaments. My magazine will attend events to hand out promotional flyers and coupons which lets us directly engage with the audience face to face. With the social media accounts, such as the twitter page, the audience will be able to have conversations with us no matter where they live. This will create a warming feel for the audience knowing they can talk directly to the magazine. My magazine will sponsor and become involved in things such as fishing tournaments and fishing expos to market our name and get more exposure.

CCR Draft #1

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?


              My magazine uses and challenges the conventions of the genre it is about I many ways. In my magazine, one of the ways I used conventions of a magazine is by putting a subheading under the title. This subheading was present in all of the magazine's that I had researched. What the subheading does is allow the audience to have an idea of what the magazine is about with having to open the first page. This helps greatly with new readers because of the fact that they have never read it before. In addition, I also used a convention most fishing magazines use which is having a massive fish on the cover of the magazine. Depending on the type of magazine, different types of fish will be on the cover but making sure the fish is a trophy catch is the best thing to do. By doing this, the magazine is able to catch the audience's eye and make them want to pick up your magazine and read it even more. One thing that fishing magazines make sure to do with their articles is make sure they contain specific content. This content has to be something that inexperienced fishermen can stay interested in and that they can apply to their fishing. My article lets the reader know what to do when fishing which will keep them coming back to learn more. Also, this magazine represents a popular social group. This social group is fishermen that are trying to learn more about fishing and become better at fishing. This is shown by the abundance of tips and tricks presented throughout the magazine and the pictures containing trophy bass. The tips and important info show that the point of the magazine is to teach the audience, which happens to be this social group. The pictures are shown to show the audience what they are trying to catch once they get more experience with fishing.

Third Quarter Submission

   For my third quarter submission I made a lot of changes to my magazine. These changes include brightening up the pictures, adding branding to market my magazine more efficiently, and removing the white border that was placed on accident from the title page. I am sure I will learn more about magazine production and make more changes but this is my quarter three submission.

Revision #3

   For my third and last revision, I brightened up the pictures in my magazine. I did this by playing with the brightness and the contrast in the pictures. I made this change to two pictures total in my magazine. By making this change, it will allow my magazine to look more professional while also making it pop more. It will intrigue the audience to pay more attention to the photos and give them a look.


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Revision #2

     For my second revision, I will add branding to the bottom of my pages and make the page numbers easier to see. I will dot his by putting my website in the bottom corner with the page number and also I will increase the font size so it will be easier to see. Adding the branding will allow my magazine to become more popular since I am advertising the website and social media platforms. More people will view the magazine which will create a greater audience.

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Revision #1

   For my first revision, I will be removing the border on my title page of my magazine. As of now, the title page has a white border along the outside of the magazine. This border takes away from the magazine and also distracts the reader from the important content on the title page. Taking it away will make the page look cleaner because the border was only on one page and also was put on the magazine by accident. I also made this same change to my title page.


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Distribution Plan

      For my distribution plan, I will use the online and traditional tactics that I learned about in my research. One of the strategies I will use from the traditional will include having a distributing agent since my magazine is just starting off. There are magazine distributing agents all around the state so I will have to find one at a reasonable price. Hiring someone like this will allow me to have my magazine be in stores around the area and get the magazine to the target audience efficiently. On the other hard, I will use online distribution strategies such as using my social media platforms. Using my twitter account to distribute my magazine by adding a link straight to a subscription to the magazine like the magazines I researched have done. Also I will allow my magazine to be sold on websites such as amazon to have a better distribution of my magazine.