FINAL EVALUATION QUESTION 1.

FINAL EVALUATION QUESTION 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups.docx

FINAL EVALUATION QUESTION 3.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Bauer Media

Bauer Media is a division of the Bauer Media Group, Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. The Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations.
Publishing is the process of production and releasing of a magazine, which makes it available to the public. This includes the stages of development, editing, graphic design and printing. Marketing and distribution is included within the publishing of a magazine. I chose Bauer Media Group as my publishing company as they have a good reputation of publishing magazines. Bauer Media publish such magazines as Closer, GRAZIA, Q, KERRANG! etc.
GRAZIA is quite close to my magazine, other than it is about fashion and BEAT is about music. The style and layout are quite similar. Q will feature some of the same genre of artists in their magazine as BEAT. I've linked these together to create BEAT, a music magazine made fro the audience of 16-24 year old females. As this is my target audience, I have priced BEAT at £2, which is within their price range. Grazia is currently priced at £2 per issue and Q is priced at £3.99 per issue, with this in mind, Q is a larger magazine with a lot more content inside.
Bauer will publish BEAT but will also help in all other areas as well. It will help fund BEAT. This will be done by slotting a copy of BEAT into their previously owned music magazine Q. This will give BEAT some recognition within the targeted audience and also generate some funds towards making it a solo magazine. This will be done by competitions to raise the money as they will know by this how many potential readers they may recieve.
As Q is sold in many supermarkets around the UK, I feel that this would be a beneficial place to start selling BEAT as I feel that most magazines are brought through supermarkets. BEAT will also have an online website where readers can subscribe to the magazine and find out more about competitions and artists featured inside.
Bauer Media Group will also advertise BEAT on their website to try and gain more recognition for the magazine. This will help a lot more people know about BEAT if they haven't already as Bauer Media Group is quite a well known company. Being involved in Bauer Media Group will also be ideal for BEAT magazine as they have quite a lot of contacts as they are a major publishing company. This means that BEAT can use Bauer's distribution and management contacts.
Bauer's current magazine's are quite popular. Grazia magazine sells an average of 218,000 copies per month, Q magazine sells around 52,781 per six months, Kerrang! 37,603 per month, Closer 351,632 per month. I am aiming for BEAT to be as successful because I think it has the potential to be successful as it follows most of the conventions of a popular pop magazine.

FINAL EVALUATION QUESTION 4.

Who Would Be the Audience for Your Media Product?

FINAL EVALUATION QUESTION 5.

FINAL EVALUATION QUESTION 6.

FINAL EVALUATION QUESTION 7.

FINAL MAGAZINE

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This week we caught up with this years MTV Hottest New Artist Katy Lewis. Her Debut album Disconnector was number one in the UK for 6 consecutive weeks as well as her Debut single "Deny It" taking control of the charts for an outstanding 9 weeks! She talks about her single, her album, her fans, going on tour and a possible collab with Miley Cyrus! Aren't we lucky?

- Hi Katy, so nice of you to come talk to us today! How you feeling?
Hey! I feel great, I love interviews, I love to talk about myself [laughs] Is that bad?
-Not at all! [laughs] 
Good! Don't want to sound too big headed!  
- Lets talk about the Grammys? You recently won a Grammy award for Best New Artist. How did that feel?
That felt incredible! I was so humbled to even be nominated as I have only recently released my album. I didn't expect it at all, I think it just shows that with the right support, you can do anything.
- To be up against artists such as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Ed Sheeran and Kendrick Lamar must have been such a high achievement in your books.  I'm sure you were more than flattered..
I absolutely love Ed Sheeran, his album is incredible. To think that I was even in a category with him blows my mind. I am just so grateful to everyone who voted for me as I couldn't have been happier with the result 
- What is it like to be a "role model" for girls?
Role model? Really? I couldn't imagine myself being a role model for anyone. That seems quite strange and almost ridiculous for me! To think that girls think of me as a role model is wow [laughs], unbelievable. 
- You have been pictured with female pop sensation Miley Cyrus a few times. Do you see a collab in the future? 
Miley has helped me a lot through my music career, she actually helped me produce my first single "Deny it" which was a great honor as she has really done well in her career recently. I think working with her has really helped me realise what I could achieve in the music business.. but anyway [laughs] yeah, I could see a collaboration with Miley in the future, we have quite a similar taste in music and I think it could be something awesome
- I'm sure we'd all love to hear that! 
You did a bunch of single release shows all over the UK, how were they for you?
They were beyond amazing! I felt so close to my fans, I got to see and hear what they thought of the single, which was great as I got loads of different feedback on it, it also made me finally realise that I have fans all over the UK, which is so fab! I loved touring, having my tour family was such a great experience, I had so much fun and it made me even more excited ////// for my Disconnecter tour next April 
- Was the response you received from fans what you expected or was it all a bit of a shock for you?
Of course it was a shock! I'm just a small girl from Birmingham with a dream and it was such a shock to see that people actually enjoyed my music! I've been trying to make it in the music industry for almost 4 years now and to see this album and single receive such great feedback is such a weight off my chest, I love it!
- Since you've released the album, have you realised anything that you would change about the album?
I wish I had spent more time in the studio, perfecting it. I am such a perfectionist when it comes to my music, I am never happy! As I was doing my single release shows and was on tour, I didn't get to spend as much time writing and recording as I had hoped. But maybe thats just me being, well... me [giggles] 
- What made you want to have a career in music?
I have always been facinated with music. Whilst I was growing up, music was kind of forced on me by my parents, I took up so many musical instruments and I loved it. I was always that musical kid, that's who I was. I will forever be grateful for my parents for giving me such an amazing life, I would honestly not change a thing. 
- Giving that you've got quite a unique sound, who would you say your musical influences were?
I like to think my uniqueness means I can't be compared to anyone. I have music artists that I like, for example I am utterly in love with Bruno Mars, as much as I hate to admit it! His voice is like heaven. I'm also quite into old music, I like Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, which is quite a surprise to some people, listening to my music [laughs]. 
- How was it for your album to be number one for so long? 
It was incredible! Like I said before, I never expected any of this. I just want to thank my fans for all the support and love they have given me, I appreciate every single one of you. I can't wait to share my journey with you!
- So, when can we see you next? 
I'm starting my new mini tour around the UK in 3 weeks. So hopefully I will see you there! 
- Look forward to it! 

Follow Katy on twitter @KatyLMusic or on Facebook.com/KatyLewisMusicOfficial
ALBUM OUT NOW!

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