EXTENSIVE GENRE RESEARCH: Representation of my magazine genre

Representation is an important element we saw in media languages and essential aspects of media which is linked to selling the product. The representation of my magazine genre covers a wide range of audiences that I can deliver my product too but particularly the reader either has to be a dog owner or someone who is less informed about the dog industry. This genre is where many people go for suggestions and guides on feeding, general grooming etc

Age

A dog magazine would be delivered to a wide age group rather than just one specific one. It counts in middle aged people, youngsters or even teenagers, and aged people too. As long as the reader owns an animal or specifically a dog, or is keen to know more about it, the magazine perfectly would apply to them regardless there age.

Gender

Dog magazines are not specific to a single gender as all is it concerned about is the fact that the reader should be a dog owner or a person keen in knowing more about dogs, hence the gender really does not matter. It could be a female dog owner or a male dog owner. However statistics do say that its majorly the men who own dogs more than women, although this has been increasing over the past as more women start buying puppies as their obsession lies around them.

Social Class

Dog magazines or any kind of animal magazine, represent the upper class or the upper middle class at the most. This is because its the people from these social classes that can afford to keep a pet, afford to pet them through their grooming and feeding etc and adopt them. It is also these people who would be in search of magazines or guides for their animals.

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SKETCHES AND ROUGH MOCKUPS

To start with the making of the magazine and moving on to working on the software, all I needed was firstly to make a rough sketch of how I would actually design the cover in regard to the placements and the heading etc. Then I also decided to roughly sketch the double spread too. Here is how i roughly sketched my magazine elements featuring all the components of a magazine to make it look appealing to the audience. I used the online auto draw tool for this purpose which made me design a rough sketch easily. Cover page : For my magazine cover I decided I would put a full shot of my dog (model) from head to toe. As my dog is trained I am looking forward to the fact that it would be easy for me to get a full shot it. However if he's too restless I really wont be able to control how he stands. In that I would take a close up shot and put it in the same way as sketched. It will be picture taken in high key lighting that I have thought would be taken in natural sun light following the ...

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