Max Postyn's Blog

Mountain Mama: A Country Music Magazine Purpose of the Name: I chose the title 'Mountain Mama' as the name for my music magazine as in the South of the United States, where country music is most prominent, there is large respect for motherhood. It is also a popular line from the well known song 'Country Roads' by Country musician John Denver. Also, the word 'Mountain' indicates wilderness which can easily be linked to the Countryside; Country music. Purpose of my Product: The purpose of my magazine is to inform people in the United Kingdom about country music in their area. My magazine will inform people about the upcoming country music artists within the United Kingdom as well as the best Country music of the past as there currently aren't many large country musicians. As the brand grows, thus the finance available,  there would hopefully be more special features such as exclusive interviews, Q and As and hopefully articles about coun...

Uses and Gratifications Hello all. Today I will be showing you the target audience for two very different types of music magazines. This is the first one: This is a K-Pop magazine so I would assume that its target audience would be Asian fashionistas. As you can see on the right, I made what I believe an Asian fashionista aged 12-18 would look like on the hugely accurate avatar website avachara. A secondary audience may be American women aged 20-27. This is because they may be fascinated by the culture e.g. the beat of the music, the style of clothing or the cinematography in the videos. This is a Jewish hip hop style magazine. I would assume that its target audience would be the fashionable Jew aged 12-37 and a half The afore mentioned "stylish Jew"

My Media Summer Films During the summer I spent a large portion of it abroad spending a total of six weeks in California and touring Israel. During this time, you would expect me to spend my hours outside experiencing new cultures and escaping the chills of the English weather. For a large part of my time in Israel, that's exactly what I did. However, due to the frequency of my visits in California, I spent a large amount of my time indoors enjoying the expanded amount of film and television on American Netflix in comparison to English Netflix that I am so used to. This, and the combination of films that I had access to from some unsavoury websites, I was ale to be exposed to a huge amount of media including all nine Wes Anderson movies. Moonrise Kingdom was the film that I most enjoyed with Grand Hotel Budapest at a close second. However all of his movies could easily be described as meticulously crafted awkward family fables. A constant filming technique that I found...