Magazine Research

Here is the research for my magazine.

MY REFLECTION: 

This research is quite complicated for me when I first started it. I did not understand what to do so I asked my friends so explain it to me. I also checked their work as an example, then I know what to do. I had some hard times on conitnuing this research at home because I got tired everytime I come back to home from school. I managed to finish this in the weekend before its due. 

I didnt have any problem when doing this research, I just had some problem on the time management.

COMMANDO

Publisher: Kompas Gramedia

Front Cover Page

The Main cover page shows a group soldiers from Indonesia in Africa which shows that there is something going on in Africa. A soldier appears to be talking to some of the African Citizen which points out that they are alies. As seen on the cover page, the soldiers carry their weapons as they are guarding the place. So, this magazine front page cover tells us that this magazine will only be talking about soldiers and other military related things.

The front cover shows 3 contents on the left side and each of them has different colour which doesn't seem attractive to me. It also has a banner on the bottom of the cover that is showing 3 images of a content and a bar code. The use of the three images is to show examples of the contents such as showing a handgun, military planes, and a tank which can attract their audience. 

Media Language

The codes and convention of this magazine is is to show soldiers and the Indonesian military on the cover. This photo is seem to be taken in real life and not staged. This means that this magazine will only be focusing on firearms and Indonesian military. 

Representation

The cover represents a scary and serious situation in a desert which makes it seem like there is something going on. It displays an armed soldier in standing by to guard the area as the african people are gatherin in the back. This creates an effect of seriousnes and may attract people who are interested in guns, firearms or the military. With the plain colours of just red, white and green, it will barely catch the eyes of people since it can hardly be seen by people. 

Audience

The target audience is males in the age of 16 - 30 because it shows things that men usually like such as the guns and the uniform. This creates a uses and gratification theory where the males are looking tough and well dressed with the soldier uniform which makes some of the audience want to look like the soldiers in the cover (tough and cool). 

Industry

This magazine has its own industry called "COMMANDO" and has their own website. By creating their own website, it helps the younger audience to see more magazine that they make. This can be useful for people who have a hobby of playing with airsoft leagues or shooting in a practice range. 

Title: The Time Place Indonesia

The Time Place is a magazine that shows wrist watches that mainly look expensive and luxurius.

In this magazine, you can expect some expensive brands such as Rolex, Gucci, Tissot, etc

Media Language

The cover magazine of The Time Place looks simple. The musthead is bolded but it does not uses capital letters which creates relaxation, while the subhead is using full capital letters but is made in a smaller size than the subhead. This highlights the main topic of this magazine. The sub-topics are shown many on left and right with the name of the brand highlighted to tell the audience that they're not only talking about normal wrist watches.

Representation

The watch in the cover is represented well and clean so it tells people that this magazine is not talking about some cheap watches but clean and expensive brand watches. The colour of the analog background is blue, which means its mainly for boys since it uses the colour that boys typically like. 

Audience:

The target audience is mainly males but females can be possible since watches counts as fashion. The male audiences are around 16 - 40 because men usually wear nice outfits and an expensive watch to look more proffesional. People who love watches or collect watches can also be targeted because in this magazine, it may have a chance of showing an old expensive watch that collectors are interested in. 

Industry

The Time Place has its own website showing lots and lots of old collectable watches. From their website, it can help younger audience to look for a watch that suit them. The Time Place has their own industry. It is a Rolex shop in South Jakarta called The Time Place Mall.

The way they put a calming picture in the background really got me. It's really relaxing to look at and its really simplistic. However the subheading is quite hard to see and needs to pay close attention to be able to see it clearly. The content images is quite unorganized, its quite difficult for me to focus on one thing because there are different types of pictures in the same page. Also the white spaces can be reduced because it really bothers me how there are a lot of white spaces.

This magazine cover is really nice, I like the way they use classic or old furnitures as the main cover. It really tells me that this magazine will be talking about furnitures and interior house design. The contents here is also very simple, not too complicated and very well organized. It is easier for me to read so I think I will be using this kind of content page in my magazine so that people can read it easily

This magazine cover is really calming and mesmerizing. It uses nature as the cover of the magazine and it really suits with the company since it is trying to tell people more about tourist attractions. The content in this page is really simple, not too complicated. It only shows images of places in Bali and shows some information about it. On the double page spread also shows images and information, really simple but, pernsonally, I think its too simple. I think I'll be making my fron cover to be similar as this one. 

The front cover looks really interesting and I really like how they put the images of the cats and dogs together. One thing that I dislike is the advertisements which I think there are too much on the cover. The content on the double page spread is really interesting too because they put images that really caught my eyes and the information is not too simple, not too complicated. The table of content page is quite messy. I think ill be making my double page spread similar to this one. 

Here is a link to my Double Page Spread: Research + Development: w