Slideshows

In Thursdays double lesson (05/03/09) we again were rushed straight down to the computer room and were briefed on slideshows, our task was to make a slideshow about a music magazine of our choice (as long as it differed from the one used as the case study in our essay completed in the previous lesson) i chose to use mixmag, as it featured a music genre i really enjoyed and it's a magazine i do not know a lot about, so it would be a learning curve to make a presentation about it's history, it's language style, it's target audience, it's ownership and it's live events.
I did not complete the task as Miss required a 10 slide presentation and i only managed 8, but even that was a struggle and i would of found it difficult to get two more slides out of dwindling resources about a magazine that was new to me.
The task was beneficial though, and it aided me in understanding magazines, just because i focused on one magazine does not mean a lot of the information i took in cannot apply across the magazine industry, like a change in target audience was notable for mixmag, as the new editor claimed 'the industry has grown up, so should our readership' this can be applied for the whole of the music industry, as in recent years the face of the music industry has changed, with digital downloads and endless advertising on the internet comes many more consumers, who are awaiting to be targeted by a magazine.