Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
When I come to publishing my magazine I need to think about how I am going to publish it I have two options I could self publish it or I could get a big company to publish it.
If I was looking to self publish my magazine there are many negatives with this but also some positives such as I could have control over the whole magazine and decide what it looks like and what goes in it. The problems I would have if I self published it would being able to get it to be a popular magazine as I would have to keep it local as I don’t have the resources to get it out wide spread, this would be bad because I couldn’t sell as many copies and wouldn’t be as well known to become a popular well selling magazine.
The reasons I would be looking to get it published by a big company would be because they would make the magazine very well known and popular as they would be able to get the magazine world wide in a quick amount of time and I know that publicity would be very good which means I would sell a lot more copies than if I self published the magazine. The negative points are the fact that I would no longer have much control over what happens to the magazine and what is put in it, this would mean that I would have to be happy with the changes the company is going to make and if I agreed I would no longer have a say in what is going to happen, this could mean they could change the magazine and make it different to how I wanted it which means it could loose popularity as it could be focusing on a different range of people to what I wanted it. If I was going to sell it to a big magazine company I would need to make sure they haven’t already got a magazine like it and that it is a different genre to the rest of there magazines so that it is something new and exciting.
So overall I am not to sure how I am going to publish my magazine but I think that I will most likely go with getting it published by a big company as it would make the magazine more popular and a bigger hit which would mean I would sell more copies and make more money which is what I want.