Evaluation

These are videos of feedback, these videos show that the audience in which I planned to target was shown through the production of my music magazine, they also show what they find appealing about the magazine and why.

Evaluation Of Main Task

1.) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 My media product has everything in it which a real media product would have. It has the strong key images, the bright bold font which catches the attention of the public and mainly the information that the fans of my genre magazine would want to read. My magazine has an good title which every magazine will need to keep the public keep buying the issue. It has an clear acceptable price and an code bar which every real media product has. What mainly makes my product have the conventions of a real media product is use the of colours and font. Having a strong key image on each page with similar font colours on each page really helps show what genre the magazine is. On the main page the sub headings, quotes, cover lines and pack shots do really grab the audience to my magazine. Without making these stand out I don't believe my magazine would look any thing like a real media product. So I think using an good font, colour and stroke is essential to grabbing the audience and making your magazine look like an real media product.

2.)How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media product will interest the audience of rock. But rock comes into many different category  Id like to believe that my magazine covers different parts of all the rock. For example there is funk rock, heavy rock, soft rock and hardcore rock. My magazine will attract all the different social groups of these categories. But also not just the rock fans but also anyone interest in celebrities. This magazine has got allot of rock facts and updates but also featuring in the magazine is allot of famous celebrities life's and exclusive gossip. So even if your not a fan of rock you might just be looking for a good read and finding out some new celebrity gossip.

3.)What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

My media product will be sold to all newsagent shops, supermarkets and music shops. The music magazine will also be sold to Apple and Google playstore so the public can download the magazine straight to there phone while on the go. It will be sold to the newsagents shops because it will be a popular issue that people will want to buy and not have to travel far to buy it. It also be sold to supermarkets because over the last 10 years the magazine market has grown by 1 billion pounds. 27% of people will go to the supermarkets or places like WHSmiths just to buy magazines or newspapers. Selling my magazine to these kind of shops will increase orders and subscriptions of the magazine but also widely increase new fans to the rock genre and to the magazine.

4.)Who would be the audience for your media product?

My audience for my magazine will obviously be the rock genre. You can instantly tell by the quotes, names of the bands on the front and the images. Also the magazine will be targeted towards both sexes it isn't just male based or female based. The magazine will be for about 15+ because of the use of language and some of the images. Some of the story lines and or quotes can be quite sad and dark as well so 15+ is appropriate.

5.)How did you attract/address your audience?
I think what is key for your magazine is a strong front cover image. Straight away by the clothing, hair and look you can tell what the magazine is going to bed. You got to have the colour scheme to suit different genres like e.g. pink for pop and black and red for rock. I used a very big quote on the front of the main story line in different colours to draw in the attention of the reader. I changed the main words to different colours in the sentence for example the word 'free' was quite important so i made it bolder and changed it to bright red to make it stand out.

6.)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
For constructing my product I used in design. It was my second time using in design so I familiar using it. This time round using it I had learnt allot more about in design but not also in design but also Photoshop. I had to use Photoshop allot more because i had more images. This time using in design I knew how to do thing instead of not doing them because I didn't understand how to. I used Youtube and help from other students and my teacher to teach me new things on in design and Photoshop  I've learnt now that I can visual things and then proceed with making them on in design and making them even better and theirs allot you can do with photoshop and in design. I got to grips with using blogger very well. I now know how to save drafts update contact prints and videos if I need to.

7.)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it the full product? (CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW PREZI)

Question 7-evaluation prezi

These are a few selected images used in my music magazine which was all original photography. I had to book out the study so I could use the green background sheet making it easier to Photoshop  I dressed one model in all black and the other with ripped clothed. The models clothing were inspired by Gun N roses. For the original photography I had the stand in numerous positions with different poses. I used an Nikon D3000 and held the camera free hand without an tripod. 

These are my drafts that I've sketched out for my music magazine. The genre of my magazine which I have researched into is rock. This is a rough copy of what my magazine will look like. This isn't going to look anything like the final product but will give me enough ideas and a good visual of how my magazine will turn out. The colour scheme of my magazine will be basic but effective. The title page and contents page will a black on white theme with a grey and white photo. The contents page on the other hand will be a different colour scheme, a more brighter page with red on black. Each page will have big photos.

This is some more research into an selected rock band album and poster. This is AC/DC an very famous rock band. They more move under the genre of more of the heavy rock. I picked the poster for the release of this album. I really liked both of these as they stereotypical rock band.

Before starting my music cover I already knew what genre of music I wanted to do. I was going to stick with Rock as ive always liked and had an interest for Rock music. I researched two famous magazines for this genre. I studied them and took idea's from the magazine which I can use for my own.

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