Evaluation final2
- 2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? • I believe my product has similar aspects to other music products but is also different in many ways. When comparing my pop music magazine to other existing pop magazines I found they both use bright colours and advertise a variety of artists to attract the target audience. • However, when comparing my magazine to all music genre magazines I found felt my cover had a lot less sell lines and large writing. Also a lot of existing magazines cover parts of pictures with sell lines which is something I didn’t do as I didn’t want to take away from the picture.
- 3. How does your media product represent particular social groups? • My music magazine represents the typical teenager who would be interested in music but also celebrities and music related gossip. • The bright colours and current artists would attract a teenage audience • People older then 20 may not buy this magazine due to the informal interviews and articles.
- 4. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? • Media distributors who sell a variety of magazine genres may be interested in selling this product as it has a large target audience and will interest a wide audience. • Companies such as IPC media who control a variety of magazine might be interested in my magazine as it has a large target audience and this particular company sells ‘teen now’ a magazine with a similar target audience, so they have experience with this target audience and may understand how to distribute it well.
- 5. Who would be the audience for your media product? • The artist featured in this magazine has a large fan base but mainly teenage girls from the age of 12-17. I believe the majority of pop music fans who would buy a music magazine is also this age group so I tried to follow this through to my magazine and use this as my target audience.
- 6. How did you attract/address your audience • I tried to attract my target audience by using sell lines to advertise popular artists on the front cover which would interest the artists fans. • I used a lot of bright colours which would make this magazine stand out from other music magazines and would be more eye catching to audiences looking through a variety of magazines. • On the front cover I put an equal amount of sell lines on each side so if any other magazine would cover part of the magazine, an audience would still be attracted to the magazine through the other sell lines.
- 7. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? • I have learnt more about Photoshop through this progress. Before, I could only do very basic things using this program and now I can do more complicated editing such as repairing photos, erasing parts of a photo, changing colours and more. • Also I have learnt more about publisher through the creation of this product. There was some simple things such as applying a photo background and sending something forward and backward which I knew was possible before but I didn’t know where to find it and now I can do it.
- 8. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? • Since my preliminary task I feel I have learnt to experiment with designs more but once I do one I like to keep it. Before I would change things a lot and forget how I liked it so I would never be fully happy with the product. I feel now like I have learnt from this and I have made a better product because of this. • Also, I feel I have learnt more about what fonts suit a product better compared to last time. In the preliminary task I used a variety of fonts but they were all quite basic. In this task I believe I have used fonts to separate and highlight important information better and it has allowed me to fit more information on to a small area.