Media Evaluation

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

Well my media product is a music magazine and all music magazines need to have a star on their front page what will represent the magazine so I used Amy and made sure she had a lot of make-up on and a girly dress. She also had big blonde hair and she represented a pop star as they all have big hair, a lot of make-up and nice fashionable clothes. My colour scheme throughout the magazine was pastel colours like baby pink, blue and green and they were the main house colours. Most of my images are medium close ups which is common in music magazines. I also used a boy band interview for my double page spread which girls would like to read and I made it humorous. Interviews are always found in Pop magazines and there are also a lot of photos of females and males in Pop magazines. My media magazine also has a bar code on which you see on all magazines. My double page spread also uses drop down capitals which is a convention in magazines.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media product connotes a kind of girly look and it represents social groups that are females in secondary school or in college that are interested in music, fashion, beauty. I reckon it would be aimed at big female friendship groups that all get together and read it. Then again I feel my magazine is quite open and a magazine for all audiences. My magazine social group comes across in the Boy band interview when they are on about females, fame and parties and this is all a sort of popular culture.

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

A main stream institution would distribute my magazine as pop is a very large popular music. Pop also is quite mainstream as its not individually based like heavy metal which is just aimed at people that like that music. Bauer would be a good media institution as it is very large and has a high population readership which means a lot of people are interested in the magazines, this way we could attract a big audience and earn a lot of money. Bauer sells a lot of popular magazine like Closer, Heat etc

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience that is targeted in my media product is more at females I'd say and this shows in the house colours of the magazine which are pastel colours like baby pink and baby blue. It is also aimed at younger teenagers who are into all sorts of music really but mostly pop based. It is also aimed more at females because of the double page spread all about boys and loads of pictures of boys which would be a girl’s ideal partner. There is also pictures of females thought too which would give it more a male target.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I tried to attract my audience by using accesive language and I also used colloquial language in my double page spread. I also attracted my audience by using an image that females would think of their ideal self on the front cover. I didn’t have too much text on my front page because that can sometimes put the reader off. I also attracted my audience by aiming it at females and using pretty colours which would attract readers. The masthead was also made to stand out to attract people because if this was in a shop behind other magazines, the masthead would stand out next to all the rest.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have learnt how to use Quark and Photoshop; I have never used these before. I have learnt how to manage a blog and add posts and save my files as PDF and JPEG.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I personally think my preliminary task was a lot easier then the final product and I also find I have done better in my double page spread in my pre-lim task then in my final. I feel I have learnt how to use Quark and Photoshop in a more advanced way too then when I had done my pre-lim task.