Evaluation Question 1

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

Front Cover

• Largest font on the front cover so attract the audience's attention
• Masthead: Title, Positioning Statement, Date and Price
• Title is full width of page and only one word. I decided to make the title blue,as on the questionnaire more people chose their favourite colour as blue.
  

• Main coverline which is 2 lines long
• Anchors the meaning of the main image so attracts the audience into wanting to kno who it is by using words such as "hottest" and "new"

• Something free on the front cover, attracts the audience as they want to know how to get it

• Main image, smiling so doesnt show attitude which will attract pop music fans
• The main image is giving direct address to the audience.
  

Contents Page

• The word contents full width of the page
• The name of the magazine above it
• Same colour writing as the title of the magazine
  

• Page numbers on the pictures to anchor the written contents
• I have used the colour pink for the numbers on the pictures which is the same colour as the numbers in the written contents.
  

• Headings to divide up the contents page
• Different font and colour to stand out
• The "regulars" are so that the audiene know what will appear in the magazine every month
  

• Consistent font and colour
• The number of the page, one or two words to introduce the story and then sublines underneath
• Keeping to the same colour font I have used purple which is the same colour as the coverlines on the front cover just a different shade.

• Pictures to anchor the written text
• I decided to use smaller pictures instead of one large image, as looking through other pop music magazines I have seen that they only use smaller image.

Double Page Spread

• Headine bleeds across two pages
• Red writing so that it stand out against the background
• "Every time you smile, you laugh, you glow" is lyrics from one of the Jonas Brothers songs as fans of the band will already know what the article is about if they read the headline first.

• Standfirst: Below the headline and above the article
• Tells you the Journalist and about the article
• Larger text than the rest of the article so that it stand out and people read that first

• Drop Capital at the start of the article
• Six lines down to make it stand out

• Main image on the DPS, in order for it not to pixelate it had to cover a page and a quarter
• When looking at the main image, the audience should know what the article is about.

• I have added sixe more pictures to the third page to complete the article
• All pictures are the same size

• The page numers and name of the magazine after it
• Same colour text as the DPS headline

Question 2

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

I decided to create a pop music magazine that has only really got one audience type, which are teenage girls aged from 16-18. My aim was to create it so that it would make teenage girls want to buy it; I did this by making the style and language informal so that teenagers could understand it and want to read more. My magazine represents the typical teenage girl who is into pop music, boy bands and fashion. I have used language that teenage girls would want to read and not formal writing or prefect English. I have used short sentences and simple vocabulary as people who read pop music magazines are perceived as being “airheads” or “dumb” so I followed that by also adding colours that girly girls would usually wear. My colour scheme had to be what would attract a teenage girl’s audience, which would be colours like pink, light blues and purples. It also shows that it would be for teenage girls as the article is about a well-known boyband that most teenage girls love and the features on the contents page are about boy bands or teenage girls idols such as Cheryl Cole.

Question 3

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

http://www.ipcmedia.co.uk/

The kind of media institution that I think might distribute my media product would be one that could bring a larger audience to my music magazine. The media organization that I would like to distribute my magazine would be IPC Media that is a leading magazine publisher in the UK. They work with magazine that teenage girls are interested in such as now or look, although they don’t publish any pop music magazines, it would be ideal to distribute my magazine as it would bring a wider audience to their company. I think that it would be a good company to distribute my magazine as it also increases the coverage of music of a genre that it doesn’t already distribute a magazine for. A music magazine that IPC Media does distribute is NME, which has a wide audience, which means the company could also bring a bigger audience to my magazine.





Magazine that IPC Media distribute












http://www.nme.com/






















http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/

www.look.co.uk

Question 4

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

This is Amanda. She is 17 years old and is attending college 3 days a week were she is studying childcare. She lives in a semi-detached house with her mother, father, two sisters and their dog. Amanda also has a part-time job in New Look were she works on Fridays and weekends. She spends a lot of time on her computer downloading music to put on to her Ipod and she also does hip hop classes. She only listens to pop music such as boy bands like Westlife and JLS and other singers such as Britney Spears and Beyonce. Amanda also likes to listen to the old pop group ABBA on her Ipod or artists that cheer her up such as Chipmunk.

Question 5

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 6

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

Question 7

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











When producing my school magazine I didn’t have to worry about the audience that was going to read the magazine so I could write and put whatever pictures into the magazine that I liked, but when making a music magazine I had to understand the importance of the audience as I chose what audience I wanted to read my magazine along with the genre of it. I had to do research to see what things attracted my audience to a pop music magazine and what would make them want to buy my magazine. When choosing my genre I had codes and conventions to follow and instead of going by what I thought would look good in a magazine I had to go by what professional magazines contained to make mine look just as good. The photography had to be more creative in my music magazine as the photographs had to work with the genre of the magazine although the rules didn’t restrict the creativity of them. I had to make it so it could compete with professional magazines, so following all of the codes and conventions it has got all of the things in it that a professional magazine would. I think that my research skills have developed as for the preliminary task I didn’t have to use my research skills as I made it on what I thought a school magazine would look like, but with the music magazine I had to create a questionnaire as well as looking at other pop music magazines as I had to decide what to put in my magazine to attract the right audience. When planning both the school and music magazine I designed a plan of what I thought would look good in both, but when creating my main task it changed a lot as I had to change what I thought looked good to what actually worked well. My creative skills had to develop for the main task, as the music magazines needed articles and headlines that would attract an audience and would make sense to them such as being informal and simple sentences. Looking back at the contents pages, I can now see that the music magazine contents is more organised as the school magazine contents looks messy and all over the place. When writing the article, I chose a band that is popular with teenage girls who like pop music so I had to address that particular audience.