Evaluation

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

Buzz word

No eye contact!?Slight overlapCover Lines -

varied

Unrounded Number

Main cover line

Banner - insight

Links to a real life circuit

Information – top left

Columns for contents

Distinct headings

image

Buzz word

Poster image – bottom right

Combinations of images show different sides to protagonist

Separate section for information

Text/image integration

Pull quote- draws attention

Columns for text – not too thin.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Nose ring – shows the type of character that its aimed at: Piercings, tattoos etc....

Music Genre – shows type of music target audience listens to

Music Genre again.... Shows that the audience should have an interest in instruments

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

Worldwide Magazine Distribution Ltd.

I would have this company distribute my magazine because magazines of a similar genre are associated with it. This would help with the success in my magazine due to experience in similar products.

Has many big selling magazines

All magazines attract similar audience.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Teenagers who like to play instruments or would like to. Have a feel for heavier music.

16-18 years – Usually the age group that would tend to buy a magazine such as mine....

Don’t need to be a fan of heavy music only. Magazine would combine with indie.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I handed out a questionnaire, the information I received helped me make the magazine look more eye-catching.

I also used the cover lines to attract the audience by connecting artists of the preferred genre and leaving them hanging with little information to the article

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

Learnt how to use Photoshop and manipulated images to achieve a certain effect

Up in brightness and contrast

Original

Edited

Learnt how to use Photoshop to cut out images and improve them.

Learnt how to use blooger to make a blog....

Learnt how to use slide share and upload to blog

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

Photo not contrasted etc

Nothing to lure the reader in, Not enough information

Images pulled from net

Not sectioned (contents etc)