Evaluation

Evaluating my media product.

Tiffany Ferris

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media product represents teenagers who are into pop music, by having the typical forms that pop magazines have which is bright bold colours with hearts and stars. Also by having teenagers on the front cover relates with the particular audience intended for the magazine.

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

real media products?•I challenged the conventions of magazines, as most magazines have a medium shot image on the front cover.

•To make my magazine stand out over other contenders. I wanted to take the image looking down on the artist so it would be unique and the effect being that I wanted the artists to look up to the reader.•I develop conventions of magazines by the image over lapping on the masthead. As it was a convention widely used on most magazines I researched.

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

The type of institution that my music magazine will get distributed by is in the retail industry

•Newsagents.

•Supermarkets such as Morrison's, Tesco’s and Sainsbury's etc.

•WHSmiths.

•Make it available to order monthly or yearly online.

What would be the audience for your media product?

The audience of my media product would be teenage girls who are interested in pop music. I developed this by the colour scheme of my magazine being quite feminine. And with logos of stars and butterflies in order to attract my audience.

How did you attract/address your audience?

• I addressed my audience by a questionnaire that I got some young teenage girls to fill out as that was the age I wanted to reach out to.

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

product?

• I learnt about Photoshop throughout this process:• How to have a steady hand on the wand tool when

cutting images out. • When taking pictures with a camera to be able to cut it

out easily its better to take the picture with a plain background that wont reflect the model/s clothing that they are wearing.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the

progression from it to the full progress?

• I have learnt how to cut out my images better.• The conventions of magazines I have a much more clear

understanding now and how to take those conventions and to create my product based on these conventions.

• I have learnt to layout things more clear to stand out or to be more in the background then the foreground.

• I have learnt to take pictures more professionally by choosing a suitable background and how to take the different shots needed.

• Learnt that just picking a model isn't as straight forward that a lot of thought process has to be put in place like the hair and make up also the outfit and the way you want them to pose. So in reflection I would have made my modals bring in some more bright and bold clothes and make them wear make-up.