- 1. EVALUATION By Kay Green
2. BRIEF FOR PROJECT To produce a front cover, contents page and
double page spread for a new musicmagazine, using a minimum of four
original images 3. EVALUATION QUESTIONS In what ways does your
media product use, develop orchallenge forms and conventions of
real mediaproducts? How does your media product represent
particular socialgroups? What kind of media institution might
distribute yourmedia product and why? Who would the audience be for
your media product? How did you attract/address your audience? What
have you learnt about technologies from theprocess of constructing
this product? Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feelyou have learnt in the progression from it to the fullproduct?
4. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE
FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS? How have I stuck to
the codes and conventions of frontcovers, contents pages and double
page spreads that Ihave highlighted in my research? In what ways
have I developed or challenged/changed the conventions of front
covers, contents pages and double page spreads that I highlighted
in my research? 5. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE,
DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?Conventions of amagazine. HeaderMasthead Selling
LineMainImage Main CoverCoverLineLines Price, Date, Iss ue Number
andPuff Barcode Footer 6. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE,
DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?Conventions of a Date and Issuemagazine, my magazine
Numberhas. MastheadPriceSelling LineMainImageCoverLinesCoverLines
Main Cover LinePuff PuffPrice Barcod eFooter 7. IN WHAT WAYS DOES
YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS
OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?The barcode, issuenumber and the dateare all
kept within theright third. This iskeeping toconventions. *The main
cover linestarts in the left thirdas this is the firstthing the
viewer willsee. This is stickingto conventionsthough many
othermagazines break thisconvention. * 8. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF
REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?Within the top third theeyeline is of the
mainimage, the mastheadfills it and the issueand date are
included.This is typical for amagazine 9. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF
REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?I used the Masthead/logo of the magazine
titlePoptastic copied to the page to stay through themagazine as it
is the logo.Also used the same font/text/effect for the
wordContents so it stands out and is clear. Also thethis font style
will make you think of Poptastic.Images included to tell you more
about some ofthe articles within the magazine. This issomething
almost all magazines do. Giving youimages of what the article/story
is about or who. 10. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE,
DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?On my contents Iused the rule of thirdsto make it easy
toread and follow. Thisused in othermagazines and canbe seen as
aconvention.With the images pagenumbers are includedto show
whatarticle/story they relateto. 11. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT USE,DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONSOF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS? Headline Byline Standfirst Included in my Not included in
mymagazine magazine Pull Quote Image Credit and Writer creditDrop
cap StandfirstPagenumbers MainMain Image- Image credit Imagewhole
body longshot 12. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE,DEVELOP
OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONSOF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?The double
page alsosticks to using the ruleThe article isof thirds, by
keeping written in questionthe text in three and answer
format.columns. I did this toThis sticks tomake it clear and
easyconventions asto follow.many articlesThe main image Iwritten
with aspread out across two person areof the columns and Ipresented
this waydid the same with the and usually with aheading. I did this
soshort introduction.the heading was bigand bold and clear toread.I
used black and white images for the bigger of the two images and
the main image so that there wasnt large amounts of colour on the
page as it has a coloured background. 13. HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCTREPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS? What different areas of
society are represented in my magazine? Do I deal with issues
ofrace, ethnicity, gender, age, social class, disability? 14. HOW
DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCTREPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?I feel my
magazine representsdifferent race/ethnicity with the artists Iused
in the images.Also I feel that the images show that Iam trying to
appeal to younger marketby using younger generation of artists.I
feel they represent teenagers. 15. HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCTREPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS? I feel that my magazine
represents the female gender well as all the images I used are of
female artists. However I dont feel represented males in my
magazine as I planned too. As all the images are female and the
articles/stories are more aimed towards females. 16. HOW DOES YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCTREPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS? I feel my magazine
represents middle class people that I am aiming at. I think this
because the artists in the image dont have high fashion clothing on
so the reader can aspire to be like them. 17. WHAT KIND OF MEDIA
INSTITUTION MIGHTDISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY? Which
companies might distribute my magazinee.g. IPC, Emap, Bauer? Do
they already distribute magazines from a similargenre? 18. WHAT
KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHTDISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND
WHY?There are multiple publishing companies thatalready distribute
Magazines, Music Magazinesand Pop Music Magazines.I looked into a
couple while doing the planning formy music magazine. There are
many reasons whysome may distribute my magazine and others
maynot.Some of these companies are IPCMedia, Immediate Media Co and
Emap. 19. WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHTDISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT AND WHY? Immediate Media Co. Currently publish Top of the
Pops Magazine. They as a company would have the knowledge and
expertise to distribute a Pop magazine already having a highly
successful one. However they would not want to publish another
music magazine within the same genre as it may affect the sales of
their already existing magazine. 20. WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION
MIGHTDISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?Emap publishes many
magazines andpapers in different genres however it doesnot
currently publish/distribute any musicmagazine. They could have my
magazineas the first and start to distribute musicmagazines though
this could be hard havingno previous knowledge or know on how todo
it 21. WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHTDISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT AND WHY? This is why I think that IPC might be best to
distribute my new Pop Music Magazine. This is because IPC already
publish a large variety of different magazines aimed at different
kinds of people and different ages. They also only have one music
magazine currently on the market NME which is completely different
to my Pop magazine as it is Indie. This shows that they know how to
market to musical people and the sales of my magazine will not
affect the sales of their current music magazine NME. They
distribute magazines to younger audiences like Teen Now which is
the audience my magazine is aimed towards. 22. WHO WOULD THE
AUDIENCE BE FORYOUR MEDIA PRODUCT? Define my target audience in
terms of age, social class, gender, ethnicity and psychographic
profile. 23. WHO WOULD THE AUDIENCE BE FORYOUR MEDIA PRODUCT? The
target audience for my magazine I feel is; Gender- Female (though
it was meant to be for both). I feel that my magazine is more
targeting the female gender now due to the artists I used in images
were all female and articles in the magazine (on contents page) are
more articles girls would like to read and enjoy. However the
colour scheme used does not show that it is aimed at just girls and
changing the stories and images used could make it appeal more to
both. 24. WHO WOULD THE AUDIENCE BE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?I think
it aims at the age range teens toearly twenties. I think this
because theyoung artists that are used.I feel it appeals to the
younger end ofthe group because of the competitionsand images.And
the older end due to the big storieswith more detail and gossip
about theartists/the industry. Also thecompetitions for concerts
tickets.In terms of socio-economic groups thetarget audience for my
magazine is E.This is as it is aiming at students(teenagers). This
is shown by nothaving a high price. Also I think theprice range
shows that it is aimedThe imagesmostly for middle class. 25. WHO
WOULD THE AUDIENCE BE FORYOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?I feel in in terms of
psychographicprofile my magazine is mainly targetingmainstreamers.
I think this becausethese kinds of people follow the crowdand we
want a large group of people towant to buy the magazine. Also
theyare kinds of people that trust brandsand are young so will go
with others.I feel however that my magazine couldbe targeting
Aspirers too. As the peoplebuying the magazine could be aspiringto
become an artist one day, even apop artist. They could be using
themagazine as a may to find out more. 26. HOW DID YOU
ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOURAUDIENCE? What in my magazine tell us what my
target audience is/is designed to appeal to them? 27. HOW DID YOU
ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOURAUDIENCE? Using younger people for the images,
the artists shows that it is targeting a younger audience. Using
competitions to make the reader want the magazine so they can
enter. Competitions are usually used to address/attract younger
people. 28. HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOURAUDIENCE? The colours
used shows that it is not trying to just appeal to girls. If I was
I would have used pinks and purples. Using blue and yellow along
with the red shows that the magazine is not only trying to just
attract girls. The use of competition and it being for an
instrument makes it appeal more towards boys.Colour scheme; Red,
Blue andYellow. 29. HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOURAUDIENCE? The
images address the audience as the people are looking straight into
the camera and therefore straight at the customer. The stories
included help attract the audience to the magazine as they are
stories they would want to read, gossip and information about the
artists and industry and how to be like them. 30. HOW DID YOU
ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOURAUDIENCE?Writing in question andanswer form
makes iteasier and quicker toread then if it waswritten in blocks.
Thismakes it better for ayounger audience.Using images of the ofthe
young artist andusing multiple imagescan show it is for ayounger
audience asthey would like theimages more than largeamounts of
text. 31. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS
OFCONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT? What hardware and software have I used
to plan my pages? How effective were they? What hardware and
software have I used to construct mypages? How effective were it?
32. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS
OFCONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT? I used a variety of dif ferent
programmes to present the research Idid for the planning of my
magazine. To design my magazine draf tshowever I only used pencil
and paper.Images 33. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM
THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT? Doing my draft design in
pencil was effective because itmeant that I could change my idea
easily. However there area few changes from the pencil drafts to
final magazine asthey worked better changed. To make my drafts
better if done again and to make it clearer tome what my final
pages will look like I would do colour drafts too 34. WHAT HAVE YOU
LEARNT ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT? The technology I used to create my magazine frontcover,
contents page and double page spread were; a digitalcamera, Adobe
Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. 35. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT
ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT?Using Photoshop I have learned to use even morefeatures and
ways to edit my images and texts to makethem look better than I
already had learn in my preliminarytask. 36. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT
ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?I
used the effects listed on afew of the texts on my coverpage and
contents page. Ialso used the effects on someimages/puffs.I used
this Outer Glow effecton masthead Poptastic and Icopied this effect
on to the titleContents so it went with themagazine. I havent used
thisbefore and learned and foundhow to add these differenteffects
while producing mymagazine. 37. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT
ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?
The clone pattern tool I used to help edit my main cover image. As
the image has a bad shadow on it and was making it harder to read
text over it, I used the clone pattern tool to edit it out. I tried
using other effects and makes to edit it out but I found this tool
to be the most effective. this tool to get rid of the I also used
wall joining in the background of the image. If I was to this again
I would try to use one of the other tools if I had shadows as,
though this was effective it was time consuming. 38. WHAT HAVE YOU
LEARNT ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT? I used the stop healing tool to get rid of any blemishes
on all the images I used on all the pages. I also used the Red Eye
Tool to get rid of the red eyes the people had on the double page
spread two shot and one used on the contents page. I had not used
the red eye tool before and I had to use it carefully so that the
eye colours did not spread out of the eyes. This tool was very
effective. 39. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM THE
PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?I used the image editing tool
onPhotoshop to edit the images for myother pages.For the image on
my contents page Iedited; the levels, curves, exposureand
brightness/contrast. I also usedChannel Mixer to change the
effectof the image.I did all of these to make to pictureand of a
better quality than it hadcome out. I did it so that the
colourswould stand out on the image andto make it clear. 40. WHAT
HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING
THIS PRODUCT?Using InDesign I found ways to add effects to the
pagesand images/text that I hadnt done in Photoshop. 41. WHAT HAVE
YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OFCONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT?While using InDesign I had to create new swatches of colour
and I had to createthese and make sure they were the same exact
colours used on Photoshop/thefront cover.This I had not done before
but I wanted my colours to be exactly thesame so I did it here on
my final magazine. I did it so the colour schemeflowed through the
pages. 42. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUTTECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS
OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT? For the background of my double page
spread and contents page I wanted to create a new colour and then
decided that I want to make a gradient effect. I had to create a
new swatch for this. I also used this gradient effect on the text
Poptastic across the bottoms of the pages. 43. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT
ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THISPRODUCT? I
also used many of the tools and effects that I learned in my
preliminary task. I used rectangle frame tool to input my images
and then I used the fill frame proportionally tool so that the
images filled the area I wanted it too without distorting it. These
tools also helped me when I was resizing the images. 44. WHAT HAVE
YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIESFROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT? Using the digital camera I used was easy and simple,
makingit easy and quick to take the images I wanted for
mymagazine.Though as the camera was not ata high quality it meant I
had toedit them to get the effects Iwanted. This gave me the
chanceto learn more editing skills. 45. LOOKING BACK AT YOUR
PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE
PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT? How have I developed my
skills and knowledge since I constructed my preliminary task? 46.
LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE
LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT? I feel I
have developed my skills and knowledge since thepreliminary task. I
have learned more in the programs I have used; InDesignand
Photoshop.- In the way I edit photos. Using different effects.- In
the way I layout the text and images on the pages so thatit is
clear and looks more like a magazine, than I feel mypreliminary
task did.- In the way I added effects to the text to make it stand
out. 47. LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL
YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?
From the covers I feel I have learned to use the most of the space
I have and use it better. I used better fonts, effects, font size
and colours to fill the cover. I learned that using an image with a
simple/plain background is easier for putting text over the top.
Also having a much closer image of the person fills up more of the
page. 48. LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL
YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?
From the preliminary task I have learn how to use more of the space
and fill the page without over crowding it. I learn how to fill
blank areas of the page by using puffs. Also learned that I could
use bigger fonts and make the images larger and they would still
look in proportion. 49. LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT
DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL
PRODUCT? I have learned more about magazines and their
conventionsand what works best. I feel I have more knowledge about
the magazine/musicmagazine industry after researching different
publishers andmagazines for the planning of my magazine and
alsowatching a video on NME and its history and finding outlots I
didnt know. 50. LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU
FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL
PRODUCT? I have learnt to plan my work even better so I meet
alldeadlines again. Learned that once again that I cant always
stick to my planonce I start creating my pages in
Photoshop/InDesign andthat I have to keep changing ideas throughout
so I can get itto look its best. I feel my knowledge of the
programs (Photoshop, InDesign) Iused is now stronger and I could
help others with moreconfidents if they were using it for the first
time. Overall I feel I have developed my skills and knowledge in
all areas of creating and planning my magazine since doing the
preliminary task. 51. MY FINAL MAGAZINE
