Ben Lindsay AS MEDIA

EVALUATION

MY FINAL FRONT COVER

FINAL DPS

FINAL CONTENTS PAGE

In my magazine, I have tried to stick to conventional techniques while trying to make it unique. I felt that if I stuck to more conventional methods, people would feel more comfortable, buying the product.

Each of my fi nal products contain standard methods, like having my masthead at the top and the barcode and issue number are in the lower left hand third.

My dps also follows conventions by having one main image and one small image and an interview put into columns.

The analysis I have carried out on real products has really helped with the design of my products and give me inspiration.

Q1 IN WHICH WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

My product represents a social group consisting of teenagers and young adults who like rock music. I think I have achieved this through the use of images, the lack of formality in the text, the colour scheme, I feel I have met the criteria of a rock magazine

I used magazines such as Kerrang and Q, who target the same audience and researched what they did to make their target audience very blatant. I noticed that the people they target their product towards is very vague, the only common factor is that they like the same genre of music, therefore I have tried to make my magazine as universally acceptable as possible.

2 HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

I think that the publisher that would most likely publish my magazine is are either IPC or Bauer.

3 WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA

PRODUCT AND WHY?

I attracted my audience by putting a low price on the magazine because teenagers and students do to typically earn a lot of money, and a low prices would entice them to buy. I also used colloquial language to attract my audience, the language used is laid back and informal, which is how stereotypically how students and teenagers speak and they are less likely to buy a magazine if the language they use is very formal, they may feel that the magazine is up itself and they will be put of the magazine

5 HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE

I have learnt a lot about the magazine making progress. I have learnt that colour, images, fonts and other conventions are very important to making a magazine look good. I’ve learnt that colour schemes are very important in helping the demographic you are targeting realise that I am targeting them (A teenage girl would pick up a magazine with a pastel colour scheme). Images help with that also, a magazine with a man with a guitar on the cover instantly show that it is a music magazine and music fans will be enticed. I've learnt that the fonts used are important, Using quite a rough, sketchy font would be ideal for a rock magazine, but not on a women's lifestyle magazine which would suit a thin clean font as its masthead or anywhere in the magazine.

7 LOOKING BACK AT THE PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT ABOUT

THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?