The End

So this is the end of me blogging about my media product (magazine).  Thank you for following me through the process of my magazine.  Here is a reminder of all three pages that I created for my magazine.

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 7:  Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to the full product.

For question 7 I showed the development of my magazine compared to the preliminary task so i went from showing the preliminary task to the rough cut and to the final cut.  For the first slide I showed an image of the preliminary task and said the good and bad things about the task.  I then went on to show the rough task and show how it has improved compared to the preliminary task.  Finally i showed the final cut and said how i improved it compared to the rough cut.  For the second slide i compared my double page spreads.  For the preliminary task i did not make a double page spread so i compared the rough of my double page spread and the final cut of my double page spread and stated how i improved it.  For the final slide I done the same thing as analysing the front covers but compared all of the contents pages and describe how I improved them to make the final cut.

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 6:  What have your learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your product?

For question 6 I made a slide for each of the following technologies I used; Photoshop, In Design, Blogger and the Cannon camera I used to take photos.  The first slide was on Photoshop.  I stated how I used Photoshop on a certain part of my magazine.  I also took screen shots of the tools that i used to edit my magazine.  The second slide was on In Design and for this slide I also followed the same technique and added in screen shots of tools I used for the creation of my magazine.  When presenting the presentation I will go in to further detail on how I used these techniques.  For the third slide I focused on how I used blogger.  I inserted a relevant image of previous blogs i created and explained what I done when creating blogs.  For the final slide on this question I focused on how I used the Canon camera.  For this slide I showed an image of the camera and surrounded the image with factors that I used to take my photos e.g, shutter speed, aperture, zoom and focus.  I also showed example of how I used aperture on my double page spread.

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

This is the video that I made to show how I attracted my audience.  In the video I interviewed two people and got them to answer certain questions I asked them.

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

For question 4 on my evaluation I made a mind map and described the type of audience that would read or buy my music magazine.  I looked at aspects such as the age, gender, class, types of clothes they would wear etc.  The main target audience for my design was aimed at both genders of ages between 15-40.  The reason for the wide age range is because the young people listen to new music (already in their youth stages) and the adults e.g aged 30-40 listen to the new music to reflect on their youths.

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3:  What type of media institution might distribute your product and why?

For the third question i had to do research to see which insititution distributed magazines that i used as style models for example Q and the NME.  For the first slide i researched in to Time Inc which is the institution that distrbutes magazines such as the NME and Uncut.  On the first slide i added in the companies logo and exmpained why i thought this institution might distribute my product.  One reason that i said was that Time Inc distributes NME which is an indie magazine and my magazine is based on an indie theme.  For the second slide i researched into the Q magazine and discovered that Bauer distributed Q magazine.  I included the Bauer logo in the slide and also explained why i thought that Bauer might distribute my media product.  The main reason i used was that i used a lot of codes and conventions from Q's magazine so my magzine is similar to Q' s in many different ways.

Evalutation Question 2

Evalutation Question 2:  How does your media product represent particular social groups?

For this question i particular looked at the images used and the tone used by the artist in the magazine as this was the easiest way to represent the social groups.  For the first slide on this question i looked in to the attitude that was preserved through the artists facial expressions in the images, for example the sun glasses even though that it is dark outside showign his swagger.  For the second slide on this question i looked in to the tone that the artist used in the arcticle in the double page spread.  For example i looked at the use of swearing used by the artist which preserves he is youthful and doesnt really care what anyone thinks about him, he can say what he wants. For the third and final slide on this question i looked in to the backgrounds of the images that i used on the magazine.  A lot of the backgrounds had graffiti in the background preserving that he has come out of a inner city working class family and music is the only way out of the city and the lifestyle that he used to have.