Foundation Portfolio Evaluation

By Ryan Baxter

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

Handing out surveys for publics ideas

Analysing existing media products (Front Cover, Double Page Spread, Contents Page)

Presenting my findings and outcomes in a market research report.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

From the market research report I found:

Most people who read magazines are Between 17-35

Most popular type of music is Indie

Price must be no more than £5 per issue

Editions must be weekly

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

Bauer Media distributes a wide range of media products

I believe my magazine would fit in as it targeted to a mainstream audience

I have included all the aspects of a magazine that ones on Bauer Media include.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I am appealing to an age range of 17-35, as this is the most popular.

I am appealing to an audience that prefers mainstream music.

My gender of my audience will mainly be male as females don’t usually read music magazines.

I am appealing to an audience that wants weekly editions of the magazine

Focus Group Results

How did you attract/address your audience?

I use a consistent house style throughout the magazine(Fonts, Colour, Layout)

I have to use a reasonable price for the magazine which is no more than £5

I use the Guttenberg design principle I used the features that we’re recommended by the focus group

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

I learnt the how to use Photoshop, image editing and image manipulation

I learnt how to use Google Blogger

I learnt how to use SlideShare to make my blog presentable to an examiner

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? My Photoshop skills have improved massively, need assistance less.

I learnt ways in which magazines are designed, through the Guttenberg design principle etc...

Through looking at actual media products (Kerrang, NME, etc) It gave me better ideas to use on my own media product