Media Evaluation

Joel Chambers

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

products?

Question 1

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• My magazine is aimed for English people between the ages of 15-28

• I have represented this by having English bands on the cover and young people on the cover, contents page and double page spread

What kind of media institution might distribute your media

product and why?

Question 3

I believe that IBC media would distribute my magazine. I think this because they already distribute NME magazine which is quite a lot similar to my magazine as we both use similar conventions, genre and target audience.

My magazine would be best advertised on the internet and TV, on music channels, this is so my target audience would be more likely to see it.

I believe that if my magazine was distributed nationally then there will be a larger amount of my target audience, it should not be internationally distributed because it is a heavily English magazine and will feature mainly English acts.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 4

How did you attract/address your audience

Question 5

I asked my target audience what they would like from a magazine, they said that they would like information about existing and new acts. So using my target research I will include both relevant and new artists to information on artists they already like and introduce them to new acts.

My magazine addresses this by listing well known acts of a similar genre and stating that there will be a segment on fifteen new artists to watch.After my rough cut my target audience told me to change many things about my project. For starters the name “the walrus” and the font it was wrote in to something more accessible and similar to the genre. I was also told to change the overall colour scheme to something that melds together more.

On my contents page I was told to change the background images font and colour scheme, lastly on my double page spread I was told to add a drop capital and add text quotes.

My images attract my target audience by using bight colours and interesting features such as shallow focus and a background.I have chosen to use a informal language style to connect to my audience and give the magazine a relaxed and approachable feel.

The overall message of my magazine is that buying this magazine will give not only an insight into the audiences favourite bands but help them discover new bands in a similar genre that they will enjoy.

What have your learned about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?

Question six

To make brighter

Add definition and makes darker

Magic wand

font

rubber

sport healingClone stamp

Move and shape tools

Text tool

Frame tool

Pen tool used to Bend images

Rotate tool

Colour tool

Looking back on your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it

to the full product?

Question 7

I used a similar image

I filled the page with the image

I used the similar technique of text down both sides but in a neater and more professional way

I used a plain white background to look clearer

I learnt how to frame and place a photo. I also learned how to correctly and neatly place text.

Use simpler and a more ascetically pleasing layout

Use multiple images instead of one large one

I used more text and information

I used a plain background so the text is easier to read.