Media Evaluation

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

My music magazine front cover has similar conventions to other music magazines that I have seen. Examples of this being my title it is in capitals and bold across the top of the magazine but behind the image. My magazine also has anchorage which is for the readers benefit and can help to buy the magazine. I have used a colour scheme like other magazines they usually consist of 3-5 colours, my magazine has a colour scheme of pink, grey, brown and black. I feel like these colours really connect with my theme as it is mainly for girls at a teenage age so they were appropriate. These colours were also the most popular chosen when I did my questionnaire. I also have a strong large mid shot image this is usually common on music magazines but I have challenged conventions because my imagine is different as I purposely have my model looking down at the instrument she is playing. This is because I wanted to capture a picture of her actually playing the instrument so it was realistic towards my audience, So it comes across as a more mature magazine.

My content magazine conveys all the features that are in regular magazines for example 3 columns of writing and then a column of pictures to illustrate some off the pages in the magazine. I think my arrangement worked well because I linked it into the colour scheme I had for the front cover, so the writing wasn’t just one block colour, it consisted of a editors letter. Also there wasn’t loads going on as it had a plain background this convention leads to the maturity of the magazine. For the contents page Ihaven't challenged any conventions there is no reason for this I just wanted the contents to be effectively simple.

My final front pageMasthead- I have put the title across the top of my magazine , this is because I wanted my title to standout over everything this is to why it slightly over laps the imagine. I think it catchy and fresh, it peruses what I wanted to come across, publishing new released artists. The colour of the title stands out on the plain background and the black & white image.

Barcode and price that every magazine will have

Date & Issue- it is essential that every magazine has this somewhere on the magazine it is either on the front cover or on the content page. This is because it lets the reader know when the magazine was released and what number the magazine is.

Cover lines- Every magazine consists of cover lines they are to give and incite as to what is in the magazine. It is a way of persuading the reader to buy a magazine if they are eye catching and look interesting there is normally a positive outcome. Mine are a variation off colours and effects this is so that come across as individual cover lines.

Competition- also off magazine have competitions available to enter this was a great way to make my magazine individual and attract the reader.

Main image- My image was purposely conveyed to be in black and white because I wanted the title and cover lines to stand out in different colours but then the image wouldn’t clash. I think it also shows the magazine to be mature and professional. Magazines usually have the model looking at the camera to show emotion and there expression relates to the topic but my image challenges that convention I wanted my model to be looking down at the image this was to express her passion for music and concentration towards the instrument.

My final contents pageI have a big bold title and put on an affect so that it dips down in the centre left.

I have put all my writing into 2 columns. Which would normally be found in any magazines.

All my pictures are on one side they are all an incite on different pages. I have purposely made it so that they don’t over lap and are all separate.

This is my editors letter that is talking to my audience about my magazine, each issue will have a new letter.

My final feature pageI have a big bold title that says who and what the article is about.

This is a introduction to the article.

I have put on a long shot picture and purposely made it so that her arm fits under the title. Usually double page spreads will have one large image that covers the page. Mine doesn’t because I wanted the picture to be outlined.

I have included a competition to this page to make it more unique .

I have chosen this image here to break up the text, this picture is while she is performing. My text has been divided into 3 columns this has the same conventions as other magazines.

The colour scheme doesn’t link into front cover and content page but I have used the colours from the picture into the competition. All off my titles for each page are used in the same font.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my music magazine I wanted to represent a social group of teenage girls but who are interested in the latest songs and new Artists, I am following the stereotype of chart music, girl bands, female solo artists but it does not have any male artist or make bands. It also is for older teenagers as it links into festivals and feature careers. In my magazine there are pictures of instruments as well as people but on my front cover it has a female teenager looking cool in a leather jacket and holding an instrument. She has a fashionable hair style so in this way she can be seen as a role model towards the readers she has the latest trends and her variation in music she can perform. It can encourage are target audience to seek there fame as she has at this ages. It allows the audience to know it is possible. My music magazine isn’t against the male gender I just think it would be unusual to have a music magazine that only contains female artists and bands. This then allows all of the other cover stories in the magazine to be idols because they will be females. My cover story focuses on a famous female artist Rihanna, she is a female icon, which relates to the social groups. My music Magazine is likely to cover other female artists from all over the world for example Rihanna is from Barbados, Katy Perry and singers from the x-factor which search all over the UK. My magazine does not address to sexuality so for in future issues I can search for artists that are willing to express there sexuality and how it doesn’t have an effect or matter in the music industry.

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

When I looked into other popular music magazines I found Q, Heat, Karrang, Classic Rock, NME, Vibe, Blender, Billboard. There wasn’t any magazines that I deeply looked into I just used different inspiration from all types. I discovered that they all have different unique selling points. So my magazine doesn’t fit into a specific one, but if it was to get categorised it would fall into R&B.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

My audience research is teenage girl but its is more elderly teenagers for example 16+. I have chosen this because I knew what I needed to include in my magazine to appeal to them. I have related to my audience by having a female front cover and my colour scheme relates to the girl theme I have taken on. When doing my research I found that there’s wasn’t many female music magazines that don’t feature males throughout.

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For my audience research I produced a questionnaire. I asked 20 participants. The following graphs show some of my results.

What have you learnt about technology from the process of construction of this product?

Before I constructed my magazine I didn’t really know much about Photoshop or Quark, so I learnt a lot during this project. Over the time I’ve developed skills, this has then made me able to make my magazine look more professional.

This is the development of my front cover page. I’ve been unable to shot my contents page and double page spread as I didn’t do it as I went along but I developed skills in importing images, making my pages into columns to fir the convention of a magazine. Overall I have made my magazine look more professional by knowing how to do certain effects to my images and text. The skills I have now gained will be helpful in future projects. If I was to do it again I think I would change my target audience, I then could had more of a variation in my colour scheme and cover lines. But other than that I was very pleased with my final outcome

Photography and using Photoshop

This is my original large picture on my cover page I haven't added any effects to the final image all I have done is cropped the background out so it is the outline off her.

This is another original image I haven’t added an effect I have just cropped out the background.

This picture has been edited into black and white and the background has been cloned.

I haven’t applied any effect to this image I have just cropped out the background.

I have cropped out the back ground and a made it so that it has a smooth edge using an effect.

I have cropped out the background then given the image a faded effect arou8nd the edge using a rubber.

I have only cropped our the background on the image and not given it any effect.