Evaluation

Evaluation




1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? my magazine cover is conventional as its looks like a normal magazine and has a title on the front covers pictures as a normal magazine would this gives you the right idea on what type of magazine i have produced. The contents page is conventional as it lets the reader know what is going on within my magazine and my double page spread yhas a short interview that would continue further on in my magazine my magazine is full of bright colours that make things look more powerful off my dark background photos i have used were all taken myself and there all represent people that like the 'rave' type of music. I think my magazine is different as not many magazines like mine are published, bright authentic colours are used as most things have been inverted and have a bright glow around them.


2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? my magazine is gererally set out for young people who are are mainly in to Dance/Trance and Bassline music. the colouring on my magazine can go out to both genders as there are a variety of colours on there, my magazine has good information on the front cover also which would grab the readers eyes if they like the artists on my magazine, but saying that people aof any could could buy my magazine as it is appropriate fdor anybody buy.



3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? firstly i would publish my magazine online to see waht people thought and if it got good result i would try physicla distribution in a town centre too try and attract my main audience of people to try and reach my target on the market, and if it sucseeded i would try to sell my magazine within shops around the area.


4. Who would be the audience for your media product? my magazine is appropriate for people between the ages of 14-20 as people of these ages go through stages of liking certain types of music it would also go to people this age who like to know about information that is upcoming about there favourite artists and bands live.




5. How did you attract/address your audience? the bright colourings on my magazine would make my magazine stand out from the resat therefore grabbing the publics eye and grabbing there attention. i have used bright pink fonts on my work to make it stand out even more from tha dark background, also with the free poster inside at the top of the front cover this could grab the readers eye again, getting something free from a magazine my magazine BASSLINE would get good attention from the public.




6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
whilst making my final products i have leanrt how to use macromedia fireworks in a more effective way, such as cuttin things out in better detail and i have also learnt something completely new how to use the website 'Blogger' and create my own blog to put all of my Media studies work on to.




7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? After finishing my final products i have looked back and found that i have picked up on alot of better techniques to make my final product much more effective than my preliminary project i made earlier in the year.

Double Page Spread

For my double page spread i chose the same ideas as on my previous pieces of work i completed. the layout is simular to my contents page and front cover hence the colourings i have a picture of jake on the left with his hands upward to show a 'raver' having a good time on the right hand side i have a short interview with top performer 'Darren Styles'. question we asked Darren stuff like how he made it big in the music industry and he simpy answered. The page is simply set out short questionairre and a picture set out like most typical magazines.

Main Idea Contents Page.

For my main product i have come up with a contents page wth simular colouring and representation on the page, birght colouring on a dark background make everything show up more clearly, i have put features on my page to show the readers what is up coming in the near futurei have placed more pictures upon my work of my friends Jake and Lewis, i had them to do a dancing pose so to speak to make my magazine seem more realistic. for the description under my headings i have placed with a white outline to make it look better instead of having a coulred font ive just had a white outline.

Front Page Idea #1

The front cover that you see before you is quite simply put together alls i did was take two pictures of two of my friends in the upper 6th form wearing head phones.. this game me a better picture because its what i wanted people wearing headphones to portray hem as musical people, i used a dark background to make everything on the page stand out alot better and it looks much more effective. i used a bright pink title looks effective as it it so bright it makes the looker of this page lok directly at it.

Clutch Double Page Spread

This double page spread is well set out and as you can see there is alot of text to read up on which makes this double page spread very formal and effective.

This magazine seem's to be set towards the indie/rocker sort of person, as it states at the top of the page'MARYLAND ROCKERS' this double page spread is crammed full with information about this band the writting on the left hand side of the double page is asking the band questions, such as do they get annoyed when other bands are rising in the rock and roll business there are plenty of pictures in the left hand side showing the band and what they do in there time rehearsing and just having a good time.

On the right hand side of the page there is a main picture of some-one at a live performance singing on the microphone and there is also more questions and answers around the main picture on the page, explaining about there tour

further down the page 'The Blair Witch Project' are talking about there tours that have been going on this could suggest that indie/rock music have tough compotitions keepn up ahead of each other at times.

SubSonic DoubLe Page Spread

on this double page spread there are a vary of colours and pictures 'SUBSONIC' the name of the particular magazine is wrote within two different fonts and colours, to make there product stick out more from the rest further more the colours help to do this as they are all so bright and grab the attention of the viewers eye. Red yellow and orange are all bright happy colours this could suggest that this magazine is good and fun to read in some discription, in the top right of the page there i a state which says 'First in new music' this could suggest this magazine is a well known one and comes out every other week or so. pictures are scattered all over the double page spread this could suggest that theres either alot in the magazine to look at or that there is something disjointed about this whole magazine round the boarder of the page also is all the music ganres possibly in this magazine such as 'HOUSE TECHNO DRUM&BASS' also there is a website to connect to if avalible most magazines aren't like that.

Contents Page

This is my perliminary contects page for my project.

I used these fonts as they are simple and easy to read, at the top of the page the text there is more fancy as it is the main heading on the page to show you what the page actually is,

the other headings text that show for you what is in the magazine is used as it is bold big and simple to read, as it catches your eye upon looking at the page and you would like to read on further information on these the short description i have given under each heading is a small piece of writting in what is going on within our school.