Evaluation

My magazine evaluation

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

 

For my magazine I have a title which is bold and visible to the audience, the masthead of the magazine is ‘POP’. The images on my magazine are professionally taken pictures which have been air brushed, as I think this would be a good asset to my magazine. The reason I have chosen to take the main image of the boy band ‘One way’ on my front cover is because the image relates to the main feature of the magazine which is the double page spread on the boy band depicted as the main image on the front cover. The reason why I have chosen to have images of boy bands and girl bands, as my target audience is young girls aged 13-16 and they are usually very interested in ‘POP’ music and boys/girl bands. I have also added quite of lot images on my magazine, as my survey shows my target audience females aged 13-16 would enjoy a magazine of many images. The costumes the individuals are wearing in my images on the magazine are generally very bright colours, such as red and blues. The bright colours are specifically chosen as at the age of my target audience bright colours tend to attract them to actually analyse the product and hopefully buy it. I have also chosen bright colours as on my survey taken bright colours was the most popular colour my audience wanted for the magazine, therefore bright colours became my house style on my magazine. The people I have chosen to be on my magazine are all of a young age (16-21) and are also ‘pretend’ members of the pop industry, as the magazine is a pop magazine. I have used couples, boys and girls to feature on my magazine as mainly young females (target audience) are usually interested of images that display these types of people. The title font is bright (white colour) as it stands out from the pink background, which then attracts many individuals to stop and view the product. The title font is also of a ‘bubbly’ font, which relates to the type of magazine it is and the target audience because traditionally this font is commonly used for young teenage individuals and pop music itself, as it’s bold and in your face. The style of the magazine is very ‘girly’ due to the use of different colour pinks and its cluttered style of images and text floating in many places. Also the skyline on the top of the cover of my magazine front cover reads music, one way, x factor and boys uncensored’ , all of the topics that feature on the magazine add to the fact that the magazine style is ‘girly’ as these topics relate to young girls in particular. The written content within my magazine is inviting through the personal pronouns used, such as ‘you’ ‘tell us’, suggest that the magazine is all about relating and communicating to its target audience, as young girls usually enjoy chatting and gossiping as a hobby. The puff I have used on my magazine double page spread offers a free meet and greet with the main feature of the magazine which is the band ‘one way’, this relates enormously relates to the magazine as the band itself features on the magazine of the front cover, content page and double page spread. Also the target audience relates to the puff as many young females would enjoy a greet and meet with a pop boy band.

 

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine will represent different social groups, I will achieve this by featuring different types of pop music from different ethnic and age groups , however I cannot actually feature every type of pop music from different social groups since my official target audience is young females in the UK. Although my pop music magazine will be aimed at mainly working/middle class young females that have a strong interest/connection with pop music, or pop musical acts such as Rihanna, Lady gaga or Justin Bieber.

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

The media institution that may distribute my magazine is IPC MEDIA, the reason why I think this is because they publish I wide ranch of music magazines such as ‘NME’, I also believe this will benefit my magazine and create a lot my buyers as it is a popular media institution.

 

 

 

 

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

Through my process of constructing this magazine I have learnt how to use Photoshop when editing photos, layering, doing the lay out of my magazine and importing images I wanted for my magazine. I enjoyed using photo shop because I was able to edit photos and use affects on them to make sure they are prefect for my magazine its self and the target audience as well. I have also used the technology of a professional camera when taking images that will feature on my magazine, from this I was able to choose what angles I wanted captured within the magazine, such as the medium shots I have taken of the boy band ‘one way ‘on my front cover as a main image.

 

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Looking back at my preliminary task I feel I have learnt quite a bit in the progression from it to a full product. I have learnt that hard work and dedication pays of when you are 100% committed to finish the product you are creating to the best of your ability.