Evaulation

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

For my main task I have done both developing and changing because I h have looked at many pop magazine which I have analysed but they tend to be showing an artists on the front, I have challenged this because I have created a pop magazine which is featured on an artist and in particular the theme that she bases herself on.

How does your media product represent particular social groups My magazine is aimed at the younger audience, I have

aimed it towards the age range of 14- 17 as these are young pop who tend to follow these artists as you usually seeing them listening and singing to them. They use pop stars as their inspiration, this can be seen when you look at famous young pop stars like Justin Beiber who is followed by millions of young people and so is Katy Perry and so I have created my magazine in a way which is appealing to the target customer because I have used language which is right for the audience as they are of a young age I have used this so that then I can attract a wide audience to my magazine such as what bigger companies like the BBC does with their magazine Top Of The Pops.

What kind of media institution might distribe your media product and why? Looking at similar magazines to mine, I would say that the

BBC would be more than likely to sell my magazine because my magazine is similar to their Top Of The Pops magazine but my magazine is aimed at a slightly younger audience. This would work out for them because then they would have that market as they currently have the rest of the market with the other products

This would help them to maximise their sales and make them to be known more as a recognised business and help them to meet the needs of all of its customer if they were to sell my magazine to the desired customer which I have researched in my market research

This would mean that for them in these tough economy times that they could diversity into different markets

Who would be the audience the audience for your media product?

The audience for my media product is children of both genders who are teenagers, this means that I have created this magazine for my primary audience which are children who are aged in between the ages of 14 and 16.

I also have a secondary audience, these are people who may come across my magazine either at home due to a sibling buying the magazine or because they have saw it in a dentist.

My primary audience may also include those who have a interest in pop music artists so

How did you attract/ address your audience?

I have attracted my audience by using bold letters which have been designed in a way which is fun and exciting, I have done this by using the title ‘Lollipop’, which is a sweet that you young people. For my magazine I have used bright colour which represent the rainbow. I know from doing research that this is what would attract people to buying my magazine because if something is bright and looks exciting and interesting then they are more keen to buy that magazine.

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

I have learnt a lot of things from creating this product, I have learnt that a great deal of time needs to be spend when using the technology especially when I have not used the technology before because these this technology which is used by industries. So this is new to me because I haven't used this before because I haven't been asked to do a task like this before while I was in school.

Also, this technology was hard to use as I did not receive any training before using it. So I had to make a jump from using publisher to programs like Fireworks and Adobe.

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

The difference between the school and pop magazine was quite a jump up. This is because I had to spend more time finding the appropriate information for my magazine, also more time was spent doing the market research, for the school magazine I was able to ask people inside my sixth form about what they would like to see in the magazine and what they would find useful. However for my pop magazine, I had to go to town and ask people who I thought would be the audience for my magazine and ask them stuff about the magazine, this stuff include how much they would pay, how frequently they buy magazines and do they follow chart music, this was done because then I could design a magazine which would fulfil their needs. Also I didn’t have enough time that I could go to a live performance and take the right image, this is because the task was very intense and it was full of deadlines which I had to meet. This brought up the problem of avoiding using copyrighted material as this would not be my work, but I did not use copyrighted material and all the images I have used for both my main and preliminary task have been original. Another thing which was different between the two tasks was that for my main task I used studio lighting, on my preliminary task I did not use studio light, I just used a camera and took a photo of someone in a setting.