Evaluationby Charlotte Frost

  In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?My magazine uses real conventions like professional music magazines. It has similar layouts to multiple other magazines (see in my research) Kerrang, Q, NME. The title is featured in a banner, similar to Q. The double page spread has featured multiple pictures of my musicians, including them with musical props. I have kept the background plain but interesting. I have used photo editing to change brightness and contrast to make my photos look ideal, and removed any spots. I have also used drops caps and repeated colour schemes, and more, all that are apart of music genre.

What kind of media institution might distribute your product?

I think a media institution like Baur Media Group would publish my magazine. As they publish in shops, such as corner shops newsagents, and larger shops like Tesco’s. My magazine would sell better as a magazine then app, due to the young audience I am aiming at. As the chart shows below the sales of magazine are dropping but thousands ares still being sold.

How does your media products represent particular social group?

✤ The social group I have represented are young teenage girls who are interested in the pop music genre.

✤ My magazine features a young girl with a trendy hairstyle. The setting is on beach dunes which is applicable to the Summer Addition of this magazine. The bright colours of the pink font, purple, and yellow have a summer feel about them, which is indicative of flowers and berry of this time of year.  The overall pale blue look of the font is comparative to the blue skies of summer, and has an outdoor, music festival feel about it.

✤ My magazine has a large hip ‘selfie’ style photo image on the front cover which is in keeping with trend of the time.

Who would be the audience for your media product?My magazines main audience is young teenagers. Ideally the teenagers would be very ‘hip’ and have lots of money. Preferably a specific group of teenagers who believe that my magazine is ‘undiscovered genius’ and that all the music featured in the magazine is ‘original’ and ‘unique’ and amazingly, ‘contemporary’. My ideal readership would not listen to the radio. They would listen to only their home made playlists, the illegibility of which would be questionable.

Banner changed

Banner now looks much neater

Sub- titles and boxes now look much neater and nice

Better quality background and photo

Bar code, price and date added

Better title

I felt it needed a sub-title to give an impression of a line underneath the main title this helps the viewer focus the featured. It also told the view music genre.

Better banner

words changed font/colour

In neat columns

cut images up so they look neat and interesting

Text

Better banner and font

Nicer columns used

Better photos used. Fonts and colours

Page numbers

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?✤ To create my product I started with research. I researched different music

magazines, the front covers, contents, double page spread, ect. I quickly drafted several optional ways I could have my own magazine look with inspiration from my research. I researched this by using the internet and by scanning in my own brought magazines. Next I shot my own photographs.

✤ I took photos using a digital fukifilm camera. I was already aware of how to use this camera. I used photoshop. I edited my photographs. I did this by removing any disgusting marks on my models face. I  brightening and changing the contrast so that the colours in the photograph were visually pleasing.

✤ I then made my first version of the magazine.  I improved this in a second version. I then quickly fixed anything in my second version that didn’t work or needed fixing, or the colours changing, and made my final version of the magazine. In my final version I fixed any mistakes and removed any photos i did not feel worked well.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I attracted my audience by using a bright colour scheme, eye grabbing subheadings, and big titles. I also immediately grabbed my audience attention by featuring what would be famous musicians. I choose a layout on the magazine that I felt would be best. I chose the costume for my model to wear to look.

I also attracted them by using images of a young teenage girl of the front cover. As it the magazine was a quarterly magazine I chose a Summer Addition. In which I used bright coloured font and pale blue on the cover and through the magazine. The setting where of places you associate with Summer – beach and open fields (music festivals). The name itself is a semi-palindrome; it is the word NOISE in reverse. The word ESION has a balance appearance. It also is a way to express the word noise in an artistic way.

Noise – Definition:verb archaic

The definition of noise seems appropriate for a magazine that you would want talked about.

Conventions on magazines

Name of bands tend to be centred on magazine, usually over picture of a band

Main feature in centre of magazine to grab attention

Title always at the top

sub-headings usually at side of page

Bar codes at side of magazine usually with price

Conventions on my magazine

Title at the top of magazineAlthough title is not overlapping band member it it is a similar place to the other magazine, and in a much bigger font so that it is easier seen.

sub headings at side of magazine

Bar codes in corner of magazine. Has price/date on it

Conventions on double page

Writing & Interviewing Styles

The way the feature is written is of interest to the target audience. For instance, Q NME and Classic Rock interviewers have used ‘past tense’. The interviewers interview the band characters and write what they have said. Whereas I have used question and answer technique. This I felt would attract the younger market as they could imagine themselves being in the room as the questions were asked – first person.

Main pictures either on middle- one big picture or two big pictures. Sometimes one page is a big photo, with other smaller photos on it.

Writing columns

Both Q and Classic Rock both have a main large image with all band members posing. Framed with action smaller images.

Both use Drop Caps to add striking effects in large amounts of text areas. This breaks the text up so that when the target audience browses the article, they do not get overwhelmed by large amounts of block text.

Page numbers written

Quotes from band members are used as ‘attention grabbers’. They are often used on their own and out of context – either to produce shocking or wowing reactions, These are either highlighted or underlined. The idea is that the reaction will increase the curiosity of the target audience to find out more about the ‘quote and its context’. They can easily be picked up by browsing through a magazine causing the reader to stop and look.

Conventions on mine

Big picture with action pictures

Writing in columns

Page numbers written

Conventions on Contents

contents written at the top of page

written in columns

Bigger picture of main feature.

Usually smaller pictures of other features

Conventions on mineTitle at top

Main feature largest image

Other features slightly smaller

Written in columns

Conventions

✤ I have learnt that the conventions of musical magazine, are very similar. They are all almost exactly the same but that of the colour of the words and angle of the title, and font. I have learnt a lot since doing my other magazines, such as all magazines are simplistic. My first sketches on how I was going to do this magazine, has evolved immensely for the best.