EVALUATION OF MY MUSIC MAGAZINE

By Jamie Flack

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

When I compare my magazine to other magazines I would say that they are the same because on my front cover I have used one image like other magazines have to show what the main story is.

The double page spread of my magazine has a picture that fills up one page to show the audience who or what the article is about.

I chose to do this because we had to make it to make the magazine the same as other magazines so I decided to have one picture ,of the main article, on the front cover.

I have done this because it shows to readers of my magazine who the article is about.

On my front cover I have used a bigger font to show which stories in my magazine are more important.

I have done this because it shows the readers of my magazine which of the articles are the most important and will have the most pages spent on it.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience of my magazine is teenagers and young adults because they both like to listen to music so they might like to read music magazines.

The music that is in my music magazine is

How did you attract/address your audience?

The way that I attracted the audience is that I have put the main part of the magazine in big letters and I have a pictures that covers the whole of the front cover so that it covers the whole of the front cover. Doing this makes people notice it and they what to read the magazine to understand what the titles and the picture is about.

The Strapline of my magazine is to get people to understand what the magazine is about and to also to get the audience of my magazine to read my magazine.

The colour scheme of my magazine could catch the eye of my readers because its not like normal magazine where they use a lot of white whereas I have used a lot of black to make my pictures stand out a lot more, and having pink text makes it stand out from the black background.

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

In this I have learnt how to use Fireworks so that I can take the background away from my pictures. Tacking the background away from my pictures allows me to keep my colour scheme and have a colour background like other magazines.

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