Evaluation of my Magazine

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

 My media magazine has use the same technique that other music magazine have used in their production, I have taken so of the ideas for my magazine from the magazine NME, I chose to use this music magazine as a influence because it was similar to the genre of my magazine. I also look at other magazines and used the similar images to there, for example most of the magazine covers had people look directly into the lens of the camera and I chose to use the same technique but have one of the people on the cover of my magazine looking away, so it drew the audience eye to my magazine and there was something different on the cover, to make mine stand out from others.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine focuses on the teenage generation, by having young people thought the magazine the younger generation can relate to the people in the magazine and can look up to the artists in the magazine the be inspired by them. The genre of this magazine is Indie so the clothing and backgrounds of the magazines images can represent this. Also the clothing that the people in the images can influence the social group’s style and persuade there clothing chose,  

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

The company that might distribute my magazine would be at first an online magazine distributor so people would sign up to get the magazine each month, this would be a good idea a first to allow the market to get used to my product and see if they will sell well. Once they are sell well then they could be distrusted in stores across the UK this would allow the magazine reputation to spread quickly and cause my magazine product to grow. The magazine distributor that I would use first would be for example the online store “MusicMags” because they only do an online store, then I would distribute for a large company like “Seymour” who would distribute all across Britain.

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

 The audience of the magazine would be aged between 15-27 because they all have an interest in the latest music and what to keep up with fashion and know about the latest songs that are trendy. The magazine would work best if it was monthly because they would want to find out the new songs for the month to come and what are the new stars to arise from the industry.

How did you attract/address your audience?

The main person in the image on the cover looks directly into the camera lens to draw the eye of the audience and get there attention. I also made my magazine different to others by having the title smaller that the main articles title, this would encourage the audience to look at the magazine if they are interested in the main heading of the magazine.  

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

The technology that I used for this magazine was Photoshop, it is very well developed and could be used for a professional magazine because all of the features are very easy to use and they all work well to help improve the product that you are creating. The technology that we have in this era is very high quality and people can create professional standard products for their home computers with widely used products.  

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

The completing the project I have learnt how to edit an image to a professional standard and with the help of the professional magazine editor how to arrange a magazine so it stands out from others and the audience is attracted to  my magazine over other magazines. I have also learnt that it is good to keep the fonts similar throughout the magazine so the audience can clearly see that it is from the same magazine and it has been well main and produced.