Evaluation 1

I have made a slideshare presentation to answer the question of Evaluation 1 - 

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

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Questions

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

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

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

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

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

Change - Double page spread layout

I researched and looked into style models such as Kerrang! and Rocksound and was unable to find a double page spread layout similar to mine. I chose to do this layout because if I had black over the whole background, the picture looked unprofessional and her shorts almost disappeared into the background. I chose to have the background behind all of the text black to make it stand out and most style models have the background of the text a different colour to where the photo is.

I do not believe that this looks authentic as the shape of the black background or this effect, I have never seen used before. Now I have chosen to make just over half of the page black, and make the text fit within it. The title overlaps onto the white section of the page so I have added a 'broken' black background to this section to make it still stand out. I have also added white borders to the pictures to ensure that they stand out and this also looks more like style models I have seen. I will also be filling the space to the right with the rest of the interview.

Font size

I printed out my contents page at the size of a real magazine and compared it to my style models such as 'Kerrang!'. I realised that the font used for the main part of my contents page was too big compared to style models. I have now made it smaller and I will again print it to check the size before it is completed

Picture change

On my contents page I have decided to change one of the smaller pictures under the main featured one. This is because all 3 pictures were of girls modelling. The use of no musical instruments may have made readers confused as it was not clear that it was a music magazine just from these pictures. To make it more obvious, I have decided to use a picture I have taken of one of my friends whilst he was on stage at a gig. This picture includes a microphone and a guitar and is also darker which immediately gives it a 'rock magazine' look.

Added feature

I have added a feature onto the front cover of my magazine. I have seen this used on multiple covers of magazines such as 'Kerrang!'. I thought it would be a good addition to my to attract attention using an original image that I took during my photoshoot.


Kerrang                                    Kerrang                             Mine                                                    

     

Cover line change

I have chosen to change the colours of the boxes and text of my main cover line "Megan Hulse". I looked at a number of style models and found this one...

I believe that this goes well with my colour scheme and with the right text to suit my magazine, it would look good on my magazine. My previous cover line did not look professional and the text looked out of place.

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