Evaluation:

1) For my magazine front cover, I managed to follow the conventions of a real magazine. The image I edited was a large mid shot and I put my text on the left hand side of the page. I included the date, a barcode and the reasonable price which is £1. I have stuck with one colour scheme throughout the whole process of creating the magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread. The colours are mainly red, black and white. I also used the same font style which is Eras Bold ITC. I think that the masthead of the magazine meets the conventions because it looks like a proper magazine front cover. My contents page meets the conventions of a real magazine too because I have included a promotion of subscribing to monthly magazines, I also included two images; one of myself alongside the editor’s message and an image of ‘Blonette’. The pop band I created for my music magazine. As for my double page spread, it focuses more on Blonette. it includes to the main image of the band on the left page followed by a question and answer text boxes on the opposite page. I put the page numbers on the two pages which is 05 and 06.

2) My media product represents a particular group of people love pop music because of what the magazine features and the article is appropriate.

3) I researched the ipcmedia website, and I found out that they own brands that are mainly for middle aged people. They only sell NME which is alternative, rock and indie music. So then I went to research Bauer Media. It is a German company and has many more brands names than IPC Media. I would choose Bauer Media as the media institution to distribute my magazine because the media company focuses itself more on music magazines than magazines that would attract rich and middle aged people.

4) The target audience I originally planned it to be was 13-16 year old girls but then I changed the age range 16-18 teen of both genders. This is because of the colours I used in my magazine. The colours were the main thing that changed my mind on the target audience of my magazine. I attracted my target audience by using the eye catching colours such as red, black and white; the red colour makes it stand out.

5) The software I used for my front cover and my contents page was Photoshop CS6. I had to manipulate 5 images using a numbers of tools. As for my double page spread it was easier to use InDesign CS6. I used slideshare, Prezi, YouTube and Emaze to present my work on my blog (shannonsloyanasmedia.wordpress.com).

6) Looking back at my preliminary task, I have improved massively because before coming onto the AS Media course I hadn’t had a clue about Photoshop or anything like that. For my task I used word to create a magazine front cover which was about my school. It is not as good as my music magazine because everything has staying in its space but as for word it moves all the images and text all out of place and doesn’t look great when you open up the document.