Evaluation

By Shannon Sloyan

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

I created a masthead of my magazine and it is called ‘DESIRE’. I have placed it behind my model to make it look more professional like billboard. It goes well with the colour scheme of mint and pink. It follows the conventions of a magazine as every magazine has a masthead at the top of the page.

Puff:I produced a puff with ideas from other magazines so that it would catch my target audience of teenage girls that are in to the music genre of pop.

Pug:This is the price of my magazine which is £3.99. which I believe is an reason price for an magazine.

Right and Left Column:On my magazine, I have place text both sides of the magazine to have the reader look all over the page.

Cover line: The main cover line is in the middle of the image of my model Olivia. It stands out as it is the same colour as the background and it’s on top of the image along with a caption underneath explaining about the pop singer.

Barcode, Top and Bottom Strip:I created a barcode on a website called barcode generator I placed it where most magazines put theirs, (bottom right). I also created top and bottom strips to avoid gaps on the page. It has the colour scheme of mint and pink so that it would be eye catching.

Main Image: The main image is a mid shot of my friend Olivia, I made her pose like this as it matches the sort of poses that a pop singer would do.

My front Cover

This was my inspiration to create my magazine front cover. Although I used a different colour scheme, I used a similar layout to this magazine as it looks very professional.

Contents Page‘Contents’ matches the conventions of an actual magazine because it’s big enough to see. The font is not the same as the Billboard Magazine, as I wanted to keep it original.

Editor’s message: At the bottom of the page I created a editor’s message to meet the conventions of a magazine as this is used to explain what is inside the magazine from the editor’s point of view.

Right and left column:I decided to put columns on both sides of the page to avoid gaps. On the left, the text in the songs in the charts at the moment. On the other side of the main image, is what the magazine features. It mainly features pop singers.

Logo: I have placed the logo of the magazine in the top of the page. I put it there because it is similar to billboard.

Subscription barcode:I placed a subscribe barcode and above that I put text of the twitter and Instagram which is what most magazines have. It meets the codes and conventions as I’m persuading the audience to read Desire magazine more often.

Main Image and Images:The main image is of my friend Olivia. I think it fits really well with the page. It meets the conventions because it is the biggest photo on the page. It is the main focus of the whole magazine. The three images above the main image is Shawn Mendes which I got from the internet along with the image of the clothes, next to that, is a image I took a concert I went to last summer.

This is my inspiration for my magazine contents page. I made it as similar as possible by having the same layout.

My Double Spread Page:Headline:The headline is ‘Olivia’ and it is bold and the text next to it is font that looks like a girl’s handwriting. The colour pink matches the colour scheme as it is mint green and pink.

Blown up quote:I created a blown up quote that was already in the article. I placed it on top of the photo of Olivia. It meets the conventions of a magazines as they have quotes from their articles.

Main Image:This image is my model Olivia with a mic and a guitar. This meets the conventions of a real magazine as it all magazine have images on one page with the article on the next page.

Columns:The columns of my magazine meet the conventions of a real magazine as it is appropriate for a question and answer interview. As well as it is a different colour and font. When the interviewer is asking the font is italic but when Olivia is answering the font is normal.

Page Numbers:There are pages numbers at the bottom and the corner of both pages. This meets the conventions as every magazine has page numbers.

This is my inspiration for the creation of my double page spread. I did not copy everything on this magazine.

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

I think that my magazine represent the age group of 15-20 year olds of females which is my target audience. The colour scheme is appealing for teenagers. This is because the colour scheme and what my magazine features. The magazine represents is mainly targeted at pop music fans as what it features with artists such as Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes and Jack&Jack. The demographics audience would be E as students are more likely to read my magazine. The psychographics audience would be mainstreamers as teenagers are mostly likely to follow the crowd.

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

Bauer media would be the right company for my magazine Desire to be distributed from. This is because they have the audience and are known as the biggest magazine distributor. They are also known for the biggest selling magazines. So I think it would be the best as the my magazine would be appealing for those who would magazines that are produced by Bauer magazine.

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

For my magazine the targeted audience is the age range of 15-20 year olds. The demographics audience would be E as students are more likely to read my magazine. The psychographics audience would be mainstreamers as teenagers are mostly likely to follow the crowd.

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

I have learnt a lot since the start of the year. The technologies I used to create my magazine front cover and my contents pages was Photoshop. However, to produce my double page spread I used Indesign as it had some things that Photoshop didn’t have. I created my masthead on photoshop along with editing the different image to go on my front cover and contents using the rubber tool. I used camera raw on photoshop for the photo on the double page spread. My skills have definitely improved.

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

Looking back at my preliminary task, I created it on word. It wasn’t that good but comparing it to my music magazine my skills on Photoshop and InDesign, I feel as though I have hugely improved.