Evaluation:

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

In my magazine I have used the conventions of a masthead, the left third, a cover line and a main image and these are all things that I saw commonly in market research. The cover line of my magazine is along the base of the cover, which is a development on the main cover line being next to or directly related to the masthead. For the text on the cover I applied a glow overlay to make the text a lot more readable against the background. I contained most of my information within the left third and did not go against this convention as I felt that keeping the text on the cover in mostly one area kept it looking a lot cleaner than if the text would be spread out over the cover as I had saw in one of my real media examples.

I kept a consistent house theme across the cover and the contents page, following the same red/white colour scheme and banner layout. I used the same font for the masthead and also the header of the contents page to differentiate it from the other text on the page. I could have looked into finding ways to make the other text more interesting in terms of font and design but I did not due to time restraints.

I used the convention of a large main image as the background of my cover, which I had seen done in my real media however those images were of people whereas I used a location, in this instance the sixth form building.

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

My magazine mostly represents the Sixth Form in quite a general way, with no particular representations of groups other than it just trying to appeal to Sixth Form students. Somewhere I would like to improve if I were to do the task again would be to find ways to represent more groups within Sixth Form rather than just the Sixth Form itself.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media What kind of media institution might distribute your media

product and why?product and why?

The magazine would be distributed by the Sixth Form itself to the students as this would be the easiest way for the magazine to reach it’s intended audience.

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

The audience for the magazine would be Sixth Form students, age range 16-18 who attend Nicholas Chamberlaine.

How did you attract/address your audience?How did you attract/address your audience?

I tried to have a somewhat modern design to suit the 16-18 year old audience the magazine is aimed at. The masthead and cover line are both in a modern font, I also decided to change just ‘Sixth Form’ into ‘6ixth Form’ as a more interesting way to title the magazine. The content of the magazine is geared towards being Sixth Form relevant so that it suits its purpose for the audience, of giving them information and pieces relating to the Sixth Form. I tried to have a range of information with things relating to fashion and art that may appeal to different students interests but if I were to do the project again I would try to have more content aimed specifically at certain interests to attract the audience with those interests more.

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

I have learnt a lot more about using Photoshop to create media like this, such as finding fonts, manipulating and adding borders to images, manipulating text and overall just general photo-shop skills. I used slideshare as a way to upload my R&P and Evaluation, something which I had also not done before.