Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forums and conventions of real media products?
The key conventions that i used for my student magazine was all about what is going on at the moment that students are interested in and what they talk about quite a lot. i included a picture of a student on the front cover so that the students knew it would be a student magazine because there was someone that they knew on the front. A typical contents page would include a letter from the editor, the page numbers of what is included on the magazine and also pictures of what the key conventions to the magazine are. I have included these in my own magazine by including pictures of towie and I'm a celebrity get me out of here, the page numbers that all of my stories will be on and a letter from me to the reader of the magazine. As this was my first go at making a magazine i did not do anything differently really, i thought that it would be safer to stick to what i knew and getting that right before i started to experiment.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My student magazine represents the social group of teenage girls! I have represented them to like shopping and make up and to watch all of the reality TV shows, I have used a image of a boy on the front cover so hopefully this will catch their attention and then they will read what the magazine has in it or what it is about. I have used teenage language, I have not used slang but I also have not used big complicated words that some teenagers might read and not have a clue what it means. The ratio of text to pictures is more text than pictures, but I have only done 2 page and if I was to do more then I would have included a lot more pictures further on in the magazine. I believe that i have represented them quite stereotypically.

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

a lot of schools or colleges already publish magazines like mine, because they are student magazines, but if a company invested in my magazine and started to distribute it, this could make the companies reputation a lot better as it would look like that they are helping out a school and giving something back to the community. My magazine could be distributed to any female teenage students who wish to read it, that is another reason how it could benefit a company if they decide to sponsor my magazine because they could be able to make a profit out of it.

Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience of my magazine are teenage girls. My magazine kind of fits the profile of the girls who like shopping, makeup and boys, the girls who watch the reality TV programmes and the girls who like the gossip. These are the girls that my magazine would suit, i believe that those kind of girls would really enjoy my magazine and would find out things that they didn't already know and things they would be able to discuss with their friends.


How did you attract/adress your audience?

I have included all the topics that the girls are talking about on my front cover, they are all cover lines that are contrasting with the background colour to make them stand out from other magazines so that teenage girls will see my cover lines instead of a different magazines. The background of my magazine is a boy, so that girls may see this boy and he may catch their eye or their attention straight away to make them pick the magazine up for a closer look. The colours that i have used on my magazine are yellow for the background, blue for the masthead and red for the cover lines because all these colours contrast against each other and makes the front cover eye catching and stand out. My magazine talks to the audience by telling them what it is about, catching their eye and shocking them making them wanting to buy it! Someone would want to buy my magazine because it would catch their eye straight away, it would include things that they would want to read about and stories on the front cover that would make them want to read on even more!

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

I have learnt a number of different technologies, I have learnt how to use Indesign which I found quite hard and I have also learnt how to use photoshop, which was hard to get to learn all the different tools and how they work. I mainly used photoshop on my front cover to edit it so that the bits that i wanted from the photo that i took where on there, i could choose my own colour background and my own colour masthead and bylines!!  i have also learnt how to use blogger, which i found fairly easy once it had been explained. I also learned how to use the digital camera and how to get my pictures onto the blog.