my evaluation

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

My magazine uses some of the normal conventions from indie music magazines such as Q and NME. My magazine follows a similar layout to the Q magazine shown below, I did this by staying with a simple layout which enhances the image and brings the focus to the main image in the background.

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

I made my magazine appeal able to the decided target audience of indie rock, I did this by sticking to the colours that other indie rock magazines use. I also used the same font styles as the most popular indie magazines. As below the magazine has used the popular colours of red and black, so I have took this idea and used it in my magazine front cover and contents page.

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

ipc media are likely to distribute my magazine as they have experience within this area of music and would find it much easier to make the magazine a successful magazine. As they have already distributed NME then they can easily reach the correct target audience by using the researched methods which will then allow the to release it with less charges as they already know how to reach the target audience.

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

the typical audience of my magazine would be mainly people who are interested in the band paramore, the typical image of the target audience would be that of the paramore lead singer hayley Williams and the lead guitarist Josh Farro, I picture of each is shown below.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

I attracted my target audience by the use of a popular song of the band paramore as the title of the magazine(Riot) I also gave the artist on the front of the magazine a paramore tshirt which all paramore fans will recognise straight away, I also used part of the font used in this album on the front cover in order to make sure the target audience can recognise the magazine.

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


Whilst creating my products I have improved my knowledge with many technological skills including Photoshop and macromedia fireworks, as when creating my products I used a combination of both programs. I used adobe Photoshop in order to edit the pictures and bring them all together and I used macromedia fireworks to create unique fonts and adding colours and borders to the fonts. Adobe Photoshop allowed me to change the colours of the photograph and even make part of the picture to black and white by creating new layers.

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

My preliminary task was to create a front cover for a college magazine. As shown with the two magazine front covers it is clear that there has been a great improvement between the college magazine and the music magazine cover. As I only used Microsoft publisher to create the college magazine cover and I used Photoshop to create the music magazine so due to the improvement in the technology the music magazine is much better. Also i haven’t used much imagination when creating the college magazine as there is only one puff and it is very plain and boring.