Final Product!

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

In this evaluation i am going to discuss what improvements i have changed and why i have changed it. I created my own title for my music magazine as it shows my understanding of what a conventional masthead should look like, I choose pink and blue so it was perceivable to my target audience and what gender it was mostly focusing on. On my music front cover I added three more images however what I did differently was I didn't put a border round it, like more college magazine, this was my way of developing my skills to make a secondary image look sofisticated  and provocative to look at. The font I used on my music magazine is comparable with the genre type I have choose and is effortless read. Whereas the college magazine is not comfortably read as the font is too thin and not bold enough to read, the font isn't artificial to the type of audience it is aiming, therefore only some will purchase this magazine, more than likely it will be female. That is why I choose a font that would compliment my genre and is clearcut to the target audience. Overall compared to my college , my music magazine has more of the conventions that would appeal to an audience, therefore, showing my knowledge and research has concluded to produce my final product. 

Evaluation// 6)What have you learnt from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation// 5)Ho did you attract your audience?

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Evaluation// 4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

The stereotypical gender audience for my magazine would be girls as my colour scheme and layout is more suitable for girls. Also the content of the feature story is aimed at a girl leaving a band to become a solo artist. On the other hand the age of my audience will be students/teen based as they are more aware of the latest music out which is much more important to them than the older generation. This is because teens want to look popular knowing all the fun facts about artists than their friends to gain more popularity. Whereas the older generation prefer to listen and read about music because its their passion or they are a fan of there music that the artist produces. However my magazine will be retailed at a reasonable price in contrast to the minimum wage for a teen, so that it is affordable for them to buy. My magazine is more aimed at the older teens like 13-19 as there isn't enough magazines that is produced to influence them into reading music magazine. So therefore created a magazine for the older teens as well as keep the younger teens in the same magazine, combination of different ages. However i created a reader profile which included aspects of mise-en-scene which related to my target audience, i.e. apps, games, fonts and themes. Although i decided to stay with the stereotypical theme colours which are quite bright and bold, more eye catchy and contrasted well with my feature artist. Some of the mise-en-scene i included was fonts that were bold curly and out standing to read from a distance, as well as using luminous colours to set the type of genre and typical target audience. I made a video finding out what young teenagers would expect in a pop magazine and one thing they said was up to-date charts and who is at the top and why they made it to the top. This helped me decide what i would include in my magazine, meaning that i would include the charts in the magazine as well as a interview with an artist. This is what my research said they would expect in a pop genre magazine.

Evaluation// 3)What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation// 2)How does your media product represent particular social group?

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Evaluation// 1)In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?

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Double page spread.

This is my double page spread and it contains an interview with Lucinda that has left a group band to be a solo artist. I did a survey on the questions that are in this article on what people said and used that to influence me to write this article. I have used a brick background to show that nothing can get in her way of succeeding in the music industry. The tagline next to the main image was just all in one vertical line however it looked to long so i cut it into two lines, so it doesn't seem there is much to read. To break the article down i placed stoppers throughout the content, this gives the reader a chance to read some of it then go do something else then come back to read some and know where they had stopped.

Process of double page spread

Using Photoshop has been the most difficult way to produce a magazine. However Photoshop has gave me a new set of skills that have developed from making my college magazine to my music magazine. From creating my front cover for college information, my Masthead was bright pink and my subject looked very out of focus and brighter than normal, whereas, my music magazine includes images that i have taken myself and edited to look naturalistic but glamorous as a star should look like. In this process i used the stamp tool to make my subject skin look smooth and gentle and less spotty. I also used the shape tool to create a square with round rims to place a second image inside it to show the use of images i have taken. On the other hand my main heading for this page is diagonal across the main image to show that this DPS belongs to this star who features the most in this music magazine.