Evaluation Question 3

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

Any music magazine publisher that focuses on my genre of music which is indie folk and others of this type would be able to distrubute my product, they would have a pre-determind audience and although my magazine appeals to the younger generation who are interested in up-coming musicians or any audience interested in music they would be suitable as they would be interested no matter what they were reading.

 

Evaluation Question 1

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

These are the conventions of current music magazine that I found after evaluation of similar media products

masthead

sub-headings

cover stories

pictures

captions

page references

quotes from articles

big images covering almost all the space on a page

I have included all of these within my media product which represent and fit in well with the design of my magazine. The double page spread contains an image that covers the whole 2 pagesd with the writing filling the space that the image doesnt, this has worked well and is comparable to other media products as a double page spread usualy contains one main story rather than seperate cover stories. My front cover also has references to other pages within the magazine and many sub headings informing the reader on other sections of the magazine. My front cover also challenges conventions by having a main image that isnt kept within the bnorder of the page althought the top of the page contains the title over the head of "George" as when stood in a magzine rack this is all that will be readable if it isnt displayed on the font of the rack. Many music magazines have a single coloured silhouette of a single artist when my cover has "George" posing with his guitar that overflows over the edge of the page I feel this has worked well as it stands out form the normal and makes my cover interesting because its different. My contents page containes the normal information a contents page includes such as the contents for the magazine but I have used less images than current magazine as many publishers use this page to display many images but I felt this detracted from the importance of this page so I used less images to highlight the information.

Evaluation Question 4 and 5

I have created a prezi to answer these questions.

http://prezi.com/4r31oseo2um5/untitled-prezi/

Evaluation Question 6

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the processes of constructing this product?

The new Technologies I have used is the MAC that my school has in place for us to use. I have used the MAC to edit change alter and create my magazine edition for Music Matters the software upon the MAC's that I have used is Pages and IPhoto.

The MAC that I used was very helpful as it contained all of the programmes that I needed to produce a high quality magazine it had IPhoto already installed and pages which was very helpful in the designing process.
IPhoto was used to edit the images that I took on my photo shoot, my images were of high quality so they worked well with this software and i was pleased with the outcome after blemishes were removed and the contrast was altered. 

 

I have also used social networks such as Facebook, this was used to collect people to answer my questionnaire that was made in SurveyMonkey without this medium i would of had to ask people individually and the process would have been much more lengthy and tedious.

 

 

For the Photo shoots I have also used a Nikon camera that I have supplied myself with a tripod and 2 umbrella lights to remove shadows behind the camera flash and to steady the camera so that there was no wobble. all of the images i collected were from the same room and using the same setup the images were then altered on IPhoto.

Evaluation Question 7

I have made a powerpoint presentation answering question 7 of the evaluation

Evaluation question 2

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

I have used wordle to highlight and represent the most common and most inportant words in this question I feel this works well as with a simple image the answer can be implied.

My media product targets various social groups as music is for everyone to enjoy and listen to and anyone can read any music magazine. Although because of the articles and main image used on the front cover of a teenage boy, I feel that because of this it targets the younger age group.  The genre of music that my magazine includes is "indie" this is shown through the clothes that "George Stroud" wears in the images of him and it also represents folk and other various music genres, the acuostic guitar themed in both pictures also attracts the attention of yougn guitarists and young musicians because of this it attracts many social groups and I feel anyone with a music taste would feel interested in reading this magazine.

Front cover, Contents page, Double page spread

This is the completed magazine, I have changed the main image on the front cover to gain a more personal feel with the artist and I have added more images to the double page spread and contents page to add to the look of the magazine. I have edited the image on the front cover to remove some blemishes and writing on the wall that the picture was taken I did this using iPhoto. I have also added more text to the contents page and a banner including images down the bottom to show some of the information this and the next edition includes.