Evaluation

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have finished my student magazine, I am pleased with how it went over all although I could of done better in some parts. For my front cover I used three images, one for the main one and two smaller images. My magazine has a standard strapline on the top of the magazine, but I thought I would do something different by having the masthead at the bottom of the page. I used the main colours of pink black and yellow which I thought would appeal to my target audience. I chose my name through people participating in my questionnaire where the told me which name they preferred. The contents page carries on the colour scheme of the front page and includes more pictures that relate to the front which connect the two.


• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My student magazine is made for teenage girls, I have represented them by including pictures of teenagers on the front. I did this to appeal to the certain age group of 16-18.

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The magazine would be on sale in college so therefore college people would be interested in it. If it was on sale elsewhere I don’t think people would buy it because they would not find the information within the magazine helpful. The college already has a magazine but this magazine would appeal more to the girls.

• Who would be the audience for your media product?
The suitable audience for my media product is for females aged 16-18, who are interested in fashion and attend the college.


• How did you attract/address your audience?
In my magazine I included a special offer to win a bash ticket, this would interest the students as the bash is something they would want to go to. I also used words like ‘exclusive’ to make them want to buy it.

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I used Microsoft publisher to create my magazine front cover and contents. I used this because of the ways you can edit the document easily and upload digital camera pictures.