Basic Evaluation Template

Question One

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

I have used similar conventions of existing music magazine such as fonts and similar layouts, and from research of magazines helped it look more professional. The main magazines I have done my research from have been NME, Q, and Billboard as I thought that these magazines would help me most in terms of researching layouts and design for my magazine.

Question Two

       How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine could represent certain social groups because of its appeal to a teenage audience and also their taste in music may attract them to a specific genre of magazine.

·         I shall use prezi to present this question as I feel then I can include the social groups throughout

Question Three

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

A major magazine company that also sells and promotes other music magazines within a similar style and genre to the one I have produced myself, so that would be indie/pop/(alternative).

Question Four

       Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my media product would most probably be teenagers, perhaps leaning towards the late teens rather than early teens, as it isn’t too pop like or as completely mainstream as other magazines on the market. In this answer I shall also include clothes they might wear and hobbies they may have etc.

Question Five

     How did you attract/address your audience?

I addressed/attracted my audience hopefully by including artists within the indie/pop genre that I would hope they’d be interested, some mainstream and some upcoming artists. That way it promotes newer artists as well as having that familiarity of some mainstream artists in the same/very similar genre also.

 Question Six

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

I have been learning how to use InDesign and Photoshop from this process, although I am still not the best at using them I have learnt a lot more from it than when I first started, which has helped contribute towards making a better magazine.

Question Seven

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

I feel I have learnt about things that are going to attract a specific audience to a product that you are trying to promote and also  I have learnt how to use software better to create my magazine more efficiently and to help make it look more professional that it originally would’ve done. The images in my magazine now are also better than the student magazine, and connote more of an audience I am trying to achieve.

These are just basic templates of how I shall answer the questions in my evaluation, and I shall answer them using different software, such as answering them in prezi’s, videos, and other ideas which make the answers stand out more than just a basic word document.