Evaluation

Katie Owen

EVALUATION

FRONT COVER

CONTENTS

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

FORMS and CONVENTIONS

My media product uses forms and conventions of a real media product. For example the layout of my product is structured like a real magazine. This is to make the front cover, contents and double page spread more realistic and make the audience want to look and read Beat.

The strapline for

my magazine is

"Music is the food of

the soul" I used this

because my magazine

is for teenagers that are passionate about music and I think this is something my target audience will agree with.

I made the text for my main story big to make it

stand out this is because it is very important and

will make the reader be drawn to it.

I got alot of inspiration from real magazine products. One of the real magazines was Look.

Look uses alot of slanted and diagonal layouts and in alot of its double page spreads the images go across the whole page I really liked this and wanted to use this layout in my own product.

I have used the same type of layout in my DPS.

For example the slanted images are like the

white background behind the images on Looks front cover.

When making my DPS I

wanted to include the

correct mode of address

I think I did this bcause I

used language that a teenager girl would use. I

made the interview include the write questions by writing "How did you get into the industry?" and added a short answer that

still gives the reader advice.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Beat is based on pop music and the charts with a buisness side to help people wanting to get into the music industry. The target audience is girls mainly students but an age group of 15-25 who are passionate about music. To attract and address the audience i wanted to make the layout and use of images and colours stand out but be safisticated in a way, this will attract the audience because students are at the age where they are more like adults and prefer an older look to magazine like vogue but also with a hint of look. The images are girls at similar ages to the audience so that a girl who has a dream of becoming a famous singer can have the advice from someone her own age about reaching their dreams this reasures the audience and i it help it makes them buy the product more.

The type of social group my

product is aimed at teenage

girls who love music the drama

or "glee"club type of group. My

media product represents this

sort of social group because it is

all about giving advice from current

artists about how they got into the music

industry and what you can do to improve

your chances of having a music career.

Technologies I Used

What i have learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product.....

I have learnt alot about different technologies from constructing this product. For example Photoshop this is the programme i used to make my product i have learnt different skills and how to edit photos create text and produce different layouts. I have also learnt to make a magazine you need good quality programmes that can do a range of differnt things. Before this project i would of gone to word or publisher to make a magazine and it would look non realistic now i can produce products that look like magzines.

The media institution that I think would have to distrabute my media product is Prometheus Global Media

This is because they own Billboard and Billboard is what inspires my idea. Billboard is a buisness magazine and I took this idea and wanted to make it for a teenager so it will help them to know about the music buisness.

Prometheus Global Media says "Prometheus engages people and marketers at the intersection of culture’s most powerful forces- Music, Media and Entertainment. This connectivity makes Prometheus a potent catalyst in influencing popular culture". This shows me they are passionate about music and entertainment and want to help others understand it so I think it is the perfect institution to distrabute my product Beat.

I think my product should be distrabuted at supermarkets and newsagents. This is because they have a wide range of other magazine choice and a huge range of people go to a supermarket or a newsagent everyday and by being on the shelves on show the product will catch the right target audiences eye. I would also consider my product being on a website and members pay to access more exclusive information. This would be good because the audience targeted is a niche market and many girls who will be wanted to access the magazine and are passionate about music would want exclusive information and would buy membership to the website.

Preliminary Task

I have learnt so much since i did my prelim tast at the begining of this project.

I now know what works and doesnt work for layouts, fonts, colours and pictures

for different genres of magazines. I can see from my prelim pages that you need to

reseach and look at real magazines when planning your products and consider

everything the audience will want from the product. I think my final products are

extreamly better than my prelim, eventhough my final product can be better because nothing is ever perfect but i have learnt about how you shout structure you magazine and what it should include.

The media institution that i think would have to distrabute my media product is Prometheus Global Media

Media Institution

Social Groups

I have also learnt about creating your own blog and have used

blogger.com to show the process of making my products.