Evaluation
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?
My media product consists of a massive headline that stands out called ‘Vibez’ like most magazines have. My music magazine has a male character that represent the genre RnB/ Hip/Hop.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
It is targeted to both genders aged 18-40 .It stands out as there is a background of smoke which represent to adults who smoke or vape. But also gives a mysterious atmosphere of what these types of music will be about.
3. What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why?
Stockley Academy as that is my institution that I got to and all the students are nowadays into the same type of music so they would definitely be interested also some teachers too. In this case magazines would go around quick in a school as people would see their friends featured in it so would support them by getting a magazine. More to this, it is constituted in one building so makes it easier to go around.
4. Who would be the audience for the media product?
The audience would be to both male and female as anyone could be interested into Hip/Hop and RnB. The age range would be 18-40 as the older people get the more they get interested they are in these type of music. Plus it matches their age group as they would learn and follow along with their friends or people they know that listen to these type of music.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
I used black grey and white as my main colours because they are the main three colours that loads of people wear and like the colour of and it is simple. I used bold text with certain heading for example the heading of the magazine name of course. I used the same colours throughout as I wanted the magazine cover and contents page to have a colour coordination to make it look professional and sophisticated.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have used many technologies through creating my own Music Magazine such as Photoshop for editing images and cropping them out to make them look professional. I have use InDesign to actually create my magazine on there and using the columns and grids to help put my images and texts in place. More to this, I also used Microsoft for certain things to get to my magazine point such as Word document for initial ideas.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt?
I have learnt how to use many different technologies that I have never used before. I have learnt what GRANITE is and the different type of codes and conventions within a magazine. I also learnt how to sue different software’s that I haven’t used in ICT so it was good learning something that was not being in a class that is all about computer based topics but something completely different.
