EVALUATION OF MY MAGAZINEBY LAURENT ELLIOTT

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

Eyebrows are in caps.

Cover artist overlapping mast head (magazine is well known).

White ,yellow and red theme throughout text in magazine.

Ears use 1 font and 2 different colours.

Hat Pointing hat overlapping ‘50 CENT’(gives attention to his name as well as article).

Bold masthead

Central ImageDirect eye contact which would draw in the reader.

Main Cover line(Larger Font) .EarsWith quote

Barcode price and date

Did I stick with the usual conventions in my magazine?

Eyebrows I didn’t feel a need to make

them capital

Green ,white and black theme with a little red to show

that we are breaking out of normal conventions with our magazine(used throughout)

Barcode price and date

Bold masthead

EarsUse of 1 font ,2 sizes , 3 colours

and a quote

EarsUse of 1 font ,2 sizes , 3 colours

and a quote as well as being tilted.

Main Coverline(Bigger font)

Central ImageI had my cover artist stare at the

camera to engage with the reader and his arms in directions

I was going to put the ears in

Contents analysis

XXL contents page

Bold headings

Artist image (not in central position)

Wording is around artists

My Contents Page

Standfirst

Central image

Pull qoute

Writing columns

Bold heading

How does my media product represent particular social groups

Artist has his eyebrows slit and a diamond earring showing he is up to date with current trends. As well as this he is wearing a

trendy jacket which is currently in fashion.

This artist is wearing an adidas jacket and a new era cap which is in fashion right now so males can

relate to him . Also he has a blackberry in his right hand

which is the must have phone at the moment.

My magazine is aimed towards young males from ages16-30.my magazine would

probably be getting more of a black audience due to the fact majority of the

models and artists are black .I would also say that it is obvious that my magazine is

aimed at young males as most of the artists are male and the advertisements

are also male.

Masthead associated with breaking a sound

barrier. Often associated with loud teenagers

Young popular artist

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

I have done some research and I think that IPC Media could be the best institution to

distribute my magazine .IPC Media produces over 50 magazines, with print alone reaching a vast amount of people within the UK. They currently only release one mainstream music

magazine titled NME, and this magazine is rock orientated .This means that there is

space for my magazine in their industry as it will be the only one of its genre. This would widen their fan base as well as distribute my

magazine.

Harris publications is a is an institution who potentially could distribute my magazine but has a magazine called ‘XXL’ which is slightly similar to my magazine in the fact that they both have highlights on hip hop news but I feel as my magazine is mostly UK artist based that there might be room for my magazine in their industry.

My magazine will be sold in places such as hmv or wh.smith as it is a more expensive magazine because of the quality of the magazine which appeals to middle/higher class people

Who would be the target audience for my media product?

SexMen

WomenAge16-2021-2526-3030+

Median ageRaceBlackWhiteAsainother

90%10%

48%29%19%4%25

37%32%20%11%

The target audience for my magazine is 16-30

The price of my magazine suggests that it has a lot of advertisements making it

cheaper but not cheap enough to attract a lower class

My average reader is around 25 and is either a full time worker or a part time worker and a university

student

My double page spread uses two up coming artists which would attract people pursuing a career in music as well as

producers and event organisers

How did I attract/address my audience

Top artist used in the eyebrow

Top stories in bold

Photo manipulation I cut out my feature artist to add a black

background to get rid of shadows

Bright colours attract readers attention

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

Google was my search engine which I used to get ideas, information as well as pictures of

magazine covers which was very useful

I used adobe photoshop for photo

manipulation. I used it to brighten crop and colour in pictures for

my magazine. I struggled with the

program as it isn't very easy and it was my first time using it

canon 550d was used to take the pictures for my magazine as it is a high quality camera.it taught

me how to use a professional camera as

well as lighting

Wordpress was very helpful as all the work I produced was displayed on it for my work to be marked. I found it quite difficult at

first to use as I have never blogged or used the website before but it became easier as I used it more .I can now blog and edit posts

among other things.

I used slide share as there was some difficulty uploading some file types to my blog. It was pretty simple to use and became useful

when adding documents to my blog.

I used in design to make the actual magazine ,like photoshop it was hard to use but not as hard and as time passed I got used to it and became better. Using this program I learnt how to use layers ,lock the position of the picture and experiment with different fonts.

Looking back at my preliminary task ,what do I feel I have learnt in the progression from it

to the full product?Skills Learnt In terms of skills I have to learnt how to manipulate photos using lighting photoshop and backgrounds. Another skill I have learnt is how to make shapes and manipulate them using InDesign.

PlanningWith Planning I have Learnt that I need to arrange photo-shoots way before the date as mine was very last minute and meant there was no costume changes and it was rushed.

Skills DevelopedDue to practice I have become better at a number of photo manipulation techniques such as cropping which I used to struggle with before.one way I have improved in cropping is by using smoother the line is finer and doesn’t cause pixels to be bumpy around the item.

Manipulations/RepresentationsI have learnt that using manipulation you can change a persons perception and change the representations of something, which can be a good or a bad thing.one other thing I have learnt is that by changing font colour and size ,you can make your product more presentable to a certain audience.

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