2. Before you begin…
• You must answer all the questions!
• The PowerPoint will enable you to type up
your notes.
• However each question must be presented
as instructed. The exam board do not want to
see uploaded PowerPoint Jpegs!
• You must use visual stimuli in your
evaluations including:
• Your final products, screen grabs of drafting,
your analysis, evidence of genre and
audience research, professional examples to
compare, company logos etc.
3. 1. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
• Does your project look like a music magazine? Why?
• What conventions have you used? Does it subvert conventions
or conform to magazine conventions?
• What analysis of existing professional products did you do?
• Does your magazine clearly fit into the music genre or it
unclear what genre it is?
• How have you used models as music artists?
• How have you used photography, editing and mise en scene?
How have you used layout design?
• Present on Voicethread.
4. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
• How does you magazine represent the demographic
( age, gender, ethnicity, region, class, sexuality, physical
ability)?
• How do the models, layout design and language
combine to represent a particular social group?
• Does the magazine reflect the representation of the
intended audience?
• Is it subverting or conforming to certain stereotypes?
• To be presented as a prezi.
5. 3. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and why?
• What magazine publishing house might own your magazine? IPC,
EMAP, Conde Nast?
• Where might your magazine be distributed (sold in traditional
newsagents, clothing retailers, given away at clubs or available
exclusively online/ mag apps)?
• How frequently will the magazine be circulated (weekly, monthly)?
• Will it be available through subscription?
• What data have you got on magazine sales in your chosen genre-
are magazines in your genre selling well? Use ABC stats.
• What is the magazine’s website like? How popular is it? Is the
material in the magazine exclusive to the printed version?
• To be presented directly onto the
wikipage.
6. 4. Who would be the audience for your
media product?
• How does you magazine target the market demographic ( age, gender,
ethnicity, region, class, sexuality, physical ability)?
• Think about marketing and socio-economic groups (A-E).
• Is there an ideal readership profile you can create?
• Can you create a consumer profile for your magazine- for example what
TV channels do they watch or radio stations do they listen to?
• Incorporate any of the audience and genre research you conducted.
• To be presented on powtoon.
• Below is an example of a prezi that addresses this question.
• http://bethurwin.blogspot.co.uk/p/evaluation-4-who-would-be-audience-
for.html
7. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
• Does your magazine use conventions from other professional
magazines that might help attract an audience? Or does your
magazine have a USP?
• Did you choose language techniques, layout design, fonts, colours
locations, props, costumes and models and in order to
communicate particular ideas to your audience?
• Again consider the audience research you conducted and
feedback you got when it was finished.
• To be presented as a Youtube video.
• Very detailed example below.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LFFftXb3s4&safe=active
8. 6. What have you learnt about technologies
from the process of constructing the product?
• What is the process you went through to create your product?
• How have you used an SLR or bridge camera? What have you
learnt about using it- any specific in- camera techniques (manual
focus, using flash)?
• What websites did you use through the production?
• What post production programs have you used such as Photoshop
or any desk top publishing software?
• How have you used web applications and online forums to
showcase your research, planning, drafting, final products and
evaluation (prezi, slideshare, Youtube, powtoon and of course
wikispaces)?
• To be presented as a either a slideshare
or sliderocket.
9. • What have you learnt about the conventions of magazine
productions and what progress have you made from the
student mag?
• Think about every aspect of both productions and scrutinise
every decision you made?
• Think about the production as a journey from the initial
sketching to the final product?
• What have others said about your magazine since you finished
it?
• To be presented as a detailed prezi.
• Example below:
• http://www.slideshare.net/SuzyQuinn13/prelim-to-
music-magazine
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what
do you feel that you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
10. • What have you learnt about the conventions of magazine
productions and what progress have you made from the
student mag?
• Think about every aspect of both productions and scrutinise
every decision you made?
• Think about the production as a journey from the initial
sketching to the final product?
• What have others said about your magazine since you finished
it?
• To be presented as a detailed prezi.
• Example below:
• http://www.slideshare.net/SuzyQuinn13/prelim-to-
music-magazine
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what
do you feel that you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
