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1. Planning to use Wix, Weebly, popplet pinterest and thinglink to make my evaluation.
1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
­ Discuss the ways in which your magazine incorporates generic conventions expected in
this type of product. Identify specific examples from your work and compare with real
media texts. ​Use key terminology​ when describing the features of your magazine.
­ Have you developed any conventions of this genre magazine?
­ Have you challenged any expectations/conventions of this kind of product?
­ Does your use of conventions indicate what genre of music your magazine is about?
­ Which media texts influenced your work?
My pop Magazine, Enterprise, intended for teenagers of both genders, uses examples of
conventions in real media texts such as a Masthead, Puff, anchorage text, main image
and a sell line. My cover features several different media conventions other than these
that you can find a lot of magazines such as page adverts along the bottom of the page
showing the reader what they can find inside. This sort of convention can be seen on
popular magazines such as V and Billboard on occasion. On my front cover and
contents page to Enterprise logo can be seen giving my magazine a brand identity. This
idea was inspired through seeing NME do the same thing with their logo placement. The
Puff was an idea borrowed from Kerrang and the sell line was inspired by Billboard.
I have developed other conventions such as colour/layout/style. The basic house style of the
magazine has been extended throughout the pages to give the magazine a Strong brand
identity. and look about it. Usually a magazine such as Kerrang for example will feature a
particular graphic and place it on every page in some way, be it in the text or surrounding
the page numbers. In my magazine, I have picked three colours and one style (red, blue
and yellow to fit a pop style) to put them with, this continues to recur on every page,
Developing on the usual convention by expanding on continuity. Where some
magazines will change the style of one page completely for something they have
featured, I have kept it the same to stress continuity.
I have challenged media conventions such as fonts. I took this one feature and meddled with
it and tried some new ideas with it in such a way most magazines somehow manage to
miss. When looking at magazines for inspiration I noticed one thing they constantly do is
use one same font for their text in long articles. Some magazines even featured as little
as two fonts, one for titles and subtitles and one for text elsewhere, two magazines I
sampled in my research that were guilty of doing this on their cover and contents were
NME and even Kerrang. I decided to challenge this convention and chose several
different fonts albeit they were all similar (Eg arial, Halvetica and Open Sans) but the fact
is that they are all different and that adds a surprising amount of variety and
attractiveness to a magazine when you simply look at a page of text. This also diverts
from the norm of magazines. Going against the expectations for music magazines.
Something I discovered in my survey results is that the more variety there is in the minor
details can make all the difference in the world.

2. My magazine can be identified as a pop magazine by it’s fun and colourful appearance.
When comparing my magazine to Kerrang during the making and research stages I
could instantly separate them, Kerrang has dark colours for the background and the
artists are generally dressed in black with typically dark/emo/gothic looks such as long
black hair and dark denim jackets whereas my magazine has various bright colours and
the artists are neatly dressed and the font is very fun and rounded.
Some magazines I looked at for inspiration included NME, Billboard magazine and NME.
These all helped me design my magazine as they give me layout ideas, font ideas,
colour ideas and more.
I developed my conventions from a wide variety of magazines and took a little something
from everything. I challenged these by adapting them myself to fit my own magazine and
give them a different feel to other magazines. Presentation was something that came
into play with the convention placement, colour, shape and size and in the end it came
out looking very attractive to me and it’s down to playing with the ideas and making them
my own as well as I could.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
­ Which social groups are represented in your magazine? Discuss in terms of age, race,
class, gender etc?
­ Are these social groups represented in a stereotypical way? For example men
dominant and women passive?
­ How does this link to your intended target audience? (Explore further in Q.4)
My magazine features only white British artists However they are of different genders as to
appeal to everyone. This is not intentional nor the result of any bias nor does it represent the
magazine in anyway. The magazine features an equal amount of male and female artists on the
cover. Class cannot be fully defined from the images on the magazine, however upon closer
inspection the characters are both young and could be student and from looking between the
lines the reader may be able to identify where in the ladder they started and through reading the
article may even be able to determine where they may be now.
I have not avoided gender stereotypes in my magazine. The interviews in the exclusives and
the posing of the artists can be found to be typical. The male standing arms crossed, legs
spread in a dominant stance and the female bent down, blowing the camera a kiss, stereotyping
the two artists on the cover image.
My magazine was originally made to target teenagers from an age range of about 12­19. When
the magazine was finished the colours seemed fun and attractive enough to attract younger
audiences. The magazine could possibly reach to children and adults alike with the way it
turned out in the end the fun colouring and imagery and effects blended with the in depth yet
simplistic text makes for a suitable magazine for a wide range of ages in the target audience. In
terms of Target audience, the defining lines blurred and categories began to blur as it could fit a
lot of people and no specific criteria.

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SP: Make sure you work on developing this response and be more specific about how
you have represented social groups.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
­ Which publishing house would publish your magazine and why? Consider incentive for
their brand, how it sits with their other products, is this a global organization etc. Don’t
forget to discuss the revenue per year as well.
­How much will you charge per issue? What revenue would you expect to make in the
first year?
­ Will your product be available on different platforms?
Link your conclusions to a discussion of features included and audience appeal.
The publishing house for my magazine will be Prometheus as they have a massive
reputation and a net that covers a wide variety of platforms. A publishing house is a
company that distributes, advertises and runs magazines, Television programmes and
radio stations. The bigger the Publishing house the better your magazine will look. This
publishing house would be able to boost the ratings of my magazine and give it a strong
foundation to stand on. As this publisher already hosts magazines as a platform For
example Billboard magazine is one of their own publications and this is very popular.
Each issue of my magazine is £2 as to assure my target audience can afford the
magazine. This should cover any charges that come my way and in the first year I would
expect to make at least £2400. This would be a total made if 100 magazines were sold
for every new edition.
With Prometheus as our publisher our magazine will be advertised and featured on a few
different platforms including TV, Radio and online. Other publishers such as Tie Inc do
not reach as many platforms and only cover one area. However the full magazine will not
be accessible online unless readers sign up to the Prometheus web page otherwise
Enterprise can only be read in full through buying the real thing as there is no app
available from this publishing house. The ​c​over and contents of each new magazine may
be featured online or on TV and a small paragraph may be read on the radio but for the
full thing customers must buy the magazine. This is a technique that usually bigger
magazines like to use however it is not unknown for smaller publishers to do this. NME
receives regular radio notice.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
­ Consider the age and gender of your target audience. Link this to your choice of
features and presentational style of magazine..
­ What other magazines are similar to yours and who do they appeal to?
­ How do you plan to maintain audience interest in your product? Think about features,
free gift, incentives, exclusives etc.

4. The age of my audience (Approx 12­19) was not thought to be any specific gender. The
magazine cover was made to be unisex. A magazine anyone in the target age can read.
None of the colours used for my magazine are particularly girly nor particularly boyish.
The main colour theme red, blue and yellow/gold is thought to be gender neutral.
A magazine similar to mine is NME. NME Is similar as with each issue the colour
scheme continues throughout the pages and is also fit for both male and female
audiences in the same age range. This best selling magazine always features exclusives
and sometimes fun games and competitions just the same as mine.
To maintain a strong interest in my magazine, new editions will always feature similar
attractive covers and include different competitions and posters. This will keep the
people reading my magazine involved and happy with the product. There will always be
something interesting to read such as an exclusive, something interesting to do such as
a crossword or quiz and something interesting to have such as a free dropout.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
­ Link this to your audience profile (i.e what age, gender they are)
­ Are there particular features in your magazine that would appeal to your audience?
­Discuss your choice of cover images and double page spread images. How did these
appeal to your chosen target audience?
­ Consider the use of colour and font choice. How would this appeal to the target
audience? What impact does that have and how does it reflect the genre of the
magazine?
­ Link examples back to generic conventions of real media texts.
­ Include some ​audience feedback​. Particularly focus on your intended target audience.
What have you learned from this feedback?
To attract my audience I will use appropriate language and in some cases slang to help
readers relate to the texts they are reading. Putting so much as an exclamation point or
structuring a sentence in a particular way such as writing it as some people will talk to
their friends. Another form of attraction seen in my magazine is the type of music. Most
teenagers in my Target audience age range listen to fun pop music and love the internet
hence why the main article in my magazine is of two pop/electronic artists who started
on the internet where my audience will have seen them.
The colour of the font, while mostly black, in some places has been made brighter and
funner colours as it appeals more and makes the magazine seem much more fun and
bubbly.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the
product?
­ Strengths and weaknesses of the camera equipment. Canon DSLR.
­ Talk about the photography process, were there any problems you faced, how did you
resolve these issues?

5. ­Desk top publishing software – what have you learnt about editing images and page
design? Were there particular effects that you found useful for creating your product?
Use ​specific examples of​ ​tools​ used.
­ ​InDesign​ – How useful was this programme when constructing your media text? Was
there anything you found difficult about this programme? Any limitations?
­ Photoshop – how did you find this programme? Which tools did you use to help
construct your magazine successfully?
The camera we used gave us high quality results that were great for my magazine.
However, there was a bit of a problem. We took lots of pictures and there were plenty
that we could have potentially used however quite a lot of pictures we had taken came
out blurry. We had to retake the main cover image and a few others. The images we had
used props for were too blurry to use or fix and we had no other opportunity to capture
them. Instead we just took different pictures and used these.
Editing the images was a different process altogether. Using photoshop I had to crop
around the models as to avoid the white background showing up on the background of
the magazine. In Photoshop I used precision to get the finest quality from my cover. I
used the eraser tool and cut around the edges to all my images as to avoid white lines
around the figures.
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
­ Discuss the planning stage, the research into the genre, flat plans, call sheets, etc and
explain how this detailed planning helped you produce your magazine.
­ Discuss the skills shown in your prelim compared to your skills shown in the full task.
Use specific examples.
­ How have you developed your usage of Photoshop and InDesign?
­ Do you feel more confident with the equipment such as your use of DSLR cameras and
DTP?
­ How successful do you feel your end product is at fulfilling the given brief?
Since the prelim task, I’ve learnt the true powers of photoshop and how to harness them. I have
been able to make shapes and patterns for backgrounds and how to make effects. I also found
the full extent of the adjustments tool that can change the full image to improve the quality.
The flat plans were the main foundation for my magazine which I followed closely. These did
help me keep my cover neat and prevented it from getting too messy and unorganised. The call
sheets I developed helped me keep track of what was happening and when, however one
problem I ran into was only planning one photo shoot. After uploading the images I found more

6. than half of them to be blurry and had to retake. The second photos were much better and
clearer.
For the pictures I used my own DSLR camera which I was very comfortable with. I was able to
edit the pictures much easier after the definition went up on the retake. In editing with
Photoshop the photos were much nicer looking after they were sharpened and cropped and
they stood out against the background making the cover look so much nicer.
My final product really filled all the checkboxes I aimed for and the brief has been closely
followed. Everything was used to its full extent and many different factors were used with range.