My media Evaluation

1. MY
EVALUATION
BY CHLOE KIELY

2. QUESTIONS
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of a real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing the product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel that
you have learnt in the progression
8. How successful do you feel your end product is in fulfilling
the task? How well does it fit the brief?

3. QUESTION 1
1. In what ways does
your media product use,
develop or challenge
forms and conventions
of a real media products?

4. QUESTION 1 –
Throughout my magazine, I have tried to include the codes and
conventions of a real music magazine. Towards the start of the year, I
analysed more pop magazines such as Top of the Pops and We love Pop,
pointing out the different codes and conventions and why they are used.
Below is a hyperlink of my blog where I have analysed the codes and
conventions:
Chloe Kiely's Blog
The main codes and conventions that I annotated were:
• Main cover star
• Cover lines
• Anchorage text
• Skyline
• Images
• And the simple conventions such as bar code, price, date and URL

5. QUESTION 1 -
After learning about all the different magazine codes and
conventions.
In my front cover, the codes and conventions that I used are a
skyline cover line at the top of my magazine, I used a bar code,
date line, price, masthead and price line. I used a main cover
artist main cover line with four cover lines and a puff which is an
exclusive. In my contents page, I used three images of cover
stars, I used loads of articles, an editors note and a link to my
magazines social. Furthermore, other codes and conventions
that I used in my double page spread are a question and answer
styled interview with my main cover star and details on the
artists new album and single. I tried to stick closely to normal
generic codes and conventions so that my magazine would look
very much similar to other pop magazines like Top of the pops.

6. QUESTION 1 -
The colour scheme that I have used for my magazine is
pinks, purples and reds. These are all quite female orientated
colours which goes along with my target audience of females
predominately. The colour is intended to attract a wide range
of a female target audience.
In my magazine, I also put my main cover star, Aurora,
underneath my masthead for the effect that shows that the
magazine is not all about the main cover star and there are
other features to the magazine.

7. QUESTION 1 -
This shows my front cover of my magazine
with annotated codes and conventions that
I have used. I have tended to keep to the
normal codes and conventions of a pop
magazine.

8. QUESTION 2
2. How does your
media product
represent particular
social groups?

9. QUESTION 2
My magazine Note is aimed towards females who
are younger children and young teenagers as it
uses a bright colour scheme focused mainly using
the colours pink, red and purples. It has quite a
simplistic look to it as it is for a younger audience.
I tried to make my main cover star Aurora look
quite relatable to the fans as she is wearing just a
simple costume with leggings and a hoodie. This
shows that my female artiste is quite down to earth
and relates to her audience.
Research into potential Target Audience -
Chloe Kiely's Blog

10. QUESTION 2 -
As you can see, my main cover star is wearing
Black leggings, a black vest and a red jacket.
This shows that she is quite relatable and
wears clothes that anyone can wear.
Model's Clothing - Chloe Kiely's Blog

11. QUESTION 2 -
My secondary images are two male artists who are wearing
quite similar to the main cover star and each other as they
are both wearing a simple and quite relatable costume – t-
shirts, bomber jackets and jeans.
Secondary Artist - Chloe Kiely's Blog

12. QUESTION 3
3. What kind of media
institution might
distribute your media
product and why?

13. QUESTION 3 -
On my blog, I researched different publishing companies and
the different times of magazines that the company publishes.
Chloe Kiely Blog - Publishing Companies
On my blog, I researched four publishing companies and
looked at what companies distribute in real life. The
companies I researched were:
• 1.) Immediate Media Company
• 2.) Bauer Media Group
• 3.) Egmont UK
• 4.) Time Inc UK

14. QUESTION 3 -
For my own magazine, I decided to use the distributor 'Immediate
Media Company' because of the types of magazines that they
publish including 'Top of the pops', 'Match of the day', 'Top Gear
Magazine' and 'dream works magazine'. The distributor produces
quite child like and simplistic magazines. I also chose this
publishing company because of the wide range of other type of
media such as TV, magazines and sport. I think with this
distributor, my magazine 'Note' will fit in with the other magazine
styles they currently publish.

15. QUESTION 4
4. Who would be the
audience for your
media product?

16. QUESTION 4 -
In my 're-make re-model' task, I researched 'Q' magazine and
the target audience for the magazine is both girls and boys
and teenagers interested in music charts. This task helped
me understand the layout, house style and the front cover
stars attitude so I could use this general appearance as a
sort of guide for my own magazine

17. QUESTION 4 -
My magazine 'Note' targets both girls and boys but
predominately target girls due to the bright, vibrant and pink
colour scheme of the magazine. The age range is older
children and young teenagers mainly between the ages of 7-
16 who are interested in latest artists.
Chloe Kiely Blog - Research into Target Audience

18. QUESTION 5
5. How did you
attract/address your
audience?

19. QUESTION 5 -
MASTHEAD
First of all, I began my magazine with the name 'Solo' but I soon
realised that this name was quite specific for my magazine and
restricted my target audience so I decided to change my name
to 'Note'. I wanted the name of my magazine to be short, easy to
say and remember and worked well in the left third so it is easier
to read in the magazine rack. I tried to make my masthead look
as professional as possible and found most pop magazines use
generally quite girly colours like 'Top of the Pops' so therefore I
used pink as a background and the name written in big bold
writing. The word 'Note' seems quite practical in a music
magazine as it obviously has lots of musical connotations so
fits the magazines musical mise-en-scene as it also has a music
note next to the word.
Masthead ideas - Chloe Kiely's Blog

20. QUESTION 5 -
COLOURS
Similar to 'Top of the Pops' and 'We Love Pop', the colours I chose are
stereotypically more female associated colours like different types of pinks,
purples, reds and white. I used a black colour to make things such as the
name of the magazine stand out more. The different sorts of pink colours
make the magazine look unique which reel in a mostly female audience.
IMAGES
The images I used show my cover star as a artist who is quite open,
confident and proud. She seems to be quite friendly and relatable as she is
smiling especially on the front cover. This also allows the audience to
engage with the artist and therefore read the magazine because the artist is
using a friendly and open attitude. On the contents page, the image I chose
to use was where the main cover star is not looking which shows the artists
mystery. Luke, one of my secondary artists is seen to be laughing which
highlights that the attitude of the magazine is friendly. My secondary artist
Charlie seems to have a quite serious attitude which shows that my
secondary artist is quite mysterious. On the double page spread, the image
that I used allows my artist to use a direct address to allow the audience to
feel like they can relate to her.
House Style - Chloe Kiely's blog

21. QUESTION 6
6. What have you learnt
about technologies from
the process of
constructing the
product?

22. QUESTION 6 -
During the making of my magazine, I used around three
programmes to construct my magazine – Paint.Net / Page
Plus / Publisher. There are lots of strengths to these
programmes:

23. QUESTION 6 -
During the making of my magazine, I used around three programmes to
construct my magazine – Paint.Net / Page Plus / Publisher. There are also
some weaknesses to these programmes:
As well as using Page Plus for my actual
magazine, I also used it for my page plus
exercise which was a task set to make
sure my skills in Page Plus were good
enough to use on my actual magazine.

24. QUESTION 6 -
BLOGGER
This was one of my favourite pieces of softwares that I used
because after getting used to it, I found this easy to use
because it was simple and had everything I needed in the one
programme. I used this to track my journey through making
my magazine using drafting and planning & Research into
similar products & organisation. It was simple to make posts
and upload any work and research I have done. The use of
blogger also meant that I could access blogger anytime and
was a much more efficent way to work. I could also view my
peers work on their blogs for inspiration.
Chloe Kiely Blog

25. QUESTION 7
7. Looking back at your
preliminary task, what do
you feel that you have
learnt in the progression

26. QUESTION 7 -
In the preliminary task, we were told to create a
school magazine with a front cover and contents
page. This is the magazine that I made:
In the preliminary task, it seems to be quite basic
with the photograph on the front cover seems to
be quite blurry. There are too many cover lines that
make it seem really cramped up. The puff is too
big.
Preliminary Task – Chloe Kiely Blog

27. QUESTION 7 -
The things that I
have changed
from my
preliminary task
to my end
product are:
• The photographic
choices in my
preliminary task are blurry so I made
sure I used a professional camera to
make sure my pictures look professional
• In my preliminary task, I dotted cover lines around my artist but in
my final task, I kept my cover lines down the left third of the
magazine
• In my preliminary task, I did not use lots of additional features but
in my main task, I used other additional features to make my
magazine look more realistic such as anchorage text and skylines.

28. QUESTION 7 -
As a first try, I think this was quite good as it was a magazine that did
look like it belonged to a school. Through this task, I learnt that
photographic choices for my magazine mattered and I couldn’t afford
for my magazine’s cover star to be blurry. I also realised that contents
pages need to be packed full of images and content (i.e. articles) but not
so much that it looks too full and overwhelming.
However, during this preliminary task, I did use a wide range of
magazines codes and conventions:
• Price
• Date
• Barcode
• Main cover line and Main cover artist
• Other cover lines
• Other images
• A puff

29. QUESTION 8
8. How successful do you
feel your end product is in
fulfilling the task? How well
does it fit the brief?

30. QUESTION 8 -
Personally, I think that my magazine
was successful and turned out just
how I wanted it to. It fits the brief
well as the brief was ‘a music
magazine with three elements –
Front cover, Contents Page and
Double Page Spread.’ The magazine
has all three elements. Overall, I am
so happy with the way it turned out
and it was made just the way, I
thought it would be. I used lots of
pop magazines codes and
conventions and I used the Top of
the pops house colours to highlight
that it is a pop magazine. The front
cover uses the codes and
conventions – anchorage text, main
cover line, main cover artist, skyline,
dateline, price, URL and masthead.
My Final Magazine - Chloe Kiely's Blog

31. QUESTION 8 -
The contents page uses
codes and conventions
– editors note,
masthead, images (with
a main cover star), page
numbers, musical notes
(to extend the musical
mise-en-scene), and
social media links. As
well as content with 16
articles and 3 picture
contents.

32. QUESTION 8 -
In my double page spread, I used the codes and conventions – headline, pull
quotes, images and question-answer style interview. The headline uses the colour
scheme and is the same colour as the artists hoodie to extent the house colour
style.