1. In what ways does your media product use, challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
With my magazine cover I used
forms and conventions of real
media products such as in my
magazine, I have a mast head, sub
head, main cover line and cover
lines including a bar code and issue
date. Looking at real life media
products, I’ve contributed their
ideas into my magazine however it’s
not as good as a real magazine. The
colour scheme I’ve also used in my
magazine conform to the
conventions of real media magazine
products as majority of magazine
covers use a pallet of either two or
three mutual colours or colours that
contrast each other.

2. Who is your media product targeted?
My magazine front cover represents
students between the ages 16-19 in
education that not only have a
business aspect to them but also a
tone of freeness as the magazines
name is ‘6th form’ which is an
abbreviation for sixth form which
teenagers would be fond of. My
magazine cover is aimed at students
that have a balanced link between
social life and school work and if you
like to keep up with exam details and
information but also keep up with the
fashion, news and trends in sixth
form. There is no informal language in
the magazine except the masthead as
it’s an abbreviation. The magazine can
also be targeted for parents and
teachers however it’s more
appropriate for students.

3. Does your media product represent a
social group?
My media product does not intentionally
represent any social group as there is only
one photograph of a student in my cover
which is in a library, smiling to herself
under her photography book. This can be
interpreted in many different ways such as
the student could be seen as a hard
working person in a library reading a book
however to others it could be seen as
someone smiling to themselves, not being
too serious and letting loose in a business
like environment and reading a
photography book in general showing that
there’s a sense of creativity. My media
product therefore doesn’t represent any
social group and it’s appropriate that it
doesn’t because people wouldn’t feel
intimidated or put off about a magazine
cover if it doesn’t include what they don’t
find intriguing

4. What kind of media institution would
distribute your media product?
The sixth form would be the first
distributor or the magazine as they are
the reason for the magazine and the
reason why the magazine exists. If the
school distributes the magazines, people
can pick them up from reception or could
also be distributed from tutor time.

5. How did you attract your audience ?
I attractied my audience by adding an
imperative ‘your favourite college magazine’
manipulating their thoughts into thinking that
this is really the best college magazine, once
they believe that, it attracts them. The cover
lines ‘Just In!’ and ‘Take the poll! Have your
say!’ attract the readers because they’ll want
to know what’s ‘Just In’ and will want to ‘Take
the poll’, therefore attracting the readers. I
used minimal yet bold and intriguing features
in the magazine such as only a mast
head, cover line, sub headline, two images and
a barcode. The simplicity of the magazine
would be more attracting to the students as in
my questionaire, majority said they’d like a
magazine with more images than text and if
they see a magazine with less text and more
capturing images, they’re more likely to pick it
up, attracting them. I also will be changing the
colour scheme every new magazine cover, that
way the readers will be even more interested
with what’ll come next with the magazine.

6. What have you learnt about technology
from this making of this media product?
Doing this media product, I’ve learn
about medium, long and close up
shots, optical centre shots, alignment
and how to use photoshop not only
on computers from past knowledge
but now on MAC’s, cropping has also
been a difficult task on the MAC but
I’ve also mastered that. I also now
know how to use SlideShare which I
can upload onto my blog via
presentation along with designing my
blog and how to set up a blog in
general.

7. From the preliminary task what have
you learnt?
From the preliminary task, I’ve learnt
how to take medium shots, with the
subject in focus as well as the model
and that’s what I have done in my
magazine cover. I’ve also learnt how to
use a pallet well and to use a good
colour scheme as that’s what I’ve
contributed in my media magazine.
From the questionnaire, the students
wanted more vibrant and bright
coloured texts and covers to attract
them which is why I’ve done.