This document contains questions for a student to evaluate their work in creating a music magazine as part of their coursework. It asks the student to reflect on the distribution, marketing, representation, targeting, and construction of their magazine. This includes considering what corporation could distribute the magazine, how they targeted their audience, what technologies they used, and how their work compares to real music magazines. The evaluation aims to assess the student's understanding and skills in creating an authentic magazine product for their target demographic.

1. UNIT G321 – MUSIC MAGAZINES
Evaluation Home Learning
What corporation(s) / conglomerate(s) would you like to distribute your
product?
Why would a corporation / conglomerate be the best choice for your magazine?
What other similar magazines do they already distribute? Why might this be
an advantage? (Make comparisons!)
Where could they distribute your magazine to?
What kind of marketing campaign could the corporation(s) /
conglomerate(s) do for the release of your magazine?
What other products (synergy) could the institution create for your magazine?
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

2. UNIT G321 – MUSIC MAGAZINES
Evaluation Home Learning
What technologies have you used during the Preliminary Project, Research
& Planning and Production? What task did you use them for?
What are some of the benefits of using these technologies?
What are some of the tools you encountered whilst using these
technologies? (Step-By-Step Guide)
What are some of the limitations/disadvantages of the technologies?
What other technologies/tools would you like to use in future controlled
assessments?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?

3. UNIT G321 – MUSIC MAGAZINES
Evaluation Home Learning
Have you constructed stereotypes in your magazine? How have you done this through
media codes?
Who is the target audience for your magazine? How have they been targeted by
your representations?
What is the PREFERRED and the OPPOSITIONAL readings of your representations?
Does the representation CONSTRUCT or REFLECT reality?
What other professional magazines could you compare yours to that has very
similar OR vastly different representations?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?

4. UNIT G321 – MUSIC MAGAZINES
Evaluation Home Learning
What is the DEMOGRAPHICS of your target audience?
Age, Gender, Social Class & Ethnicity
How did the genre of your music magazine attract them?
What images did you take, use and then edit to attract your target audience?
Shot Types, Models, Costume, Props, Edits
How did your choice of models conform/subvert stereotypes of the music genre that you
chose?
How does your cover lines and main double page spread story attract your audience?
Pun, Alliteration, Hook/Enigma, Mode of Address
What kind of marketing campaigns do you think would attract your target audience when
your magazine is released?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience?

5. UNIT G321 – MUSIC MAGAZINES
Evaluation Home Learning
For this question, you need to make direct comparisons to other magazines, and explain how
you made your magazine look professional.
Think back to the RESEARCH you carried out, the PLANS you designed, the
PHOTOGRAPHS you took and the EDITS you made.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
FRONT COVER
• Masthead
• Cover Lines
• Anchorage
• Main Image
• Typography
• Skyline / Footer
• Pug / Puff
CONTENTS
• Headline
• Anchorage
• Main Image
• Typography
• Editor’s Letter
• Subscription
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
• Headline
• Stand-First Paragraph
• Main Image
• Strapline
• Columns
• Block Quotes
• Main Story

6. You can discuss the following issues and how your understanding has improved:
TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS (Using equipment & framing a shot)
USE OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE (Publisher to Photoshop)
LAYOUT CONVENTIONS (Creating a professional product)
TARGETING A SPECIFIC AUDIENCE (Demographics & Psychographics)
UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONS (How magazines are produced & distributed)
EVALUATING YOUR OWN SKILLS (Looking back & identifying strengths & weaknesses)
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
OBJECTIVE: To complete evaluation for Unit G321.
UNIT G321 EVALUATION