The document provides an evaluation of a media product (a magazine) created by the author. It discusses ways the author's product uses and challenges conventions of professional magazines, including font choices and model/title placement on the cover. Feedback was gathered from others, who praised the consistent color scheme but suggested adding more images and information to the contents page. The author also reflected on the technologies used and improvements in Photoshop skills from an earlier preliminary task.

1. Evaluation Q1
Ways that my media product uses, develops, and challenges forms and conventions of
professional products. There is writing on the left of both of these pages, the top bit is the name
of the person in the picture, to reassure the reader who it is, also the model is usually in the
middle, not smiling, but engaging the reader, showing that this is not a serious matter, it
engages the reader to want to know more. I have used this technique in my front cover to entice
the reader in as they are scanning through the shops. The model’s head is covering up a small
section of the masthead in both of these front covers, I found this to be common among more
popular magazines as a large amount of people already know what it is called, I did the opposite
with mine, I had the title just covering my model’s hair to make the title stand out more but the
models hair is in front of the masthead to give it a sense of depth. All of the magazines I
researched used different fonts but the same colour scheme, in this case black, red, white, or
black, pink, white. I have used at least 4 different types of fonts but kept the colour scheme to
black, orange, and green. I used orange instead of white to keep the reader on there toes, they
will subconsciously know that it is different but they wont know what, mix bass is a very colourful
genre of music, with lasers and bright lights at gigs, this makes me think that the audience of
this magazine would appreciate a bright coloured theme.

2. comparison.
The title in my front cover is uncovered, you can see it all and my model’s head goes behind
the title but on the professional one it is the back layer, adverts, articles and the model’s head
are placed over it. This is because Vibe is a well known magazine name and DanStep isn’t,
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My model is interacting with the set around him, I think A mistake I think I could change
this lightens the mood, it makes it feel more laid back is the colour of the clothing that
which I think the audience of my magazine would my model is wearing, it doesn’t fit
prefer this. But the other magazine shows him with a with my colour scheme. But the
more sinister look, in my opinion it give a sad feel to actual items of clothing look
the cover and I think I would get depressed by reading good.

3. Evaluation Q2.
My media product might represent a particular
social group, here’s the reasons why I think this.
Its bright colours, loud heavy bass music, would
separate out every one who would prefer darker
atmospheres or calmer music genres, so ‘Goth’ or
‘geek’. Some one who has big sound systems in
there car or expensive headphones might be
more likely to listen to this type of music than
maybe some one who plays an instrument in an
orchestra and does ballet. The way my magazine
looks with the popping vibrant colours, and the
close up image of the model on the front might
intimidate a fraction of viewers or prefer other
types of music magazine.

4. Q3
I think the kind of media institute that would distribute my magazine
would be someone who is big and has a large audience already in
this field of music, this company would have TV shows or even a TV
channel such as 4 music or viva, they would be able to advertise this
magazine on these shows, when they have the most amount of
viewers, this would encourage a large audience because the
audience watching this TV channel would already be interested in this
genre of music, it would share the audience from both half’s and join
them together. These companies would have web sites with a large
amount of people visiting them everyday; you could put up articles
from the magazine on the website to give the audience a taster so it
would encourage them to purchase the media product. We could offer
a subscription service, letting them be up to date with every new
change, article, and story. And this could lead on to them being able
to have the magazine posted to there home or emailed electronically
to p.c., iphone, ipad. We could make an application for apple and
android to let people keep up to date on the go. The company would
need to have a good reputation with its community so that the
audience will accept the new magazine that they will offer. And this
company would need to be quite niche, but not to a great deal as my
genre if fairly niche but its still large, as it includes most heavy bass
music, drum and bass, Dubstep, ect.

5. Q4
I think the audience for my media product would be boys,
from there early teens (13 – 15) to there mid twenties, (24 –
26), and even after that I think people will still love this genre
of music, and I tried to make my magazine involve as wider
range of an age group as I can, I offered competitions which I
think would interest the younger age bracket, and tips, and
advise on how to produce your own mix bass music which
appeals to the older age bracket if they plan to or are already
doing this as a job or career.

6. Q5
I gathered a few people and asked them these questions that follow, to let me find out the
answer to ‘How did you attract the audience?’ firstly, what draws your attention to the
product? People said when we look at the front cover, the model on the front is staring into
the lens of the camera, it grabs the reader’s attention and makes them feel as if he is
looking at them, and also the bright colours of the title and the background make it stand out
against all the other magazines on the shelf. When we look at the contents page the slanted
angle of the writing adds interest to the page, making it fit into the picture behind, rather
than most other contents pages that are just in straight coulombs, the matching colours
between the sliders in the picture and the title make it look tidy and easy to read, make the
reader feel calm and not rushed to read it. The DPS has a good page layout, and with the
transparent background image being the same as the contents page it links the two with out
making it look repetitive.
The pictures make it clear to us that this was a mix genre of music, the decks on
the front page are used by DJ’s which are usually solo artists such as Skrillex, mixing there
own music, and the mixing desk as the main image on the contents page. The strengths we
see in this product are that it keeps a consistent colour scheme throughout all of the pages
and the placing of the articles, adverts and pictures make it look very professional.
The majority of the people I asked said yes they would purchase my magazine
because love the colours, content, the way its laid out, and they enjoy this genre of music, 3
people said they would not buy it because they don’t like this genre of music and 1 person
said no because they don’t read magazines anyway. They said a couple of ways I could
improve my DPS was to be more images and less writing as it looks too wordy and this can
put people off the they don’t want to read large chunks of writing at a time and this can be a
bit intimidating to some people. Also, there wasn’t much information on the contents page, it
looked great but it needed more than just a list of what to expect in the magazine, and lastly
the models clothes don’t match the colour scheme of the rest of the page on the front cover
and this can be a bit distracting where as if it matched it would go unnoticed.

7. Q6
A list of the technologies I used include Macs, windows pc,
Photoshop, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, multiple cameras, and
some dj decks and mixing desk which I photographed for my
media product. I knew how to use this equipment before I
started this course because I have a years experience in
photography A Level. But it has given me more practice at
improving my skills with these products.

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Q7
This is a comparison from my skills on Photoshop from when we did our preliminary task to now,
when I have just finished my magazine, also what I have learned since then. You can see
obvious differences between both the front pages, the font on my first page looks cheap and
simple where as the one on the left, I use more chunky fonts so they fit the genre of the
magazine better. I used the technique that the model is interacting with and object but keeping
contact with the camera lens, it makes the reader feel involved in the magazine. I have improved
my tool select skills, I managed to cut around the model and put in a different back ground. I
have learned more of the terminologies that are relevant to media. The colour scheme in my
newer front cover is more consistent than my first front cover which has almost no colour
scheme, its just a mish mash.