This document discusses the evaluation of a media product created by the student. It contains the student's responses to 7 evaluation questions about their magazine. For question 1, the student describes how their magazine's layout, specifically the front cover, contents page, and double page spread, develops conventions seen in other magazines. For question 2, the student explains how their magazine represents indie rock music fans. They made their cover feature a young indie rock artist to appeal to younger audiences. Overall, the evaluation provides details on how the student's magazine represents its target audience, would be distributed, and how the student learned various technologies through creating the magazine.

1. evaluation

4. 1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
The layout of my front cover develops the forms and conventions, as the layout is much like other
magazines that I researched before constructing my own. The eye flow of my magazine is top right
corner to bottom left corner. I did this by putting my logo in the top left corner so it will be the first
thing someone looking at the magazine will see. I then placed stories that will be inside the magazine
on the left. My main image is of an music artist who has a new album coming out. I placed her as my
splash image on my front cover of my magazine.
The layout of my contents page develops the forms and conventions, as the layout is much like other
magazine content pages that I researched before constructing my own. The eye flow of my contents
page is like others, where all of the information about what is inside is on the right hand side of the
page with the images on the top half of the page. then placed stories that will be inside the magazine
on the left. My main image is of the artist that is featured on the front cover of my magazine that I
photoshoped to be filled with a floral pattern to show that the artist has a warm and loving
personality.
The layout of my double page spread develops the forms and conventions, as the layout is much like
other double page spreads that I have researched before constructing my own. The eyeflow of my
double page spread is like others where all information and text is situated on one side of the page
whilst the main image of the artist that the article is about is situated on the other side of the double
page spread.

5. 2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My magazine represents indie rock magazine so therefore it would appear to people who like this
genre of my magazines. I made my main subject of my front cover of my magazine from a young
generation (22 years old) so this would attracts the younger generations rather than if I had an old
person on my front cover 15-25 year olds would not buy the magazine.
I did this by making my front cover of an indie rock artist that has just released a new album. This
should represent this genre of music as she is wearing the fashion that Indi rockers wear.
i.e. black clothing and leather jackets.
My contents page of my magazine represents . Indi rockers as
Although you cannot see what my models costume is you can see
That she is wearing sun glasses on top of her head, this is popular
For Indi rockers to wear. It is also a close up, so you can clearly see
that my model is young, this represents the kind of people that I want to read my magazine.
My double page spread represents Indi rockers as I used a guitar as a prop and made my model stand
outside of a run down shed to make it look trendy. This is common with Indi rockers as they seem to
be in areas where people wouldn’t want to be, i.e. a run down shed. I also made my model dress like
an Indi rocker and act like one by playing the guitar in a hard core way.
It looks like my model is having fun which is was I wanted. This is because it will attract readers if they
see that she is in a positive mood.

6. • Uncut would distribute my magazine
as the layout is very similar to ‘uncut’
magazine who is distributed by ‘IPC’. I
based my first drafts on research that I
gathered from ‘uncut’ magazine. I like
the way how on the double page spread
they use one large image over two pages
rather than one A4 image and a blank
background for the other. Also the main
image on the double page spreads look
vintage and by we reducing the opacity,
it makes my image look vintage as well;
so my double page spread fits in with
their theme.
3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and
why?
My contents page was inspired by the
research that I did on ‘Q’ magazine. I liked
how they had a close up image of an artist
and the writing to the side of it. I think that
because my contents page has a similar
layout, ‘Q’ magazines distributors
institution may want to distribute
my magazine. Editions freeway may also like to distribute my
magazine because they distribute ‘rock sound’
magazine and my front cover is has a similar layout to
‘rock sounds.’ Although I did not use a close up image
for my front cover as many of ‘rock sound’ magazines
have, I used a main image with the same style of
character. I also liked all of the information to the side
of the image rather than on top and central.

7. 4) who would be the audience for your media product?
The target audience for my music magazine is 15-24 year olds who are interested in Indi rock
music. I got this from data that I gathered through my questionnaire. Readers should enjoy
Reading articles, and
should be into music. They
should be from both
genders and know about
the different artists from
the genre ‘Indi rock’
Readers would know that
this magazine is aimed at
them because I have used
a young model on the front
cover. Also I have used a
neutral font so it will not
be labelled as masculine or
feminine.

8. I attracted my readers to my magazine by trying to relate to my target audience. I know that my
target audience age is from a younger generation so I tried to appeal to them by putting a young
attractive girl on the front. I believe that my front cover is the most important part of attracting
my audience as this is the first thing they will see and decide if they want to read it or not.
5) How did you attract/address your audience?
Secondly I put things in my magazine that I know will
attract to the reader by focusing on their interests.
For example I know that they like Indi rock music as
this is why they want to buy my magazine, so I put in
a lot of Indi rock stars i.e. Charmaine, and write an
article about her. I also know that majority of readers
want to read an interview, so I advertised that there
was an interview on the front cover
I also stated on my contents page that there was a free album of the top 10 Indi rock hits of last
year. This would attract readers as they would want to know what were the top hits and they would
want a free CD. I also incorporated a quiz for the readers to find out what Indi rocker they were,
this would attract my readers as they would want to know what Indi rocker they are.

9. 6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this
product?
Photoshop- I have learnt a lot about Photoshop throughout this project and have developed my skills
immensely. I can now change an image by changing the colour, effect, size/angle, fixing
imperfections, cropping or adding the images to the current image. This technology helped me
create my front cover, contents page and double page spread with ease.
Blogger- Blogger was an easy was to upload the different stages of my development. I have learnt
how to make a blog edit my blog by changing the background and title. I have also learnt how to edit
a blog after it has be uploaded and adding in images or videos. I also learnt how to insert a hyperlink
to another page i.e. slide share.
Survey monkey- I used survey monkey to create my questionnaire, it was simple and easy to do as it
had all of the instructions there. Next time I use this website I will be able to make a questionnaire
fast and easily thanks to my practice developing my skills during this task. ( this can be found on my
blog http://christinapericcos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/analysis-of-questionnaire.html )
Microsoft PowerPoint- I have developed my skills in PowerPoint by constantly using it to create
presentations. I have not learnt anything new however I have become for fluent with making
PowerPoints so I am able to make them faster and look nicer.
Barcode generator- I used the website barcode generator to create a unique barcode for my
magazine. It was easy to use and quick. I learnt how to make a barcode in under 5 minutes. I got to
choose the shape/ design of the barcode and enter in my own numbers. This can be found on my
blog ( http://christinapericcos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/barcode.html )
I also used Excel to create the pie charts to show my questionnaire analysis. I Learnt how to change
the amount that the pie chart was showing and percentages. This canbe found on my blogg
(http://christinapericcos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/analysis-of-questionnaire.html )

10. • Looking back through my preliminary task I can see clear improvement in the
development of my magazine. I have developed my skills with Photoshop so
making my final product more attractive and of higher quality. Through my
preliminary tasks I have learnt how to use Photoshop effectively and efficiently.
• Taking my photos – there is also a clear improvement with my photos as you can
see that I have taken more care in presenting the different camera angles and
functions, making my photos of a higher quality.
• My preliminary tasks were very simple and not complex, however after I
developed my skills I was able to take more risks in my development to come to a
better outcome.
• Without my preliminary tasks I believe that my final product would not be as good
as it is now. I was able to practice my skills and develop them further using the
preliminary tasks.
7) Looking back at your preliminary tasks what do you feel you have learnt
from the progression of it to the full product?