This document summarizes the evaluation questions and responses for a media production coursework on creating a magazine. The student developed forms and conventions from the Kerrang magazine template for layout, style, and content. The magazine represents the alternative rock, punk, and metal music genres. Bauer Media Group would be a suitable distributor since it produces similar music magazines. The target audience is men and women ages 15-30 who enjoy those music genres. Creating the magazine required learning software like Photoshop and InDesign, and refining techniques from the preliminary task to the final product.

1. Evaluation
By Caitlin O'Mara

2. Q1-In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
My magazine develops forms and conventions of real media
products.These are conventions such as: Large mid-shot image,
Columns, Main image, Left-hand side third, Images, varied
font, Cover Lines, Captions, Page Numbers, Color scheme,
Name of magazine, Date, price, barcode, Website, Features,
text boxes, Masthead, Color scheme. I used Kerrang magazine
as a template for me to create my own front cover, contents
page and double page spread. By using Kerrang magazine as a
template I was able to have an idea of how my magazine was
going to look. I reproduced some of kerranges codes and
conventions but in my own style and way, I like the colour
scheme so I kept that in my magazine as well as the style of the
mast head. Overall the codes and conventions I used were
based around kerranges magazine cover that I chose.

3. This is the Kerrang magazine cover I
used as a template!

4. Q2-How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
My media product represent particular social groups who listen to
alternative rock, punk and metal music genre, this is because my
Media product covers that sort of genre. It does this by the style
and the content of the magazine. The style is a kind of broken
and smashed up style, you can see this is certain sections of the
cover page. For example my title has cracks running through it that
make it look liked its smashed, here's an example .
The content of the magazine also represents the particular
social group of people who listen to alternative rock, punk and
metal music genre, this is because my content consists of bands
who are within that certasin music genre, for example bring me the
horizon. I have also created a double page spread about ‘a rock
chick called Angie’ which fits in with this particular genre.

5. Q3-What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and why?
• Bauer media group, I think this because it produces a similar
music magazine that I was copying which is KERRANG!. As
well as kerrnage. Bauer also produce other magazines that fit
into the genre of the magazine I have chosen to produce. Bauer
is a big company which produce many magazines. The produce
over 300 magazines which mean there are a selection of genres
for many different audiences. My magazine would fit into this
institution as it is a magazine which could have a larger range of
distribution methods, for example website, apps and television
stations.

6. Q4-Who would be the audience for your media
product?
My audience would be men and women, ages 15-30, who enjoy the music
genre of alternative rock, punk and metal music. I attracted/addressed my
audience by researching the KERRANG audience, this helped me because
I’m making my magazine similar to KERRANG. This means that my
audience for my magazine would be from a similar area of age and
sexuality. Also my audience would be around this sort of gender and age
because it’s a rock/metal magazine and this is a multi-gender genre of
music. The age range shows that they buy the magazine for its content of
music and popular bands from a young age range themselves. Also the
picture on the front would attract this audience as it shows a rock chic
called Angie who's style of music is rock/metal genre.

7. Q5-What have you learnt about technologies
from the process of constructing this product?
• I’ve learnt that the use of technology from the process of
constructing this product has a lot of different techniques and
skills to make something that looks so simple to make. I also
learnt that the process of making a magazine comes from
learning how to use programs such as Photoshop and
InDesign. These programs are hard to work from but helped
me to make an effective well made magazine. When using these
programs you have to learn as you go if you don’t do this then
you will not have an effective product that you were hoping to
make.

8. Q6- Looking back at your preliminary task, what
do you feel you have learnt in the progression
from it to the full product?
I have learnt that there is a lot more editing and time put into
making something such as a magazine front cover, contents
page and double page spread. Also there are specific soft-
wares, techniques and skills that have to be used to complete
them. The difference between my preliminary task and my
coursework construction is that with my preliminary task I
didn't spend as much time as I have on my coursework. Also
when creating my preliminary task I used the software word
but with my coursework I have used many techniques that I
have learnt along the way and a more technical software
called Photoshop.