This document discusses different aspects of a music magazine media product, including: - Using columns, headings, and image/text integration in the layout and design. - Representing the target audience of 16-18 year olds interested in various music genres through the use of images like a nose ring. - Learning skills in Photoshop for image editing and manipulation. - Distributing the magazine through a company that targets similar audiences. - Gathering audience feedback through questionnaires to make the magazine more appealing.

1. Evaluation

2. Links to a real life circuit No eye contact!? Slight overlap Cover Lines - varied Buzz word Main cover line Unrounded Number Banner - insight In What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

3. Columns for contents Information – top left Distinct headings image Buzz word Poster image – bottom right

4. Separate section for information Text/image integration Pull quote- draws attention Columns for text – not too thin. Combinations of images show different sides to protagonist

5. Nose ring – shows the type of character that its aimed at: Piercings, tattoos etc.... Music Genre – shows type of music target audience listens to Music Genre again.... Shows that the audience should have an interest in instruments How does your media product represent particular social groups?

6. Worldwide Magazine Distribution Ltd. I would have this company distribute my magazine because magazines of a similar genre are associated with it. This would help with the success in my magazine due to experience in similar products. Has many big selling magazines All magazines attract similar audience. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

7. Teenagers who like to play instruments or would like to. Have a feel for heavier music. 16-18 years – Usually the age group that would tend to buy a magazine such as mine.... Don’t need to be a fan of heavy music only. Magazine would combine with indie. Who would be the audience for your media product?

8. I handed out a questionnaire, the information I received helped me make the magazine look more eye-catching. I also used the cover lines to attract the audience by connecting artists of the preferred genre and leaving them hanging with little information to the article How did you attract/address your audience?

9. Learnt how to use Photoshop and manipulated images to achieve a certain effect Edited Up in brightness and contrast Original Learnt how to use Photoshop to cut out images and improve them. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

10. Learnt how to use blooger to make a blog.... Learnt how to use slide share and upload to blog

11. Photo not contrasted etc Nothing to lure the reader in, Not enough information Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

12. Images pulled from net Not sectioned (contents etc)