The document summarizes a student's media magazine project about a teenage pop singer named Mari-Blue. It discusses how the magazine represents its target teenage female audience and follows conventions of real teen pop magazines. This includes using pink and heart motifs, focusing on topics like fashion and celebrities, and representing the singer and her fans in a positive light. The magazine would be distributed on television pop music channels and in programs targeted at teenage girls to promote the singer.

1. The evaluation is a creative task and the potential to show off your creative talents – use images,
audio, video and links to on line resources! Avoid just writing an essay, make it visually exciting!
1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Represented dif from aimed for. Model portrayed = teen singer, pop selling to girls who like pop
singers role model. How media represents teens = bad i challenge that. Focus on music or other
stuff?? = register informal, cute lexis, semantic love, music terms?
Casual, natural -> lack of make-up, outside
Lifestyle = promoting angelic, sweet, honest but diplomatic. Hard working, fun, carefree
3)What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Look at real mag
company
4)Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience
5)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
6)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it
to the full product?

2. Q1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?

4. Most magazines mastheads
stretched along the top of the page
and needed to be the largest font on
the whole page for an audience to
identify the magazine. Magazine
names are important when
conveying the target audience and
for branding

7. Plus box listing items =
convention dif shape 4
attention
Tagline, direct address audience
Two exclamation marks – colloquial.
Casual, non-standard grammar to fit
with the audience’s sociolect – so my
magazine addresses them as their
friends would
Cheap magazine with
Artist and
loud, spiky shape to
her name stand out against
on cover = rounded and square
convention Gets audience as today
they like cheap things
Bold typography, different fonts and
sizes for variety = convention
Theme colours = black, white, pink;
convention to have 3

8. Conventions;
Model engaging audience – looking to
camera
Barcode in the corner
Price
Date
Artist and artist name
Tagline
Box outs
“Plus” listing
“Hair extensions” all aligned neatly
Keeping a few words to a line
FREE stuff
Cheap price stands out
Quotations of what the artist said next to
her
Indexical – smiling
Commercial
Mid shot like other pop magazine covers
Conventions broken;
More than 3 words to a line because
the font would be too small if I tried
to organise it another way

9. Original/ magazine development
Disorganised
Hard to read font
Writing blocking too much of the
model
Writing too much when bare
essentials needed with simple
titles just to grab attention
Speech bubble and quotations so
some sections over done when
magazines are neat and simple
I.e.

10. Original;
By looking at other magazines, I
found everything to do with
crushes, celebrities, life stories,
horoscopes and fashion. I
incorporated all these things into
my work to make it a realistic
magazine
The image didn’t fit around the
text
I had the correct amount of page
numbers in correlation to the price
No columns
Image placed incorrectly
Nothing surrounding the “contents”
Not enough topics next to page
numbers (blank spots)
White – all white on the page needs
to be covered like a real magazine
I.E. -->>
Kept

11. Conventions;
“Contents” at top
Page numbers
Columns
Small version of the cover
in the corner with the
option of subscribing
Website address BUT not
on the cover – there wasn’t
any space
Same font for each new
topic
And same font for small
typography explaining it
but both different to each
other.
Stereotypical feminine
views – fashion, pink,
hearts and rounded, cute
text
Hearts and underlining for
a nice, shapely outline

14. How does your
media product
represent
particular social
groups?
The artist is 17 and therefore a role
model to the younger girls and a
friend to the 17 year old audience.
Being within this age range myself
I’m surrounded by girls within this
age group who like pop music and
by choosing an audience who like
this genre; my magazine gets an
approximation of 20% of readers
as 40% of people like mainstream
and half of that group are female.
By choosing this genre I can got
inspiration from a whole collection
of magazines – adapting such
things like a large letter and
putting it in the background
To make it more feminine, I used
italics on “M” and put the letter
across the whole two pages so that
it would tie the interview
altogether

15. There’s a stereotype of teenage girls, but it’s fair...
ie. Lots of Demi Lovato fans are seen as lovely and interested in
looking cute.
It’s a good representation of girls as they generally fit into the
stereotype, but also shows them in a positive light and Mari-Blue
reflects this in her humble ways of not thinking she’s made it as a
star “It hasn’t hit me yet”
Register, colloquial, small vocabulary. “Big words” are kept to a
minimum as using a wide vocabulary could repel less intelligent
readers. To appeal to the masses, language has to be simplified

18. reached a peak circulation of 80,000
copies
Between 1990 and 2000, the number of
Teens ages 12 to 19 soared to 32 million,
an increase
of nearly 4.5 million
17 % growth rate far outpaced the growth
of the rest of the
population

20. The pop channels would feature and promote Mari-Blue as
they have artists like Carly Rae Jepsen.
(She also looks like my model so I know this is the kind of
B
look my audience like)
With over 13 million views and around 98% of people
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watching liking the video it shows Carly’s popularity and
how popular my artist would be. A
Magazines can sponsor
Shows. My marketing strategy would be to advertise
“EGO” on the advert breaks for shows like Gossip Girl and
N
Glee as my target audience watch these shows as well as
channels like ITV and E4. D
Consumer response? They love young, cute singers
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23. Who would be the
audience for your
media product?
How did you
attract/address
your audience?

25. • box outs that are jagged, round and
rectangular
•Typography that varies
•Feminine colour scheme
•Cute model that looks like the audience,
pushing up her hair which shows her fun attitude
•It’s cheap for the working class
•Free CDs – free stuff appealing to consumers
of modern society whom want everything cheap
(like illegally downloading songs)
•A neat contents page
•A funky double page spread with fun, free
spirited photos of the artist making her
personable
•A tagline “Have you got one?”

26. The magazine is a way of escapism for girls so they can imagine
themselves in Mari’s position but also reinforces their personal
identity as Mari chose the better genre – pop over rock!
They feel accepted by Mari as she is technically choosing them over
‘rockers’ and so not only do they feel they belong but also this gives
them esteem as they are superior to another group and have been
validated by a celebrity they respect

27. What have you
learnt about
technologies from
the process of
constructing this
product?

28. I’ve progressed by having the masthead and contents stretch
across top of the page
I’ve now limited the colours
On these, I’ve got red, black, blue, green, yellow. There are no
theme colours, just an array of colour
I now have something that stands out on the page whereas
here my main image wasn’t big enough to make itself clear as
the main image
I now have two columns on my contents page as to fit into
magazine conventions – most don’t have a whole page of A4
*
with the numbers and topics at opposite ends of the whole
page.
*
I now have page numbers
I now have covered up as much page space as possible. Here*
there are huge empty spaces
*
I now know how to make adjustments like putting images in
the right place