The document summarizes the progression of a student's media magazine project from an initial preliminary task to the full developed product. It notes several ways the full product improved, including limiting colors, having elements like the masthead and contents stretch across the page, including page numbers, filling empty space on pages, and properly placing images. The student demonstrated learning conventions of real magazines and how to make their magazine more visually appealing and organized.

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? Slide 13 attract = range of fonts, clear to read, striking
main image.
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

6. White shows the purity of my readers and
black shows organization and professionalism

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
Conventions broken;
More than 3 words to a line because
the font would be too small if I tried
to organise it another way

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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

15. 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
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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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16. 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

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

19. Casual, sociolect
Model look like average teen, push up hair, styling it – appearance,
vanity
Coverlines
Use of shots and angles
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Branding =
Maslow hierarchy
represents stereotype but fairly – ie. Lots of demi lovato fans, girls
seen as lovely, cute good represetnation
Register, colloquial, small voacbulary.

22. 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

23. • 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?”

25. Q7
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
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ends of the whole page.
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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
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images in the right place