The document is an evaluation of a student's music magazine project. The student focused on creating a magazine that challenged conventions by not being too dark or harsh like typical rock magazines. They used red as the main color which is a rock magazine convention but wanted to present a less aggressive tone. The intended audience was teenagers and young adults, especially girls based on the bright cover featuring a female image. Through the process, the student learned new skills in Photoshop and how elements like images and colors impact the audience and need to be carefully selected. Overall it was an enjoyable learning experience about magazine design.

1. Evaluation
Larissa Nascimento
Music Magazine

2. Conventions on music magazine
my music magazine NMF’s music magazine

3. 1. How does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
• I think my magazine is fairly different from other rock
magazines out there, the one thing that I was focused the
most would be that I didn’t want my rock magazine to be
dark and harsh, most magazines out there is like that now,
which again is one of the conventions of a rock magazine. I
used the colour red which again in one of the convention of a
rock magazine (RED= DEATH) it is a very strong colour so I
thought it would go well with my magazine.

4. 2. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
• I think when people look at my magazine they will be a bit more
open minded because its not dark and scary like the other rock
magazine, but in the other hand I think people that are really into
hard rock would really enjoy reading the magazine, some of the
rocks magazine can come across as really gothic , so I wanted to
kind of change that convention, a rock magazine doesn’t need to
be aggressive to be able to sell well. I know many people that their
parents wouldn’t let them buy a rock magazine because it can be
very aggressive and it can sometimes have unpleasant words, but
overall I think my magazine fits into all social group, even because
the magazine its not all about rock, it also has information for
people that are interested in R&B.

5. 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your
media product and why?
• I think IPC media would be a great distribute for my magazine,
with more than 60 iconic media brands, I think it would be a
great deal also because IPC media is committed to working in
partnership with its consumer.
• Also sitting alongside the publishing divisions is IPC advertising,
which would allowed me as a client and the agencies to purchase
bespoke advertising solutions across all of their brands
• As the UK’s leading consumer magazine publisher IPC engage
with 26m UK adults.

6. 4. Who would be the audience for your media
product?
• I think my main audience would be teenagers and young
adults, because they are the ones that are more into rock, and
they are the ones that have more spare money to spend on
things like magazines, I think girls would be also the main
audience because the main image on the front cover is a girl
and colour of it is red, so I would think the females would
connect more to the magazine than the boys.

7. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
• I focused it on my front page a lot, because that is what attracts people to
buy it, so I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t too plain so I made the
front page quite bright so it would get peoples attention.
• I made sure that the picture was the main attraction on the front page,
because I think the main image is one of the first thing that people look
at.
• I also made sure that it had a Facebook link so people on Facebook could
find us and get more people to know about the ‘R’ magazine.
• I also used quotations, so it would link to the questionnaire on the double
page spread.
• I also made sure that the letter ‘R’ really stood out so people would
recognize the magazine when they see it.

8. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
• When I started using Photoshop I didn’t know a single thing, it was my
first time, at the beginning I was a bit worried but after I started
experimenting with different types of things I got use to it very quickly
and I really enjoyed myself using it.
This is the first image that I fixed
on Photoshop (the one on the
right), after I started practising
even more I got to know even
more different things that I
could do by using Photoshop.

9. Difference between my magazines.
This is my college magazine, the
first magazine that I have ever
done.
this is my music magazine, my
second magazine.

10. 7)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
• I have learned a lot to my first magazine to
my last, it made me realize how much work
and effort it goes into it, and how the main
image is one of the most important thing, by
trying to do my magazine on PowerPoint
and publisher it gave me a better view of
how each one of them works in different
ways . If I could change anything about my
front cover I would probably change the
colour, and instead of red I would probably
use a darker colour so it would be more
suitable for boys as well, and also try
different fronts with the letter ‘R’, other
than that I am happy with the results.

11. Changes I would make on my content page
If I could change anything about my
content page I would probably add
more professional pictures into it,
maybe go into the photography studio,
also I would try to play around more
with the colours of the background,
overall I am really happy with the
results.

12. Changes I would make on my content page
If I had more time to change
anything on my double page spread
I think I would work on different
types of background, I felt like it
would be better for me to keep the
background simple because of the
two pictures and the red writing I
didn’t want to over do it, so I kept it
simple and easy to understand. I
think the double page spread is the
one that enjoyed doing the most, I
had a great time taking the pictures.

13. Final evaluation
• At the beginning I wasn’t really sure about my ideas, I was also very worried about
working with Photoshop because I never worked with it before, but as soon as I started
working with it I learned a lot of different things what I could do and change.
• I took my pictures in the studio and I had a great time, it didn’t take much time to get the
shots that I wanted, so I was really happy about that.
• The reason that I chose to do my magazine based on rock is because I am into different
types of music so I focused my main aim on rock because I felt like I could learn different
things that I didn’t know.
• Overall I really enjoyed myself doing the music magazine. I learned a lot that you have to
be carful with the picture you take and the colour you use because it really does affect on
the target audience,
• If I could do this project all over again I think I would organize myself more, and maybe do
a video of what people thing of my magazine instead of the questionnaire.