The document evaluates a media product created by the student. It discusses how the student's magazine uses conventions of real music magazines in its layout, design elements, and photos. The student aims their magazine at young teenage girls interested in pop music. Major music publisher Baur Media Group would be suited to distribute the magazine to shops and teenagers. The front cover represents summer and the social group of young, trendy teenage girls. The intended audience is also young, hip teenagers who believe the magazine features undiscovered and unique music. The student learned skills in research, photography, photo editing in Photoshop, and magazine design through creating their media product.

1. Evaluation
by Charlotte Frost

2. In what way does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
My magazine uses real conventions like professional
music magazines. It has similar layouts to multiple
other magazines (see in my research) Kerrang, Q,
NME. The title is features at the top in a banner. The
double page spread has featured multiple pictures of
my musicians, including pictures of them with
musical props. I have kept the background rather
plain but interesting. I have used photo editing to
change brightness and contrast to make my photos
look ideal, and removed any spots. I have also used
drops caps and repeated colour schemes, and more,
all that are apart of music genre.

3. What kind of media institution might
distribute your product?
I think a media institution like Baur Media Group
would publish my magazine. As they publish in
shops, such as corner shops newsagents, and larger
shops like tescos. My magazine would sell better as a
magazine then app, due to the young audience I am
aiming at. As the chart shows below the sales of
magazine are dropping but thousands ares still being
sold.

4. How does your media products represent
particular social group?• The social group I have represented are young
teenage girls who are interested in the pop music
genre.
My magazine features a young girl with trendy hairstyle.
The setting is on beach dunes which is applicable to
the Summer Addition of this magazine. The bright
colours of the font pink and purple have a summer
feel about them, which is indicative of flowers and
berry of this time of year. The overall pale blue look
of the front cover is comparative to the blue skys of
summer, and has an outdoor music festival feel about
it.
My magazine has a large hip ‘selfie’ style photo image
on the front cover which is in keeping with trend of

5. Who would be the audience for your
media product?
My magazines main audience is young teenagers. Ideally the teenagers would be
very ‘hip’ and have lots of money. Preferably a specific group of teenagers who
believe that my magazine is ‘undiscovered genius’ and that all the music featured
in the magazine is ‘original’ and ‘unique’ and amazingly, ‘contemporary’. My
ideal readership would not listen to the radio. They would listen to only their
home made playlists, the illegibility of which would be questionable.

6. Banner changed
Banner now looks much
neater
Sub- titles and boxes now look
much neater and nice
Better quality background and photo
Bar code, price and date added
Better title
i felt it needed a sub-title to give an
impression of a line underneath the
main title this helps the viewer focus
the featured. It also told the view
music genre.

7. Better banner
words changed font/colour
in neat columns
cut the images up so they look neater

8. Text
Better banner and font
nicer columns used
better photos used. Fonts and colours

9. What have you learnt about technologies
from the process of constructing this
product? my product• To create my product I started with research. I researched different music
magazines, the front covers, the contents, the double page spread. I quickly
drafted several optional ways I could have my own magazine look with inspiration
from my research magazine. I research this by using the internet.I used scanner to
put magazines I had brought online digitally. Next I shot my own photographs. I
took photos using a digital fukifilm camera. I was already aware of how to use this
camera, however I did learn that putting the flash on, was a very bad idea. I used
photoshop. I edited my photographs so that they were not ugly. I did this by
removing any disgusting marks on my models face. I brightening and changing
the contrast so that the colours in the photograph were visually pleasing. I then
made my first version of the magazine. I improved this in a second version. I then
quickly fixed anything in my second version that didn’t work or needed fixing, or
the colours changing, and made my final version of the magazine. In my final
version I fixed any mistakes and removed any photos i did not feel worked well.

10. How did you attract/address your
audience?I attracted my audience by using a bright colour scheme, eye grabbing
subheadings, and big titles. I also immediately grabbed my audience attention
by featuring what would be famous musicians. I choose a layout on the
magazine that I felt would be best. I chose the costume for my model to wear to
look.
I also attracted them by using images of a young teenage girl of the front cover.
As it the magazine was a quarterly magazine I chose a Summer Addition. In
which I used bright coloured font and pale blue on the cover and through the
magazine. The setting where of places you associate with Summer – beach and
open fields (music festivals). The name itself is a semi-palindrome; it is the word
NOISE in reverse. The word ESION has a balance appearance. It also is a way
to express the word noise in an artistic way. Noise – Definition:
verb archaic
- talk about or make known publicly.
The definition of noise seems appropriate for a magazine that you would want
talked about.

11. Conventions
• I have learnt that the conventions of musical magazine, are all very similar.
They are all almost exactly the same but that of the colour of the words and
angle of the title, and font. I have learnt a lot since doing the student
magazines, such as all magazines are stupidly simple, and they are not
allowed to be complicated, as all that is unique in a magazine comes
singularly from the writing inside it. From my first sketches on how I was
going to do this magazine, has evolved immensely for the best.