- The document describes a student's process of creating a music magazine as a class project. They wrote an article, took photos, and designed the front cover, contents page, and layout. - They surveyed 10 people about the magazine. Respondents said the photos made it look professional and the article seemed genuine and journalistic. - The student learned about using InDesign, Photoshop, blogging and researching online to design and produce their magazine. They improved at using fonts, colors and images cohesively from their initial task.

1. IntroductionMy product was a music magazine.

2. To produce my product I worked on my own.

3. I had to produce a front cover, a contents page and a double page article.

4. I wrote the double page article myself.

5. I took all the pictures myself.

6. The genre I chose to use was 'indie.'Audience EvaluationResultsOnce I had finished my final magazine, I asked 10 people the same 7 questions on what they thought about my magazine.

7. What does the title suggest to you?Most people answered that it sounded girly, and it was a musical word therefore suggesting it was a music magazine.

8. What genre/type of music does this magazine focus on and how do you know this?80% of the people I asked answered that they thought my magazine was ‘indie’ which was correct, the other 20% answered that they thought it was ‘pop.’By looking at the answers people wrote, they seemed to know it was indie because of the bands I had mentioned on my front cover, those who answered pop thought it was pop because I added thing such as the ‘top 40.’

9. What makes the pages look professional and what stops them from looking professional?Every person I asked this question to said that my pictures were the things that made my magazine look professional.People also added that my magazine looked professional because I used a barcode on the front.

10. How genuine does the front cover seem?70% of the people I asked said that my magazine was “very genuine” the other 30% answered that my magazine was “genuine,” nobody answered that it was “not genuine.”

11. Does the contents page simply inform or does it also manage to interest you in reading the rest of the magazine. The majority of the people I asked said that my contents page only informed, I agree that there wasn’t a lot of things on it that were eye-catching, but 20% said that it managed to interest them too because of the bright colours I had used.

12. Does the article sound like a piece of journalism? If not what bits don’t sound right?100% of the people I asked said that my double page article sounded journalistic and that it sounded like one they would read in the magazines they buy.

13. Does the article layout make you want to read it? If not why not?Everyone answered that the article layout made them want to read it, they liked the way I had incorporated pictures into my article, they also liked the text grab and they way I had put the questions in different colours.

14. 1)In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?Front CoverI put a barcode on the top right of my magazine to make it seem genuine.

15. I put the title ‘JAMM’ in bold capital letters because it helps the magazine to stand out.

16. The person on my front cover is the person I have based my double page article on.

17. My picture uses direct address, this attracts the target audiences attention.

18. I also added a magazine website so my buyers could access things they wanted to know more about on the internet.

19. Used a strip at bottom of page, like most magazines do to advertise what else there is to read about in my magazine.Contents PageI didn’t use pictures of other bands/artists which I think I should’ve done as most magazines do that on their contents page.

20. I used the same artist on my contents page as I did on the front page and who I wrote about in my double page article.

21. I used pages numbers so that the readers know where to find things.Double page articleThe article has an introduction and then various questions.

22. I used columns.