1. Evaluation Presentation
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Tomorrow Magazine by Steven Wells

5. My First Thoughts!
Easy
Time
No Problem!

6. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
I feel that the preliminary task gave me the
time to develop new skills with Photoshop,
which I didn’t already know, which then
enabled me to move through the
construction phase of my media project
without little, or few problems.
I think that I have learnt that making these
media products is not easy, but is
achievable…as long as you are willing to
put in the planning, time and effort.

7. Other factors that helped and influenced the making of my magazine
I think that the reader profile
played a big role into the
development of my magazine.
It made me look hard at my
target audience and what the
style of my magazine should
incorporate.
In particular it made it easier for
me to come up with some of
the articles and ideas for photo
shoots.

8. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing your media project?
There are 2 types of technologies that exist:
-Technology I get
-Technology I don’t get
I had used Photoshop in the past, but I never would have been able to create
anything like my magazine without the support and teachings from my
lecturers. Most of the skills I did use came from the creation of my CD, in the
set preliminary task.
The websites that I have used to aid my media project have also been fairly
new to me. I had never used “slideshare”, “surveymonkey”, “Issuu” or
“blogger” before. But now I can comfortably surf through each site with no
problems.

9. What kind of media institution might distribute your magazine?
There are many different ways that this
magazine could be distributed. I looked at the
ways that other popular magazines are
distributed to narrow down my choices. I found
the main distribution methods were:
-High-street stores (such as WHSmith)
-Online
-At gigs or concerts as memorabilia I thought these were quite
obvious so I incorporated
this question in a survey of
my magazine (using
surveymonkey), to try and
gather a variety of
answers.
“Where do you think this
magazine would be
sold?”

10. It turns out that people think this magazine is better suited to being sold in
newsagents and at gigs. This information suggests that the types of people
who would buy my magazine would be into going to gigs, which portrays my
target audience.

11. Who would be the audience for your media project?
The audience for my magazine would be teenagers. I think that the
magazine is too strong for the younger audience and the more mature
audience might not understand the way it is written. For example what
a teenager might find funny now, an adult could find offensive or just
simply not funny. The magazine is modernised and suited to the
everyday teenager.
In my survey I incorporated the question, “Whom do you think the magazine is
best suited for?” and the replies have shown teenagers to be the best-suited group
for my magazine.

12. How would you attract/address your audience?
Following the feedback of my magazine, I can summarise that my magazine is:
More suited to teenagers
The best place to promote it is at a gig
The best place to sell it is in a newsagents
It is similar to the style of NME
This means I could target my market by advertising
the magazine at gigs so this gets the magazine’s
name out there, I could then stock it in newsagents
locally to test how it sells before distributing on a
national level, I want to consistently use articles
revolving around the life’s of teenagers so the readers
can relate and it might well be worth looking at how
NME promote themselves (mainly through radio or
TV).

13. In what ways does you media
project use, develop or
challenge forms and
conventions of real media
projects?

14. My media project uses a classic format, the picture is one single strong
image, taking up the majority of the page, displaying the main artist.
This lets the consumer know what the magazine is about…who it is
about, and whether they will want to buy it or not, based on the likeness
of the featured artist. Magazines that tend to do this are NME and Q.

15. I have developed the use of “left third” to
make it stand out on the shelf as much as
possible. Strong words that stand out when LEFT
the magazine is presented in a shop will be:
THIRD…
WIN
KING
EXCLUSIVE
Rock
ALSO the picture of the
guy in the bottom left
looking up to the right
and pushing his hands
up, to make it look like
he is watching out for
something, stepping
back from the main
image of the guy holding
the guitar. I think this is a
great use of the left
third!

16. How does your media project represent particular social groups?
Many different types of social groups.
Most of all the youth culture, in this particular case “young people who like to
make music”.
Another social group that my magazine does represent is “indie”.
My magazine is based on rock but it’s not heavy metal rock such as bands like
“kiss”, “guns and roses” or “bullet for my valentine”. It’s more similar to the artists
like “franz ferdinand”, “kings of leon” or “vampire weekend”.