The student used various new media technologies throughout the process of developing their media products. They used Microsoft Excel to create graphs for audience research, Photoshop to design layouts for the newspaper, advertisements, and website. Publisher was used for templates and layout planning. Blogger and the internet were utilized for research and documenting the development process. A camera captured photos and Dreamweaver helped construct the website. Feedback was gathered to improve the newspaper, poster, and website based on audience perspectives.

1. Evaluation Sarah Benjamin

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?How Conventions are used:In the production of my newspaper I made sure that the common conventions used everyday newspapers such as the Sun, The Metro and The Star were maintained so I could ensure, in the development of my newspaper that it actually looked liked a newspaper that you would find in a shop.

3. Some of these conventions I have used consist of: Gutters, Date, Web address, Advertisements, Bold headings and a Masthead.

4. I Have placed examples of our mastheads ‘Flava’ that we earlier produced to show the difference of design and formality between our and those already on the market today

5. http://06whhs12e1.blogspot.com/2009/10/newspaper-names.htmlUsing these conventions and others that I have not listed shows I have made good use of my knowledge into what a real newspaper product requires and have put our own stamp on these conventions to make them look better and more applicable to my target audience teenagersChallenges to other newspapers:I made the choice to have predominantly bright colour throughout our newspaper

6. Wrote about issues and stories that our target audience can relate to

7. Maintained common conventions of newspapers but in a more exciting style

8. Included club advertisements. An example of this can be found on our blog and also how our research helped us: http://06whhs12e1.blogspot.com/2009/12/advertisement.htmlExamples of our advertisements:Informal Headlines to go along side each article I produced

9. Sub Section on the front page

10. Editorial

11. Slogan: ‘Your local youth newspaper’

12. Informal contents name ‘what’s hot’

13. More topics on the inside page with page numbers so it allows them to turn to what ever story they want with the use of colours so it stands out and seems separate from the articles I have written

14. Pictures which related directly to our article topicsAnalysis of these challenges:http://06whhs12e1.blogspot.com/2009/12/final-front-page-compared-to-front-page.htmlPosterFor our poster it was quite hard to get an idea about what we needed to include as no newspapers on the market today have a poster to further advertise their newspaper so we therefore had to research everyday posters and identify what conventions they used and base our ideas around this.http://06whhs12e1.blogspot.com/2009/10/posters.html

15. Conventions used:Our poster contains the basic conventions that a poster needs for example a masthead, slogan, web address and a main design which dominates the page and it is clear we have stuck to this from the image of our poster compared to a real one on the market today http://06whhs12e1.blogspot.com/2009/12/development-of-posters.htmlChallenges to other posters:Meeting the needs of a specific audiences through the informal background

16. ‘hip, young, fresh’ which is an ideology of our target audience

17. Different use of Fonts and designs gives the poster a bigger impact as it stands out more

18. The use of capital letters which many posters don’t do, which immediately grab peoples attention whilst walking byFinal Product PosterBeck’s Poster