2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? My media products use, develop and challenge the forms and conventions of real media products. I did this by paying attention to detail in different rock magazines and using some of there ideas in my products that I produced. I also challenged the forms and conventions by using the ideas off other magazines but displaying them in a different way. Overall in my media projects I used conventional methods to present my work but in some of my work I did try and use unconventional methods to see what it would look like. For instance in my final contents page I used ideas off another contents page to make my magazine to look conventional. I used pictures and slogans on the page to explain to the audience what was inside the magazine. I placed the information on the left hand side because it looks conventional. In my other projects that I have made I have used some in conventional methods to display my magazine. For example on a mock up of a front page I used a bright background instead of a dark background. Usually in rock/indie magazines dark and dull colours are used because it attracts that kind of audience more because of the type of music that it represents and that it portrays. Final Contents Page Mock up of my front cover
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4. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? There are a number of stores that would sell my magazine such as: Super market WHSmiths Record stores NEWSAGENTS Newsagents and WHSmiths would sell these magazines because they try and sell a wide range of magazines to capture as many peoples attention as possible so that people feel obliged to go into the shop. Newsagents try and do this so that the customers that buy the magazine could buy something else as well. For example if a child went in and brought a CBBC magazine , they might see some sweets that they like and this means they would ask their parents to get both items because this is what the newsagents aim to do. Supermarkets would sell my magazine because they try and sell as much as possible so that you will buy all items from that one store to make it easier for the customer. Also record stores would sell my magazine because in record stores they sell music anyway and music magazines are advertising music and cds so the record stores would want you buy these magazines because they promote their products.
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7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? I believe that I have highly progressed from when I made my preliminary products. When making my pre projects I produced them on Microsoft publisher and by using this software I feel like I was restricted in which ways to present my products. So after I produced my preliminary projects I started to use fireworks and I looked around different magazines to get ideas for my own magazine. By doing this my skills progressed and advanced and I managed to produce a product that I was pleased with and looked more professional and more attractive then what I produced for my preliminary product. I now know how to present my work and how to layout my work in an appropriate way for a music magazine. I know how to chose and match fonts so they look appropriate .I also know how to present my pictures and to edit my pictures to make them look suitable for the right kind of magazine. I have learned a lot through-out the course and I am now pleased with the final products that I have produced.
8. Below are my projects and how they have progressed through the course:
