1. MY MEDIA EVALUATION
Jessica Mackenzie

2. 1. In what ways does you media product
use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
My media product is a magazine of mixed genres. Throughout making my
magazine I was influenced by different magazines such as Q and NME, theses
magazines have a much wider audience than those such as top of the pop.
Then more people would be more willing to buy and read the magazine I have
created. Whilst still sticking to pop, r&b and rock music it would then increase
the number and type of people interested.

3. The colour, fonts and
images all work
The main image on my together and define
magazine is straight on the genre of my
and is a close up of above magazine. With the
the shoulders. This creates three main colours
being red, black and
eye contact with the white it means that my
audience and draws them magazine has a wider
in. I have also edited the audience as these
image so that it creates a colours do not have
stereo types, such as
more friendly setting, colours like pink and
making sure the lighting is purple for girls. They are
right. My magazine uses more bold and simple
conventions and forms of colours, drawing
attention to the
other magazines as the magazine. The font I
model on most magazines used for my front page
is a female solo artist and I was FangSong, I kept to
have chosen my model one font so it would
stick to the simplicity of
carefully to address this. my magazine. I have
made sure that the
fonts and size of my
writing stands out so
Another thing I have added that it draws attention
is the barcode for the from the audience.
magazine. All magazines
have this so I found it
important to create one for
my product.

4. 2. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
Particular social groups including teens and above are
represented in my product by the way I have created it. I have
made sure that it would catch the eyes of that particular group
by the images, colours and design. The colours are simple and
can be liked by many, the images are attention grabbing
towards the people I want to be interested. People who are
interested in music will clearly be interested as the magazine is
based on music, similar to existing magazine like Q and NME.

5. 3. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and why?
I believe that distributes such as Bauer Media Group will be ideal
for my media product. Q is published by Bauer and because I
was influenced by this magazine it has aspect similar to
it, therefor this institution would be most likely to distribute my
magazine. Bauer Media Group is a multinational media
company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which operates
in 15 countries worldwide. This shows us that it is very well known
because of how successful it is, this would be great for my
magazine to get well known and popular.

6. 4. Who would be the audience of
your media product?
The audience that would
Here is my contents
be most interested in my page, it shows
media product would most what my target
likely be teens and younger audience would be
interested in. For
adults who have a fond example the V-fest
interest in music. My competition, this is
a popular event
magazine Influence that many of this
includes the most up-to- age group would
date music and news that attend.
this type of audience
would be interested in. It
includes gossip from what In this image the
band being shown
would be popular are of an age
musicians and singers; this is group similar to the
target audience.
what teens like to read. This would engage
They like to keep on top of the age group
more as they will be
what their role models are interested in the
up to and find out all the success of
interesting things. someone of their
own age.

7. 5. How did you attract/address your
audience?
The best way I could attract my audience was to add colour and make
it stand out from all the other magazines that exist, making it unique
whilst still being influenced by other magazines. The colours I have
chosen were all bold and relate to the sorts of music in the magazine. I
made sure that all the writing on the front was bold and would draw the
readers in by keeping the headlines minimalistic whilst making them
want to continue to read. By adding an image that was eye level to the
audience it makes them feel as though their being looked at which
again draws attention to it.
This is my masthead on my front
cover and it shows the colours I
have used throughout my
magazine, somehow linking the
genre of music it includes. Black
and red are quite dominant
colours so shows that my magazine
will be dominant in the market and
able to stand out from the rest.
The name influence shows an importance in the music
industry towards the age group its aimed at, as music is
something that’s involved with their everyday life. Making
my magazine very ‘Influential’.

8. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
There’s a wide range of technology, I have used a lot that has gone
towards creating my magazine. Programmes such as publisher, paint
and even fireworks have all been used to either set out my magazine
or add images or edit the final copy. An important part of creating my
magazine was to make sure the images were right. This would include
a high quality camera and the ability to edit the images; I used things
such as Photoshop and online programmes such as picnik. All these
were used to create the friendly and welcoming front cover I wanted
whilst also adding an edge to it. Fireworks was good to use for
adjusting the position of picture or writing whilst also adding affects to
the magazine. Photoshop and picnik worked best for editing my
images so they were good enough for my magazine and there was a
big variety of effects and tools I could use. Whilst publisher was used to
create the fonts and different styles of writing that I used.

9. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do
you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to
the full product?
My final task has been a lot more successful that my preliminary task
because I was able to stand back and evaluate my preliminary task
and decide what I could do better to create my music magazine. I
took more time planning what and how I was going to create things.
I noticed that it was important to take more time taking and editing
my images for my pages as they attract a lot of attention. I was
more aware that I needed to use a bigger variety of programmes to
get my magazine aesthetically pleasing to the public eye. I
experimented with more programmes and more technology to see
what was right for my product.
I also completed a
questionnaire so I
was able to get the
opinions of my
target audience.