This document summarizes a student's evaluation of their music magazine media product. The student discusses how their magazine uses conventions like bold mastheads and sell lines on the cover. They represent young teenagers and women in a non-sexual way. An independent distributor would be suitable. The target audience is teenage girls aged 13-19. Feedback was positive about the layout and colors. The student learned about magazine conventions and the extensive work involved in constructing media products.

1. Music magazine evaluation
Sophie-Jane Bowerman

2. In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
• On my magazine cover I use a bold masthead, which is a typical
convention of a magazine, as well as sell lines which I also use on my front
cover. On the front cover of other music magazines they use more than
one font colour, only used two.
• On my double page spread I enlarged the first letter of the text which is a
typical convention in magazines.

3. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
• My music magazine would represent young teenagers. Many
magazines out in the media today show women in a more
sexual way. In my magazine the model is coverd up. I want my
magazine to represent people are purely interested in music,
not just the people featured on the front cover.
• My magazine also represents women. Which is why only
women are featured. But I didn’t want to feature her in a
stereotypical way which is why she is fully clothed and in a
medium close rather than a fully body shot.

4. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and
why?
• I think my magazine would be more suited to a more
independent distributor. This way it could feature
smaller, and independent artists rather than
mainstream. It would also allow me to keep the
ideologies of the magazine. Global companies
wouldn’t interested in my type of magazine.

5. Who would be the audience for your
media product?
• The audience for my music magazine would
be teenagers, aged between 13-19.
• It would also be more appealing to females
rather than males.

6. How did you attract/address your
audience?
• To attract my audience I tried to use a minimal
design, which is similar to fashion magazines such as
vogue
• I also tried to use colours such as black and white,
and purple to attract a young female audience.

7. Feedback
• When I asked people what they thought of my
media product this is what they said
• They said that they like the layout and the style but perhaps
could use some different colours.
• They also said that it wouldn't appeal to them as it looks very
girly and more aimed at females.
• Another said that the picture looks professional and makes
the page stand out. And the colour scheme is very good
because it makes the purple stand out. This person also liked
the way I incorporated the title into the double spread.
• Others liked the use of quotes on the double page spread.

8. What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
• The main thing I have learnt from this project is a lot
more time and effort goes into creating media
products than I thought originally.
• There has to be a lot a research and preparation
before the actually constructing can begin.
• I have also learnt about magazine conventions, as
well as the use of Photoshop.

9. Looking back at your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
• I have learnt how much work is involved in the
process of creating media products.
• I have also learnt how to make my product
more suitable to my target audience.
• I have learnt how to use photo shop to make
my images fit better with the overall design of
my product.