Evaluation

By Stephane Boucaud

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

This is an example of a media product.

It has bold and bright writing for the title so that it is seen easily and catchy. It also shows that it is important if it is in bold capital letters.

Most common media product have a large famous artist photograph as their background of the front cover.

They show the bar code in the corner with usually the price of the magazine in small writing.

Small writing.

Here is my media product which includes some of the elements professional media products would use such as:

The bar code

The bold and bright writing for the title

The large photograph as the background cover

Quotes in small writing

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?• The magazine genre for my media product is

“Grime” so to be able to attract the right people as an audience I had to include all the right elements for it. The language is one of these elements that needed to be included in the products, different types of language are used for different types of magazine genre so I had to match the typical language that the reader is used to.

• Compared to other magazine covers you can tell that mine is aimed at an audience which likes Rap and Hip/Hop which is stereotypical.

• As you can see from the way it is laid out and the image used it is aimed at a completely opposite audience. Here is an example of my front cover and a classical music magazine and you will see the difference there is. The fact that I used a young model for the background photograph of the front cover shows that it is aimed a youths. The stereotypical dress code of young people these days are ‘hoodies’ which is a sign of youth. compared to the other magazine the model looks more formal than the one I have.

3. What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why?

• The type of institution that would distribute this product will probably be Haymarket or IPC. Both of these are publishing companies that distribute more than thousands magazines a year such as NME, Rugby world, Nuts and so much more.

• I think these two companies would be suitable for the type of magazine that I am trying to distribute because they both distribute magazines that young people would be interested in.

http://www.haymarket.com/home.aspx

http://www.ipcmedia.com/about/

4. Who would be your audience for your media product?

• The type of audience for this media product will be targeted to 16 years olds and plus. Because of the genre of the magazine, the information given and the language used.

• it wouldn’t attract older generation because of these factors that’s why I am keeping it between young people.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

• For this part I used the questionnaire to know who likes what type of music these days and what kind of music are mainly popular.

• I asked a wide variety of people age 16+, boys and girls about their type of music and from there I knew where to go and what to include. I basically took all the information from the audience because we are trying to please them in what we do.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction this product?

• Before starting this project I already was familiar with Photoshop element because of some previous work I did. However I did discover and learnt new things on this software which really helped me create this media product. Some of the things I learnt how to use on this software Is the ‘clone tool’ which is here to pick out an selected area that you have chosen and past it on the new area you want to be on.

• I also learnt how to use Picasa 3 which is a similar software to Photoshop but a more basic and simpler way to edit your photographs.

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

• I’ve learnt how to use the software properly when I started doing the full product so my preliminary was quite poor. I didn’t put so much effort into my preliminary but I made it look basic just for an idea for the full product.

• When I first started on the full product I went back on my preliminary and looked on the things I had to improve and put more work into so that it looks more professional.

• However now that I know how to use these software I could easily make my preliminary look more appealing and professional, this product developed my skills which is good.