Foundation Portfolioevaluation

Liam Keenan

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions

of real media products?

I have kept the same House style and colour scheme throughout my product.

Direct address is used butNot on main image

Band name slanted where asStraight on NME

Barcode, price and masthead included In both

Darker colourScheme for aDepressingEffect. WhiteStands out

White and black house style to attract both genders.

Same font used

Black and white colour scheme

Pictures in Similar layout

Lots morewriting

Larger masthead

Direct address

PageNumbersInSimilar layout.

How does your media product represent

particular social groups?

Liam Keenan

Primary research report

According to our survey, In this research task I found that magazines are still of interest in young culture, however not immensely popular. As their competition, the internet is becoming increasingly conventional as the place to receive music news. My research however was not fair because only females were interviewed that are in the same age group.

The main reasons the internet is popular than magazines, is because it is: free, easy to access and is the biggest database in the world. The recipients of this questionnaire said the magazine could be improved by making it cheaper. Perhaps this is how magazines could expand their demographics.

NME and Kerrang were mentioned in the questionnaire, these two magazines are expected to be associated with this age group, as it is the target audience. However they said that they rarely purchase these magazines, both of them released weekly, yet the recipients stated that they buy them monthly or sometimes never.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? IPC distributes the NME. My magazine would preferably be published by

them as some of the magazines IPC produce have similarities to my magazine.

Who would be the audience for your

media product?

Genre – tech grunge

Target audience: teenagers 15-20 yr olds

How did you attract/address your audience?

Dominant contrast used onBand name to attract reader

Same font used throughout

Band nameSlanted to attractYounger audience

Direct address usedOn some pictures

Large Bold text toAttract reader

Barcode in dead spaceAccording to GuttenbergPrinciple.

Price in primary opticalArea and Plus! In terminal

Turn over and subscriptionbox in terminal area

Bold toAttract attention

Shallow depth of field used in photo

Large Bold dominant textContinuing house styleAnd short quote from editor.

Direct address usedIn some montage pictures

Photomontage

Shallow depth of field

Black connotes death, dangerRed guitar connotes desire.

Band postersIn backgroundShow influences

Baseball capAppeals to aYounger audience

Graffiti attractsYounger audience

Seriousexpression

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this

product?

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the

progression from it to the full product?

Digital Photography