Evaluation...


• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- I decided to base my products on many ideas i got from my research, i liked the way media institutes uniquely advertised their artists, merchandise, and supporting companies. Every didfferent Music Magazine business had their own ways of doing this, there was one magazine from my research that caught my eye because of its design. I decided to use a few of the ideas from this magazine in particular, i liked the way the featured artist was standing infront on the title. It made the artist stand out so i added this technique to my magazine. I then decided to look at other features but turn them into my own, On many different types of magazines there are other featuring artists pictures in all shapes and sizes. i liked the idea of little bubbles here and there so added a 'competition bubble' to my front page. i also decided to challenge media conventions, they normally decide to keep the theme the same on the front page's main artist along with the double page where the artist is talked about. I decided to do the opposite, i had a light theme on my front page and a dark theme on my double page, i dont this to tell everyone that on the grime scene two identities are needed. One for all your fans and another for all your enemies, you have to keep yourself to yourself and this can sometimes be darksided.
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
- My magazine focuses on one particular social group, Grime is a very niche genre and there is only a majority of people who listen to it. Normally the age range is about 15-24, and is more known to black boys but is having a fast growing effect on white people.

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
- Any music companies would distribute my magazine becaue its relevent, in return they might ask for there name to be on the magazine, or advertise there merchandise.

• Who would be the audience for your media product?
- My audience for my magazine would be teenagers from the ages of 15-24, any race and any sex.

• How did you attract/address your audience?
- My magazine is a grime magazine, this would automatically attract many boys to read it because they like to keep up with street life. Girls would be harder because not many of them like grime, but to do this i would include girl artists, and equally advertise girls and boys merchandise, and have pages for modern fashion for both sex's to keep them reading my magazine.

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- I already had an idea about programs like photoshop and indesign but since i started to expand my design and things started to get more technical, i learnt easier ways to do things, i found out how to blend two pictures together, how to blur easily and so on.

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
- Since my Preliminary task i have learnt that magazine involve more than what i included on my school magazine so took this into consideration and dealt with it on my Music Magazine. When i first started my preliminary task i didnt know how to use indesign, but my skills have improved and i started to learn a few valuble things about how to use it.