Evaluation

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

The media product I have designed and created uses conventions of real media products. This has been achieved by research and analysis of existing products in the current market. As the task was to create a school magazine, I had to look into the key conventions that a school magazine would use. I have used the typical convention of a key engaging image on the front cover of the magazine, the cover lines running down the page and also a masthead which spreads across the top of the page. For my contents page I also used similar conventions which I had looked into during research. I developed my ideas by taking aspects from different magazines to create the beginning drafts for my magazine.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media product represents a particular social group, which are school pupils with an interest for the arts including subjects such as Art, Textiles and Photography etc. The title of the magazine ‘Trinity Arts’ shows the clear social group it has been aimed at. And also the tag line ‘Bringing out the creative side in everyone’ so anyone who is interested in becoming creative or anyone already involved in the arts will be the key target audience for this magazine.

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

As I have produced a school magazine the institution will be a school, they will be the ones to distribute my media product. This is because the audience I have decided to aim my magazine at is of the age 11-18 typical school age, if it was distributed anywhere else it would not be aimed to the right audience the magazine was created for, this is why a school is the perfect place to distribute.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my media product would be school pupils aged 11-18. As it’s an Arts magazine it would be typically aimed at the social group of pupils interested in the art subjects. The content inside my magazine suggests the age group as it doesn’t include anything of inappropriate nature. This is because the audience I have created the magazine for is a Christian school and some pupils and parents could become offended if anything inside was inappropriate.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I have attracted an audience by the face used on the magazine, which is a smiling pupil, painting and looking directly into the camera. This would get an audience interested straight away as from their prospective it would look as if the model on the magazine was looking directly at them. The colours I have used help attract an audience, bright colours such as yellow, red and blue which are used in the masthead, cover lines, bar, and the puff. If the audience look inside to see the contents they will also be attracted by the same bright colours which create a house style. As there is not too much writing I think this will work well with the younger ages as most are interested in images instead of lots of writing.

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

From the construction, research and development of my product it has helped me learn and understand about the technologies of this certain media product. From this preliminary task I now understand ways in which typical magazines are laid out and where key furniture is placed. The programme I used to create my media product was new to me so I had to learn ways in which to use it, this programme was Adobe in design which is a lot harder to use than Photoshop. But I am hoping that because of this preliminary task and the use of the programme it will help me to produce my next task the music magazine with more ease because of this extra experience.