Final post

To the Examiner,
I hope you enjoy reading through my blog and seeing the work that I have produced. I've gained a lot of knowledge and new skills throughout this project so it has been enjoyable. To make it easier for you to look through my blog posts I have labelled all of my posts, these labels appear in the label cloud on the right of the page.
Thanks

Final magazine

Preliminary magazine

Evaluation 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)

Evaluation 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

Evaluation 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Evaluation 5

My target audience is teens to young adults, age 16-25. I have designed my magazine in a way that I feel will attract this age group. I am looking to attract mainly a male audience for my magazine and I have attempted to attract this group by using appropriate images and simple text.
The artists in my magazine are mainly very successful, inspirational people who you can look up to. I feel that  that would attract my target audience because they are at the age where they are maknig a lot of decisions in life and it is important for them to have some one to look up to. So they would see this magazine with a lot a familiar names of very successful people. My magazine promotes the glamorous lifestyle these artists live so my target audience would be attracted to this.

Evaluation 6

Photoshop - I have used this software to create my preliminary and final magazine. All of my pages were made using photoshop. I feel that it was the most appropriate software for the job because it allows you to layer each element of the page, making it very easy to make certain pieces of the page stand out. I also used it to edit all of my photos. It allowed me to very accurately cut out my artist from the background of the photoshoot. This was a very useful feature because it meant that my magazine had a very professional, sharp looking image on each page.

Camera - The camera that I used for my photoshoot was very useful because it was very simple. I have very little photography knowledge or experience so having a very simple to use camera made it a lot easier for me to get professional, good quality images. The auto focus, and brightness sensor on the camera meant that I just had to take the image and not worry too much about the more technical features behind the picture.

Computer - When using photoshop I used a Mac Book. I chose to use this device rather than another similar computer or laptop because it is a lot better quality, it produces a much sharper looking, better quality image than any other computer. It is also a lot faster which meant that the photoshop programme ran a lot smoother than it would on a another computer.
For the rest of the project I used a normal computer using Windows 7. The windows 7 software is very useful because it allows you to open 2 documents next to each other. This made it very easy when completing research task to be able to put the two pages next to each other and be able to make notes on one document whilst looking at the information on the other page. 

Evaluation 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

 Looking back to my preliminary task I can see that I have learnt a lot about the layout of a magazine cover. Most clearly I have learnt about layering. I had no idea about this when I did the preliminary task so as you can see it is all on layer, meaning that nothing on the page particularly stands out or grabs the reader attention. This wouldn’t be good when trying to market and sell this magazine because people just wouldn’t be interested in it as other similar magazines would be more attractive.

After learning about layering and trying a few different designs I created my final cover. It is layered in a way so that specific parts of the page stand out more than others. I also learnt about positioning, I have positioned all of the pieces on the page so nothing obstructs the mast head. It was important for this magazine that the mast head was very visable as it is a first issue magazine.