Evaluation Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?

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

Overall I have learned a great deal with technology from the begining of my portfolio. It has helped develop my ideas, organise my thoughts and made my end product much more successful if I hadn't used this technology. Although some software and hardware was quite difficult to use as first the end result was rewarding and beneficial to my learning.

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Q5- What my audience thought of my product

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Q5- Audiences response

Question 5 How did you attract your audience?

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When looking at my primary research and my magazine I have tryed to take on account what people have said. I have also looked at professional magazines in contrast to mine to see if it was as high a quality as a professional music magazine. My primary results said that people wanted more female artists to be used in and on the front of the magazine, which I have done with my models Allison, Jessica and Sarah. They also said they wanted bright colours and bold texts, I have tryed to do this with the red and the black that are both in bold eye catching fonts. Some other results said that they liked having a band index in the magazine so that they could turn to their favourite bands page and one other result showed that they liked photographs to look different and appealing. For the article they said they would prefer it to be more personal and specific to the artist so that they could relate to the artist.

When looking at the professional magazine NME my magazine does have some high quality designs to it.

For example with the front cover both my product and NME use the colour res which is very eye catching and bold. They have used banners at the top and bottom of the page separating sell lines. However there are differences such as the border all the way around the magazine and the large banner holding most of the sell lines in on the left hand side. All of which make the magazine look attractive and appealing, but I have still incorporated things that a professional magazine would consider and made my own music magazine that after research and planning could be seen as a real music magazine.

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

I have created a mood board on olioboard by using images that repesent the audience my magazine is aimed at. My audince are people who like to go to gigs and festivals, they enjoy dressing good and shop in places like topshop and wear brands like converse, keds and levi's. My audience enjoy films like 300 days of summer and juno, the actors and actresses are similar to my audience. They enjoy listening to bands such as foster the people, vampire weekend and are similar to the cast of skins who enjoy life, partying and listening to music.

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

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Evaluation Question 2 - How did you represent social groups?

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

Final magazine product

Double page spread improvements

My font size for my article is now size eight which is typical for magazines. It also means I can put more into my article i have also changed the color of the questions from black to red so they are easily distinguished from the answers.

The images are now the same with and I have deleted the border around them so they are bigger.

Cover improvements

The first change I have done is with the text at the bottom, I have enclosed it in a black box and change the font to white to make it stand out more. I have also made it the same size as the text in the sky line of my magazine.

I have also created a large sell line to fill the space on the the left hand side and the middle. I have put it in a large font side of 18 and again to math the house style it is in red. One other thing I have one to all my text is to bevel and emboss it so that it stands out more against the background.

Contents improvements

For my contents I have now aligned all my numbers and text to make it look professional. I have also used lines to separate each different section of the contents page and put lines at the top and the bottom where the contents ends to make it more clean cut.

The text is now at a size 8.5 and the titles of each page being size 10.

The band index has been widened to the end of the left hand side and I have decreased the text to a size 6 so that I could fit more band names.

Rough cuts feedback

In order to improve my magazine I have been told to improve on the following:

• For my front cover I need to make a banner for my bottom text so that it is more clear
• I need to produce a large sell line across the left hand side and middle of the magazine to improve its appearance
• For my contents page I need ensure that everything is aligned, I need to box it in or make a border to make it more clean cut and professional.
• I need to ensure that all images are in my magazine
• To make the font smaller preferably size 8 so that it is similar to a professional magazine and lastly for my contents to widen my band index to fill more of the page rather than there being unnecessary blank spaces.
• For my double page spread I need to make the images the same width apart, so that they are consistent with one and other
• I need to make the fond smaller to a size 8 or smaller to make it look more professional and I need more colour in the actual article to make the questions and answers clear.  

But overall my magazine is consistent and the photo shot was creative and interesting.

Rough Cuts

These are my rough cuts.