My finished production work

This is my music magazine front cover

This is my music magazine contents page

This is my music magazine double page spread

This is my school magazine front cover

This is my school magazine contents page

Evaluation

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

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represents fans of chart music by it's use of bright eye-catching colours, and the business of the front cover image. Chart music is very busy and fun, it has to appeal to many music lovers, as chart varies, therefore I think the use of the colours is good at this, as it has blue, yellow, red and white mainly. The use of pictures on the contents page represent fans of chart well as there is a variety of pictures, appealing to different, smaller groups in the big chart fan group. For example, there is a picture of a guitarist, which will appear more to the rock fans, then there is a picture of a DJ which will appeal more to the dance fans. The double page spread, I think, would appeal to everyone, as most people like to know what is that week top songs. As the double page spread article is about the top 10, this makes me think it will appeal to most people, which is what magazines want.

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

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Here is my ideal target audience

Name: Sarah

Age: 19

Hobbies: Hanging out, listening to music, reading magazines

Favourite music: Pop and chart

Favourite artist/band: Black Eyed Peas

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to a full product?

Screengrabs of my double page spread

At this point in my coursework, I decided that I did not like my layout of my double page spread, and I felt that it did not do my chart music magazine justice, of making it look like a real chart music magazine double page spread. Therefore I went into further research of real music magazine double page spreads to look at the different ways in which they can and have looked. This is the design in which i came up with, after deciding to change my layout, I feel that this is a better structure and layout for a music magazine and that it will appeal more to the audience and make them want to read it.

My double page spread started as a 3 page spread, as I felt at the beginning I would need an extra page to fit all the information on that I want to provide the audience, within the article. I began constructing my triple page spread as I had earlier planned, to see if it would work how I wanted it to.

Screengrabs of my contents page

Screengrabs of progress on my front cover

Pictures after editting

Pictures I used on my magazine before editting