Evaluation Questions.

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The convention of my media product depends on the genre of my magazine. With it been indie I decided to use indie photos and young girls who usully are associted with it. My media product uses conventions of real media products with the headings, sub titles and main images which attract the reader in.With the research and the deconsturctions of the other magazine it made it easier to ind conventions of real media products. I found that most magazine limited there colour pallett to about 2-5 colours,knowing this i decided to limit my colour pallette to three colours:- Pink Black and White. The stories in the magazine were based according to the genre of the magazine, e.g rock or indie music. Due to my magazine been indie i decided the content on my double page spread is about a indie band, and I formed a interview with a indie band to relate to my magazine. The target audience of my magazine was teenagers and I represented teenagers throughout my magazine by using images of teenagers in my mag.
For my titles I used bold text to stand out from the rest of the page,for dialoge i used stand size 20 text, in bold so its easy for the reader.
On my double page spread I have stuck to media conventions by using a interview layout. I slso kept my text on one side of the page to cut the page in half. I did this so it didnt look messy and be spread across my whole page and merge into a blur.
Through my research I found other magazines put smaller images around the bottom, in boxes to attract the readers attention, so I decided to add smaller images around mine.
In the magazine I deconstructed they put the magazine name or logo in the top corner, so i stuck with this convention which gave my magazine a professional feel.


2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Throughout my magazine, I represented the social group by teenagers and young adults that are into indie. It shows this throught the mise-en-sence, the clothes they wear, with dresses and skirts. To show that my magazine is indie and that my particular social group, i show this through the instruments in my magazine, e.g the electric guitar.
I use modern colours to show the audience at what social groups I aim my media product at, by using girly colours.
On my front cover my main image is of a solo artist, which stand out and shows its a music magazine and they social groups who are into this will buy it.
I used similar colours and fonts to other magazines, due to them been seen as attractive to the eye.

3. What kinds of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
There are a number of different places which I would concider to distribute my magazine:

-supermarkets

-newsagents

-recording shops

-local town shops e.g whsmith.

If i were to sell my media product I would distribute it in shops, due to this been able to be avaliable to a wide range of people. The disadvantage of this would be its not avaliable to those who don't go to these shops. Another way of distributing my media product would be through the internet and have a website for 'killah' magazine. Due to the internet becoming a world wide invention and been assible to everyone.
Another way of getting my media product out to the public would be getting representative to attend gigs and concerts to give out leaflets and free magazine tasters. This would show people what the magazine contains and attract them to buy the magazine, also this would be were my target audience would be.
Recording shops would be a good place to think about selling my magazine due to it been a music shop and the audience who are into music will all be there, so if they notice magazines which they would enjoy it would be easy to get it due to been in music shops.

my magazine links very much to real published magazine showing audience buy due to many attractions.

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

When I was producing my magazine the target audience I decided on was teenagers and young adults. The audience of my magazine also linked to been intrested into indie music. I tried not to choose a particular gender for my magazine, but due to the colour palette being pink white and black the magazine seems to be aimed more at women, but the content of the magazine is mixed gender just the font colour used represents women more.The colour is light and feminine and may detour a male reader. Through my magazine I have tried to use black to make it not seem as femine and if men go to flick through in a shop they dont take in its all women dominated.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

On my front cover, my main image is a teenage indie artist, which links to the main target audience, but the main factor of the front page was the guitar played by the artist. This attracts to the public eye, and with a magazine the front cover is the first thing you see and if it doesnt link to the target audience you are aiming at, your magazine wont hit off.

The content pages is attractive to the audience because it all the main stories and the indie stories and music upcoming which attracts the audience to my magazine. The photos I used on my content is artists and crowds, which looks fun and eventful which makes it feel youthful and for the younger generation. The fonts used are varies which makes it more intresting and not boring for the audience.

The double page spread is the biggest thing to attract the reader and get your audience to carry on reader your magazine. In my magazine I have used a interview base, with the questions answered. The questions are printed in pink font which makes it more attractive.

With the fonts and colours style used it appeals much more to the younger generation, and my target audience.

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

I have learnt how to use a variation of programs, Microsoft Publisher, Photo Print, Photobuket editor to cut photos.

I used Paint and Photobucket to cut my photos and get rid of unnessary background. I found photobucket very difficult to work and edit the photos out, over time with editing my photos I found out how to use it and cut the background out.

I found a website which let me edit my text to make it more funky to attract more to the reader.

In my prelimiary task I used lots of colours, cluttered the page by putting photo ontop of photo because I didnt know how to edit it and put photos back and some forward, with my prelimary i wanted a main image to stand out but I found it difficult to cut it out on make it draw to the top of the page without it covering everything so I had to keep it back but with doing my music magazine I had to learn how to order the page with the photos.

I also learnt how to use a camara, with angles and ways to make the photos look more realistic. I also learnt that the light changes the picture taken. I took lots of photos when producing my magazine. I thought taking the photo would be very simple and not difficult but when starting my magazine I realised it wasnt that easy, due to you needing to know the angle of the photo, lighting and the clothes they need to wear to link to my magazine and the back drop. The back drop was important because taking the photo with a busy background it was very difficult to take it out.
With some of the images I wanted to put a coloured text box around them, so I learnt how to add coloured boxes on top of my image and that by swapping them around onto different layers. I also had to learn the HTML colour codes to edit the colout of my text.

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel I have learnt alot since my prelimiary task and from the deconstruction I have developed and expanded my skills. I was able to not make the same mistakes as I did previously. Through my sixth form magazine I didnt link it to the audience, due to not making it fun or intersting which made first impression seem very dull .I developed on this and in my music magazines front cover I made it very colourful and attractive to the eye, to draw the viewer.
I thought my prelimiary task was good untill I started deconstruction the real magazines (NME-Top of the pops) when I saw they used colour palettes and various sub titles to draw in the reader. In my prelimary I didnt select a limited number of colours I used alot of different, which made the cover seem a mess. Also the main image of the page was the background instead of being in the middle of the page ontop of all the other texts. My prelimary was to cluttered and had to much going on which made the viewer confused and wasnt a attractive front cover. In my music mag I've made it more professional and easier for the viewer to read.

photos.

The range of photos used:
I took a range of photos of ollie, because I was going to use him as my front cover photo.I used varies shot, mid shot, close up, high angle, long shot, extreme close up.I then used a female model for my front cover due to the colour scheme I wanted it to appear more of a girly magazine.I used a mix type of shots of her: low angle, close up, long shot and mid close up.

I also took a picture of a brick wall to use as my magazine background.

This is the front page image, i deleted the brick background even though Im going to keep a brick effect as the wall. I chaged the contrast of the picture to make it funky and seem more indie.

kerrang-double page spread

I chose to deconstruct KERRANG's double page spread, the article was about Fall Out Boy, which is a rock band, and there future.

The main part of the article is the large image of fall out boy, its a long shot of the band, they cover over half of the articles page.

The main title of this page is "we dont know the future of fall out boy!" the colours used is black, with future in light blue. The title is large with every word starting with a capital letter. The text used is a skinny rock text.

They uses the blue colour throughtout this article due to blue being associated with boys and the target audience for this magazine is manly males. The colours used in this article are light blue and black, to only use two colours it draws alot of effect, the back drop colour is plain white. They use the plain white background so they can easly attract the readers eye to the band to the white contrasting with the colours of the band. They use a different layer effect for the band with other band members over lapping others.

The target audience for this article is teenage males. This is due to Fall Out Boy being aimed mostly at boys, this attracts the male audience and engages them with the article. Fall Out Boy is not all aimed at males, the audience is females too, but that is the main reason for the colour palette due to it being more males.

The writting throught the short article is writting in the same text, with a small black funky writting, although throught the beggining of the article the bands name is mentioned and the text for there band name is written in bold writting to make it stand out from the rest of the text.

In the top right hand corner there is a black coloured in text box with blue writting quoting the bands names, underneath this theres words from the bands latest song.

The band in the photo is colour coded most band members wearing blue, black and white.

top of the pops-double page spread

For my double page spread I have deconstructed a article out of top of the pops, this magazine is based on pop.

The main shot and attraction to this magazine is Leona Lewis slightly to the right of the centre, they have used a mid close up, and enlarged the image, it is very catching to the eye and blocks out images around. The picture is a good size, with a good layout so it is easy to read the context around the photo, and is not mixed in together. Around the magazine there is a mixed range of photos (who?)...

The page is divided into nine different boxes, with text inside each box. The text written on the page is not huge amounts which is more appealing to the reader due to them not having large amounts to read, the text also varies in sizes and fonts which adds more effect and attracts the reader more.

The text in each box is divided into two different colours, sectioned of with the top half and bottom half due to the colours, the top half is written in pink and bottom text is white.

Above the context boxes there is circle title boxes, with a back colour of pink and writting in white.

The main colours used on this double page spread is, white, black and pink.

There are two shades of pink, light pink and dark.

The main text across the front of the sprad is in large white text, with pink quotation mark each side,trying to portray Leona saying it. The white headline contrasts against the picture used as the background so it is easily seen.

TEXT?

finished magazine

This is my front cover for my magazine. I decided to use a girl model for my front cover who is playing the guitar. I decided to do this due to my main target audience being rock females. My choosen title for my magazine is KILLAH- I thought this would be a good title due to it being different and catchy. The audience for my magazine is emo/rock teenages, mainly females. I have selected to this group by the colour pallette I have used: with the pink, black and white.
The background to my magazine is a brick wall, I decided to do this so it didnt attract away from the main picture in focus.
The title for my magazine is written in large text with a pink star above the i to symbolize the dot on the i. Before the K i decided to add a scribble effect which would flow into the K, I did this due to it adding more effect to the title.
The main story for the magazine is in white writtting with pink text box behind to make the writting stand out.
Underneath the main image is two smaller images of two band that will be talked about throught the magazine.
Across the top ive used a banner effect, to advertise the a Free CD I choose to write this in pink bold text.
The bottom hand corner I added band names which will be featured in the magazine, each name is written in bold capital letters to stand out.



For my content I decided to divide my page in two halfs, left and right. On the right side I used a coloured background of pink to keep the colour scheme running throught my magazine and the left the background was kept white.
The context was listed down the left hand side, with sub headers to each section. The colour scheme I used for the writting was pink and black page numbers, which makes them both stand out more, rather than using the same colour for both. For the text I used Times New Roman, and for the headers I used Rockwell, I decided to use to different fonts so it didnt blend in and added more effect.
Top right there is a semi circle effect with a exclusive issue to the magazine, due to the background being yellow it attracts to the reader due to it being very different.
This context overlaps over a picture of a concert which is written about in my magazine, I decided to use this as my main image on my context becasue it draws the fact of music magazine.
The two images collected underneath were teenagers rave and a photo of a guy whos tour has being cancelled.

For my double page spread I decided to interview a new upcoming band called the heartstrings. I used the colour pallette pink and black, I did this because my magazine was aimed at young teenagers.

I made the photo like a mirror image to add more effects.

I made the title in bubbles with the writting cut out, and the used the logo for the band in boxes as like a contrast between squares and circles also using two different colours.

plan of my magazine

This is a brief plan of my content page, and how I am going to lay it out. I decided to put the content down the left hand side, with page numbers next to it, and on the other side its divided

into four boxes, top three with image in, from storys inside my magazine and the fourth box in right hand side its having adverts and games from the magazine.
I used a colour coded scheme to divide the blocks.

I decided on some possible names for my music magazine.

• -Killah: I decided this due to it being a retro, and different name which stands out. Also the spelling of killah is different to the normal spelling killer. This adds extra effect and difference to my magazine.
  



• -Ting: The idea of this name was due to throught my research the word KERRANG, is also a sound made from a electric guitar, and a ting sound is the noise formed by electric guitar.
  



• -Diffusion: Diffusion means light being scattered when reflected by a rough surface, or the transmission or passing of light through a shining object. I thought this would be a good effect for my magazine, making a effect of my magazine being a shinny object with rough edges.
  



• -Reflex: I thought the word reflex was a funky, rock name which would be good for my magazine.




• -Plectrum: I decided this due it being the name for a guitar pick and my magazine being a rock magazine, with most instruments used are guitars.




• -Bass Line: Bass line is a type of music, I decided this due my magazine being a rock/bass magazine.




• -Tatoo: tatoo gives a effect of dare, and punk which is the audience to my magazine.

The colour scheme I have decided to use is, black, white, pink and red.

I have decided to use a selection of four colours because through my research the magazines have shown to only use a variety of colours, mostly four at most. I also learned this looks better due to through my pleliminary task I used quite a few colours and it made my magazine appear to busy and messy, so Ive decided to cut down and stick to four. This will also show the reader throughtout my magazine its all linked, due to the colour scheme.

This is a breif plan of my content page, and how I am going to lay it out, this will help me to plan the page so when its done I know it won't appear cluttered and messy.
At the top I am having a huge scribble which will like bleed into the title, the blue boxes are all boxes that will have text in. I have coded it so the red boxes will have images in. The is going to be one large image that will dominate the whole front page of the magazine. This is going to be off a singer.
The black boxes are adverts and offers from the magazine.

My decision of name for my magazine is killah. And title designs:

To the title to add effect, over the 'I' I am going to put a pink star to use as the dot, also before the K I have included a huge scribble to make it seem like the scribble bleeds into the K.


This is the star I am going to add for the dot on the I of my title.

Pleliminary task

For our pleliminary task we had to design a school magazine consisting of the front cover and content page. It was aimed at children 16-18, who had carried on up into the sixth form.


We also had to deconstruct other magazines to help us see what the audience want.
I decided to develop a magazine, about what was going on throught the school and events and problems for the children to be involved too.
Iconghraphy.
<-- I used this photo as the background to show students at work and how its important to revise. This is a mid shot, I used a white female which represented the population of my school, this photo represents sixth form student,which is my target audience








<-- I use this image becasue I wanted to show people how bad things are getting and it was linked to how the school is trying to save paper. This shot is made up of six students at my school queueing for the printer.It is ment to attract the audience to read insided.










This is my final front conver for my pleliminary. The title of my magazine is called Guils chatroom. I used this title because i thought that it would represent what school is and that you can talk to people. I wrote the title in blue becasue it is bold and stands out from the page. In the top left hand corner I put the date of the magazine addition.


Across the front of my magazine i focused on five inside stories.





I used the red writting for the 'major queues' becasue it draws a stricking affect and they colour red represents danger and awareness and due to this being on of the top stories. I used larger writting due to it being the biggest story on the front cover, All of the writting is written in bold text.


I used a star text box to add more effect, I made the text box transparnet to keep the image of school child behind.


I used a range of bright colours to attract people to the magazine, this also won't let the reader get bored.


I used a speach box at the bottom of the page, to attract to the reader with the offer of a holiday which appeals to the audience. I used the colour blue becasue it stands out, from the white background. The picture also shows the reader the gorgeous views that they would get if they went on the holiday. Also the text in the speach box gives full,where,when,what information which straight away gives the reader the information they would want.





I thought the background to my magazine was drawn away, due to the adverts and storys over the top attracted it away from the readers eyes. Althought it doesnt distract the reader from the main aims of the magazine.


If I were to do it again, I would stick to a range of colours, three at maxium, due the amount of colours on my front colour makes it seem to busy and not as professional.




For my content page I decided to keep it a basic theme, and not really busy content.
The content page numbers are written in red, due red being bold and represents stricking affect and alert.
The main content titles are written in black, and in bold writting where the breif of the story underneath is in smaller text, to catch the reader to the story.
The main title of the page, is 'content' this is written in bold black writting which stands off the page.
The background to my content is white and purple this doesnt attract the reader from the main stories.