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

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This is my mind map for how I think I have improved my magazine since the preliminary task. I have covered different areas of this inclduing ways in which I have improevd the magazine it's self such as photos, fonts, structure ect. I have also included reasearch and ket notes from Kerrang! an existing magazine with the same genre of mine; music from punk, rock and metal. I have also learnt time management and organistion through software such as blogger as this is what I have learnt the most since the begining of the courswork, I and I believe this has shown throughout.

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

This is my audience feedback telling me where my audience think my magazine could be sold. Because my magazine is aimed at a specific audience, my magazine won't necesserily fit into  supermarket as this isn't for a mass audience, I believe that my magzine wold be suitably sold in small corner shops or convenience stores as this this way my magazine will only be available for those who want to buy it. My magazine can also be sold in airports or newspapers stands as this way my magazine can be read on verious flights and sold instantly. I also believe with today's changing technoligies with media formats, my magazine can be sold online such as from a website or on an ebook as the magazine can again be read more conviently on the go and cannot get lost or damaged as easily as real magazine. With an online format available to my audience of punk, rock and metal fans I beleive my magzine can generate more of  a profit from this.

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

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Evaluation qu 4 and 5

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

I have used many technologies from the process of constructing my magazine's front cover, contents page and double page spread.
The main use of technology software I have used is Blogger as it is where I have posted my entire coursework for my magazine including research and planning, construction and evaluation  I have learnt how to upload posts including photos and analysis. This has also helped me keep track as a diary entry of what I have completed and what I still have to post, so this helps with organisation and time management which are easy marks to achieve




The next piece of software I have used is Serif Page Plus X6 which I have used to construct my magazine over the period of time. I have found that Serif is good at producing high quality products which is perfect for making a music magazine, although it can be tricky to align text in columns so this takes time in producing a piece of work that could mean the difference between a A grade and a C grade.

I have used Photoshop as a way to improve my photos eg cropping, lighting, ect which again helps the images look professional and high quality which will ultimately attract my audience more as they are the ones who are interested in the content of my magazine.

I have used wix.com to help me create a webpage for one of my evaluation questions as a different form of ICT which will hopefully help me gain more marks as I have presented my evaluation differently rather than using a single power point. I have also used other popular sites such as Flickr, Prezi and Voicethread as part of my evaluation.

Mrs D

The planning of this is good. Mention the words 'negative stereotype' to help with the representation question. Please can you add your ICT methods per question asap?

Media Planning for Evaluation

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

• Comparison with real media artifacts: Kerrang!
• Fonts styles, same throughout
• Images, bands/solo artists
• Colours; red, white and black, smae throughout
• Layout; columns, cover lines, same throughout
• Content: Simular artists from the same genre, punk, rock, metal

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

• Stereotypes of genre; punk, rock, metal fans
• Colours: Black, Red, White
• Emotions:

Angry
Moody
Violent
Depressed

• Simularities and Differences in other bands/magazines
• How they are represented in my magazine
• My Audience: 13-25 year olds, males

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

• Mainly sold through large supermarkets or small crner shops, simular to Kerrang!
• Mainly sold online, mass market
• Special deals and discounts to keep audience's attention

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

• My audience: 13-25 year olds
• Mostly males, but can be aimed at boys or girls
• Mostly punk fans, but also rock and metal, alternative music
• People who like bands

5. How did you attract/adress your audience?

• Colours; red, black and white, these colours can be associated the most with punk, rock and metal fans
• Bold headline and fonts, like Kerrang!
• Content inside, mentioning bands my audience likes; cover lines, main headline
• Deals, offers, subscriptions to keep audience interested and to make sure they're getting something out of the magazine
• Advertising, posters, gigs, competitons, albums, news ect

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

• Blogging, Blogger, uploading my music magazine
• Serif Page Plus X6, constructing my magazine, cropping images, changing layouts, fonts, colours
• Photoshop, cropping images

• The whole process takes time
• Learning new terms and techniques
• Learning from existing magazines and anyalysing why they are so successful

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

• I have learnt how:

To take better images
To change images such as lighting, contrast ect
To layout/structure my magazine proffesionally
Taking feedback from my audience to make my magazine better
To keep themes throughout my magazine, using colours that my audience like
To add necessary content to suit my genre, e.g coverlines
To stick to deadlines

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