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