Evaluation.

EVALUATIONBy Kirsty Allen.

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

SIMILARITIES IN FRONT COVERS

Both of the magazines have the main images looking straight at the camera.

Both of the magazines have a colour theme of reds, gold, white and black writing. In both of the magazines, the font is bold throughout.

The barcodes on both of the magazines are to the side of the magazine.

There’s a variation of font and size in both magazines.

DIFFERENCES IN FRONT COVERS

In my magazine my image is central and in Q magazine the image is more to the right.

I have a footer on my magazine, where as Q magazine doesn’t.

In Q magazine the colours gold and white are used more then mine.

In my magazine I have displayed the website address on my front cover and Q hasn’t

In my magazine I have displayed the website address on my front cover and Q hasn’t

The main image of the Q magazine takes up the majority of the page.

The masthead on the Q magazine has a red background to it, and mine is just plain.

Q uses flashers on its magazine, mine doesn’t have any.

SIMILARITIES IN CONTENTS PAGES

Both magazines have their logos at the top of the magazines.

The date and issue number are both placed in the top right hand corner in both magazines.

Both of the magazines have boxes around the headings and white writing inside the boxes. Then underneath that, the page number and heading have a short paragraph describing what each section is about.

Both of the magazines have a white background, and both of the colour schemes are red, white and black.

Both magazines have capital letters as the headings.

Both have information by the photographs telling the readers what it is and where to find it in the magazine.

DIFFERENCES IN CONTENTS PAGES

Q magazine only had one main image and a small one underneath, and in my magazines there’s two smaller images.

In my magazine I have my mast head going down the left hand side of my magazine, Q’s masthead goes along the top.

I abbreviated ‘January’ to ‘Jan’ in magazine, Q hasn’t abbreviated and kept it as ‘October’.

Q has a column on ‘every month’, I haven't.

My images are at a canted angle. Q’s images are very square and straight on.

I have a subscription section at the bottom of my page.

SIMILARITIES IN DOUBLE PAGE SPREADS

Both magazines have a little title illustrating what the is on the page. E.g. Q – ‘lady GAGA’ and my magazine has ‘TWIST INTERVIEW’

Both of the magazines had only one images on their double page spread.

The magazines both have the page number and title of the magazine at the bottom right hand of the page.

DIFFERENCES IN DOUBLE PAGE SPREADS

In Q magazine they chose to have a black and white photo where I had a coloured/slightly sepia effect.

My magazine has a pull quote above my image and information at the bottom of the page telling the reader who's in the photo graph and a page number. Q magazine had nothing but the photograph on the page. My image is on the right page and Q’s is on the left.

I have a pull quote in the middle of my article and the questions are a different colour to the answers. Q has 2 drops caps in their article and the colour is the same throughout.

R&B/hip-hop artists are stereotyped and associated with wearing hats or hoodies over their heads and quite serious looking, they have confidence and attitude.

My photos can represent a social group as they represent the R&B/hip-hop culture, they are wearing the latest trends in fashion, they have their own unique styles and there’s a variation of ethnicity.

Women in the R&B genre are well dressed, good looking and up to date with fashion.

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I think IPC Media should distribute my magazine as they don’t distribute magazines similar to mine.

This would be good for IPC as my magazine is up to date and a new magazine, keeping people interested and wanting the ‘new thing’

As IPC’s magazines are not a similar genre to mine, it will widen their audience as my magazine is R&B, which is new to IPC.

My magazine would be distributed in shops, festivals, gigs and specific music shops like HMV.

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

For my product I have chosen to challenge the conventions of R&B/hip-hop audience.

I have chose to aim my magazine towards a wider range of different ethnic background.

I want to aim my magazine to both genders who have a interest in R&B music. I have used images of both women and men to attract both genders. The age group which I would like the audience for my magazine to be would is between 16-24.

Q4. Who would the audience be for your media product?

Name; Ollie Collins Aged;17 Ethnicity; White British Occupation; Student Favourite colour; Blue Favourite artists; Drake, Ed

Sheeran, Wiz Khalifa, Eminem, Rihanna, Rizzle Kicks

Interests; Socializing, music, Likes to be up to date with

fashion. Wears vans, converse, tracksuits, body warmers and skinny jeans. Likes the makes Ralph Lauren, Converse, Adidas and Nike.

Name; Georgie Pitt Aged;17 Ethnicity; White British Occupation; Student Favourite colour; Pink Favourite artists; Beyoncé,

Emeli Sandé, Rihanna, Nickie Minaj, Jason Derulo, Bruno Mars.

Interests; Socializing, music, spending time with family, cooking.

Wears leather jackets and skinny jeans. Cares a lot about her appearance and listens to music every day.

I attracted my audience by adding eye catching sell lines E.g. ‘exclusive’ ‘must have’.

I added pull quotes on my front cover, contents and double page spread, which is also eye catching.

My header ‘the UKs brand new R&B music magazine would address the audience by telling them the genre and also the word ‘new’ would attract the.

My magazine is designed to attract mainly middle class people, so by adding ‘first issue only £2’, this would attract them to buy it.

I addressed my audience by using simple language making it easy for my audience to read.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

I chose to have a range of ethnicities in my magazine making a wider range for my target audience.

I kept the images in my magazine to people aged between 16-25, as this is the target audience I was aiming for, this would attract my target audience as similar aged people will be reading about people there own age.

I attracted my audience by using well known artists which they will be familiar with.

I added a subscription at the bottom of my page. This will attract my audience because it tells the audience they will save money.

As my magazine was targeted at both males and females, I decided to use both genders in my magazine.

I attracted the audience by adding ‘Rhythmix’s’ twitter, and addressed the audience by telling them to follow ‘us’ meaning the band.

The name of the band is in big capital letters dominating the page, this will catch the readers attention.

To attract my audience I added quotes from the band, with advice to the readers.

As R&B originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the ‘R&B’ is often used to describe a style of African American music. A lot of R&B artists are black as they originate from this tradition.

So I decided to have my front cover image to represent African Americans. This is what R&B is stereotyped as so this would attract the audience.

I made my contents page and double page spread on InDesign. I learnt the features of InDesign.

Using a camera I was able to take high quality photographs for my magazine.

I learnt angles and type of shot.

Using photoshop I made my front cover for my magazine. I was able to manipulate my original images until I was satisfied with how they looked. I learnt the different ways you could manipulate images.

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

I have learnt that trial and error is the best way to learn from your mistakes. I found that by attempting things you can soon find out whether or not it’s right.

E.g. By attempting to edit the contrast on a photo, it could either make it look better or worse, but from trialling it can help you decide.

Stages of Development

I opened my image in Adobe Photoshop and then made it bigger so I could see what I was working with.

Because I didn’t want the background of the image, I clicked on the forth box on the left hand side. This allows you to select everything around your image to delete what you don’t want.

Here you can see the section around my image that I deleted.

I carried on and deleted the whole of the background, just keeping the main image in the middle.

I then made my image bigger again, as I wanted a medium close up.

This was my original image.

Front cover; stages of development.Using photo shop.

Here I edited the contract and the curves to make my image stand out more.

Then I started to add text onto my front cover. I made my masthead on www.dafont.com

Here it shows me editing the font on my page, to make it look like it had a shadow – this makes it easier for my readers to read.

Here I added my barcode and my header.

I added most of my sell lines, footer, date and issue number.

FINAL FRONT COVER

I placed 2 boxes to start with on my contents page. Then coloured them in black and red, as these colours match the front cover.

Then I added my masthead ‘contents’ down the left hand side in the red column. I reused the masthead ‘twist’ off the front cover and placed it on my contents page. Then added the date and issue number.

I added my boxes with headings in and added 2 photographs. Then tilted them and added a shadow behind them. I also added my front cover to offer a subscription for the readers.

I finished off my ‘subscription’ box, by adding a website and telephone number. I finished adding my text and added subheadings underneath the headings to explain to the readers what’s on each page.

Contents page; stages of development. Using InDesign.

These were my manipulated images.

These are my original images for my contents page

To manipulate my images I edited the curve levels , this changed the contrast and brightness of my images, making them brighter.

Using photoshop.

FINAL DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

THIS IS MY ORIGINAL IMAGE FOR MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD. AND USING PHOTOSHOP I MANIPULATED MY IMAGE GIVING IT A ‘SEPIA’ EFFECT AND DELETING THE BACKGROUND

Double page spread; stages of development.

I started off by adding my image to the double page spread. Then I added a black box on the top of the page. I add ‘twist interview’. As the magazine is called twist and it’s an interview.

I added the band name, and explained underneath what the interview is about. I also added a quote from the interview to attract the audience.

I started to add more text and another quote in the middle of my article.

I finished off by adding the page numbers in the bottom right hand corner of each page. I used the same font and box colour as I did on my contents page. I also wrote underneath my photograph the name of each member of the band.

Using InDesign.

FINAL DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

Preliminary task

Preliminary taskI feel that I have learnt:

•How to manipulate my photographs better using Photoshop

•How to use the drop shadow to make my magazine look effective

•To use a consistent colour scheme throughout my magazine

•To use a consistent font throughout my magazine

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

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

Strengths

Colour scheme

Manipulation of images

Good choice of sell lines

Language

Weaknesses

Lots of white wasted space

Front cover plain background

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