Evaluation Questions

Questions for evaluation:
Who would be the audience for your magazine?
How does your magazine represent particular social groups?
In what ways does your magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real (music) magazines?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Screen Shots

My Final Magazine

Overall I am quiet impressed with my final magazine turn out, it was difficult using PhotoShop at the start and figuring out how i could use my new knowledge of camera angles and lighting to my advantage, but in the end it all worked out and i was pleased with my final result.

Preliminary Task

At the start of the year for my AS Media Studies, i was assigned a task, which was to create a magazine for students. I chose to do it on helping children from year 11 adjusting into 6th form life. This was the first time i was doing something of the sort, by starting off like this it helped me learn new skills, i learnt a few brief conventions of magazines in order to help me with constructing my own magazine. However, my Preliminary Task was not too much of a success, my final magazine helped me to use many different skills.

We were told to use Publisher in order to do our Preliminary Task, whereas i did my final magazine using PhotoShop.

That is the main difference, and by using different programmes you can see a huge change in the quality of both my magazines.

Throughout the process of this course i have learnt to use PhotoShop and also developed on my camera skills, and learnt about many different magazines and how much thought goes into every single little detail which is put at the front or inside the magazine.

Preliminary Task-Front Cover

Preliminary Task-Contents Page

Preliminary Task-Interview Page

Colour Palet

I Didn't want to go to bright and use random colours, so i stuck to the basics: Red..Pink..Purple..Black..White!

I wanted to keep the Hip Hop and R&B theme by choosing calm, subtle colours, i didn't want my colours to be too loud or bright.

Planing my interview

How did you start off?

Why did you become a singer?

Did you ever imagine getting this big, just by uploading videos onto YouTube?

Which University did you go to? What were you studying at University?

Do you regret your decision?

How did your parents and family members take your decision?

Who did you get your singing talent from, Mum or Dad?

What sort of boys do you go for? “bad boys”

What do you eat for breakfast?

What time do you go to bed?

Do you have any embarrassing facts about yourself?

Writing up My Interview

This is My Final Interview Questions and Answers

My final reader profile

This is my reader profile, targeted for my music magazine. The type of audience who are interested and i am targeting at are, they will be using these conventions in order to purchase their music. The gender for my magazine is both males and females, aged 13-21.

They may have a part time job. The price of my magazine is reasonable £1.00 as they are students and may not be earning so much money.

Test Shots

Here are a few shots i took, i took a range of different angles, i stood on chairs to get a full view of the model and made her look up at me. I took a full view by standing right in front of her, I also took a picture through the mirror, i experimented new and different ways with the camera.

Constructing Interview

Layout of Interview Page

This is a rough idea of how i want my interview page to look, on the double page spread, one page will have a picture of "Sasha" and the other page will be were the interview will be laid out.

Constructing Contents page

Planing Contents Page

This is a draft of how I want the Contents page of my magazine to be, this is just a rough idea which I had in mind for my contents page. This is my outline, and I will be using this as to just a start and as it progresses, develop my ideas and see how it looks as it comes together on the screen.

Constructing Front Cover

Rough Layout of Front Cover

This is a draft of how I want the Front Cover of magazine to be, this isn’t exactly how I expect it to be, just a rough idea or sketch. This is my outline, and I will be using this as to just a start and as it progresses, develop my ideas and see how it looks as it comes together on the screen.