Evaluating My Music Magazine

For my evaluation I have chosen to record my answers in the form of audio files, 1 for each question. I have also posted images to accompany the audio, not within the video on Youtube, but on my blog.

(Note that you may need to turn up your volume quite high to hear my voice as there were some technical difficulties during the recording of my answers)

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



Something I forgot to mentions was the conventions in terms of the layout of magazines. I generally followed the conventions of music magazine when it came to my front cover, contents page and double page spread. On my front cover I made sure to include things commonly included on other music magazines for example I included a masthead, a headline with a lure, cover lines, the price and issue number of the magazine, offers of freebies and more. My contents page was laid out so that, while looking professionally made it also was well laid out so that readers could find the article they wanted to read about easily, I also made sure to provide images to accompany some of the articles within the magazine, something commonly used by magazines to attract the audience to those articles and thus allow them to get the most out of their magazines and possibly purchase future issues. I also included an editorial as I saw some magazines would regularly do this and I thought it looked quite professional. My double page spread used conventions such as making the text work with the image by placing it around it, which not only look professional but also draws the eye towards the image in a sense, still showing the point of the article. I chose to answer questions in a style that I had seen in other magazines I had researched and I worked the one image used on the double page spread as the background, while still finding room for my text.

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



I forgot to mention how even though my magazine is aimed towards both genders, the fact my main article, image on the front cover and image in the contents page are of/on a male, is more stereotypical because although there is a good balance of male and female artists in indie, rock tends to have more male artists, so the use of a male artist in these ways in/on a rock/indie magazine is slightly stereotypical.

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

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



(Forgot to mention) Also see my treatment sheet.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

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

This covers all of the evaluation questions :)

I would like to state that images used here that do not belong to me are under no right mine and all respective rights go to the websites in which they were obtained and that I am only using the images to demonstrate a point made during my evaluation, such as the photos of examples of my target audience that I did not take (All rules were followed whilst creating my music magazine, all images used in my magazine were taken by me :) no cheating going on here :D )

Till next time :)