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 :)

Making the Magazine - Progress 10 (Double Page Spread Complete)

I have now completed my double page spread and have posted the pictures below:

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The reason for the zoomed out and zoomed in image is the zoomed out image does not allow you to actually see the text, only lines. The zoomed image allows for actually reading what has been written on the double page spread.

The difference between this and the last post relating to the double page spread is that now it has text on the right page of the double page spread so it is now complete.

If you have any comments on the appearance of my double page spread or have any improvements or suggestions, go ahead and leave them in a comment below :) any criticism is greatly appreciated as it allows me to make improvements :D so please be brutal :D

Anyway that's all for now :), at this point all I have left to do is write my evaluation, which I will be starting very soon. If any changes are made to my Front Cover, Contents Page or Double Page Spread I will make a post about the changes made including images, also when my evaluation is complete I will obviously post it on here :)

Anyway, till next time :)

Making the Magazine - Progress 9 (Contents Page Complete)

I have now completed my contents page for my music magazine, the changes that have been made since my last post can be seen below:

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The changes I have made are as follows:

• I have added an image relating to the article "This Months Fan Photos - Guitars" under the section "The Usual" as well as adding a page number to the bottom right of the picture, surrounded by a white circle to help the page number stand out
• I have added an image relating to the article "Monthly Competition Details" under the section "The Usual" as well as adding a page number to the bottom right of the picture, surrounded by a white circle to help the page number stand out

At this point I have now finished my Contents Page for my Music Magazine.

With this complete and my Front Page also complete I now only need to finish my Double Page Spread. For this I need to be in school as I do not have Adobe InDesign at home so I will finish my double page spread as soon as I get back to school.

If anyone reading this has any comments for my contents page, including any suggestions for improvements or just anything in general, please go ahead and leave a comment :)

Anyway that's all for now :), till next time :)

Making the Magazine - Progress 8

I have now added more to my contents page as you can see below:

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Since my last post I have added:

• Contents down the right side of the page (including sections for the articles)
• An editorial down the bottom right of the page
• A picture of this issue of Genesis' editor to accompany the editorial (also the name of the editor at the top of the picture, surrounded by a white background to make it stand out)
• A page number surrounded by a white circle to help me it stand out on the picture related to the main article of the magazine
• The word "EXCLUSIVE" written horizontally but going down the left side of the page, surrounded by a white background to help make it stand out and laid over the image related to the main article to show it is exclusive to Genesis magazine.

I have added quite a number of new things as you can clearly see :)

I will continue my work and make another post on my progress soon, till then, happy blogging! :D