Evaluation

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt that with the technologies availuble now, magazines are able to look and be alot better and appealing to customers. With the creation of photoshop and other IT based progrmmaes magazine designers are able to create eyecatching images and front covers to make the whole magazine exsperience alot more enjoyable, people would see magazines as boring and reading but now with all the aditional images magazines are in a league of there own. Also with new tecnologies magazines dont have to be in the form of paper anymore it can be downloaded over the internet saving the enviroment also. If tecnology was not avialable to me as it was then i would not have been able to produce what i did.

How did you attract your audience?
The way i attracted my audience is with the images and wording on my front cover, these exspained to my customers what genere the magazine was. The images relate to what my customers are looking for, the magazine is different to normal ones because there is no magazines like slayer mag so the market is there straight away for me. People who listen to heavy metal dont listen to anything else so they will be sick of buying Q magazine because its get every type of genere in it and my custmers just want heavy metal and to not waste there money on articles they dont want to know about.

Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience i am targeting my magazine at is people aged 17 and over, this is because some of my content may not be took well to the ears and minds of young people. Also heavy metal music is listened to by the older generations peopel choose there lifestly around it and just to stand out from other people and there music selections.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and Why?
Highstreet newsagents will distribute my products because they need a product on there shelves which is sole heavy metal music, they would sell thousnads of products in the intional start of the magazine because there will be loads of people there wanting to buy a sole magazine on heavy metal because they will never have seen one before. Also to apple because they have a magazine app which lets you download magazine i could distribute my magazine to them in a download form.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
It represents the heavy metal listeners as people who stand out and people who arent afraid to stand up and show what they like even tho it is socially seen as different if you listen to that sort of music. But with the magazine it will help other social groups understand what the heavy metal social group is just like and they might then understand why heavy metal people are like how they are.

In what ways does your media product challenge forms and conventions of real magazine products?
It challenges them because of what genere it is and what may be put in the contents because of that genere, many other magazines would not put in the content i would put in mine this is because the readers i am to have like the sort of content i want to put in, but in other magazines this would be seen as wrong to put in magazine content, it is not socially exspetable.

Looking back at your preliminary task (College magazine) What have you learnt in terms of progression from that to the full product?
When first starting the collage magazine i did not know what to include e.g. articles and images. But starting research i knew what i had to include to hit my readers. When i did my collage magazine i did not know how to do anything on photoshop, but doing my music magazine i found out alot more functions to use to make my magazine more effective this is why i was surpraised with my final magazine and how it looked compared to my collage magazine. I am more happy with media after creating the product, and i now know alot more about the media and how it works after creatin this product.

Changes due to feedback

My origianl plan was to use my friend sutton as the main character for the front image, but then because i did the photoshoot in the light and against a non blank background it was hard to photoshop so i decided to change the image to be more effective.

This is what i came up with but dew to guidlines it was not useable because the style model i used was one from americs and they have different rules to the uk so i chnaged it to my friend sutton which took my effort in photoshop but it worked.

The image above would have been my style model if there was no guidlines to what i can produce.
I also took on board what my audience said and changed thing to the main image e.g.made the main image bigger and added extra colour lines for more effect.

Audience feedback for whole magazine

Person A - "The magazine is differnt to other magazines, havent seen many on that sort of music so may have hit a niche or something noone will buy. I like the contents page looks like one out of a real magazine and i perfer it to other magazines because it has people in it i know"

Person B - "contents page looks stylish, has funny interveiw in it and a pritty funny picture"

Person C - "overall good magazine, would be intrested to se what the other artcles would look like, like the design font on the titles for the front cover and the contents page, and the worldwide moshing part look good with it."

Person D - "random choice of images but it looks cool, the images have worked to your advantage, thought there might have been a bit more on the front cover, like the magazine though"

Person E - "interveiw has some weird questions and aswers in, and the image doesnt look likt the sort of person who would do that maybe the person the contents page, but still the magazine looks good, well done"

Double page spread

This is my final double page spread, it started of with me writing down and also creating the questions and answers for the interveiw, after this i created a new photoshop window and imported the image which was perfect to fit the size of A3 and also have space either side to fit all the questions either side. I next imported all the text from a word document and gave each section its own blackground with a drop shadow included. Also i got another text from Dafont.com to have the title in, i choose it because it also goes with the style of the mosh theme. As an addition i added a main answer given in the interveiw which i though would make the page stand out more, i made this text font 24 to stand out appose to the rest which is just twelve and to make it stand out more i painted around it with a paint shadow tool which makes it stand out more and linked this to the main image with a home made arrow.

Mock up of double page spread

This is a mock up of my double page spread, it will consist of a top heading of what the double page spread is about and then a big background image of who the interveiw is about. The pages will be covered with lots of questions and answers done by the interveiwer and the interveiwe. The text will fill most of the page and give the readers an insight of just what the centre character is like.

Journalism research

"Journalism is the investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and business, journalism also covers cultural aspects of society such as arts and entertainment. The field includes editing, photojournalism, and documentary."

Every magazine, newspapaer or any part of news will come from an interveiw donr by a journalist, some people dont like journalists because they can ruin peoples lives or give people the wrong information just to make a money for the company they work for. But on the other hand they can post or write about something good or special someone has done and this will make them special and make the journalist and interveiwee some money. The public would get very minimal information and we would know nothing about what is going on if there was no journalists. Journalism had started been reckonised in the 1600's but media has changed alot since then, jourmists are able to reveive and retreive information alot easier and quicker in this given century, thats why papers and magazines always have articles and information to publish and sell to the public.

Double page spread research 3

This is a double page spread on a new skate park featured in bmx mag uk. we can tell this is adouble page spread because the main wording is split over both pages and a small interveiw about the place this is backed up to show and make the reader understand just what it is like there.