Construction

Evaluation 7

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

I already had knowledge on how to use photoshop but i developed my knowledge a lot further during the development of my magazine. Other things that i learnt such as InDesign and Voki etc. I had no prior knowledge of what they were or how to use them. I learnt how to place on image over the top of another and merge them as one which helped me out with my magazine.

Using blogger was simple as I am fairly good on the computer and it is not a complex website to navigate, i believe that blogger is a very effective way of producing and storing coursework as it means that everything is well monitored and tracked to make sure everything is in order etc.

I did find it difficult with some of the new technologies used for example i had some difficulty when i first began learning how to use InDesign when we begun making plans. I eventually picked up enough skills to complete my magazine however i would like to continue to learn on InDesign to help me in my future studies where i may need to use it.

Evaluation (5. How did you attract/address your audience?

I created a questionnaire during the research and planning stage of my music magazine creation and this enabled me to manipulate my magazine in order to attract the audience that i think are most likely to read it. I am a person who is interested in this and therefore I am a part of the target audience and without being bias if i was to see this magazine it would instantly scream out House music by the big bolt colourful masthead along with the colour scheme, the electric style background which gives off the scene of being in the party scene and the flashing lights that my target audience would be very familiar with.

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

I have used this voki as a way of presenting what the target audience would mainly be for this genre of music magazine, i am not however saying that because you are a female who is not under 35 you cannot listen to this type of music or infact buy my magazine. I am simply implying that when gathering statistics from my questionnaire and basing my opinion off knowledge as well as that, the main type of person who listens to this genre of music is teenage males.

Because i know this information i have used certain things in my magazine that i know will appeal to this type of person. I have made the front cover explosively colourful and dangerous looking with the two men on the front cover looking up at you as if to draw you in to buying the magazine.

On the contents page I haven't used too much colour on the page other than the image, the image is what will draw the customer in as it is full of many many different colours and it is a festival scene which most people can relate to and even if they cant relate to the actual festival scene, at some point they will have undergone a party scene much like it and this is what i intend to play off.

Evaluation 3

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

As you can see from my magazine cover (right), i have used a colour scheme that is most associated with this type of music as i have made a plently of colours making it stand out. The reason i have done this is so that its does stand out to people when they see it on the shelves and it makes them more likely to buy it, i have kept is dark background with colourful colours on top to ensure that my house style fits in with the genre of music that I have created my music magazine on (house). The group usually associated with this genre of music are the partying type of people so late teens travelling up to mid thirties and possibly even older than that, the fact that i have used a style helps to appeal to those people as they will feel that they can relate and that makes them more likely to read my magazine.