Final Product

This is my final product. Above is the double page spread, contents page and front cover.

Evaluation Q7

Powtoon Evaluation Q7

Evaluation Q6

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

Adobe Photoshop

While constructing my product, I learnt how to use Adobe Photoshop. This is the program which I used to create my music magazine.

Through using Adobe Photoshop I learnt how to remove the background of texts so that the background no longer had white around it, add text boxes and change all the font, how to select and add images onto another document or image, and how to move the main image so it fit the screen better.

On the text, there is the choice of whether to add a shadow around the letters, and whether to add a texture to the text.

Along with making the main image look more suitable, I learnt how to smudge, which meant that if I wanted a bigger white background then I would be able to extend the white as far as I wanted, which would enable me to have more space for coverlines without the model looking surrounded.

Finally, I learnt through using Photoshop how to change the colours of parts of the image (for example the hair of the model). Once changing the hair to the colour of my preferred choice, I could change the opacity of the colour, and could choose whether there was an effect such as the humidity or luminosity of the hair.

Before using Photoshop for creating my magazine, I had never used it before (other than for the preliminary task of creating a school magazine), so everything I have done on my magazine was completely through creating the magazine and seeing what tools did what to the image and what effect most suited my genre.

 Blogger

While creating my school magazine, I had to make a Blogger account and record everything I did as I went along. Through recording everything I did in class on my Blogger account, I learnt how to create a blog and post onto it. I also learnt how to add images to the blogs as evidence. For example, when I started to create my music magazine, I had to get feedback from the public to see what their preferred font, number of pages, colour scheme and so on was. To show that I had actually taken the publics thoughts into consideration, I screen-shotted the public's response and put it onto my blog as proof.

I have also learnt how add videos from other websites such as 'Youtube'. I would go onto the video and press the 'Share' button, and then copy the embed link. Once doing this I would press the 'HTML' button on the toolbar on my blogger and press paste.

Once pasting the embedded code into Blogger, I would once again press the 'Compose' button and the video from YouTube would be on the blog that I would like to post.

Facebook
When creating my magazine, I had to get public opinions. Through posting images of my product and the different font types that were options to choose from, I learnt how to use social media to get audience research.

While using Facebook, I learnt how to post images and write about what sort of feedback I need from the public. I would then screenshot the responses and post them on to my blog. I posted my questionnaire on Facebook, and from the feedback I got, I went onto Excel and created graphs which meant that I could then save the graphs as a picture and post them onto blogger.

Evaluation Q3

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

Evaluation Q5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Q2

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

Evaluation Q1

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

Bastille

Bastille are an indie rock band, and follow the stereotypical idea that all indie rock genre bands should be male.



The way that 'Bastille' influenced my music magazine is because they were a band of the same genre and they are very successful. I feel that the way they are presented as musicians through their images and their star image is a very accurate and clear way of presenting the group.

The sorts of clothes they wear are simple t-shits and some form of jacket. Their dress sense is quite simple and suits their genre of music. The way they present themselves is well groomed, perhaps with some facial hair.

The background of the photos of the band is very plain so there is more attention focused on the group themselves rather than their surrounding, which would also make the band more recognised because people will focus more on how they look than what is going on around them. The plain background is following the normal conventions of a indie rock image.

Rock Magazine

This is the front cover of a music magazine. The masthead is easy to read due to the colours complimenting each other rather than clashing, as well as the writing being clear to read because it is written in sans serif style font.  

There are cover lines which are very bold and big, and very easy to see. Neck Deep are a band which will make some people more interested in the magazine as they might be interested in that band. Another thing which might make people want to buy the magazine could be the 'warped tour' in the puff because people might like Warped and be interested in their tour.

Finally there is a bit of writing along the bottom which has the extra things which are inside, which might make people wonder what it might be about and they would then want to read the inside of the magazine, meaning that it attracted even more buyers.

This is the contents page of the music magazine. This has got the masthead of the front cover but in a different colour, which therefore is once again putting their sign and name out there and making sure people know it's them because it is always the same. 

There is informal language such as 'HIT US UP' relates better with the audience than formal language because formal language might seem too serious for someone of this age group or social group and put them off of the magazine. This heading is clear and eye catching which also would widen their fan-base. This is because if their weekly/monthly readers do follow the magazine on social media (such as twitter) then they might retweet something which the magazine has written and then all of their followers would see the post and some might be interested and also follow them. This could be a circle of widening their fan-base. 

The bottom of the page also has the different social media's which they can be found on and where further information about the magazine can be found throughout the week when the next magazine is being made. 

The band 'Neck Deep' are once again the main image (and in this case the only image) which are attracting a certain group of people to the magazine. 

The contents of the inside of the magazine with the page number is along the left column of the page/