This is my final main contents page:
This is my final main double page spread:
This is my final preliminary front cover:
This is my final preliminary contents page:
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Final Production Work
This is my final main front cover:
This is my final main contents page:
This is my final main double page spread:
This is my final preliminary front cover:
This is my final preliminary contents page:
This is my final main contents page:
This is my final main double page spread:
This is my final preliminary front cover:
This is my final preliminary contents page:
Monday, 10 May 2010
Evaluation
Evaluation
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convection's of real media products?
My media product differs between the codes and convection's rules. Some of the ideas of the magazine have come from the codes and convection's whereas some of them I had to go against because I didn't feel like they went well or looked good in my magazine. I used the way of how the front covers and contents pages are set out because they show what magazines are supposed to look like without changing big features.
o Background colour
o Title
o CD in the title
o Website on the right and underneath the title
o Microphone in each main image
What i have kept the same throughout
o Two of the same images
o "And i know i come across as the girl who cares about my bags and the shoes i wear but im for real!" quote is always on there
o Editors name
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Girl in my target audience singing to Michael Buble-I just haven't met you yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2KFI_h0rII&feature=related
Lloyd Daniels concert I went too -can hear all the girls shouting and screaming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9Jbr88b3c
These are two of my target audiences singing to their role model http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xYpHbg0fEE
These are websites are about celebrities being role models to children http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4140000/newsid_4148800/4148861.stm http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080418040345AAhYNhO http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/179765/how_celebrities_influence_teenagers.html?cat=49
These are websites are about magazines influencing teenagers
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Much-Do-Magazines-Influence-Todays-Teens?&id=1062736
http://www.womensenews.org/story/commentary/031029/teen-magazines-send-girls-all-the-wrong-messages
3. What kind of music institution might distribute your media product and why?
Here are a few magazines they work with:
Here's what IPC Media does on their website:
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
My target audience are mostly females and some males of the age of 12-16 years old though some younger children may also be interested in the magazine as they are fascinated in the lives of the celebrities. This is my audience age group because they are more likely to buy magazines and are more into the pop genre. The pop genre includes celebrities that are new and have got the latest songs or films out so more children that listen to this type of music will know who they are and what to read about them. The celebs are role models to this age range which is why they're more like to buy the magazine.
This is an example of someone from my target group:
5. How did you attract/address the audience?
These are the attractions of my magazine:
I have learnt new software called Quark Express. I had to use it to create my contents page and my double page spread. I learnt how to use all the new tools to create my pages more creational and professional.
I have also learnt more on Photoshop. I have used it before but needed to know abit more as everything had to be done from scratch. I created my front cover using Photoshop.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convection's of real media products?
My media product differs between the codes and convection's rules. Some of the ideas of the magazine have come from the codes and convection's whereas some of them I had to go against because I didn't feel like they went well or looked good in my magazine. I used the way of how the front covers and contents pages are set out because they show what magazines are supposed to look like without changing big features.
I had to against some of the rules because of different reasons. One reason would have to be that it doesn't fit in with the magazine as there wasn't as much room because the main image would take up the room so I couldn't put as many cover lines around otherwise they would be on top of the main image and not many magazines do have them on top as you cant see the images aswell. I have used three images on the front cover which is against the codes and convection's as it makes the front cover look too full and cramped together. I kept it though because it will make the magazine more entertaining to read and more attractive to the target audience. Some magazines do have more than one image on their front cover 
I recorded 2 people and asked them whether they liked the writing on top of the images or not and these are the results: Out of the results they both thought that writing not on top of the images are easier to read and clearer to see. Which is what ive done on mine.
I have kept some of the codes and convection's like the Title of the magazine being big and at the top of their magazine. Some magazines have their magazine on top of the magazines name but this means it’s harder to know what it’s called when they want to buy the next issue.
The cover lines are quite big and very clear. They show the audience what’s inside the magazine so they're more likely to buy it. Some magazines don't follow the rules and do over take the image. So some follow and some challenge the codes and convection's.
I had to keep changing the design of the magazine so that it fitted in with the other pop magazines. At the end I ended up with a total different design than my drawn one at the beginning because little details got changed in my magazine. The changes were things that the real magazines wouldn’t have because they didn’t fit in with the genre POP, they didn’t appeal to the target audience or they didn’t go with the magazine very well.
What i have kept the same throughout
o Background colour
o Title
o CD in the title
o Website on the right and underneath the title
o Microphone in each main image
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What i have kept the same throughout
o Same font for signature
o Ipod stayed in same place
o Concert picture stayed on each one
o Contact details stayed the same
o Images for the contact details stayed the same
What i have kept the same throughout o Two of the same images
o "And i know i come across as the girl who cares about my bags and the shoes i wear but im for real!" quote is always on there
o Editors name
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Girl in my target audience singing to Michael Buble-I just haven't met you yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2KFI_h0rII&feature=related
Lloyd Daniels concert I went too -can hear all the girls shouting and screaming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9Jbr88b3c
These are two of my target audiences singing to their role model http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xYpHbg0fEE
These are websites are about celebrities being role models to children http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4140000/newsid_4148800/4148861.stm http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080418040345AAhYNhO http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/179765/how_celebrities_influence_teenagers.html?cat=49
These are websites are about magazines influencing teenagers
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Much-Do-Magazines-Influence-Todays-Teens?&id=1062736
http://www.womensenews.org/story/commentary/031029/teen-magazines-send-girls-all-the-wrong-messages
3. What kind of music institution might distribute your media product and why?
Here are a few magazines they work with:
Here's what IPC Media does on their website: 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?My target audience are mostly females and some males of the age of 12-16 years old though some younger children may also be interested in the magazine as they are fascinated in the lives of the celebrities. This is my audience age group because they are more likely to buy magazines and are more into the pop genre. The pop genre includes celebrities that are new and have got the latest songs or films out so more children that listen to this type of music will know who they are and what to read about them. The celebs are role models to this age range which is why they're more like to buy the magazine.
This is an example of someone from my target group:
5. How did you attract/address the audience?
These are the attractions of my magazine:
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Someone from my target audience:
This is an example of the questionnaires that i gave out to ask them their opinion on mine and a professional magazine:
This is an example of one of the results that i got back.
The results:
I have learnt new software called Quark Express. I had to use it to create my contents page and my double page spread. I learnt how to use all the new tools to create my pages more creational and professional.
I have also learnt more on Photoshop. I have used it before but needed to know abit more as everything had to be done from scratch. I created my front cover using Photoshop.I couldn’t use any images of the internet so everything had to be taken from scratch by using a camera. I needed to know all the buttons and effects of the camera. It took me a while to learn them as it was a new camera that I had never used before.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progress from it to the main product?
Monday, 12 April 2010
Task seventeen ( music )
I have now got all the results to the questionnaires and have tallied them up so i could put them into graphs. This is to show in more detail what people thought about my products in full detail. I have also gave a conclusion to give more details and what each one could mean.
The program that i used made the text not noticeable so you must click the pie charts to be able to see it.
Front cover
1. What do you like about my front cover?
Conclusion: The audience thought that the colours and effects standing out made the front cover look the most attractive and pretty. They also show that more people recognised the front cover because of the colours and effects.
2. What do you dislike?
Conclusion: Over half of the public didn’t think that my front cover had anything wrong with it and the others only had problems with the cover lines.
3. What do you think I could have improved on?
Conclusion: Just under half of the audience didn’t think that I needed to improve anything. Though I got advice that I should have improved the cover lines and added more content
4. Do you think my front cover looks professional?
Conclusion: Everyone said that they did think my front cover looked professional.
5. Do you think it has a good choice of colours?
Conclusion: Everyone said that they did think I had used a good choice of colours.
6. Do you think it is laid out well?
Conclusion: Most people said that my front cover was laid out well whilst another thought that it could have been more set out properly.
7. What would you rate my front cover out of 10?
Contents page
8. What do you like about my contents page?
Conclusion: The audience thought that the contents page was colourful and bright and that these features were what made it more outstanding and attractive. They are all about what the magazine looks like and how they are made attractive to the audience.
9. What do you dislike?
Conclusion: Over half didn’t think there was anything wrong with the contents page and the other opinions were based on the writing and how they thought it was a bit squished.
10. What do you think I could have improved on?
Conclusion: Around three quarters of the audience didn’t see fault in my magazine contents page so they couldn’t see any need for improvement whereas there was an opinion that I should have made more room. This would have improved the appearance.
11. Do you think my contents page looks professional?
Conclusion: Most people said that my contents page did look professional whereas others disagreed thinking there were features that didn’t make it look professional.
12. Do you think it has a good choice of colours?
Conclusion: Everyone said that they did think I had used a good choice of colours.
13. Do you think it is laid out well?
Conclusion: Most people said that my contents page was laid out well but some disagreed and stated that they think it could have been laid out differently to look better.
14. What would you rate my contents page out of 10?
Conclusion: The two highest ratings from the audience are 8 and 9 and I never got lower than 7 once again which is good because it shows that the contents page was useful and good meaning that more people are more likely to buy it. Overall the score was 41 out of 50 which is more than three quarters.
Triple page spread
15. What do you like about my triple page spread?
Conclusion: The audience thought that the background behind the images made the triple page spread look the best and more attractive. This means that it was more attractively effective. The other factors are all about what they look like which means that the appearance is the most looked at and cared about factor.
16. What do you dislike?
Conclusion: The problems were mostly about the text being terrible sizes which I should improve more. They also said though that some of them didn’t think there was anything they didn’t like which is good as it shows that some of the magazine must be good.
17. What do you think I could have improved on?
Conclusion: Everyone gave different opinions but every opinion was based on the text which means that people thought that the rest was okay but found the text could be improved.
18. Do you think my triple page spread looks professional?
Conclusion: Everyone said that my triple page spread did look professional.
19. Do you think it has a good choice of colours?
Conclusion: Everyone said that they thought I had used a good choice of colours.
20. Do you think it is laid out well?
Conclusion: Everyone said that I had laid it out right.
21. What would you rate my triple page spread out of 10?
Conclusion: The highest rating from the audience was 8 which is very good because it is a high rating and shows that It has been doing well and I never got lower than the 8 which is good because it shows that the contents page was the best, useful and that there wasn’t many improvements needed as they found it quite good already. Overall the score was 41 out of 50 which is more than three quarters.
Most of my results could have more than 5 answers because some gave more than one opinion for the question which I made sure I also noted because it gives more explanation and help on what I could do better and what I done well. The front cover got the best score as it got an overall 42 out of 50 though the contents page and triple page spread was only one mark behind.
Altogether
22. Out of 10 what would you rate my products altogether?
Conclusion: The highest rating from the audience was 9 which shown that my products were pretty good and were quite well made to get such a high rating. This also shows that people were interested in my magazine and were more likely to buy it. It has been doing well and I never got lower than 8 meaning that nobody thought as it as rubbish or not interesting that they wouldn’t want to read. Overall the score was 43 out of 50 which is more than three quarters.
23. Out of 10 what would you rate my products altogether?
Conclusion: My effort got quite high ratings which is good because it is telling me that people thought I had put a lot of thought into the product to make it the way it is. If they think that I have put a lot of effort into it then they could think that they could tell through the products. The highest rating from the audience was 10 which is very good because it is the highest rating which shows that it got full marks making it look good. I never got lower than the 9 which is good as it’s the second highest rating that I could have got. Overall the score was 47 out of 50 which is three marks off the highest score.
24. What product do you think I did the best on?
Conclusion: Most people thought that my front cover was the best out of them and got more votes and my triple page spread also got some votes whereas the contents page wasn’t any of their favourites.
25. Why?
Front cover:
Conclusion: On the front cover people thought that the why it was laid out and the appearance are what made it look the best and what made it look more effective. These are the reasons it was chosen to be the best product.
Triple page spread:
Conclusion: On the triple page spread people thought that the why it was laid out and the appearance were also what made it look the best and what made it look more effective. These should be looked at more on the contents page because they keep coming up which means that it’s important to the audience.
The program that i used made the text not noticeable so you must click the pie charts to be able to see it.
Front cover
1. What do you like about my front cover?
Conclusion: The audience thought that the colours and effects standing out made the front cover look the most attractive and pretty. They also show that more people recognised the front cover because of the colours and effects.
2. What do you dislike?
Conclusion: Over half of the public didn’t think that my front cover had anything wrong with it and the others only had problems with the cover lines.
3. What do you think I could have improved on?
Conclusion: Just under half of the audience didn’t think that I needed to improve anything. Though I got advice that I should have improved the cover lines and added more content
4. Do you think my front cover looks professional?
Conclusion: Everyone said that they did think my front cover looked professional.
5. Do you think it has a good choice of colours?
Conclusion: Everyone said that they did think I had used a good choice of colours.
6. Do you think it is laid out well?
Conclusion: Most people said that my front cover was laid out well whilst another thought that it could have been more set out properly.
7. What would you rate my front cover out of 10?
Contents page
8. What do you like about my contents page?
Conclusion: The audience thought that the contents page was colourful and bright and that these features were what made it more outstanding and attractive. They are all about what the magazine looks like and how they are made attractive to the audience.
9. What do you dislike?
Conclusion: Over half didn’t think there was anything wrong with the contents page and the other opinions were based on the writing and how they thought it was a bit squished.
10. What do you think I could have improved on?
Conclusion: Around three quarters of the audience didn’t see fault in my magazine contents page so they couldn’t see any need for improvement whereas there was an opinion that I should have made more room. This would have improved the appearance.
11. Do you think my contents page looks professional?
Conclusion: Most people said that my contents page did look professional whereas others disagreed thinking there were features that didn’t make it look professional.
12. Do you think it has a good choice of colours?
Conclusion: Everyone said that they did think I had used a good choice of colours.
13. Do you think it is laid out well?
Conclusion: Most people said that my contents page was laid out well but some disagreed and stated that they think it could have been laid out differently to look better.
14. What would you rate my contents page out of 10?
Conclusion: The two highest ratings from the audience are 8 and 9 and I never got lower than 7 once again which is good because it shows that the contents page was useful and good meaning that more people are more likely to buy it. Overall the score was 41 out of 50 which is more than three quarters.
Triple page spread
15. What do you like about my triple page spread?
Conclusion: The audience thought that the background behind the images made the triple page spread look the best and more attractive. This means that it was more attractively effective. The other factors are all about what they look like which means that the appearance is the most looked at and cared about factor.
16. What do you dislike?
Conclusion: The problems were mostly about the text being terrible sizes which I should improve more. They also said though that some of them didn’t think there was anything they didn’t like which is good as it shows that some of the magazine must be good.
17. What do you think I could have improved on?
Conclusion: Everyone gave different opinions but every opinion was based on the text which means that people thought that the rest was okay but found the text could be improved.
18. Do you think my triple page spread looks professional?
Conclusion: Everyone said that my triple page spread did look professional.
19. Do you think it has a good choice of colours?
Conclusion: Everyone said that they thought I had used a good choice of colours.
20. Do you think it is laid out well?
Conclusion: Everyone said that I had laid it out right.
21. What would you rate my triple page spread out of 10?
Conclusion: The highest rating from the audience was 8 which is very good because it is a high rating and shows that It has been doing well and I never got lower than the 8 which is good because it shows that the contents page was the best, useful and that there wasn’t many improvements needed as they found it quite good already. Overall the score was 41 out of 50 which is more than three quarters.
Most of my results could have more than 5 answers because some gave more than one opinion for the question which I made sure I also noted because it gives more explanation and help on what I could do better and what I done well. The front cover got the best score as it got an overall 42 out of 50 though the contents page and triple page spread was only one mark behind.
Altogether
22. Out of 10 what would you rate my products altogether?
Conclusion: The highest rating from the audience was 9 which shown that my products were pretty good and were quite well made to get such a high rating. This also shows that people were interested in my magazine and were more likely to buy it. It has been doing well and I never got lower than 8 meaning that nobody thought as it as rubbish or not interesting that they wouldn’t want to read. Overall the score was 43 out of 50 which is more than three quarters.
23. Out of 10 what would you rate my products altogether?
Conclusion: My effort got quite high ratings which is good because it is telling me that people thought I had put a lot of thought into the product to make it the way it is. If they think that I have put a lot of effort into it then they could think that they could tell through the products. The highest rating from the audience was 10 which is very good because it is the highest rating which shows that it got full marks making it look good. I never got lower than the 9 which is good as it’s the second highest rating that I could have got. Overall the score was 47 out of 50 which is three marks off the highest score.
24. What product do you think I did the best on?
Conclusion: Most people thought that my front cover was the best out of them and got more votes and my triple page spread also got some votes whereas the contents page wasn’t any of their favourites.
25. Why?
Front cover:
Conclusion: On the front cover people thought that the why it was laid out and the appearance are what made it look the best and what made it look more effective. These are the reasons it was chosen to be the best product.
Triple page spread:
Conclusion: On the triple page spread people thought that the why it was laid out and the appearance were also what made it look the best and what made it look more effective. These should be looked at more on the contents page because they keep coming up which means that it’s important to the audience.
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