Evaluation- What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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

 Photoshop- front cover
What I learnt/tools I used:

• I adjusted the hue/ saturation of my images which changed the colour. 
• I created/ duplicated layers to build up an image. 
• The magnetic lasso tool allowed me to cut around my image which i used in the first draft of my front cover. 

Indesign- Contents/ double page spread        
What I learnt/tools I used:

• I used the type tool to create my cover lines, article titles and their numbers, and the main text on my dps. 
• I changed the opacity of one of my images on the contents page, so I could have it as the background. But I didn't use this for my final draft. 
• By using text wrap I could have my interview around my pull quotes without interfering. 

Evaluation- How does your media product particular social groups?

Evaluation- How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation- Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?

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

Contents page evaluation

 

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My contents page is similar in the way it reperesnts the social group to my front cover. I have used the same model to feature on my contents page, so it still creates the same effect. I took the photo in a more natural positon, this makes it look like she is singing into the paint, which represents both music and art students.

 

How did you attract/address your audience?

From the research I carried out i found out that most readers like to see lots of images in a magazine. I decided to add an extra two images to my contents page to attract readers.One of the images will hopefully attract music students inparticular. I kept the layout quite simple as sometimes people are drawn away by lots of writing.

 

 

Front cover evaluation

 

 

 

 

 

The model on my front cover is currently a college student. This represents the particular social group I’m focusing on, which is art and music students. The model which has featured in my magazine fits in my social group because she is studying A level art and plays a lot of music. My mast head also represents the social group because ‘EXPLODE’ means exploding with colour and creativity, such as within art and music.

 

 

How did you attract/address your audience?

When I collected my questionnaire results I found out that colour is the main element that attracts people to a magazine. In the process of producing my magazine I tried to add as much colour to the front cover as possible, but this was hard because my image wasn’t that colourful. So instead I made my masthead bold, in a large block font.

 

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