what ways does your media product use, develop of challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?
efj For my music magazine i knew i had to have the aspects of a real magazine to make it relatable and make the reader know it was a magazine. I used the same format and form of a real media product as a template for my own product, this included be using the same layout for the front cover as many other media products, like having the text placed around the picture. Another thing that was used in my product was the format and layout of the double page spread, having the interview take over two pages with quotes from the interview separating the text, i used these for my product to make it look like a professional magazine, the media products i looked at were all set in a similar way for example the 'Vibe' magazine we set out in a similar way. Within my research i talk a lot about the layout of the front cover, contents page and the double pay spread and this helped with my product as i was able to understand what was clear to read and how it would attract an audience if laid out in a certain way. A way that i developed from a real media product was i changed the way a contents page would been made, i had the pictures down the side rather than mixed among the text.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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what kind of media institution might distribute your product and why?
From the survey of 30 people from each different age and social groups that i asked this question to and showed my media product to these were the results.
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How
did you attract/Address the audience?
For my media product I used
different styles and techniques:
-Colours
-Graphics
-Text
-Layout
COLOURS-
I used simple colour scheme
and only three, which are black, white and red to link in with the genre
R&B, colours to attract my audience. Colours are the first things that you
see when you look at a magazine, and you pick up the magazine because it
catches your eye, by the colours used. Therefore I used simple colours as my
audience is for older teenagers and wanted to use modern colours and not make
it too bright and child-like.
GRAPHICS-
An audience is also
attracted to the graphics/ pictures that are on the front cover of the magazine
as well as inside. As my audience is for a younger generation I didn’t use too
many pictures of the front as it could of looked too busy. The pictures I used
I feel they would attract and address the audience because they are simple but
effective pictures.
TEXT-
For the text I didn’t want
it to be technical or include specialized language that an older teenagers may
not understand. This would make it clear who the audience I am trying to
address it. If I had used technical language it wouldn’t appeal to my target
audience, so I used simple language and language that would relate to the genre
of R&B throughout.
LAYOUT-
The layout for my magazine
is similar to other magazines, this is because it looks like magazine and
people would recongises it as a magazine. The layout would attract the audience
as the way things are presented on the page make people want to buy it. So I used
common magazine layout of having the title placed clear at the top, picture in
the middle and text around the picture.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt that there is so much a media production can do to make their media product the bets it can be. During the process of making my media product i have used different technologies to help my improve my music magazine. For creating my product i used a rang of different technologies; such as a laptop, digital camera and photoshop, these were the key technical elements i used to create my product as they were the things i used the most. Another key technology item i used was 'Blogger' with this i was able to publish all my coursework online and not only could it be examined but other people around the word would have access to it through the use of modern technology. Using the internet and having access to the internet made making my product easier, as i was able to do my research and get idea for my product from previous music magazines and look at examples of other candidates coursework to help me. The use of the camera allowed to me to capture the pictures i wanted to place in my magazine and having a modern camera with different settings on made using photoshop a bit easier, because i got what i wanted mainly from the camera and the different camera settings.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From doing my final product i have learnt a lot of things about the media industries and the way they make the products to suit specific purposes and audiences. The main thing i have feel i have learnt in the process of my media magazine is how to use photoshop, before we started making the media products i had never used photoshop and it took me a while to figure out how to use it. Doing the preliminary task before the final product prepared me to what i was expected to do and how i would approach things for my final product, from doing that before the progression of my final product i was able to know what are the best things to add on to a magazine and how to add them onto the magazine using photoshop as well.
