This is my Final Product:

Evaluation

Question 1:
I what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Magazine Cover:


Contents Page


Double Page Spread


Question 2:
How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups? from laurenturell

http://www.slideshare.net/laurenturell/media-evaluation-q2-31712006

Question 3:
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question - slideshow

Question 4:
Who would be the target audience for your media product?

Media Evaluation Question 4 from laurenturell

Question 5:
How did you attract/ address your audience?

question 5 - Video Maker

Question 6:
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


Question 7:
Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

q7 - slideshow

POP Magazine Facebook Page- Feedback

I posted the pictures of my final magazine cover, contents page and double page spread to get feedback from a few people.

"The writing is clear and easy to see which will catch people's eye and invite them to read it. The model draw focus to teenage girls which I am assuming is your target audience. It look like a typical magazine and the picture is very good quality. Maybe add a patterned background instead of the block colour as it looks a bit plain. But other than that I think it's a really good cover." Amy Woodhams

"The bar code really makes the front cover for the magazine look realistic. It portrays a real life magazine and in addition the date and issue number add to this effect. The colour choices of pastel pink purple and soft greys really highlight your target audience which is clearly teenage girls. The model wears girly clothing and this draws attention to the fact it is aimed at teenage girls. The names articles on the side add to the fact it is a realistic magazine but also attracts the reader to the writing inside. The font adds to the typical teenage era and is clear and presentable. To improve I would say to add more colour to the backgrounds" Millie Johns

"I like the colour scheme because it fits in with the target audience, it is very clear that the magazine is for teenage girls from the pink colours and the models. The contents looks very professional and easy to see. I also like the contact us bit at the bottom as it makes it look more convincing." Amy Woodhams

"I think that the fact that you have used commonly used social network logos really draws the readers attention to this page and gives the magazine that realistic feel. The colours are matching those of the title page which shows consistency and also shows the teenage girl target audience you are aiming for. The language used for the magazine has a consistent 'pop' theme to link to the title of the magazine. The layout is nice and clearly displayed. The models indicate fashion is the main focus of this magazine as they all wear bright clothing which draws the attention to them. To improve I would keep the backgrounds of the models photos the same to make the page look even neater." Millie Johns

"I really like this, it looks very professional and the layout with the pictures is a lot like most magazines around at the moment. The photos look very professional too and the colour scheme is really pretty and inviting to the teenage audience." Amy Woodhams

"The top left corner shows the specific article in the magazine and the specific person the reader will be reading about. This is typically found in magazines and the fact that you have added this shows you have really gone to the highest extent to makeyour magazine realistic. The pictures are placed perfectly and the layout looks extremely professional. The fact the pages are numbered adds to the effect. The font, like on the title page is easy to read and clear. The colour is girly portraying your target audience and the pages are numbered in addition to all of this. Adding again to the realism of this magazine. To improve I would move the 'e' in the' Eden' title headline a little to the left to prevent the line from running through it." Millie Johns

From my feedback of my magazine I can see that I have used magazine conventions well as my magazine looks real and professional. I have used high quality photos throughout my magazine that show both the pop and fashion aspects of my magazine. The font I have used is suitable and easy to read. The colours, pictures and content is suitable for my target audience. I have been given a few improvements to help me in the future if I was going to do a project similar to this. Overall my feedback has shown me that I have created a professional magazine suitable for my music genre and target audience.

Facebook Page- POP Magazine

I have created a Facebook page for my magazine so that I can ask for feedback and opinions of my final magazine to help me with my evaluation.

 

Later on I am going to post pictures of my finished magazine cover, contents and double page spread to see what people think and to get feedback to help me with my evaluation.

Magazine Double Page Spread

This is my final Double Page Spread. I have used the feedback I have been given on my double page spread in order to help me to improve it. I have reduced the amount of text on the page as I was told that I originally had to much text on the page and that it didn't really look like an article. I was also told to improve my spacing to make more use of the space available on the page. I did this my separating sections of the articles into paragraphs to break up the text on the page, use the space better and make my article look like it belongs in a magazine. I moved the Article title up onto the top of the page to make better use of the space as this provided more room underneath for the article to go. I have kept the background image as I received positive feedback from this.
I improved my double page spread my looking back at my magazine research to see the conventions they used. Although I didn't look at Empire magazine during my originally research I looked at it recently to see the conventions and techniques they used. I had followed a convention by using columns as is saw this in all of the magazines I looked at during my research. I have added a quote from the pop star and put it into a different sans serif font, size and colour to the other parts of the article so that it would stand out, this is a technique I saw in Empire magazine. I have also made the paragraph about Eden Dee a different colour, font and style to the rest of the article to make it look more like a puff in order for it to stand out. I added page numbers at the bottom corner of each page to show the reader which page the article is on so that they are able to find it using the contents page. Next to the page number at the bottom of the left side of the page I wrote the date and magazine title as I saw this done in Empire magazine. Empire also used a shape at the top of the page to show the type of article and the article name, I used this convention in my double page spread so that it looks as professional as possible. I continued to use my colour scheme in my double page spread by using black, white, grey and variations of pink and purple. The pictures, colours and layout of my magazine is suitable for my target audience of teenage girls. I feel that I have been able to combine the pop genre of my magazine with my fashion house style due to the colours, layout, style and article contents.

Magazine Contents Page

 

This is my final contents page. I have used the feedback I was given in order to improve my contents page. I had originally had one large picture on the left side of the page of the girl who is also on my front cover, my feedback suggested that I should add more pictures of other people as if the reader doesn't like 'Eden Dee' they may not want to look at and read my magazine as she is on the front cover and was the only picture on the contents page. I looked back at my magazine research to use the contents pages to help me improve my contents page, two of the three had multiple pictures positioned throughout the page so I therefore decided to use this technique for my front cover. The three pictures I have used are relevant to the articles within my magazine, under each picture shows which page in the magazine the article regarding the picture of the person is located. I decided to use a pink textured background for the background of the contents page to continue the colour scheme and to show that the target audience for my magazine is teenage girls as I have used the colour pink and have included pictures of teenage girls in my contents page in order to attract my target audience to read my magazine. My feedback suggested that I move the article titles and page numbers up to make more use of the space so I did this. I was also told that I needed to include the page number of the contents page so I did this and put it in the bottom corner as this is where page numbers normally go and is a convention of magazines. To make use of the space at the bottom of the page I have added a contact us page in order for the reader to find the POP Magazine social networks. I have included a picture of my magazine cover at the top of the contents page as I saw this done during my research in Top of the Pops Magazine. I have followed the magazine conventions I saw during my research by having a title at the top of the page to show the purpose of the page, a page number at the bottom of the page, a variety of pictures and have sectioned by article titles into categories of Features and Regulars as I saw this done during my research. I have used random page numbers of where in the magazine the articles are and have made sure that the don't go up in ascending order as in the magazines I looked at during my magazine they were in random order as the location of the article within the magazine will depend on the category the article come under for example Features and Regulars. I have also mainly used odd numbers as new articles normally start on the left side of the page, I saw this during my magazine research. 

I have mainly used all of the space on the page to and separated the article titles to the pictures so that it is clear and easy to read. I have continued to use the grey, black, white and variations of pink and purple colour scheme for the contents page of my magazine to make it constant throughout. The colours I have used are suitable for a pop magazine as during my research I found that colours ascosiated with pop are bright and patels like. My contents page is suitable for my target audience of teenage girls due to the colours I have used, the style and layout and the pictures of teenage girls I have used on the contents page to attract my target audience to read the magazine.

Magazine Front Cover

This is my final front cover of my magazine. I have used the feedback I got about my magazine cover to change some parts in order to improve it. The improvements I have made from the feedback I received was to re-shape the main image to make it slightly larger as it looked squashed, move the article title regarding the pop star on the magazine cover away from the others to set it apart and change the font and colour of her name to make it different from the other article titles. I re sized the barcode to make it smaller as I was told it was too big and took up too much room in the bottom right corner. I have also repositioned some of the article titles and added another to make more use of the space to create a good layout. I made the masthead slightly bigger and moved it into the centre a little bit more and changed the position of the date and issue number to the top right of the page as this space was blank and looked empty where in my research of pop magazines I found that they are busy and use most of the space on the page. I have altered my original plans by changing the position of the main image and the article titles. I have used a colour scheme of pink, some purple, black, white and a variation of greys. I had planned on mainly using a variety of pinks and purples but found that the colours I have chosen look better on the cover with the pink background and one purple article title. I have followed the conventions of a magazine cover by putting the masthead at the top of the magazine, I also put the barcode in one of the bottom corners of the magazine again this is a magazine convention. I used one main image for the cover as I saw this done on the magazine covers I looked at during my research, I have decided to put my main image in the centre of the magazine rather than to the side like I had originally planned as all of the magazines I looked at during my research has the main image positioned in the centre of the cover. I have followed magazine conventions by having some of the main magazine articles on the cover. I have put the article titles in a large bold sans serif font with the dark variation of grey colours against the light pink background so that they can be seen clearly and to attract readers to look at and read the magazine. It was suggested in my questionnaire response to use magazine conventions but do a few things differently so did this for the layout and size of the magazine article titles. During my research I saw that the article titles on the magazine covers were a variety of sizes and fonts but mainly small, to make my magazine different I chose to make all of my articles titles large and in the same font in variations of grey apart from the article title containing the name of the pop star on the front of the magazine where I used a different serif font in a dark purple to set it apart from the others. All of the article titles are positioned along the right side of the main image apart from the article title about the pop star on the magazine cover as this is positioned on the left side to also set it apart from the others. I have used this style and positioning for my article titles so that they can be read clearly and attracts the reader to look at and read the magazine, I also did this to make my magazine look different to others. Although it wasn't one of the original magazines I looked at during my magazine research I saw that the article title layout on some of the billboard magazines are positioned either side of the main image and in bold sans serif font, I liked this and like that it looked different to other magazines so I used this technique for magazine cover. I have made my magazine cover suitable for my target audience of teenage girls and the pop genre by using the light pink/peach background to make the magazine cover stand out, these are the colours I chose for my magazine colour scheme as they are colours associated with pop as they are bright and a slightly pastel. They are suitable for my target audience of teenage girls as I have used a pink background with both gradient grey text and the model I have used is a teenage girl who fits into the target audience.