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Evaluation Question Two

Evaluation Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The choices I made in relation to my content was I had a competition on my magazine to win tickets to a certain tour. This will attract the readers of my magazine as it is a very similar genre to that tour. Therefore people will pick up my magazine as a chance to win the tickets. Also my magazine would be targeted at mainly the ages of 13-30 obviously many of these people will be students or in a low paid job so it is important to price the magazine right and have it not too expensive. Having looked back at the research I did on demographics people around this age are willing to pay around £2 for a magazine full of good content therefore I have priced my magazine at £2.20 which I think is very reasonable as magazines such as Kerrang and NME are around the same price. Because my magazine is a rock magazine there would be no point in featuring artists such as Rihanna or Lady Gaga as the target audience of this magazine would not be interested in them. The type of bands featured within my magazine will appeal to a large audience as there isn’t just one type of band featured there are a lot of different bands featured to suit everyone who is into rock music’s taste. Also the pictures that have been taken aren’t in some fancy or posh hotel they are in just in ordinary places such as on some stairs, in the tube, and at gigs. This way the younger audience can relate to it as the bands are just normal kids themselves and they aren’t out spending loads of money because they don’t really have any just like the younger generation now-a-days.

I researched into the different social groups in society, this way I could use the information on my magazine when it came to things like price or how much content would be in the magazine. 

Evaluation Question One

Final Front Cover, Final Contents and Double Page Spread

Front cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Double Page Spread First Drafts

peer assessment - contents page

Oliver Wright: I like that you have alternated the colour of the font for the items on your items for the contents because it makes it easier to tel the stories apart. To improve you should put your logo somewhere on the page and change the pull quote slightly to make it just 'This album is make or break for us'.

I like your Contents page, I think it's very conventional and looks quite realistic. I like how you've incorporated lots of pictures which look like real bands and this will grab your readers attention.

Probably the only thing I would suggest is that you make the sections a little bit more 'out there'. Make them a little bit more bold and allow the reader to be grabbed by what's going to be inside your magazine.

All round good though!

Ben Naylor

Peer Feedback

Elizabeth Finlay

I really like the layout of your contents page as I feel it suits your genre extremely well, you have kept to a good color scheme and your font suits the whole design. The strait lines and clear images make the design look very crisp and clear and this is a good feature for a contents page. 
If I had to pick out some targets/corrections: I would say that your title 'Verse and Chorus' needs to be made bigger and bolder (perhaps with a thick black outline?) The word 'Contents' also might need to be made bigger. I'm not sure about this; but perhaps a couple more images would be nice (unsure though).
Overall a really impressive final draft! :) Well Done!!

Contents Page Final Draft

Feedback

Front Cover Feedback

Contents Page Draft Three

With my third draft I have added a photo of the editor and added a black border around the image keeping conventions of music magazines that use this technique such as Kerrang.

Contents Page Second Draft

My second draft has really improved since the last one, I have added three main pictures, improved the listings along the side and introducing a competition at the bottom right hand corner of the page. Also I have added a message from the editor with some comments about the magazine however I haven't put an image of the editor on just yet.

Contents Page First Draft

My first draft as you can see hasn't got much going on at the moment, we have who and what is featured in the magazine down the right hand side and a masthead with the contents and date title.

Peer Feedback

Having taken on board the peer feedback I received people which was generally all good they seem to like the different types of videos and mood boards I used to explain my front cover. My front cover I will make minor changes to just to improve it, things like making the text bigger and making the bar code smaller. All these small things will make my music magazine better.

Peer Feedback: Isabel

I think your blog is really good since you've done loads of posts and done mood boards, diagrams and talked about a few videos. It's also good because you've analysed your images.
 Strengths of front cover: You've used a plug and I like the footer and how you've used the different colours on it. Also I think that the actual front cover image is really good as it help identify your genre. To improve your front cover I would make the bar code align with the posters and maybe make the text on the left and right size a little bit bigger :)

Peer Feedback-Shaun

Name of person giving feedback: Shaun Welsh

Overall assessment of blog: Well structured and a good layout. Navigation might need font colour change as when some of the text was black I had to highlight the text to find out what I was looking at. But overall I liked looking through the blog as there's some good work here especially in the cover development.

Front cover strengths: Overall it is a nice cover and looks quite good. Consistent use of conventions, all of which work well withing the cover and an interesting image chosen.

Weaknesses: The image could do with a slight lighting adjustment but that's about it.

Peer Feedback

Jack Kearton Waters

You have a lot of ideas presented on your blog which is a good thing. I think you have used an effective way of organising your blog chronologically and also you have posted music videos which reflect the genre of the magazine that you have designed.

Your front cover is neatly organised and looks like you had to put in hard work to get your front cover to look like this. You have used three colors on your front cover which is  conventional so that is good that you have used that and it makes your magazine more professional. Overall your use of conventions was great and contributed to it being a great front cover. Your masthead is large so that people could see it on a shelf.
I think that you could have maybe put a few more articles or something else that would help draw somebody to your magazine.