Evaluation

How does your product represent different social groups?

-  It represents different social groups such as young people and females as it includes images of young people and females. It also uses teenage language/ informal language such as 'hottest'. The use of feminine colours such as pinks represents female social groups.


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

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Who would be the audience for your media product?

- If you have a look at my reader profile, my intentional target audience was meant to be teenage girls. I have conducted a focus group to see what type of audience would suit my media product.



GENDERS AND AGES:

- 3, 16 - 20 year old females
- 3, 16 - 20 year old males


WHAT DO YOU THINK OF PLAYLIST MAGAZINE?

It's very bold, exciting and eye-catching. Everyone generally liked how it looked.


DO YOU LIKE THE POP GENRE? WHAT OTHER GENRES DO YOU PREFER?

The boys said no they preferred other genres such as RnB and rock.
The girls liked the pop genre however also liked other genres such as RnB.

This shows that girls are open to the pop genre therefore implies that playlist magazine attracts a more female based audience as most of them prefer the genre it's offering.


WOULD YOU CONSIDER BUYING THIS MAGAZINE? AND IF NOT WHY?

The boys said no and the girls said yes.
No because it looks too feminine and don't think it real suits the male audience.

To conclude the focus group shows that my audience for my media product are females aged 16 to 20.

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How did you attract/ address your audience?

I attracted my audience by using eye-catching colours and words.

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

I have learnt about technologies such as photoshop and that it is easier to use in comparison to microsoft word or publisher. You can do a variety of things on photoshop which you wouldn't be able to do on publisher for example creating layers and it also has many tools you can use such as the selecting tool which is needed for most things such as deleting out parts you don't want . 
Photoshop allows you to chose the canvas size which allows you to change the height and width of the page and was helpful to me so that the contents page was the same size as the cover page. You can create unique affects using gradients and opacity. I have learnt that you can rasterize the layer so you can move practically do anything the the layer using the tools.

I have never used blogger before which is quite a big technology, I learnt how to publish on blogger and how to upload slideshares, videos. Using the macs was at first difficult to use, I learned how to create tabs on the macs and where everything was such as safari.

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

   

                                  

From my preliminary task I was unfamiliar with the photoshop software. I only knew the basics of photoshop for example using the shape and text tool and also reducing the opacity to give a see through object.

My music magazine that I have created shows clear progression as I have familiarised myself with the software. I have learnt how to edit out the background and edit the image on the front cover however in the preliminary task I just used a photo background and didn't edit the image. I have learnt how to structure my magazine better by using other music magazines to inspire me which has helped mostly for the contents page as in my preliminary task my contents page doesn't have a very good structure and there are a lot of blank spaces which make it look unattractive.
I have added details from real media products such as a barcode, price and date which I didn't add in the preliminary task.