Evaluation

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
As with every Magazine i have had to include a masthead, cover lines, an image to draw in the reader and other critical information such as issue number and barcode. in my contents page i have included a list of all the articles listed on the front cover, created a few new ones to fill space and a list of the "editorial team" accompanied by pictures, however apart from the four small close ups of faces i have no pictures on the contents page, contradictory to the two contents pages I looked at and reviewed previously. Differences concernng the front page include: i have placed the masthead nearer the bottem of the page and the barcode is at the top. placing the masthead at the bottem is unusual but i felt for artistic design, that is where it looked best.

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I have tried to represent teenagers in the development of the front cover and tried not to be gender specific, although the cover does not show this well apart from the masthead, it is mainly aimed towards students, this is more obvious in the contents page with articles about universities and academics. the main image on the front cover is a mid long shot of Jason Mewes, this would appeal to most who are fans of the Kevin Smith movies of which he first appeared and is most famous for. the picture takes up a large area of the front page along with the mast head, the contents page however is mainly made up of text. the majority of text are rhetorical questions or statements designed to make the reader interested and want to know more.

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I think the most likely place to ditribute my media product would be mainly colleges, as most topics adressed relate to students. The student council would help with the distribution.

• Who would be the audience for your media product?
the audience I have targeted is a non gender specific age range of around 16-18, the age of most students at the college. primarily those with an interest in the media, ie films.

• How did you attract/address your audience?
To attract the reader i have used rhetoric devices, aspects of comedic writing with the whimsical cover lines, and in the contents page spoken directly to the reader in the second person. i kept to a simple colour scheme of red, purple and black.

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I mainly used publisher for this project and this is the first time of using a blog, I learned how to upload publisher files to the blog by saving them in the JPEG format, which i previously did not know i could do.