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

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

How did you attract/address your audience?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question Who Would Be the Audience for Your Media Product

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

How does your media product represent a particular social group?

How Does Your Media Product Represent a Paricular Social Group

Contents How Does Your Media Product Represent a Particular Social Group

Double Page Spread How Does Your Media Product Represent a Perticular Social Group

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Pictures from the focus group

Pictures of Focus Group

Final product: double page spread

Final product: Contents page

Final product: front cover

Focus group feedback:

Focus Group Feedback Dp

Focus group feedback:

Contents Page Focus Group Feed Back

Focus group feedback:

Focus Group Feedback Front Cover

Second draft of front cover

This is my second draft for my front cover. As you can see it has basically changed completely due to some problems I experienced. The first problem was that my first draft got deleted completely of my memory stick so had to start again and that my first model decided she didn't want to do it any more so therefore had to find another person that would do it. But even though the colours and the look of my magazine are completely different underneath it all it isn't. I have still kept the same cover lines and title so all that has really changed is the colours artist and the added bar code, price and date that I forgot to put on the first daft I did. Over all I feel this looks more sophisticated and better suited to my target audience than the last one and uses the house style from my contents page in some ways, for instance the floral pastel colours and black boxes with white writing in. But I will be totally sure of this once I have completed my focus group.  

Draft of contents page after feedback whilst constructing it

This is my contents page after I got feedback from it whilst I was constructing it. I did use some of my feedback, for instance I made sure all the artical titles where all lined up to make it neat and tidy. I also got rid of the purple line separating the columns as they said it contrasted with the rest of the colouring and just didn't fit in; which after looking closely I agreed with there comment and got rid of it. The last thing I did was to line up the titles, features, to again make it look neater. I carried this through when constructing the rest of the contents page.

Recorded interview with Sophie Bradshaw

Written article for double page spread

Article for Double Page Spread

feed back on contents page whilst contructing it

Feed Back on Contents Page

critique of front cover

Critical Evaluation of first draft and front cover

My front cover does give information about what my magazine is and what is inside of it. For example my cover lines state some of the articles that are included inside of it. My magazine is also called Lyric and that implies that it is a music magazine along with the cover lines. The cover lines are clear as I put them in colours that standout or in black boxes. My cover lines do not go over the face of the model but do go over the body of the model but I think this is okay as they can still see who is on the front cover. The main mast head font works but the font below them in the black boxes could be changed as it is very similar to the font above. I also feel the masthead is easy to read because of the colour. My white background works but to make it even better I could make the page a little bit more crowed as to much white space is showing. I do have a barcode but I haven’t added a date, price or issue number which I know is needed desperately. My front cover is bright and the model is of a suitable age so yes I feel it is suitable for my target audience. I have used most of the conventions but still need to add a date but over all it does look like a music magazine. This magazine does look how I intended it to be but there do need to be some adductions’ such as date and price. Plus possibly some of the font type changed.