Q 1 ) In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Below are the pictures for my flickr annotation comparisons.

Q 4 / 5 ) Who would be the audience of your media product? How would you attract / address your audience? ( linked )

 http://jackasnack.wix.com/jackcollier

The anwsers to these questions are on the website which is linked above.

Q 3 ) What sort of media instiution would distribute your media product and why?

 

I used facebook to get feedback for where my magazine would be sold. The answers to this showed that it may be sold in newsagents, supermarkets, kiosks, airports, stations, gigs, and online on websites for music or bands. This is because it should let the magazine gain a lot of publisity from people seeing it in many different places. Also it is where people would expect to find magazines, newsagents, supermarkets, etc. However it also uses newer more up to date methods such as online, gigs, and Band/Music Website.    

This links to my intstitutional data as I said it shall be sold in a supermarket along with the other competitor magazines. It also links to Kerrang! and NME as they are both sold in supermarkets, however they are rarely sold online or at gigs which will give my magazine a U.S.P and/or lead in sales over its competitors (Kerrang! / N.M.E.) as I am selling in more places and am also going for a market niche at the same time.

Q 6 ) What have you learnt about the process of constructing this product?

I  have used many different software and website technologies to produce my final magazine design...........





I have used serif heavily for the main construction. By using this I have learnt a lot about how to crop and frame photos to good sizes that fit on the page well. I have also learnt how to use text boxes and column alignment to set up the page correctly in a magazine style. I also used these text boxes to do captioning on the images. Additionally I used the title writing for the pull quotes of the magazine feature article. This has taught me the importance of sizing and cropping images down to the right size as it makes them look as good as possible and makes it easier for readers to be able to look and uderstand the photos without any unecssesary backiground space. It also helps (especially on the cover page) to keep a lot of room for other advertisements/article snippets/ pull quotes, for what going too be inside the magazine.    


 





I used photoshop to edit certain pictures. I learnt about erasing backgrounds and making them blank so that they fit in with the magazine better. From this I learnt how useful photoshop is in the commercial world for getting picture perfect, in the colour scheme you want, so that they look presentable and also look of a high, Professional quality.  













I have used the website DaFont.com too. I used this for the heading font of my double page spread. I learnt how to copy it from daFont.com and paste into serif then fix into place on the page. I then used serif to edit the colour of it. From doing this it has taught me how important using a recognisable font is in the industry of magazines, it helps to add to the look and makes it recognisable and memorable.  



 

 









  Finally I have used Blogger.com to publish all my work online for examining purposes and so I can categorise all the different sections of my coursework from 'Prelim' to 'Evaluation' so that its is easily accessible and I can then obtain feedback easily from students and teachers. Ive learnt, from using blogger, how to post written text, pictures, and embedded videos so that the can be viewed by teachers, examiners, and students. I have also learnt how to draft certain posts and edit certain post then updating them so improvements can easily be made.

I have used facebook for getting a lot of feedback for my ideas for the magazine pages. I did this by positng pictures on my timeline and asking my friends on facebook for the feedback I needed. From doing this I have learnt about how using social networking can be useful in the business world as it is open to so many different people meaning you are likely to get a big response.  

Q 7 ) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progressiong from it to the full product?

Mrs D

There are some good ideas here. You start to unpick the questions well. Try and put in something about audience profile in your question 5. Which ICT methods are you using per question?

Planning for evaluation

Question 1)

• Aimed at similiar bands
• Price wise it is affordable for audience who may not be all wage earning
• Colour schemes are eye catching, similiar to Kerrang!
• Competition layout and planning is like Kerrang!
• Contents page is set out in a similiar layout to NME
• challenges Kerrang! as it has a consistent colour scheme through the magazine rather than just for the Cover and Double Page Spread
• Picture annotation

Question 2)

• Stereotypes
• Colours
• Fonts, similiar to bands
• Layout
• How is it similiar to 15 to 25 year olds into rock
• Headings and paragraphs
• Language used
• Prezi

Question 3)

• Supermarkets/newsagents - kids get parents to buy it, cheap and quick turnover, easy to find
• Distributed digitally - online subscriptions, read using: computers: Iphones/Ipads; Phones in general
• Facebook (social networking)

Question 4)

• 15 to 25 year olds
• Fans of rock, metal, punk
• Males (mostly)
• Band memebers
• Website (LINKED)

Question 5)

• exciting headlines
• eye catching colours
• photos looking out (as if making eye contact with people)
• big news stories
• price attraction (i.e cheap and affordable)
• big offers (i.e gig guides and poster specials)
• Website (LINKED)

Question 6)

• photography techniques
• colour schemes for genres
• layout techniques
• use of pull quotes
• writing language (to engage audience)
• picture usage
• captioning photos or images
• cropping
• advertising pages/articles (using contents page and cover page)
• process of construction
• Blogger

Question 7)

• learnt layout for cover
• content to be included on cover
• page describes in contents
• page numbering
• structure
• compostition
• layout ideas
• appealing and atteactive layouts
• attention grabbing colour schemes
• process
• Youtube annotation

Q 2 ) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This is my Prezi done for the question, 'How does your media product represent particular social groups?'