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

Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

In order to get audience feedback on my magazine I created a questionnaire for friends and fellow students to complete.
The questions were:



I created a go animate video for some of the responses:

Question 5 - Person 1.1 by Danny Rothery on GoAnimate
Person 1.2 by Danny Rothery on GoAnimate
Person 2.1 by Danny Rothery on GoAnimate
person 2.2 by Danny Rothery on GoAnimate
Person 3.1 by Danny Rothery on GoAnimate
person 3.2 by Danny Rothery on GoAnimate

In conclusion i feel as though certain parts of the front cover, double page spread and contents page attract my audience. From the front cover I think the competition, the main image and the plug in the top right hand corner are big factors. The competition allows the reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to see Green Day, most existing magazines use competitions to attract the readers. The main image helps as well, as I stated in question 4, not many rock magazines use female models as the main image and I feel that could become a USP for the magazine. With the audience feedback I have had positive responses with the front cover and how the direct mode of address and the masthead really draws the reader in.
Blogger was another way that helped me attract a global audience with anyone being able to access my blog.

Evaluation Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Evaluation Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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Comparison of the two front cover conventions:

This shows the progression in what I have learnt about the conventions of a front cover from the preliminary task to the final product.

Updates for my DPS and Contents page

After getting feedback on my contents page and double page spread I have decided to review and change some minor details.
Contents Page
Before

Unfinished 
This is the unfinished re-draft of my contents page. I have changed the background colour because after reviewing the contents page, the colour grey didn't really fit the house style. I have also moved everything up on the page so I have more room to fit in an editor's words box. At first I got rid of this idea in my first drafts but i have decided that I should bring it back to fill out the space. Also the white box around the masthead 'Anthem' I have changed to black, I feel that it suits the background colour a lot more than a long red strip with dead space at the top.

This image is one photo away from being complete, and that image is going to be for the editors words box. In this edit I have moved the box captioned "24" from next to the album review screenshot to underneath it. This then enabled me to include a editor's words box, where I have wrote a few words about the issue and regarding the last issue and thanking the reader for buying the magazine. I have also changed  the colour of the A in "Anthem" to white so it does not clash with the black box. 

This is the Contents page that is almost finished, again there still needs to be an image in the editor's words box. But what I have done is add a signature to the editor's box and I have moved the website and the twitter addresses up so it fills out the space out more. I have also swapped the Melony Spikes section with the Green Day section in the features column  so it fills out the magazine more with the main article around the middle of the magazine. Researching into weekly and monthly magazines, the main interviews are near the middle of the magazine. My magazine was a monthly magazine but I have changed it to a weekly one now because of the number of pages. 

Double Page Spread 

This is the first draft of my double page spread and as I stated in an earlier post there is a bit to update and change. For example the text needs to be a lot smaller and the columns need justifying more, with anchorage on the image.

Changing the text;

I have adjusted the text size from 18 to 12, this allows me to write more on the third column. I have also made the first letter of the article a lot bigger which is a convention of a double page spread and made the artists name a lot bigger as well. 

Changing the font and the page numbers:

In this edit I have changed the font style so that it fills out the page more and makes the columns wider. I have also changed the page numbers because of the change on the contents page. I still need to add some anchorage to the image though.

DPS with anchorage vs without;

The top image is with the anchorage and the bottom image is without. I don't know if I like the anchorage or not, it certainly does fill the page out a little more. 

Anchorage in another place:

I have placed the anchorage in a different place and I have to say I prefer it there than at the bottom. I wasn't going to place the anchorage up near the model's face at first but it was suggested to me and so I tried it and it worked, in my opinion.

Justifying the first column's text:

I have justified the text of the first column. Even though it is still quite a large column I feel as though it does look alright. I improved the justification of the text by dragging the rulers into a position I felt best fit and I typed the text in between the ruler lines. I have also added a little piece of text at the bottom that says "please turn over for the rest of the interview". The "Sunday was like a living hell" text I have increased the size and made bold. 

Drafts of front cover, contents page and the double page spread

Finished Draft of Contents Page

This is my finished draft of my contents page. I have added a new picture to the square that was empty labeled "30". This is a screen shot for a section that I created on album reviews. I have included the album review of the made up singer Melony Spikes 11 O'Clock Nightmare.

Creating the Album artwork:

Firstly I chose one of the pictures that I took during the photoshoot. This is the image that I chose:

I liked this image, the model is in the centre of the page with a medium close up. I also like the use of the prop headphones, headphones are a common icon of music. the model also looks as though she is enjoying the music and has a 'feel' for it. 

I then change the hue and the saturation until I was satisfied then added the title "MELONY SPIKES" with a subheading of "11 O'CLOCK NIGHTMARE'. This is the result:

First Finished Draft of DPS

This is my first finished draft of my DPS:
I am really pleased with the way it has come out but I can always improve it. For example looking back now there needs to be anchorage on the image, the text needs to be at least 12 and not 18 like it is and the columns need justifying.