In what ways does your media product use, develop or challange forms and conventions of real media products?My magazine cover uses conventions of real magazine covers by having:
- A masthead
- Cover lines around the main picture
- A coverline anchoring the cover picture
- Only using two types of font so the cover isn't busy
- Sticking to a colour scheme
My magazine cover goes against conventions of a real magazine because:
- The masthead is over the face of the person on my front cover when it would normally be behind
- There is no bar code or price
- There are no puffs, or anything that really stands our on the page
- There are no institutional details, nothing to show that it is a school magazine
My magazine contents uses conventions of a real magazine contents by having:
- Categories for the content clearly set out
- Continuity to the front cover, same colour scheme and font
- Indication to which pages the cover lines are on so they are easy to find
- Pictures of what is included in the magazine in the contents
My magazine contents goes against conventions of a real magazine because:
- I copied the cover image and it was too big, looking unprofessional
- There was some overlapping of image onto text
How does your media product represent particular social groups?- There is a teenage girl on the cover and the magazine is aimed at teenage/sixth form girls
- The content inside is about fashion, music and sixth form life- my target audience
- It represents teenage girls as happy because there are pictures of them laughing
- It represnts teenage girls as intelligent because there are chances to give their views and opinions on certain topics
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?A school would distribute my product because:
- It is a school magazine
- It has sixth form information inside, relevent to schools
What would be the audience for your media product?- Teenage girls aged between 16-18, in sixth form
How did you attract/address your audience?- By putting a memeber of sixth form on the cover, people might recognise her and be more inclined to buy it if they know her
- By putting topical issues that teenage girls are interested in on the front- fashion, celebrities, makeup, sixth form life etc...
- I addressed my audience with informal language, almost slang, with a friendly tone
- I used 'you' a lot to directly address the audience to include them
What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?I have learned how to use Photoshop much better than I was previously able to- e.g.
- Cropping and moving images
- Adding text after cropping images
- Editing sharpness and colour on the image
The things that I struggles with on Photoshop were:
- Tyring to get text behind the image
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