Friday, 11 May 2012
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
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?
I feel i have learned lots of skills and techniques which will be useful for future work. I have learned about a whole new programme, Photoshop. I used Microsoft Publisher for my preliminary task, but quickly learned for the real product, that Photoshop was a simpler programme for what i intended to do. It also gave me a product of higher quality. I have also learned to play around with images, changing the darkness levels, in order to gain effect through the images. I have also learned that using different fonts and colours is not always the best thing to do. Often, a simpler approach with a strict colour scheme (as was used in my final product) has a much more professional look about it. Finally, I realised the importance of researching your product and especially the audience for it. This is vitally important as it gives you an idea of what the audience are looking for in a magazine, which doesn't currently exist in a magazine.
I feel i have learned lots of skills and techniques which will be useful for future work. I have learned about a whole new programme, Photoshop. I used Microsoft Publisher for my preliminary task, but quickly learned for the real product, that Photoshop was a simpler programme for what i intended to do. It also gave me a product of higher quality. I have also learned to play around with images, changing the darkness levels, in order to gain effect through the images. I have also learned that using different fonts and colours is not always the best thing to do. Often, a simpler approach with a strict colour scheme (as was used in my final product) has a much more professional look about it. Finally, I realised the importance of researching your product and especially the audience for it. This is vitally important as it gives you an idea of what the audience are looking for in a magazine, which doesn't currently exist in a magazine.
Friday, 4 May 2012
Evaluation Question 3
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product?
I feel that this has two different answers. Firstly, i believe a small independant distributor would be good, so long as it has the capacity to be distributing nation-wide. A small independant distributor would be attractive to many cool young teenagers who are trying to defend smaller music industry labels, rather than just following the crowd with multi-national cooperations.
However, at the same time, a huge distributor such as IPC Media would be able to back the product financially, whilst also attracting readers from its other already existing products. They would also have no trouble distributing globally, due to their huge man power and global recognition.
Evaluation Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
"Fire!" magazine represents has a target audience of mostly young adolescent males, so i tried to make it represent them. i have included several images (particularly on the contents page) instead of large chunks of text, as this perhaps will hold my readers attention for longer. I have used mostly young models in my photography, but because i want my audience to be well-rounded musically, have also used some older ones.
I have not used basic fonts for my headings and masthead, as i felt a young lower class audience would be attracted by a more ragged style. However, for the main texts and cover lines, i have used a simpler, plainer font, in order for the message to be clear.
My target audience of teenagers are often represented negatively, so i wanted a new product to show them in a brighter, more positive light. I feel my product does this by listening to what they wanted (through the survey), and including it in a product.
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