Evaluaion Notes

> Draft all 7 questions in word and answers.
>  You have to demonstrate excellent use of IT software. You have to use a range of different technologies to answer each of the questions. These include: Prezi/slideshare, podcasts, infogram, Flickr, bounceapp,mindmeister , vlogs, scribd etc. (use a minimum of 4)
>  You have to use technologies that are appropriate and fit for purpose of the question. (explain why you’re using that technology)

1)      In what way does your media product (music magazine-R&B) use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products (real magazines)? Your genre. Identify the codes and conventions of that genre (COLOURS, PICTURE ON THE FRONT, FONT, AMOUNT OF WRITING ON FRONT, FORMAL LANGUAGE, HOUSE-STYLE, LAYOUT, ANCHORAGE and TERMINOLOGY). Refer to case studies. Also take print screens of parts of the case study magazine and your magazine.

2)      How does your music magazine product represent particular social groups? (do a vlog) Sub-culture-audience: colour, mise-en-scene (clothing, lighting, use of models) is the person the right age and gender to represent that social group? Are their clothes suitable? Say what the social group is. Refer to press pack.

3)      What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?  Reflect on distribution taste, newsstand task, magazine pitch. Explain why you have chosen this magazine- statistics, figures.

4)      Who would be the audience for your media product? Refer to the press pack/media kits. Also refer to my pitch. Give a full demographic socio-economic profile.

5)      How did you attract/address your audience? Techniques (new media technologies, /cross media convergent, apps, QR code-takes your straight to buy tickets to concerts etc.) models, colour scheme, fonts, use of language/register. Review audience feedback you have received (say feedback has confirmed…)

6)      What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product? What and why have you used? (Photoshop, in-design, blogger, photography studio, illustrator, technologies in evaluation, magazine pitch) Photoshop-image manipulation purposes, spot healing tool, brightness and contrast, resized images, manipulate text and colour, industry standard. In-design-its professional for page layout, alignment, grids, rulers. Blogger-part of a new media technology, to show your journey and it’s an appropriate online platform for audience feedback. It’s interactive. Photography studio- to process professional pictures so they are of good quality.

7)      Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? Show what you have learnt in both a practical, technical, aesthetical (correct range of fonts, images, etc.) and theoretical level. Use terminology (semiotic analysis).