Evaluation

Tom Davies

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I found that a very typical part of a student magazine was plenty of images of young peole both in the mgazine and on the front cover and they all seemed to be ding activities which were stereotypical to young people. So on both the front cover and contents page of my magazine i inserted images of teenagers and young adults to represent it was advertised to students. Another very big part of a student mgazne are the topics which you talk about. So in my contents page i included storys of Music, Nights out, College Activities and Education which are all associated with the the majority of students.

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I have aimed my magazine at teenagers, young adults and mainly students. I have done this by adding photos which are yound people people doing interesting activities as well as covering topics that young people are interested in and can relate to. I have used relaxed informal language to welcome the reader as it is more like what they are used to in their everyday life.

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The main distribution of student magazines that is near me is the ludlow college mags which are called 'student ID'. I think that the college would be interested in publishing my design as my magazine includes alot of features which relate to the college itself so it will help its students keep informed to what is going on inside the college.

• Who would be the audience for your media product?
I have targetted a audience of both genders and then instead gone for a specific age range. I have gone for an audience of young people specifically students. I have also used music as quite a big part of my magazine as in my audience research alot of people answered to my topic question that would be interested in reading about music related articles.

• How did you attract/address your audience?
To attract my target audience of young people/students i used many photos which included young people doing young people activities. I decided to put this in as in my audience research alot of people answered that my images sould be of young people participating in activities such as partying, nights out and other activitie which include students. I also used articles which i thought would entice younf people such as, college events, local nights out and college events.

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In the process of creating this product i have used several programmes before that i have never used or are very inexperienced at using. One of these that i had nevr used before was blogger and i am now very aware of how to use blogger and what i can achieve with it. I also got alot more accustomed to publisher which i used to create both my final contents and front cover design and all the drafts before that.