Sophie Lee

Foundation portfolio evaluation

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

Masthead

Main image

Model credit

Model Credit

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As my product is priced at £3.00 the social economic category that my product is aimed at is either B or C1. This is because the buyers must nave money available to spend onsomething that is not essential. To aim to this social class I have given the magazine a muchsophisticated and expensive look. However I have still aimed my magazine at a younger audience by the use of bright colours that attract the readers attention. Although from myresearch I found that most of the people who bought magazines were female I still aimed my magazine at both male and female readers. I did this by using unisex colours that wouldn’t puta certain sex of reading the magazine, for example red and blue.

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What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Bauer mediaIPC

Who would be the audience for your media product?

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Market research

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Is there a house style?

YesNo

Focus group results

Would you buy my magazine?

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60%

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What area of the front cover stood out the most?

Image Colour Main artistContents Incentives/Freebies

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What age group would you say my product is

aimed at?

How did you attract/address your audience?

Colour

Appealing content

Design

Continued house style

Incentives

Guttenberg principle Rule of

thirds

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Technologies

PhotoshopImage manipulation

Digital cameras

Blogger

SlideShare

Conducting a photo shoot

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

Ancillary productIn my ancillary product I didn’t know much about creating a magazine. In my ancillary task I did not use the Guttenberg principle very well. This is because the ‘150 new ways to revise!’ should be in the terminal area where the Readers eyes are drawn to. By doing this it would make the article stand out more. The useof colour on this front cover is not very good asthe white gets lost in the background of the Image. The main image in the background also does not use the rule of thirds very well.This is because there is not focal point of the Image.

Finish productsWhat I have improved on:• Photography as I have used the rule of thirds• Content• Layout as I have used the Guttenberg principleWhat I would change:• Spellcheck • The colours