Foundation Portfolio

Bethany Parkes

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

Direct mode of address

Large title

Cover stories

Model credit

Guttenberg principle used

Rule of thirds used

Large title

Images to show who’s in the magazine

Content list

Large page numbers with corresponding image

‘Subscribe’ box in terminal area

Issue number/ date

Stats box

Large titleFacing page image

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Employed22%

Unemployed22%

Student56%

Are you;

My magazine is aimed at mainly students and young people

Weekly20%

Fortnightly10%

Monthly20%Every few months

10%

Rarely20%

Never20%

How often do you buy music magazines?

My magazine is a weekly magazine.

House3%

Dubstep15%

Pop10%

Rap12%

Classical2%

Hip-Hop7%

RnB5%

Jazz2%

Dance12%

Indie12%

Drum'n'Bass10% Other

10%

What genre(s) of music do you listen to?

My magazine has influences from a lot of genres such as indie, electronic/dubstep and drum’n’bass

How did you attract/address your audience?

Using current artists on cover

Direct mode of address has been used to help draw the audience in.

Current artists have been put on the cover to help make it more popular

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

Rule of thirds has been used.

Guttenberg's design principle

Primary optical area

Terminal area

Strong fallow area

Weak fallow area

Learnt how to use Blogger and Slideshare

Picture editing

Before After

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