Evaluation - Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt InThe Progression From It To The Full Product?

I feel that I have got more of a grasp of Serif Page Plus since the preliminary task, the preliminary task was good practice for me as I had never used the software before.

Evaluation - In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products

Evaluation - How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

My magazine is aimed at both genders 16-23 year olds who are students that listen to music a lot of the time, on their iPods, MP3 players, computers, laptops and mobiles. Also watch music channels a lot and also keep up to date with the latest music and music videos on YouTube or iTunes.
My target audience are also into differents styles of fashion and their style may be influenced by a number of artists after seeing what they wear.












This image shows the fun this particular social group has, they are shown listening to music, dancing and having a good time.












Again following their favourite artists styles that are on trend but just throwing things together like their artists, to make them unique.

A representation of this social group is that they are loud, so I have incorporated this into my magazine with the use of colours, my house colour choices are loud and bold.

Note - Problems

I experienced problems with slide share as it would not upload most of my presentations so I took photos of the slides and uploaded them. I also experienced problems with my scanner in scanning my work e.g. Music magazine  and planning so I also took photos of them and uploaded them.

Also Sofia Gonzalez was originally someone else who did not want photos taken of her and so therefore I had to take photos of someone else to be Sofia Gonzalez.

Note

At the beginning of this task I was working with a partner, however, we both had different ideas about the type of magazine we wanted to produce, and so therefore, ended up working independently.

Evaluation - What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

Technology I used:

This is the computer I used to design and edit my magazine.

This is the camera I used to take the photos.

This is the memory stick I used to save my work on and transfer files between home and school.

This was useful however, the fonts kept changing so I had to adapt my work.

Software I used:

I used the internet to assist me with my music magazine research.

I used microsoft paint and Serif Pageplus to edit the photos.

Microsoft word and Microsoft Powerpoint were used for my blog posts and to write my article.

Slideshare was used to post my powerpoints which I thought was very useful and a creative way describing the process of making a music magazine.

Serif Pageplus 11 was the most difficult to use as I was not familiar with the software, although I had some practice using when doing the preliminary task, I still found it quite hard and felt my IT skills were limited on serif in making my music magazine.

What I have learnt:

- During the making of my music magazine I have used software that I have never used before, Serif Pageplus 11, blogger and slideshare.

Evaluation - How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

To make sure I addressed the needs of my target audience I conducted a questionnaire which is shown earlier in the post titled Music magazine questionnaire, which was about my initial ideas and received constructive feedback which assisted me in producing my music magazine.

I also conducted another short questionnaire about the final product.
Shown below:

1. Do you like my magazine?


Yes          
No
Unsure


2. What do you think of the front cover? Is it appropriate for 16-23 year olds?






3. What do you think of the article?






4. Did I use a good choice of colours for my music magazine?




5. What do you like about the magazine?




6. What improvements could I have made to my music magazine?


The results of the questionnaire are presented below: