Magazine Evaluation


In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

1. My media magazine product has a typical layout of any real magazine product. It includes a masthead which is at the top of the cover; every magazine will have one of these, it also includes cover lines, a few little notes around the main picture briefly indicating what you will find included inside the magazine. The main picture is usually a person, generally of the person top half from their hips upwards. A front cover is often bright and colourful; this is to catch a reader’s eye and to draw in customers. That style of writing and colours on my magazine slightly differs from that of a real magazine due to the fact that mine is a college magazine, which is a niche market a slightly different market to what any other magazine which generally target a larger audience. Also, my magazine doesn’t have a barcode, this is as I decided to make mine free for the first issue at college to try and promote the magazine for the following issues to come.

2. Magazines will all have a target audience; some magazines will have a lot larger audience than others depending on the magazine you are trying to sell. This depends greatly on the colours, font and styles that you use. If you were to use bright and colourful font and images, you would think its going to be a happy and friendly to read magazine, where as if you were to use dark colours you relate this to maybe something quite gothic nowhere days. I think my college magazine hits quite a mix between both male and females, I think some of the colours are fairly feminine but will be eye catching and appealing to all students within college.

3. I think my media product would be distributed by the college student council, I feel it would be very popular amongst students. This magazine is all about bringing college students together, and I believe it will do just that. It would be in the colleges’ best interests to consider publishing the magazine on at least a monthly basis. I believe it wills it is the key to bringing students closer, a great source of advertisement to reach the whole college and get everyone communicating.

4. The audience of my product will be people interested in the college mainly; those who want to get involved and have an interest in either other people at college or the latest news around college. I have also made the magazine ‘Revolution’ free for the first issue to encourage a large audience within the college community.

5. I think that I have attracted my audience by using a range of different colours and bright eye catching colours. My font is also rather bold, catching the eye of passing people. I have also used a lot of terminology that I believe relates to students, and that they will be able to easily understand.

6. The main programme that I have used whilst creating my college magazine ‘Revolution’ was Photoshop. I am pleased to say I am a lot more familiar with this programme after using it for a moth, seen as I had never used it before. On Photoshop I learnt how to cut and crop pictures on to different layers, and also used to ‘lasso’ tool many times to cut around pictures, this then allowed me to make to picture more obvious and add affects to them to make them more appealing and eye catching. Using this programme has allowed my finalised work to look a lot more professional.