Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

A brief overview of the production and distribution process. (Created on pixton.com)

Evaluation 3 on Prezi

It's also important to know how my product would be advertised, here is a video I created which explains how it would be advertised.


 

It's also important to know how the product would be distributed, here is a video where I explain how my product would be distributed.

My product would generally distributed in supermarkets amongst other magazines, as supermarkets are a popular distributor, likewise WHSmith is a very popular store that distributes magazines, therefore by distributing in WHSmiths potential consumers could see my magazine amongst other music magazines. With the emergence of web 2.0 it's also likely that my magazine would be available via an online subscription, this would be beneficial for the "hardcore" purchasers of my magazine who can get a subscription either yearly or monthly, which would work out cheaper than purchasing the magazine from various stores.

Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Although the target audience for my media product was generally aimed towards the Rock and Indie kid social group. I feel as though my product also represents Scene and Emo Kids instead.

Here are some videos from find your tribe which explains these particular social groups:

I also created a "Wordle" which describes the Emo Kid stereotype.The bigger the word presented, the higher the word is associated with the stereotype, as you can see words such as "music and bands" appear, which suggests they may find my magazine appealing.

I also created a "wordle" for the scene kid stereotype again words such as music appear, however as the word Scene is very large, it suggests the also value who they are very highly




So how did my magazine represent social groups? Here is a video I created which will tell you.

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Final Products: Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread

Rough Cut Feedback and Reflection

After completing my rough cuts, i pitched my products to my Teachers and peers. Here is the feedback that my teachers gave me.

My peers generally gave me the same feedback as above. It seems as though my main images used on my DPS appear to be stretched, and this could potentially make me lose some vital marks. Therefore the next step I'm going to take is to make these changes in order to improve my final product. 

Rough Cut: Front Cover, Contents Page and DPS

Front Cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread