preliminary evaluation

The media product that I chose to do was a school/college magazine. My magazine follows the codes and conventions of many magazines in many ways for example; I have used a big, bold title at the top of the page central. This is so that the targeted audience straight away can take recognition of what the magazine is called.
Also I have a main image of a pupil which fills the page. Many magazines do this as it shows their consumers what the cover line is going to be about. I have also used different fonts and limited colours, following the codes and conventions used on many magazines. I also have cover lines on the magazine showing the target audience there is more than one article ion the magazine so it encourages them to buy the magazine if they don’t like the main cover story. All magazines do this as if the target audience don’t like what they see on the front cover they know that there are more articles in the magazine that they can read. My magazine also has banners to make things stand out. My media product differs from the codes and conventions as it doesn’t have any other pictures on the front cover. My magazine also has the price big and bold whereas other magazines have their price very small and un-noticeable.
During the construction of producing the media product I used new media technologies, such as a digital camera to be able to take high quality photos for my magazine front cover and the contents page. I also used Photoshop to produce the front cover. After using Photoshop to produce my front cover I used Quark a technology used in the media industry to produce my contents page.
My strengths of the media product were that I knew my target audience so I knew what they would want to feature in the magazine so I had loads of ideas of what to use in the contents page. I also knew the layout of how a front cover should look like after already studying them. So it made it easier for me o produce. My weaknesses where that I didn’t know how to use the programmes so it was hard for me to start producing the media product as I needed to do a practice piece first so that I knew how to use the programme for my real thing. Also in quark although I didn’t know how to use that programme I found it easier to use than Photoshop.
My target audience thought that my media product was very good as they liked the colour scheme that I had used and also my contents page relates to my front cover. There was a lot of information on my contents page meaning there was a lot in the magazine so they liked it a lot as it was very detailed. Although my target audience liked my media product they would have liked to seen more shapes on the front cover to make it more interesting. They would have also have liked to see more information on the front cover as it had only a little bit of information on it.