Evaluation Questions

In what ways does your music magazine use, develop or challenge forms and convections of real music magazine?
• Compare real music magazines
• What inspired your own magazine (images of them)
• Talk about how you developed, followed and challenged codes and convections (all three pages with references how they influenced your own magazine)
• Analysis of a real magazine then your own
• Mise en scene of images to make sure they were convectional and realistic

My music magazine both uses, develops and challenges forms and convention of existing music magazines that are already in the shops and that are available to buy.
Uses
 My music magazine had a logo and a suitable name for my music magazine which is similar to NME and Q magazine.
 My music magazine contains photos on the front, which is similar to other music magazines.
 My contents page has numbers which corresponds to articles, this is similar to other music magazines.
 My Music magazine had headlines and cover lines which is similar to other music magazines.
 My music magazine had a continued brand identity which is similar to NME and Q magazines.
 In my double page spread, I wrote my article in columns which is how the articles look in other music magazines.

2. How does your music magazine represent particular social groups?
• Analysis a readership profile
• Identify your target audience
• The pricing of your magazine
• Identify the genre of the magazine
• Identify different social groups
• Location, mode of address , language, costume, colours, model

My music magazine represents particular social groups by the different conventions and key features of my music magazine.The name that I decided to call my music magazine is LOUD. This is because when this particular genre of music is listening to it is usually played very loud and represents young people in terms of what they are about. Urban music tends to be very bold and upbeat but isn't always necessarily happy. This is the reason why I chose the color scheme for my magazine to be black, white, red and green. I thought not only do the colors look classic, they are also a mix between the emotions that come through all urban songs. I have chosen a model that is 17 years old which hits my target audience age. I haven't dressed her up to look like a celebrity I wanted her to look like an 'everyday person' as I feel young people are more inspired when they see someone who doesn't appear to be above them. The pricing if my magazine is 2.50 I think this is an affordable price seeing as my magazine isn't released that frequently. My audience will also be getting a lot inside it so I think that it is very reasonable. The image on my front cover is just on a black backdrop, I chose this because the story is an insight on anew artists lifestyle. Being new into the music industry you are less likely to be photographed on a big set as you are not very well known yet so I decided to go for the simplistic theme. My magazine is hiphop and RnB music, it is intended to be targeted at both male and females.  


3. What kind of media institution might distribute your music magazine and why?
• Research, reference company’s
• Why the other company’s don’t suit your magazine e
• What magazines they are distrusting at the moment does yours magazine form a      relationship.
• Ask people video log
• Put image on billboard and magazine self

The Media institution that might distribute my music magazine is the music industry, as the music industry will know about the latest music and so will be able to distribute my music magazine. Also the music industry will be able to get the music artists contacts to help create further editions of my music magazine. Also the music industry will be able to distribute my music magazine in music shops such as HMV and would be able to advertise my music magazine in online music shops such as Itunes; advertising my music magazine on online download sites will be able to target my specific audiences.To be able to distribute my music magazine to shops such as supermarkets and newsagents; I may need the newspaper industry to be able to distribute my magazine.

4. Who would be the audience for your music magazine?
• Reference audience research how that resulted on who my target audience
• If they are male of female how did you come to this conclusion
• What social democratic class do they fit into
• Age of target audience
• Bands that are being promoted how they fit with magazine
• Embed music videos into video blog to show the genre of the music magazine

The Target audience for my music magazine would be both males and females aged 16-20. Although I think that people who buy the magazine may be older or younger than my target audience. In terms of social democratic class I think they would be middle and lower class as I think they would be more interested in the genre of music as they can relate more to lyrics of songs.The audience of my music magazine would be big fans of music and will have specific music artists and bands that they like. Therefore they would enjoy to read music magazines so that they can find out about their latest music artist. They type of bands and artists I would include would be the likes of Rihanna, Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye west. 


5. How did you attract/address your audience?
• Mode of address use of language
• Colours how they target gender, age and social class
• Use of main image
• Masthead
• Film people on if they would purchase the magazine
• What they would gain from consuming the magazine
• Magazine shelf and how the magazine would fit into the real world, take images of your cover on a self to show realism

I attracted my target audience by creating a questionnaire and then using the results to create my music magazine. This meant that I could specify the results to my questionnaire to my music magazine. I took tnier adice on board thier advice to ensure that the magazine what what they wanted. As my target audience is 16 - 20 year olds 

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Learnt how to use Photoshop
• In deign
• Wix
• Software
• Tools in which were used to create products
• Print screens
• Blogger
• Importance of communication
• Questionnaires
• Camera work
• Google 

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression  from it to the full product?
• Show mock up magazine to final product
• Show professionalism
• How realistic covers represent codes and convections
• Understanding of convections and audiences needs
• Use of software
• Impact of audience feedback