Seven Evaluation Questions

1. In what way does my Print use, challenge or the conventions of the real media products?
I have tried to keep as much to the conventions as i can. i also added my own little twist by trying to put loads more puctures on and more colours. there are many "Rules" to making a magazine like you must stick to the chosen genre of music and cannot change grnre halfway through the magazine and that you have to use a few images. But with my magazine i only used one image on my front page

2. How does my media product represent particular social groups?
My print represents a teenager social group from age 14-26 because teenagers are into rock music as it is one of the popular genres of music in the 21st century and some teenagers try to play rock instruments e.g. Rock guitar, bass guitar and drums
In my print I have a character named slappy who lived on the streets and performed on high streets for money and has become a famous rockstar and in the pictures on my print his body language shows that he can't believe that he went from poor performer to rich rockstar and full of happiness and excitement

3.what kind of media institution might distribute my print and why?
I think if a media institution would take my print and sell it for themselves then it would be someone like ICP Magazines because they make popular a popular music magazine NME as they specialise in rock magazines they would just have to add their own bits to make it look like theirs as it gets straight to the story and contains alot of pictures for interest as they know what the music magazines would have to be like and make it popular and a big sale

4. Who would be the target audience for my print?
My main target audience for magazine would be most teenagers who enjoy walking around with headphones listening to loud rock music who would be roughly 14-26 year olds, no specific gender and any nationality and would listen to bands like
Fall out boy, avenged sevenfold , dragonforce, papa roach and linkin park
These teenagers would probably spend money on magazines, music on iTunes or headphones and iPods

5. What elements of my print would attract the attention of customers?
Customers might buy my magazine because it is a new magazine so people would try it out to see if it is good and also it has lots of pictures on the cover so it looks appealing for rock band fans and they would be interested and also it advertises prizes and competitions which would make people interested in the magazine.

6.what have I learnt about technology by doing this subject?
Taking a good photo would have to include making sure the model is ready, make sure you get good poses from the model, make sure that there is nothing distracting in the background or in the way
Editing the photo includes making sure the background would relate to the main picture, not cropping parts of the model off, making sure there are no unwanted parts of the picture and to make sue it looks sensible.
Putting the item from photoshop to publisher is one of the easiest things to do on the computer as you just click save as then change photoshop to image jpeg then when it saved go on publisher click insert scroll to image then go to from file then find the image you saved and click it then click open and you will see it.

7.from doing the preliminary task what have I learnt from that task to now?
I have learnt that there is a big difference between making a newspaper and a music magazine newspaper I have to worry about columns and picture (if any)but for magazine you need to plan where everything goes where the columns go where the pictures go, how many pictures are going on and the size of the picture and font

"ROCK OUT!" Music Magazine Final Piece

This is the Front Page of my music Magazine it shows a main Image of Slappy (Lucas) for the top story. It also has the main title big and bold at the top to let the reader what the magzine is called. It also has a small list on the side on whats inside the magazine to "Reel" in readers it also has a information bar at the bottom to say what else is in the magazine and includes the basics (Bar Code, Price, Date, Website)

This Is my Contents Page it is in the magazine to show what the magazine contains once again it has the big and bold title to let the reader know what they are looking at. it has a list of a few thing in the magazine and is followed by a few images of Curtis, Slappy (Lucas), Bryony, and MC Cookie (Alex) and the prize in a competition (Ipod Touch) as you notice the image of Alex is the main background this is because the magazine would need to share the fame instead of Lucas being the background all the time because it will eventually get boring.

 This is the Double Page Spread this is like the top story based on slappy (Lucas) and these two pages concentrate mainly on him there is the big title again to stand out and bold text to make it easier for the reader to read it and it contains alot of information and it is set out just like a normal music magazine with columbs and a photoshoot style images of the main person (Lucas) and it contains information about his music and new CD release date

By Making this Magazine i have learnt that when it comes to making a real magazine there are a lot of things to go through like the codes and conventions and target audience research and to make it look good because if you make a template of what goes where you when you make your magazine you can keep going back to the template so you make it look right

Front Cover and Contents page plan

This is the Template of my Front Cover of my Music Magazine i have colour coded it so that it is easy to work out and used my explination of what goes where and how it will be lay out and what exactly will be on it and it is labeled to show detail instead of a load of colours put together on a word document and say it is a templatebecause that would look bad

This is the plan for my Contents Page like the front cover it has been colour coded (with different colours)and labeled this is to help me know what i should put on my contents page and where it will go and will make it look good and it will look better when i have a plan template

By Doing this task i have learned that when creating a magazine fromt page and contents page is a bit dificult because you have to make it look good and appealing to readers because people will look at the cover of the magazine and if it is bad like not alot/no pictures and no detail then people will think it is a rubbish magazine and put it back down and buy a better magazine but if it looks brilliant with lots of pictures and full of detail then they will like it and end up wanting it same with the Contents page if it dousnt describe most of the magazine and has no pictures people will not want it because it will be boring but if it full of information and has a lot of pictures to match then people will like it and think it is amazing.

Regulation Research

This was copied off the Press Complaints Commission website. this website provides information
By doing this task i found out what rules you would have to follow when your making a magazine and how to make it right without people criticising it and its like a helping hand for people who don't know how to make magazines (like myself)

1	Accuracy
	i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures. ii) A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion once recognised must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence, and - where appropriate - an apology published. In cases involving the Commission, prominence should be agreed with the PCC in advance. iii) The Press, whilst free to be partisan, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact. iv) A publication must report fairly and accurately the outcome of an action for defamation to which it has been a party, unless an agreed settlement states otherwise, or an agreed statement is published.
2	Opportunity to reply
	A fair opportunity for reply to inaccuracies must be given when reasonably called for.
3	*Privacy
	i) Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications. ii) Editors will be expected to justify intrusions into any individual's private life without consent. Account will be taken of the complainant's own public disclosures of information. iii) It is unacceptable to photograph individuals in private places without their consent. Note - Private places are public or private property where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.

this information was useful to me because as i am making a magazine i will need "Stepping Stones" as if i didnt have these rules my magazine would be a disaster

Magazine Preliminary Task

For the Preliminary Task i had to make my own front page for my own newspaper and make it look presentable so i had to make up my own stories and name for newspapers and layout and due to the fact that i had a lot of space left i put two random adverts up.
The Main Story is about a student who has put himself in charge and tries to clean the school and keep good behaviour by Stopping people littering, Stopping Smokers and Stopping fights.
The second story is about a different student that got kicked out of school for having a street race and ended up getting caught by the police after crashing into the principles car and explained his story.

From doing this task i have learned how to make a newspaper/magazine on the computer which will be useful for when i have to make a music magazine for my project, Also i have learned how to do a medium shot and how to use it for a text piece

Codes and Conventions for Magazine

My Magazine will be based on Rock music. The issue i am working on will be based on the bands Dragonforce, Avenges Sevenfold and Fall Out Boy and it will have news that will draw peoples attention like a new album, or a gig, a new Guitarist/Drummer/Lead Singer

It will need a picture to make it look believable and then use up as much space as i can with information and pictures and it will be really informative and and offer free merchandise in competitions and/or Giveaways so that people could read the magazine and want to enter a competition and win a T-Shirt, Hoodie anything that they like in the magazine.

I will make the front page look big and bold to stand out from the rest of the magazines and then mine will be picked instead and then it would be a popular magazine. The front page will look interesting because i will have big bold writing for the title and have a main image that will take up as much space as possible and have one of the bands i picked (Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy or Dragonforce) news on the front to draw people in and then have like posters or a CD giveaway, Also for my magazine because it will be for Rock bands i will have to use Rock type colours like black, dark red maybe some bright colours to catch the attention so it will stand out to Rock fans/listeners.

From doing this task it will bring me one step closer to making my music magazine because now i know what the basic layout will be, The colours i will need to use, What the contents will be, What the genre will be for the magazine and what the story i will need to make will be. So i am prepared for the music magazine making stage of the course.

Audience Research

For my Audience Research i have made a questionnaire to give to people to fill in and hand back for me to sort out for my magazine and it isn't one of those 20 questions and pointless questions its just a couple of questions that go straight to the point for what i want to know

my questionnaire goes like:

Music Questionnaire

1. Whats your favourite Music Genre?

   []         []          []            []            []

Rock    RnB     Pop      Hip/Hop Other

1a. If other what kind………………………..

2. Whats your favourite artist/band?

……………………………………………..

3. How often do you listen to music?

………………………………………………...

4. How often do you buy albums/CDs/music off iTunes?

…………………………………………………….

5. How many artists/bands do you have on your mp3 player/iPod/phone?

…………………………………………………................

Thank you for your time J

Our feed back from giving 10 questionnaires we had:
1.
Rock  7
RnB 1
Pop 0
Hip/Hop 0
Other (Metal) 2

2.
Dragonforce 1
Fall Out Boy 1
Avenged Sevenfold 5
Linkin Park 2
Slipknot 1

3.
All the Time 7
Not alot 1
A few hours a week 1
A few hours a month 1
Never 0

4.Itunes downloads?
0-10 - 7
11-25 - 2
26-60 - 0
61-80 - 1
81-99 - 0
100+ - 0

5. How many bands/singers?
0-10 - 2
11-30 - 7
31-60 - 0
61-90 - 1
91+ - 0
From this i have learned that if people would fill in a questionnaire it would have to be a couple of questions and not go on and on as it will get boring after a while and they will refuse to do it because they are not interested anymore also that questionnaire is one of the easiest ways to find audience research