Hannah Morgans blog: December 2009

Evaluation of Magazine:
• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have know finished my student magazine i think all together it went well and steady but i could have had more time to tweak parts. For my front cover i have used to standard strap line at the top with a masthead underneath it, this is like any normal magazine. The front cover had to include a mid shot picture, which i used a mid shot picture from a student collge bash which links with the topic and theme of the magazine. The conents page is like any typical contents page with the grid lines for the producing of the contents page to give me an outline of were to work from. There are pictures, a letter from the editor. The letter from the editor the colour behind contrasts with the 'contents' title. I don't think i have pushed the boundries as i hav'nt added anything that should'nt be there.

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
My student magazine is targetted at students as it will be placed in college. The picture on the front cover and in the conetnts page are picture from different social groups and different events so, the magazine is based for everybody aged between 16-18. This age would be interested in this magazine as they like upcoming events and fashion.

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The student magainze will be on sale at college so the collge people will be interested in it. If it was on sale in shops not near the college no one would buy it as tehy dont know the collge and the people inside it. There is already a sudent magazine but this one may take more poeple eyes as it has different things inside it that will intereset the age group more.

• How did you attract/address your audience?
I made my magazine attractive as i added bright colours as the audience said they like bright colours in my questionnaire. The colour will catch peoples eyes, and the masthead is big so people wll beable to tell what the magazine is from faraway as it stands out.

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
To publish my magainze i used microsoft publisher this was a good choice because you add different colours and fonts. I learnt how to crop pictures so that they fit better on the page.