Evaluations of My Student Magazine

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
After i had analysed the two student magazines i had a pretty good ideal of what the magazine should look like such as it should has a central image not just lots of little pictures, you need a bold clear Masthead that is easy to see, the house style should be used continuously throughout the Front cover and the Contents page and you need no more than three or four colours in the colour scheme there also needs to be a balance of informal content and language and formal content and language as i think this connote Students starting to be more informal. I have tyred to include all these elements in my Student magazine. I have used Four colours Red, Black, Blue and white i decided to uses these colours from my focus groups and as i think it connotes the balance between informal and formal. My central image is of a College student as this links with the genre of the magazine. So my magazine is the similar to a professional student magazine.

2. How does your media product represent different social groups?
My magazine is aimed at students of a similar age to me so i made my magazine in a way that was appealing to me and from comments from other fellow students. The colour scheme i have used i think has made the magazine more appealing to students as i have used blue which connotes cool weather, the sea, the sky e.t.c. its doesn't connote anything that doesn't appeal to students , i have used red with the blue as its connotes a sense of rebellion which young people tend to do in the teenage years. My central image is of a Smiling student which makes the reader what to read the magazine as it connotes to the audience what college is like. I made the Masthead and the cover line font all the same as this continues the house style throughout the magazine and i think the font is unusual so it is more likely to catch someones eye. I have tyred to make the puff stand out as its making the audience want the magazine more as it appeals to them as they would want to try and win the price on offer. I have made the price affordable for students in or out of work.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I think that my magazine is most suited to my college as it caters for mostly people ages 16 to 19 and the content is more suited for this kind of age bracket as it offers advice for people that my not be able to cope with the coursework load and it offers other advise for young adults. It is also fun and caters to a more outgoing side of young students that are finding there feet in the world.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The target audience for my magazine is 16 to 19 year olds as they are the most likely to what to find out how to do there best at college and learn the best ways keep on to of coursework and what it going on in the local areas.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?
I attracted my audience my using bold contasting colours that stand out and bold clear titles and cover lines to make it eyecatching aswell as making it look professional. I tryed to make the magazine really simple as i learnt from my research that magazines with a busy front cover isn't as appealing as a clean and simple front cover. For my contents page i continued the same font and the same colour scheme but i uses  two pictures in my contents page as there were empty spaces in the contents page and this made it look messy.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
While i was makeing my magazine i learn't to use InDesign and i have only used InDesign at my work experience at a graphic design studio where i got to grips with some of the tools and what they did so making a magazine was less complicated as a new what some of the tools did. I took my photos on a digital camera and uploaded them onto the Computer useing a USB cable. I haven't learn't anything new from taking the photos as i am a keen photographer.