Evaluation: Question Three

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Before we started this project I created a case study on IPC, a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, selling over 350 million copies each year. The case study is in a previous post on this blog. IPC Media would be my best institution to distribute my magazine as my magazine AMP is a similar magazine to NME which is one of IPC Medias magazine. It is one of their most popular magazines that they distribute and if they can distribute my magazine as well as they have NME my magazine would do very well. Although they already have a magazine like this NME is not specific to alternative music and feedback about the magazine NME from alternative music fans say that NME isn't a magazine that they would buy as it deals with more mainstream music so I think there is a small gap in IPC Medias portfolio for my magazine. I think that my magazine would offer that a way to attract a different audience group as if someone doesn’t like NME they could buy my magazine and this would increase their sales of music magazines and widen their portfolio in terms of music genres, which could go on to distributing more genres of music magazines and could see them becoming the major distributor of music magazines in England. 

Evaluation: Question Two

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Evaluation: Question One

In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media productions?

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Double Page Spread Deconstruction

Double Page Spread

Lesson Overview

In todays lesson I started on my Evaluation by completing question one, 'In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?', This took me half of the lesson to complete. For the rest of the lesson I started on the tweaks on my front cover and contents page with the help of feedback from the class and lectures, that hopefully will make my outcomes look much better and more professional.

Front Cover:
On my front cover I have changed 'the 50 best alternative albums ever made' from a box on the side to a banner along the top. This has made room more tag lines to be placed along the right hand side, I have also moved the main story tagline down a bit which has also made room for taglines. I have made the masthead of my magazine bigger so it would stand out more and have put music notes around the masthead to make it clear its a music magazine and also makes it look more appealing.

Contents Page:

For my contents page I have changed the background colour from white to a pastel green, which isn't overpowering but still gives it a bit of colour and makes the page look more full. I have extended the lines of the grid that separated the stories to make a complete grid which I think makes it look more clean cut and professional. Also I have changed the colour of the box that had the subscription advert in it to white with the same pastel green for the text and a image of my tweaked front cover.

Lesson Overview

In todays lesson I finished off my contents page by completing the writing for each story, I have also today printed off all my four pages of magazine off to get feed back so I can improve on them. They are not all finished yet as some still need to be tweaked to make them look better and more professional. I now need to start writing my interview on Brendan for my double page spread which I will do ever the next week so I will be able to put it onto the feature next monday. overall my work is coming together and starting to look professional and hopefully over the next few weeks will start to be completed.

Front cover, Contents page & Double page spread

Front Cover

Double Page Spread 

   

Contents Page

These are my front cover, double page spread and contents page so far, there is still a little bit of tweaking to be done till they are completed.