In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (real world music magazines)
As part of your planning and research you should have looked at Music Magazines and selected a sub-genre of music that your magazine would focus on, e.g. hip hop, RnB, metal etc. Find an example of a real life music magazine which matches your magazine's sub genre, paste it into your blog and highlight the key generic conventions of the magazine.
You should go through the final version of your project and select elements which follow conventions and any which do not. Explain your reasons for either following or challenging these conventions.
Areas for analysis include:
The title of the magazine
Page layouts
Costumes, props, iconography used to reflect genre (e.g. chains and headphones etc)
Camerawork and framing of images
Title, article, header etc font and style
Genre and how the magazine cover, contents and spread suggests it
How your artist(s) are represented
Colour scheme
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Select one or two key images from your finished product and paste it into a program like fireworks or photoshop (or even powerpoint) next to a selection of other images, showing how stars are conventionally represented in your chosen sub-genre.
You can discuss how you represented your cover star and why you chose to either use, develop or challenge stereotypical representations of this social group.
Start off by researching who distributes the magazines you looked at in the research and planning stages of your task. Now ask yourself why this company might distribute your magazine.
Perhaps they have too many similar products already out in the market.
Maybe there is a publisher that has similar reach, but fewer titles similar to yours. Maybe your magazine is quite niche, and a specialist publisher would be more suitable. Select a magazine pulisher and state your reasons for choosing it.
Consider making a powerpoint for this one, using key images of your magazine, the company's logo and images of their other title. Or, you could make a short video using software like iMovie or Movie Maker and make your commentary a voice-over for the images listed above.
Consider doing a detailed readership profile, similar to the NME one I showed you in class. You could also have short videos of you interviewing members of your target audience or post photos and notes about them on your blog.
For this one, you could video an interview or several short Q&A sessions with your target audience, where they say what it is about your magazine that makes them want to pick it up offf the shelf (cover star, colours, puffs etc). Have a full sized colour copy ready to show them before you ask them your questions.
You could also use the annotation tools in youtube to comment on how your magazine attracts your target audience. You should refer to what you learned about appealing to your target audience in the research stages of this project. Click on the link below for help on using this function in youtube.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Select one or two key images from your finished product and paste it into a program like fireworks or photoshop (or even powerpoint) next to a selection of other images, showing how stars are conventionally represented in your chosen sub-genre.
You can discuss how you represented your cover star and why you chose to either use, develop or challenge stereotypical representations of this social group.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Start off by researching who distributes the magazines you looked at in the research and planning stages of your task. Now ask yourself why this company might distribute your magazine.
Perhaps they have too many similar products already out in the market.
Maybe there is a publisher that has similar reach, but fewer titles similar to yours. Maybe your magazine is quite niche, and a specialist publisher would be more suitable. Select a magazine pulisher and state your reasons for choosing it.
Consider making a powerpoint for this one, using key images of your magazine, the company's logo and images of their other title. Or, you could make a short video using software like iMovie or Movie Maker and make your commentary a voice-over for the images listed above.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Consider doing a detailed readership profile, similar to the NME one I showed you in class. You could also have short videos of you interviewing members of your target audience or post photos and notes about them on your blog.
How did you attract/address your audience?
For this one, you could video an interview or several short Q&A sessions with your target audience, where they say what it is about your magazine that makes them want to pick it up offf the shelf (cover star, colours, puffs etc). Have a full sized colour copy ready to show them before you ask them your questions.
You could also use the annotation tools in youtube to comment on how your magazine attracts your target audience. You should refer to what you learned about appealing to your target audience in the research stages of this project. Click on the link below for help on using this function in youtube.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
For this question, there are lots of options for how you present your information. You could use the company logos for each piece of software you used. You could paste in screenshots of you using the programs/software or even take screencasts of you using it. You could make a collage or a Prezi of these images, too, and include annotations of howou used each piece of technology and how your knowledge and skill developed from preliminary to final product.
Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Finally, this one is a bit more open ended. You could video yourself reflecting on this. Or if you are camera shy, why not use Go Animate http://goanimate.com/ to make a funny video of your reflections. I think you guys developed your photography quite a lot since the beginning of the year. You definitely develped your attention to detail in terms of costume and mise-en-scene since the preliminary task. Your use of technology has also developed.
Don't forget to talk about:
- creativity
- use of digital technology
- use of real media texts
- research and planning
- post production
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