Evaluation - Question #1

I created a Prezi which is below that includes the way I used and developed conventions in my final media product. It also includes similarities with specific real media products and how I developed a few conventions to make my magazine look more professional.

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

Magazine - Changes corrected!

Here are the corrections I completed within the week. My magazine now is completely finished as I had made the improvements on my front cover, contents page and double page spread. Below are the improvements I've made by following my teacher's feedback.

On my front cover, I had to change a specific font which I mistakenly put which made my whole front cover look not professional. I made the change without adjusting the font size or colour and it all fitted in perfectly. By changing the font, It has now made my whole front cover look more consistent as the theme of the magazine is throughout. 

As you can see from below, I had to correct tiny grammer mistakes and I had to make sentences shorter and snappier in my contents page. I followed the feedback that my teachers gave me and decided to change some sentences around. Additionally, I had to change the position of the photo of "Efto" as the top of the head was cut out. I made the change by placing a box on top of her. This solved the problem and it didn't look too cut out. Another target was to fill in the white space from the "EXTRAS!" column, which I completed. I put it another headline which took up the whitespace and this made my contents page not look to dull and empty.

Evaluation questions

I am starting my evaluation this week which consists of 7 main questions:

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

2.    How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

4.    Who would be the audience for your media product?

5.    How did you attract/ address your audience?

6.    What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7.    Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Distribution: Research

By looking at my evaluation questions, I decided to go into more research 

on different major distributors. 

I found out that the magazine Kerrang is published by Bauer Media Group which helps me reflect and think about if Bauer would be a good distributor for my magazine Unplugged. 

Frontline (Bauer) also sells and distributes over 160 magazine titles. 

However, I also found that IPC media also distribute rock magazines like Uncut which focuses on timeless rock music. 

By researching different distributors, It has helped me think about what major distributor I would actually want my magazine to be distributed by.

DPS - Changes!

My Original Idea

I have decided to take out my first column because it wasn’t equal with the other columns I created. In order to get rid of white space, I decided to look and follow different Rock conventions on a double page spread. I decided to follow the idea below, which involves information on what tracks the group had released. At the end I am also going to feature where The Drej’s album can be bought which I believe would make my double page spread look more professional and it follows typical conventions.  

Changes made

As you can see I took the first column out and changed it into a box with a faded effect. This does not look out of place. I also changed the pull quote to something more interesting which I believe would make my target audience want to read the article. 

Changes I need to make

The slideshow above shows what I need to change in my magazine. I will be making these changes this week and blogging the difference it has made to my whole magazine overall.

DPS - Editing main image

When I placed my image on my DPS, I personally thought it looked a bit dull so I decided to use www.picmonkey.com to make the image look more sharper and appealing.

I used basic editing first by adjusting the brightness to a little and I also added highlights and shadows to make the picture look more realistic and not too edited. This immediately gave my image a better look as it didn't look to dull and plain. 

Then I chose to add the effect "Orton" to give a more effective and professional look. I think the effect relates to the genre Rock as it made the tattoo's more enhanced and colourful.  

Before and After: