1. Evaluation Calum O’Connell

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? The genre of my magazine is new R&B. I did this element as I thought there was a break in the market for a magazine like this. I set out all my pages correctly for example I set out my front cover just like any front cover you will see in a supermarket. My double page spread is set out organized and easy to read and my contents are clear and make you want to read on into the magazine, all these elements fit together perfectly. My choices all worked quite effectively my audience feedback was very good, and said i gave a clear view of what a magazine for new artist would look like. My innovations were likely to prove successful as it was an individual setting for a magazine to be created, and was quite a wide market which had not been already hit.

3. How does your media product represent particular social groups? The types of people I have represented in my magazine are the kind of new and stylish people just coming into the music industry like my new band dynamic. I have mostly represented men in my magazine like a GQ magazine but in the music industry. The construction of this is due to the costumes appearance speech in the article and the use of lighting and sound in their portrayal. I have used quite trendy clothes in my magazine, on the front cover I used smart but casual bright coloured clothing and in the contents and the double page spread i used a plain navy blue t shirt and jeans with the trainers which i thought resembled and good music artist for men.

4. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? The kinds of magazine that publish similar magazines to mine would be mostly GQ as it is a men’s magazine but features more on men and men's problems, on the other hand my magazine represents men’s music and the style of new music towards the more men’s point of view. My product is special and different as not usual magazines focus on new music coming through the ranks so that people can get their first glimpse on what the music industry has to offer.

5. What would be the audience for your media product? The audience for my music magazine would mostly be men and teenagers from 16 + and below 25. there is most likely to be a secondary target audience as there are so many people who like music the magazine would feed out to all people who like music. My feedback gained a positive reaction as they all understood the concept of my magazine.

6. How did you attract address/ your audience? I attracted my audience as I looked into what the music industry in magazines had not looked at and what the magazine industry had not hit in the music side of things and there was not one single magazine which talked about what new music was coming through the system and how it comes through the internet and how we use the internet to get our music. My image on my front cover is quite enticing as it draws in the readers and makes them wonder about this new artist and then they see him on the front cover and want to read about him. The language style of my article also makes you want to read the magazine as it draws the reader in and makes you want to read about what new music will be hitting the charts in the coming months.

7. I used many technologies in my process of making my product i used blogger and I tunes and you tube to do most of my research. I went onto to blogger to gather all my information together and I used it all to compare and come out with my final piece. I have also used audience feedback by giving out questionnaires and getting back feedback of random people who have looked at my magazine and most of the feedback was positive and gave me lots of strengths and weaknesses that I can look at and compare in my final evaluation overall.

8. In my preliminary task i had done a basic model of what we were in the end going to come out with and finish with. This was done to give us an over view of what we were actually going to come out with in the end, mine has shown how I have improved with in design and Photoshop to create my look.