Task 11 evaluation
Repetition will be
used.
1) In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
More detailed response
Conventions – rules - what are the rules of country
magazine?
How is your mag like a professional mag and how is it unlike
professional mags
Case studies used to answer the question. Use specific
examples to answer, the more specific than the better. E.g. what did you like about Q magazine, the
contents page? What about it? The genre of the magazine. Reflects examples on the case studies and
give specific examples.
2) How
does your media product represent particular media groups?
How do you portray? Young people, fans of…, urban groups,
social groups
Elements of mise en scene, elements of costumes etc.
How are messages and values attached to this?
3) What kind of media institution will
distribute your magazine and why?
Publishers, online distributions. (baeua media, IPC, BBC ETC)
The existing publishing covers your genre? Would you have a
website? Electronic publishing?
Role of technology, Facebook groups, hash tags? Ways of
engaging with your audience
4) Who are the audience for your mag?
Define them in terms of age, gender,
ethnicity, area (if city based magazine), lifestyle issues (hobbies), what do
they do in their spare time.
Typical audience: What are they wearing? Where
do they live? City based area? Describe the audience
Remember work on press packs and media
kits, refer back to those.
Use an image to show what your audience
looks like, a person.
5) How did you attract and address the
audience
What does the audience want? What do they notice in
particular and like?
6) What have you learnt about technology
throughout the process of constructing this mag?
Talk about Photoshop, print screens to show what you’ve
learnt about. Give examples
7) Have you improved from your college
magazine till music mag?
Have you improved since college mag? Give examples. More
thought in photography? Masthead is more sophisticated? What have you done differently
this time?
