Evaluation notes

I learnt how to elaborate on my evaluation for my magazine and here are the notes that I have taken.


 

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?