My Visual/Audio Evaluation Script
Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
A1. My front cover uses main conventions of real media products because it has the expected things, such as the masthead at the top of the page, and the large image to the left of the page. All of my stories intros were relevant to the magazine and were something that would interest the people who are likely to buy it. My magazine challenges conventions of the rap genre by using a variety of colours instead of the plain old black which is usually seen.
Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
A2. I believe that my magazine represents social groups that are interested in rap music. This is a very small group of people compared to the other genres of music, but i felt it still represented enough people to be important. You can see that i have represented this group well through the pictures featured in my magazine. The clothes that are worn and the poses struck are similar to those of which the group is representing
Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
A3. I believe that a good media institute may want to distribute my magazine. I think that MusicMags may be a good company to do this. I have chosen MusicMags because they offer a very wide range of music magazines and sell some quite successful title. I think that they would be a good distributer of my magazine and would be able to make it well known to the world.
Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
A4. The main audience for my media product would be teenagers who are interested in rap. The main age group would probably be 14-18, but would defiantly appeal to some older people, as well as a few younger. I also believe that this genre of magazine would appeal to the middle and lower classes of family, mainly because rap is not something usually associated with the upper classes of people.
Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?
A5. I tried to draw in customers by making my magazine look quite professional and flawless. I also decided to use alternative as well as the usual pictures of the rap genre. I felt this would help draw them in by seeing the usual conventions of rap music, but then change their mind about the genre as a whole. This is what I was aiming to do with my music magazine.
Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
A6.I have learned that many magazines form to a certain specific convention. This shows me that many magazines of the same genre will use the same sort of language, along with the same type of imagery and colour scheme. I have also learnt that to produce a magazine you must find somebody else to distribute and sell it. These are things that I never knew before doing this project.
Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
A7. When doing the preliminary task I did not know a whole lot about different magazine types. However since then i have been analysing many different parts of rap magazines and I felt this has taught me a lot. I now know what a music magazine should look like and what colour scheme and pictures go with each genre. I have also learnt that it is not easy to produce a magazine, which before I had done the task, I, as well as many others, thought it would be.
