Production: Final Product

Question 1: In What Way Does Your Media Product Use, Develop Or Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real Media Products

Evaluation 1
Create bar charts

Question 2: How Does Your Media Group Represent Particular Social Groups?

Social Groups

A social groups is a group of two or more people who interact with one another and share the same/similar characteristics and are together as a unit. This definition shows that people who listen to the same genre of music and are involved in that type of music can all be part of the same social groups.

Social groups

Youth Subcultures

Teenagers now care much more about their online presence and identity than their real life interests.
- Teenagers used to show their music taste by wearing clothes that put them into a group of    people who also had the same taste. Now due to charts many teenagers wear similar clothes and listen to similar music.
- There is now a very limited amount of people that show their taste of music by what they wear and how they act, some examples of these are Emos. 
- In the past people had to make an investment to listen to the music - as they had to buy a physical copy, whereas now it can just be streamed so youths are much less dedicated to their choice of music as they don't have money invested in it.
- When people wanted to get their group exposure it would take ages to gain any, for example Punks. Whereas now through the use of social media people can gain exposure within days, an example of this is Seapunk.

This change in youth culture is linked to the rise in electronic music presence as teenagers are more likely too watch YouTube and see social media posts on the niche market of Electronic dance Music.

Question 3: What Kind Of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product And Why?

Question 4: Who Would Be The Audience For My Media Product

Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product? from Jack Scobie

Question 5: How did you Attract/Address Your Audience

In my media product I addressed my audience in a manner that was suitable for the demographic and audience that would read my magazine. This was done using various informal terms and having a main image that is giving direct address to the audience who is around the age of the target audience for my media product.

Questionnaire
Further to this, I used an Audience response questionnaire during the main production of my media product which gave an overall response on what my target audience thought of my product at that point during production. This was helpful as i could adjust accordingly to the feedback that i received and i received a better understanding of who my main target audience was.

Lexicon Of Words

The lexicon of words was helpful during the production stage of my magazine as i could refer to the research i had done prior to use in my double page spread and rest of my media product. Using the lexicon of words helped build a link with my magazine and the genre of Electronic Dance Music.

Question 6: What Have You Learnt From The Technologies Used To Construct This Product

Question 7: Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task What Do You Feel Like You Have Learned In The Progression

This is the first magazine that I produced and it was done with little to no knowledge of any of the digital technologies (DSLR Camera, Photoshop, Indesign etc.) The sixth Form Magazine didn't look professional as i hadn't researched or planned it professionally meaning it came out very amateur looking. This is also because of the lack of experience I had with magazines and the fact that I don't read or research magazines of this given genre.

Furthermore, In the production of my first magazine (sixth form magazine) I only used a couple of magazine and media conventions. This flaw meant that my magazine was to its full potential and didn't have a professional looking finish. One major difference in the process of making my first media product compared to the music magazine is the time spent on research and planning. For the music magazine i spent an extensive amount of time researching the genre that i was trying to portray in my magazine and researching types of magazines that are similar (you can see this research here and here). This extensive research was not conducting in the production of my sixth form magazine as i didn't have the knowledge or experience to do so at the time.

Moving on to the music magazine, you can see that various amounts of techniques and media conventions have been utilised to help give my media product a unique and professional style. Firstly, the use of multiple types of typography makes the coverlines and the main masthead stand out individually, but also it connects the whole front cover together to give the magazine its own unique house style that is followed through the media product.

Moreover, the main image on my music magazine is considerably more effective and personal than hat on the sixth form magazine. This shows my step forward in knowledge and experience using the digital technologies such as the DSLR Camera and a step forward in the use of photo editing software such as Photoshop. Also, it is more personal and effective as it is a headshot compared to the full body shot used on my sixth form production. This is a more professional technique and takes more skill to complete. More to this, the coverlines on my final music magazine production are more professional and effective as there is a lot more of them and they have been done so that they hint at the stories inside and entice the reader into buying an issue and reading the articles.

Throughout the time between the process of making my sixth form magazine and making my music magazine i used web mediums such as youtube to further my skills and education on software such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (as seen above). This education helped considerably in the final quality of my media product as i could use professional techniques used in real magazine production to give my music product more of an edge above my sixth form magazine.

What I Would Have Done Differently

If i was to start the process of making my media product again i would have used better time management as it could improve the overall final product of my music magazine. Another thing that i would do, would be to collect and take more photos in the planning stage so that i had a wider variety of images to use in the production of my magazine. Finally, I would seek to interview more people so that i had more content to work with in the production of m Double Page Spread.