School Magazine Evaluation:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

After doing some research in to other school magazine I noticed that there were a lot of pictures on them and piece of texts and information in order to help describe and introduce the school. From this I decide to set my magazine out similar and took a range of picture to help express the school. I made sure that all my text was the right size so not to look out of place or to big or small compared to the rest.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represents students within the school and things that they get up to, I have done this by making sure that all articles that I have said that are going to be in my magazine on my contents page are things which are happening in the school and are yet to come. All pictures have been taking in the school and are of students that actually go to the school rather than picture of adults that do not go to the school. My main image on the front cover of my magazine is of the school, this image is also my background, the reason for this is because I feel it helps to welcome the readers to the school and want to pick the magazine up and read it.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The kind of media institution that may distribute my media product are low budget company’s council based like public schools and library where they can produce the magazine cheap. This will allow the students and they parents to consumer the product.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

My magazine is aimed at mostly young students in all years attending Whitley Bay high as it has articles and pictures in it and on the front cover that will attract them compared to parents of the students. However my magazine could also be targeted and aimed at the parents to as the contents page tells them what the different articles are in the magazine and they may be interested in the different things like the “Guys and Dolls Show” they might want to find out more and know what is going on in the school.

How did you attract/ address your audience?

In order to meet all the needs of my target audience I used a range of images and pictures in order to back up, the text I wrote onto my front cover and contents page. For example I add a picture of the shows guys and dolls poster to relate to the text in which I wrote Guys and Dolls. So that my magazine suited and would work for my target audiences I did not write a lot of information and on my contents page, as I noticed from my research on the school magazine that I looked at, to much information on the contents page and big paragraphs can be of putting.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

From this process I have learnt that deepening on where and what I was taking a picture of would depend on what type of light I would need to use where taking my pictures, for example when I was outside taking pictures of school and field I did not need to use my flash as there was another natural light. Compared to when I took a picture of the pupil in her school uniform the lighting in the hall way was quite dark so I need to use artificial light which was the flash on the camera to help to lighten the picture.