Evaluation

These are 3 examples of the type of people who would read my magazine. They are around 17/18 years old, students, and influenced by fashion. They are all interested in music, and some even study it - so they take a great interest in the magazine. The magazine is there to be enjoyed - not to be studied which means it can be read at sociable times, not just at home on your own.

Evaluation

Evaluation (not finished)

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

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

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

As my audience is between the ages of 17-25, this is still quite a young minded group of people. The fact that it is aimed at females aswell really makes the use of bright, light colours fitting with that genre. Although this is quite a stereotypical comment, friends of mine have also stated this fact. I have also used a model that is 18 years old (but looks older) which allows the audience to connect with him as a peer, and be interested and maybe even inspired by his look/work. My audience will have an artistic/musical outlook, and will be attracted to the small details such as torn paper, and scanned materials - as these are not typical elements of a magazine. I also think these things, however insignificant they are, make my magazine individual.

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

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Final Touches - Feathering Lettering

As I noticed that my lettering had a pixelated grey/white line around it I decided to try out techniques to remove it, I first used the paintbrush tool, picked out the shade of black that was appropriate and turned the opaquity down and then simply manually went over the lines.
After realising this took to long and wasen't very professional looking I decided to try out using the feathering option. I selected the area around the image, turned feathering to 5 and then used this effect on the image. I think it gives a much better look to the text.

Before Feathering

After Feathering

Final Adaptions to Contents Page

Adding Article to Double Page Spread

Adding Text to Double Page Spread

I decided to test out the test on my double page spread, After trying pastel shades of yellow, blue and green I decided that black actually looked the best and was the easiest to read. After testing different font types I found that Tw Cen MT was my favourite, as I tried to find an unusual font that would fit the magazines theme, but actually a plain text looked better, but still quite feminine. I used the font in size - 9.25 pt as this made it clearly readable, but also left a lot of space to right a fairly long article.