Evaluation: Question 7

Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
   
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Evaluation: Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your product?  
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Evaluation: Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

My magazine’s USP is the actual genre; film score. This is such a rare type of magazine that if it ever would have been successful, then it would have been known as the film score magazine when people wouldn’t have been aware of its name. This would have meant a huge boost of awareness.

The language techniques I used were for a ranged audience. I used entirely colloquial and simple language to attract the younger readers that I was made of aware of in my survey, making it easier to read and more laid back. Taking into account my older audience, I did once question whether I should be using more formal language, but decided to ignore the stereotype of more mature people preferring more formal and proper language, because surely some of them must like to kick back and read something easy every now and again.

The font for my masthead was chosen for my genre, but does tie into my audience in a way. I chose it to reinforce the ‘classic’ theme of the issue (from the feature article on the double-page spread) and also used this theme to attract the older audience I had.

My models I chose to keep in touch with the key demographic I made note of from the survey: young adults. I chose young girls with instruments to keep said young adults interested and reinforce the musical genre, as young people are more likely to be interested in playing the guitar than they are in orchestras.

Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?  
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Evaluation: Question 3

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

My magazine would have to be distributed in places that are likely to catch potential readers’ eyes. As my target audience are adults, the magazine would definitely be sold in traditional newsagents with other magazines for those who browse there. Considering the genre, it would also be sold in cinemas for those who are fans of films and frequent the cinema. There wouldn’t be an app, as I don’t feel that my audience would be large enough to benefit from the effort and cost it would take to create, but there would be QR codes on some of the covers that lead to the magazine’s website, where articles would be expanded on and polls would be available to take for those who are interested.

A new issue would come out in the first week of every month. When considering the age and habits of likely readers, my magazine would definitely be up for subscription, because some of the older audience may find it difficult to get out on a semi-regular basis.

According to research I have done, there was only one other significant film score magazine in print in the noughties: Film Score Monthly. This ceased publication in 2005 in order to further take advantage of the newly advanced web and multimedia opportunities online. The magazine’s website has an option for readers to download the latest issue for a cheaper price than it would have been on paper. There are also pages mentioning parts of latest general news to do with films. At one point, it was the most popular website of all time, with fifty billion views a day across the world.

SCORE’s website would have an online gallery of all previous front covers, and articles that are predicted to be the most popular will be available to read in further detail online in order to benefit the younger audience.

Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent a particular social group?  
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Evaluation: Question 1

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

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Double-Page Spread: Final Double-Page Spread

With a few final finishing touches, like switching my name from the left to the right, cleaning up the picture a bit, and creating better spacing for my text, the double-page spread is complete. Here's the last page of my music magazine!

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Now for the evaluation...

Contents Page: Final Cover

The last finishing touch for my contents page was to tweak the page numbers. I've made the numbers go up to 89 now, which is (hopefully) a much more realistic number of pages for a small music magazine to have.
Here's my final contents page.