Evaluation.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I think my magazine represents young girls mostly. Most pop magazines were aimed at young/teenage girls, so they are the one's that pop magazines would have to represent. Young girls can relate to the people featuring in the magazine therefore I think the social group I have represented are young/teenage girls. Past pop magazines have also represented this particular social group as most of the covers I have researched either have male artists on that girls would have found attractive, or female artists that girls would have found iconic.

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

I think Bauer Music Group would distribute my magazine as this conglomerate distributed Smash Hits magazine until 2006. There is a gap in the market for Pop music, most of the music magazines that Bauer distribute now are quite 'individual' magazines. However, I think that because there has been such a drought of Pop magazines I think Bauer would distribute my magazine to satisfy Pop fans needs as there not being satisfied at the moment.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I chose teenage/young girls for my target audience as they are more likely to be into Pop than any other social group. And as a Pop fan I decided to create a Pop magazine as I am more likely to know what a fan of Pop would expect to see in a magazine than a person who was a fan of Rock or Indie music. I have put bright, bold fonts on my magazine to attract the female audience and the artists that I have featured on the contents page are quite popular in terms of contemporary Pop music. My magazine is called 'Pop' so I think it's obvious what genre of music is in my magazine therefore the average Pop fan would buy my magazine as there are hardly any, if any, Pop magazines still out today.

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

In terms of technology, I feel I have learned how to use a camera properly. I can take professional looking pictures now by using proper lighting and mise en scene. The mise en scene for my picture centered around colour and brightness. Because it's a Pop magazine I needed things too look happy with my mise en scene, so I chose a brightly lit room and asked my models to wear bright clothes. I found it hard to capture a decent picture at first. But as I learnt more about cameras and technologies I was able to take better more professional pictures. For my preliminary task my shots were quite face on and I had to create light on photoshop instead using the natural light properly.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In terms of progression, I think I have came a long way from my preliminary task. In the process of doing my preliminary task I had to edit the picture using photoshop, and I didn't know how to use it, I added light and changed the paper into certificates, but thats all I was capable of back then and I used Microsoft Publisher for both my front cover and contents page mock up. But now on my main task, I edited all of my images on photoshop, cropped them, added shadows where needed and changed the lighting slightly. Also, my front cover, contents page and double page spread are all done on photoshop and I think it looks a lot more professional than my preliminary task.