evaluation foundation portfolio
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Foundation Portfolioevaluation
Liam Keenan
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products?
I have kept the same House style and colour scheme throughout my product.
Direct address is used butNot on main image
Band name slanted where asStraight on NME
Barcode, price and masthead included In both
Darker colourScheme for aDepressingEffect. WhiteStands out
White and black house style to attract both genders.
Same font used
Black and white colour scheme
Pictures in Similar layout
Lots morewriting
Larger masthead
Direct address
PageNumbersInSimilar layout.
How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
Liam Keenan
Primary research report
According to our survey, In this research task I found that magazines are still of interest in young culture, however not immensely popular. As their competition, the internet is becoming increasingly conventional as the place to receive music news. My research however was not fair because only females were interviewed that are in the same age group.
The main reasons the internet is popular than magazines, is because it is: free, easy to access and is the biggest database in the world. The recipients of this questionnaire said the magazine could be improved by making it cheaper. Perhaps this is how magazines could expand their demographics.
NME and Kerrang were mentioned in the questionnaire, these two magazines are expected to be associated with this age group, as it is the target audience. However they said that they rarely purchase these magazines, both of them released weekly, yet the recipients stated that they buy them monthly or sometimes never.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? IPC distributes the NME. My magazine would preferably be published by
them as some of the magazines IPC produce have similarities to my magazine.
Who would be the audience for your
media product?
Genre – tech grunge
Target audience: teenagers 15-20 yr olds
How did you attract/address your audience?
Dominant contrast used onBand name to attract reader
Same font used throughout
Band nameSlanted to attractYounger audience
Direct address usedOn some pictures
Large Bold text toAttract reader
Barcode in dead spaceAccording to GuttenbergPrinciple.
Price in primary opticalArea and Plus! In terminal
Turn over and subscriptionbox in terminal area
Bold toAttract attention
Shallow depth of field used in photo
Large Bold dominant textContinuing house styleAnd short quote from editor.
Direct address usedIn some montage pictures
Photomontage
Shallow depth of field
Black connotes death, dangerRed guitar connotes desire.
Band postersIn backgroundShow influences
Baseball capAppeals to aYounger audience
Graffiti attractsYounger audience
Seriousexpression
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this
product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
Digital Photography