Evaluating my work:
1. My media product uses several different aspects of a typical school magazine. For example, i have used a masthead for the title, an actor for the cover image, and different headings of text, and many other conventions a typical magazine would have. I think that my product is developed as it is not a typical school magazine as they would not tend to have a student as the main focus. I also think that it challenges conventions of real media products as it is unique and styled differently.
2. I think that my media product has a very clear representation of social groups; this group would be school. As my product is based on a certain school, i thought that relating the student to school and adding images of books and equipment provided would have a good representation overall. For example, stereotypically, a student who puts their head down, achieves good grades and likes to read, would typically be a great representation of a successful representation of the school.
3. The media institution that would typically publish my magazine would be PaperBridge. This would be the one who would take in account my magazine as it has designed many other school magazines such as Brooke Weston and Corby Business Academy, both of which have a quite similar design to my product.
4. The audience for my media product would be the parents of the student who attend the school. I specifically wanted my magazine to appeal to parents as in my opinion, they're the ones who would read the magazine. The reason i chose this audience is because there are a wide range of people who would have an interest in it. And i could ask for feedback to keep on improving in the near future as typically the parents would be more reliable than the children.
5. To attract my audience, i would publish this magazine online and also in hand. This would gain a wider range of people as some people would not be able to gain access to this either online or through the post. To address my audience i would mention the magazine on social networking sites in order for it to be accessible when published. I could also mention it around the school and another way would be to send letters of text messages home to all the parents.
6. I have learnt quite a lot from different technology whilst constructing my product. Such as when taking the main images on my phone, it tends to be quite clear on the device, but when processing and enlarging the image, it looses it's quality and can become blurry. I have also learnt that by using Microsoft Word to construct my front cover and contents page may have been a good idea. This is because when using PhotoShop to create these, it becomes very stressful very easily and makes the job harder as it is complex to use.
