Evaluation! 03 What kind of media institution might distribute my media product?

Evaluation! 02 How does your media product represent a particular social group?

Earlier during the day, I interviewed 3 people that fit into the social group that my magazine represents. You can hear what they said on the recorded SoundCloud tracks below:



“Definitely represent mine and maria’s social groups, this is the sort of stuff we‘re into..." Dipak

"This is the sort of music I listen too..." Maria

“...pictures of artists and guitars which really appeals to my age group and especially the kinda social that we’re in..” Tia 

“I really like the way that the debut album is shown... getting involved in getting the album and this new music” Tia 

Evaluation! 01 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We have been given several different evaluation question to answer to round off our coursework in media, the very first one is looking at the different ways in which our magazine follow conventions of real magazine. I've created a prezi presentation to show how my magazine does this!

Creating Blink 182's logo

On my front cover I wanted to add one the logo/iconic imagery of the Blink 182. At first I had just copy and inserted on the logo found from google images, but then was told by a teacher that it could involve copy right issue. And so to over come this, I created a similar logo myself using paint and powerpoint.

The original version  

My created version 

Left image shows using paint to create the actual logo, and the right image shows the arrows added in, and all the selected items being group together to create one image

Editing my double page spread image

For my double page spread, I realised that making the picture bigger to fit across the two pages made the image pixelated and look dull. So by using photo shop I managed to sharpen the image, but also make it brighter and get rid of the creases in the white back drop.

The original image  

Brightened using photo shop 

Editing using photo shop - using the Healing Spot Tool to get rid of creases on the back drop 

Final version the one that I will be using for my double page spread 

Final touches

To all three of my peices I added some final touches and decided to add some effects to the text. I added drop shadows to the text to make it standout from the darker background

Added a drop shadow on  'this summers full gig list' to make it stand out  

Added outer glow to 'Contents' for the effect of it not looking bland

Added drop shadow to 'Alex Ozzy Osborne' to make it consistant throughout all three pieces, and to make his name standout

Double page



For my double page spread as the whole band couldn't make it in my inital layout for my double page spread had to change, and during the photo shot I had to improvise and take pictures of the bassist. Due to this I had to experiment with the images that I took that I've done.



Experiment with my first potenial image

On the image above I have also experimented with using a different colour for my pull quote, I've used a green as on the colour wheel, it compliments the colour red, but I chosen not to use it as its not a key convention of magazine double page spread as they usually stick to the theme colours of the magazine.



Experiment with second image