Evaluation Guidance:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
What are the conventions (key
ingredients) of music magazines? What
does the front cover have to include?
What is a typical contents page? How have you included these conventions in
your own magazine? Have you done
anything differently? How have you pushed the boundaries of this form? For this
section you must try and use as much media / magazine vocabulary as possible:
connotations, masthead, coverlines, central image, puffs, pugs, serif, sans
serif, brand identity, house style, mode of address…etc.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Which social groups have you
represented e.g. teenagers / students, males / females? How have you represented them?
Have you represented them in a stereotypical way? Or have you tried to produce challenging, alternative
representations? Discuss the images you have used, the language
you have used, the ratio of text to pictures etc. It is always useful to say
why you have made these decisions – essentially how these representations have
been used to appeal to the target audience and sell the magazine.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product
and why?
Is the magazine going to be produced in house by Ludlow College? If it is then who might produce it?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Age? Gender? General profile of your audience? Refer back to the audience handout I gave you and add as much detail as possible.
How did you attract/address your audience?
What did you include in your magazine
to make it attractive to your target audience?
Spend some time discussing the front cover – remember this is the hook
that makes people buy it (70% of people buy their mags on the spur of the
moment) Think also about mode of address – how does your magazine “talk” to the
audience. Why would someone want to buy
your magazine?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
Which technologies have you used
(Blogger, InDesign, Photoshop, Photobooth, digital camera,) and what have you learnt from using them. How have they enabled you to produce good work. Try to use really specific examples from all stages of your project: research and planning / production
Some good evaluations from last year:
http://amysasmediablog1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/student-magazine-evaluation.html
http://alicegodding.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-evaluation.html
http://cfrazer00.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/evaluation-of-my-preliminary-task.html
