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

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

Evaluation: How did you attract/address your audience?

From the research I conducted I feel that my magazine has been quite successful as it fits into the genre of the magazine I tried to create very well. To attract the audience I used banners, sells, and pull quotes, I also used quite a bold colour scheme, however I used a colour scheme that through research I discovered was used a lot in this genre of music magazines. I used cover lines on the front also to advertise features inside the magazine. The images that I used would attract the audience as on the front cover I used a mid close up shot, with the same model on my contents and double page spread looking directly into the camera. I also used photos of 2 well known celebrities that you would associate with this genre on the contents page which would hopefully attract the audience as fans of their music would perhaps want to buy my magazine to read the features about them. 

                                                         

I asked a small group of 16 year old girls, several questions about my magazine, and how they thought it fit into my genre and for their opinions on several parts of my magazine. The general response was really positive as they said how my magazine resembled a pop magazine by the features I used in it, and the images that I used. They also particularly liked the use of the red white and black colour scheme, as they felt it help bring attention to the magazine as a whole. They also said how they liked how I used the same model throughout my magazine front cover, contents and double page spread to keep it looking consistent.  One thing that one of the girls thought I could improve on is the use of the columns in my magazine as I used  different columns on each page, so to make it laid out a bit better I could have used the same amount of columns on each page, this could be taken as an oppositional reading.  I was extremely pleased that they mostly took a preferred reading to my magazine, as it meant that I have been successful in creating my pop magazine and that it suits the target audience well, and that through the research I did before creating my magazine I have been able to use most of the typical conventions needed to create a pop magazine, and have represented my magazine in a way that you would associate with pop magazines, as my target audience said (see video). 

Evaluation: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Audience Profile

The audience for my magazine will be mainly interested in pop music, however other genres of music come into my magazine slightly too. They will mainly be females, aged 16-24, however possibly younger aswell. They listen to all kinds of artists such as Ed Sheeran, Florence and The Machine, and Lawson. They would most likely live in a big city and be very sociable and enjoy going out with their friends to general places like the cinema or the shopping centre, however they also enjoy going to concerts a lot, whether the gig is big or small. They would dress fashionably and shop in stores such as New Look, Topshop and River Island. They would spend a lot of their money on clothes and concert tickets, aswell as new music and albums. 

They would enjoy watching soaps like Eastenders and normal shows like Waterloo Road. Their favourite films would most likely be comedy's or romance films.They would most likely read other magazines like OK magazine to get the latest celebrity gossip and use sites like Twitter and Facebook to keep in touch with their friends and keep up with their favourite celebrities. 

Psychographics

 The audience for my magazine would fit into achievers and aspirers in terms of psychographics, as the genre of my magazine is quite mainstream, however also quite up-market. 

Jicnars Scale

If my audience were to be placed on the jicnars scale I would say they would be in either category C1, C2 or D, as my audience could be a wide range of ages, meaning a wide range of professions, placing them into different categories on the jicnars scale.                                                                                                                                                

Similarities and Differences

Since doing my audience profile in my research and planning I have found that it has not really changed and I have kept to what the audience wanted (poster pages, editors message etc). I have kept to the audience profile I created when planning my magazine as that was the kind audience I wanted to attract. To attract the audience I used things like pull quotes and sells. I also used the banner at the bottom to show things that are inside the magazine that would hopefully gain interest from the audience. I also used stories on celebrities as this is what my audience would most likely buy the magazine for. 

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

Evaluation: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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