Evaluation Questions

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

• This is where you will compare how your product looks either similar to or completely different from existing products. 
• DO NOT tell me what you have done
• You need to pick out HOW your product is similar to or different from existing products
• Use images from your Research to reinforce how they helped form your decisions.
• Do not use random images of existing magazines they MUST be from earlier in your blog, if they're not then find a way of including them in earlier posts. 
• Make it interesting
• Don't use large chunks of texts, for each element that you're talking about then you need to refer to images of it this will help you break down your writing. 
• TALK ABOUT ALL THREE PARTS OF YOUR PRODUCTION! DO NOT focus on the Front Cover, you need to look at Contents page and Double Page spread too and how they compare to existing products.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• Use videos of the type of audience citing how you have used mise en scene to refer to how you have done this.
• How has the language you have used in your article reflected the type of audience/social groups you have? Have you used slang (colloquial language)
• How does your headline represent the social group?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

• This is where you need to look at one of the following Media Publishers and decide why they would publish your magazine.
• IPC
• Bauer Media
• Development Hell
• Blaze Publications
• Edgemont
• Future PLC
• Immediate Media
• Look at the examples of other magazines they publish, perhaps put in a video from their website or some images of the other magazines they publish.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

• Use references to your questionnaire
• Use Images from the internet
• Do a profile of the average reader

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

• Explain how you have used the information from the questionnaire to ensure your audience wants to read your magazine.
• Use lots of images from both your questionnaire, such as the popularity of people highlighting they will pay £3 for your magazine for example and then an image of your magazine with £3 as the price.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

• This is how has your use of photoshop developed?
• How have you used New Media (Internet) in your response?
• Google Docs
• Blogger
• Youtube
• Google Search
• Have you become better accquanted with all of these forms?
• Have you been able to identify how the use of these technologies makes your work easier?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (college magazine), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

• How have you become better at constructing a magazine since your college mag?
• Have you planned your work better?
• Have you developed in your use of Desk Top Publishing (DTP) which is photoshop?

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