Evaluation.

As the task was to create a school magazine with a chosen target audience of your choice I feel that my designs of the media product that I have created have many elements of conventions that existing products contain. I developed this as my beginning research all helped with my final outcome, I specific looked at main focuses of a school magazine I found that they include the following as key aspects; a master head, a key image, cover lines. However for the contents page the conventions changed slightly as some of the main features of a contents page are to have various insert images and many cover lines as a contents page is to help the audience know what the magazine contains. I used all of these features for my final development as it made my magazine and contents page more realistic and professional.

I aimed my media product to be targeted at a specific social group being school pupils. I decided to have an all round school magazine containing all interests to all subjects therefore it would be a great hit to the target audience as all interests are provided in the magazine. The cover lines express this as they consist of different aspects to the audience either it being to do with drama, English or maths.

The institution that would distribute my magazine would be a school as I focused my magazine based around a Christian school. Also the audience that I have aimed my media product to is 11-16 year olds as this is the particular age range that would most likely read my magazine. You can see that this chosen target audience is appropriate by the way the magazine has been presented as a consistent house style has been used of bright colour being; yellow, blue and black. This provides the presentation of the magazine to look bright and colourful engaging the audience also the house style is carried through to my contents page therefore it interests the audience much more. By having a key image of young happy children all helps influence the age range as this reflects on the target audience as they would appeal to this. As the contents page has various insert images this influences the target audience to want to read on as they would want to find out more about that specific story.

The technologies that I have learnt for this particularly media product are all helping through the research and development as I have gone in to depth in my research to gain a wider understanding of how certain magazines are to be presented this helped me for this task as existing work gave me inspiration and guidance to what I should produce. I used Adobe InDesign to create my media product; I gained many new skills which I will use for my next task to create a music magazine.