The Evaluation - Notes Continued

Question 4 notes – Question 4 and 5 are both based around audience and audience feedback, but they are different pathways. For this question, you can refer to press pack/ media kit for help.  Here you are to describe WHO exactly you audience are, gender, age, social status, working class, ethnicity, what kind of fashion and things your audience would buy, that kind of information. You should also refer to your magazine / pitch, the slide outlining audience. Demographic, Socio-Economic profiling. For this, you could create your own Press Pack, Following magazine color schemes.

Question 5 – Question 4 identified who the audience is, Question 5 is talking about how you addressed the audience. For instance, the techniques you have used in your magazine, what have you done to entice the audience. ‘New media technologies’ <- Facebook, Twitter. QR code -> accessing things through your phone etc. Then talk about Models you have used, Color scheme, Fonts, Use of language/Register, How the model addresses the audience. Reflect on feedback, Comment on it, about recommendations, if you have listened, the good and bad suggestions/comments.

Question 6 – You have to discuss every bit of technology you have used.

·         Photoshop (Image manipulation purposes)

·         In-Design (Is professional for page layouts, what other magazines use)

·         Illustrator (Create text, has abilities you can’t have in Photoshop)

·         Blogger (Media technology, to show journey/progress, Easy platform, online it is interactive, family friends can see it)

·         Photography studio (Massive importance, with the notes we got, explain why we used the professional studio, discuss the lighting, DSLR cameras – resolution, color, backdrops) Refer back to notes and set-up of studio.

·         Technologies in evaluation ( Come back and answer this part of the question when you have finished all of the questions, then explain why you have used the ones you chose, how you thought they were appropriate)

·         Magazine Pitch (Used PowerPoint, because I was comfortable with the layout, the fonts, the way it looked simple, etc.)

·         Timetoast

Give an overall of the tools that you have used on Photoshop, In-Design and other applications, go through why you used ruler lines, blur tools, resizing pictures, frames and other things.

Question 7 – For this question, you will need to refer back to a lot of previous tasks, Firstly, the actual college magazine, using transitions, pictures, notes. Have at least two visual differences, being the college magazine and then the Music magazine, to show progress and what you have learnt on both of the tasks. On a practical, Technical and Theoretical level – Appropriate use of fonts, are the images appropriate, is it all original material, pixelated, eye contact. Theoretical level being terminology, the semiotic analysis. The meaning of a pull quote, anchorage. Dissect your magazine.