Evaluation

My media product uses forms of conventions as the cover is clearly recognisable as a college magazine. It uses a masthead, a main image, a plug, feature stories, main feature story, a barcode, a date and issue n umber, and footer. The conventions of a magazine cover are typical of a real media product.

My product is clearly representative of a college student’s magazine aimed at college students, or anyone studying A levels or AS levels. The audience can be either male or female. It represents a student studying to improve their future and achieve their ambitions.

My product could be distributed in a college environment, or in local shops in towns where many college students live in order to sell to the target audience.

The audience of my product is male and female teenagers studying A/AS levels, typically between the ages of 16 and 19.

To attract and address my audience, I made my magazine cover colourful and eye-catching, it is also displaying images of students studying and enjoying themselves in a college environment. Furthermore, my magazines main headlines are topics that are associated with what students would enjoy to read, and the title is explicit of the type of magazine to allow the audience to recognize the category of the product immidiently.

I have learnt how to use Photoshop to manipulate an image and create a magazine cover and contents page through the process of making the product. I have also deepened my knowledge of working with a camera and using different framings.