Prelim Evaluation

I have used Photoshop to develop the images by changing the saturation and brightness etc. There has been a stroke added to most of the writing to make it stand out to the reader. Compared with real media products it does appear to come across as ‘unprofessional’ which may be due to my lack of media experience and time. My media product represents different social groups by within the college, due to different to the use of different pictures including musical and artistic ones. I could of included a better range of social groups that would of included a wider range of different people that may have been taken around different areas within the college, such as the common room. I also could of focused more on including more academic subject matters, for example science or maths. The target audience for my media product is for the students within the college, mainly 6^th form and their parents who may have an interest of what is going on in their children’s school. To attract and relate the magazine to the target audience I have kept the language use fairly simple and used a certain bright colour theme, which is of the same colour of the models hair, to make it catch the eye of the reader. The images used are all taken within the college; this suggests that the audience will feel more involved as they feel like they have a part in the magazine. 

As this college magazine is about the local area and school it means that no big company would want to produce a lot of these as not everyone would be able to relate to the topics it is about, as a result of this it would have to be printed of locally in small batches. Through the process of making this media product I have learnt how to use technologies, such as becoming more confident with the use of Photoshop and how to change things, like adding a stroke on the font to make it differ from the other cover and contents pages. Also I have improved my skills on taking photos which were taken for the pages, I will be able to use these enhancements to try and make the music magazine I have yet to make to the best of my abilities.