Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Completed Magazine with Example Advert from Vice Magzine

This completed magazine includes an advert from Vice magazine (page 2), which I did not make. 

Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Skills Development

Coming into this project I was fairly proficient in most of the technology I've used to create my media product. However I have advanced greatly in the area of InDesign.

While using InDesign I had to use the program on several different computers. This often causes links in the document to go missing or become corrupt. The first time this happened I assumed the file had been deleted accidentally. However on investigation I realised the files I use in InDesign are not actually saved into the INDD document - unlike PhotoShop - as this would cause the file to take up large amounts of memory. Instead InDesign uses previews of the links, to keep the document size to a minimum. So through updating missing links, no files have to be remade or replaced.

Another element I had to transfer my previous knowledge from PhotoShop was the use of layers. InDesign and PhotoShop both use layers, however in very different ways. With InDesign multiple elements can be placed onto one layer, while still being able to edit and transform it independently from other elements on the same layer. Where as in PhotoShop, once an element has been merged with another onto one layer it is then locked into editing the elements as a singular element.

One of the most useful features I found using InDesign were gutters and rulers. Both of these tools greatly helped with ensuring the grid layout of my magazine was in perfect proportion.

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

Focus Group

DPS First Draft

Second Draft of Contents

With my first draft I had problems with the readability and distinguishing between the two columns of text. To overcome this I used the images as a banner down the page to separate the columns. I think this layout works much better for the readability of the page and also makes it a bit more unique, fitting in with the experimental theme of the magazine

Second Draft of Cover