Dimitri Saint Hilaire: Evaluation

My magazine evaluation

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

For my magazine i have a BOLD title with a smoked affect which is very visible and will catch the audience attention, the masthead of the magazine is Blow. The image on my magazine are professionally taken pictures which have been touched up by an airbrush and other effects, because i think will improve my magazine ascetics, the reason i have decided to take main image of the Artist Ashley David on the front cover is because the image relates to the main feature of my magazine which is my double page spread.

The reason i have chosen to have a image of a male artist is because my target audience are teenagers and adults between 15-24 late twenties and they are usually very intreated in pop/Hip-Hop, i have also added a long list of famous years big winners on my magazine, as my survey shows my target audience are teenagers aged 16 to adults aged 24 and because of this i have had to add a lot of images because teenagers are not generally intreated in magazines that don't have a lot of images. The costume the artist is wearing in the images on my magazine are very simple colours but very effective because of the bright white background but with some bright colours to help bring out the images i have also added one full coloured images to break up my double page spread, i have used bright colours like red and green because they stand out on the background used for my front cover, content and double page spread which will attract the audience i am looking for which is males, i have used a grey smoked effect around some of the text to make the text stand out without having to be a different colour, using these type of images for my magazine has made it look very unique because you don't know what the artist is thinking of looking at, this puts a little twist on my magazine because it makes you more interested and curious of what he about and the sort of talent he posses, all the topics i have included in my magazine attracts my target audience and also attracts its own audience, because i have included some of the worlds talented and wheel known artist they will attract a audience to my magazine and are all male artist but cover a range of music generous but mainly POP and HIP-HOP, I have also advertised a very important name on my magazine which is one of the worlds top magazines and has made my magazine very elegant.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine will represent different social groups, I will achieve this by featuring different types of R&B and POP music from different ethnicity's and age groups, But I cannot feature every type of R&B/POP music from different social groups because my official target audience is young teenagers from the age16 to adults aged 24.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The media institution that i have chosen to distribute my magazine is I.P.C media the reason why I think this is, because they publish a wide range of music magazines such as ‘NOW, Rave and others like NME, I also think this will help my magazine and create a lot customers as it is a popular media institution and also is targeted at young people as well.