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

Q7 from charliebradley199924

6) Evaluation- What have you learnt about technologies form the process of constructing this product?

During this course so far I have learnt to use many different types of technology: some of which I didn’t even know existed.

What Technology I have used:

-Mac

-Blogger

-Flickr

-Slidely

-Prezi

-Slideshare

-Adobe Elements 11

-Camera

-Memory card/ Memory card reader.  

The Mac- before this process and experience I had only used a Mac a couple of times in order to use the Internet. I was therefore a novice in all of the application I would be asked to use in order to create my magazine. The Mac has a different layout compared to a normal PC that runs Microsoft technology: this was tricky to get my head around but I have enjoyed the experience and look forward to using the Mac in my Media course next year. 

Adobe Elements 11- all three of my Magazine pages have been created using Adobe Elements 11. I had never used this software before so at the beginning of the process the amount of different things to do was a little overwhelming. However, after practise and making a few errors, I feel I got the hang of it and enjoyed using the many different tools.

The different tools on Adobe that I used the most were: Zoom, Move, Hand, Magic Hand, Brush, Eraser, Paint Bucket, Shape tools and crop. All these tools have different unique roles in helping me create my magazine; the tools became very easy to use after some practise on some early drafts. The more practise I had the more complicated things I could do. This gave me a wonderful sense of achievement.

The Adobe elements 11 experience overall was difficult to start but ended up becoming a fun and enjoyable way to create my magazine.

Blogger- this has been used to upload all of my work: from research to planning to then my final constructed pages. It illustrates my journey – on which I believe my skills have progressed and developed well, preparing my for the next challenge my Media course will through at me.

Blogger has helped me to keep all my work safe and easily accessible from anywhere with Internet; it also allows others to see my work and, due to teacher feedback and comments, helped me improve upon it. Blogger was totally new to me when we first started, but was never a struggle to access and work on as the layout and different things to do on it were relatively simple. Overall I have enjoyed working on Blogger and am proud of the journey it exemplifies.

Flickr, Slidely, Word cloud and Slideshare are applications that I used within my research for my media magazine. I feel I have not used these applications enough and feel my research and planning could have been improved had I done so. My reasoning for not using these applications is that when I have used them I haven’t felt confident in doing so and have therefore resorted to what I know. If I were to start this course again I would take the time to learn how to confidently use this technology.

The Camera- when the task of taking photos came up I enjoyed the experience and felt confident in doing so as I have used cameras before. I found it easy to take the photos however, what I did find challenging was finding the correct locations and lighting to suit my genre and TA.  I feel my cover photo was my most successful image, yet feel my main DPS image could have been stronger. This is the only image I would replace.

The memory card and memory card reader were simple and easy to use as they are something that I have done before, meaning I found it easy to transfer the photos taken by the camera and put them onto the Mac.

In conclusion I feel I have used a range of technology but could have pushed myself further and used an even wider variety including thinglink, powtoon and prezi. If I had to start the process again I would definitely challenge myself more. Enjoying the process of completing my magazine, Adobe Elements 11 has been my favourite mode of technology and I now confident using a variety of tools.   

4) Evaluation- Who would be the audience for your media product? 5) Evaluation- How did you attract/ address your audience?

4)


My audience is a young audience, between the ages of around 13-18 years. This can be represented due to the amount of young people with in the magazine. The reason for the magazine targeting a younger audience is due to the lack of young styled classical magazines, and the stereotypes that 'classical' music has with the association with the older generation.


The audience would also be either gender. This is highlighted by the young male model I have used. I believe he the costume I put him in is stylish and therefore appears to both males and females. I have also used both male and female models within the images I have put in my magazine as I believe this to be equally appealing to my TA.

In my opinion Classical music has been branded a typically rich, white person's choice of music. However, I know, through TA research that this is not true. A small number of the people I gave my questionnaire to were of different race and I found classical musical is wide open to all opinions and viewpoints and meets everyones ideologies. I have also included discounts to encourage the TA of a lower class.

5)

I have attracted my audience through many different factors-

Firstly the photos I have used, they show young people this is too help show that the younger generation can like the stereotypical older generation music. The photos also help with the increase of audience due to the photos and who's on them. The photos also show who is with in the magazine this helps the audience recognise people and would make them buy the magazine due to this.



The magazine also has a very modern and mis-match  look due to the colours that are used and the many different fonts and shapes that are presented on the page, this helps appeal to the younger audience as it shows the different style that classical music can be represented to a younger audience. The people throughout the magazine are also used for a certain reason, it is to create a male and female gaze for the audience.

I also tried to use different fonts to appeal to my audience.

I used a very large font for my masthead to attract attention.

I also used social media links to appeal to my TA.