MEDIA EVALUATION

1. Who were your target audience? How did you ensure that you addressed them? Were you able to communicate to your audience effectively?
2. How is your text similar to other magazines? What did you take from other specific magazines? How have you attempted to be original? Was this successful?
3. If your magazine was real, would it be high or low budget? Where and how would it be distributed? Is your audience large enough to interest a major publisher? If not... how would you raise the money to establish your magazine? Advertising? How might this influence the nature of your text?
4. What have you learned about Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress and using the digital SLR cameras. What difficulties did you face with the technology and how did you solve them?
5. What would you do differently if you were to produce another magazine.

Our target audience was sixth form/college and university students aged from 16- 25, male and female and were from all backgrounds, to address this audience, we had to have content that this group would be interested in, so we researched this in other student magazines (national student)as an example and found that the main subjects in them were to do with; study, careers, jobs, and other media such as TV/film, music and literature, these were all very popular, so we incorporated this into our magazine content. We also looked at the presentation on the front cover which we noticed was normally a picture of a student, this is normally a trend as it engages the audience as it is a student on the cover, and the magazine is aimed at students, doing this is successful as it does engage the audience. Our magazine would be a low budget magazine to ensure a low cost or free price, as students don’t have much in disposable income. We would however use computer programming and a possible a voluntary editor and content researcher. The money needed would be provided by page advertising, this would limit the influence the adverts had on the general content. The magazine would be distributed around colleges and universities, being transferred electronically to keep costs down, it may be the case that its audience is large enough for a publisher, who could choose to distribute it as a supplement to a larger magazine or paper. Whilst creating our magazine I encountered issues with the technology we used, quark xpress and adobe Photoshop were hard to use at the beginning because of the professional use needed to work them, however the more I used and worked with them the more I learned of the programs and warmed to them. When using the SLR cameras in the studio, with the white background and studio lighting I found out how light affects the quality off your picture. If I did the magazine again though I would use a more colorful background for the cover picture of the magazine, the white we had on the background of our student on the cover proved to be a waste of cover space. I believe a better background, such as a outdoors shot would have been more esthetically pleasing.