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?
 When I started in late September and not knowing a lot about the course, I feel like have learnt a lot about the technology that is being used to produce magazines and also I have learnt a lot about magazines in its self. In the preliminary task I was sure that I was going to try my best when doing it and try even harder when doing my actual course work. This is because when doing my final task on my music magazine I wanted to see how I have developed my skills and knowledge about the magazine industry. I feel that all the hours have paid off as I have learnt a range of skills and understanding about the magazine industry.
 When I have gone back to look at my preliminary task I have shocked at how my skills have developed and how much I have learnt. My school magazine looks plain and boxed but has the conventions of a magazine. When researching magazines I have now understood the conventions of a magazine, how and what it should look like. The colour scheme of my school magazine is yellow mainly which yes in my music magazine it has yellow in it but it only has it in the pug. I thought that the yellow didn't work that well in my school magazine.
It is obvious to me that my sell lines have improved quite a lot as they look and sound more professional As you can see that I have included subsidiary images on my school cover whereas, my music magazine I feel didn't need any as it looked better without, because of my contents page. The front cover of my music cover has reflected on my school magazine as it is actually reflecting a pop artist whereas in my previous task it does look like anything that it is supposed to be. In my cover for my school magazine i didn't include the price, barcode as I feel like it was important whereas, now i know that is one important convention to have on a front cover, I also wasn't aware of these either. I am aware that my music magazine is a lot more professional that my school magazine and which I think I have learnt multiple skill and which I have used to a high standard.
 When doing the contents page I felt as if it was the most difficult as I left this one too late and should of done more research than I actually did. when putting my content page together I found that it took me a lot of time to do and what to think about, I made sure that I included my essentials. The images for m contents page I feel were not to a high standard and that I could have had more than 2 pictures in this. I feel that isn't enough different kind of pictures on my contents page.
 When doing my preliminary task I didn't make a article but I feel like after I have done some research I have made progress. The language that I have used I feel as if it connects with my target audience and because the language is informal it is more likely to get readers from my target audience. I feel that it was a good idea to produce the preliminary task as it give me an insight into what was going to happen. It also helped me get used to InDesign.

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Evaluation- Question 2

How does the media product represent a particular social group?

When going in this subject and finding out what I will be doing, I went away to start research about music and what kind of music magazines there were. This would of then helped me find out what kind of images that I was going to do. I wanted my magazine to appeal an pop/rock but more pop with the latest people. So by doing this I have to include  that social group that this implies to which my target audience appeals to 15 and on wards.

 When researching for my magazine I went with Q and found a cover with Adele on it which inspired me to do a pop magazine.  I also thought of the name 'Ellie' as its a artist around the same age and its not off putting for the reader. This image is more pop, I do like the ways which she is played on the the page of the magazine. I like the fact that she is not showing all of her body and where hands are and the fact that she has all her face showing and it close up which suggests that seems uncomfortable and slightly unsure. When researching more into it I found that this picture I wanted to put this into my cover. For the people who are in the pop social group, they have their own body language and this could help make sure that 'Ellie' has her own identity.
 I decided that I would use that image but I would make the picture zoomed out to show that I am thinking about what I wanted as well as using examples too. This is to recreate a picture from the 'real' magazines. Ellie is wearing a grey t-shirt and a pair of jeans, Adele doesn't wear a lot of make up so for that reason I thought that Ellie shouldn't, I did this to show that she likes to 'normal' and that she has beauty and still looks good when she isn't wearing make up and they like for who she is and she doesn't have to be fake. Although Adele isn't wearing any jewellery I thought that it was a good idea because the camera shot I have used is a medium close up, I thought that if I didn't then it would look bare and unattractive. The mise-en-scene features of Ellie have shown what a pop star looks like and this would attract the social group to purchase the magazine, this is because they will like what she is wearing and will also think that if people are wearing it then they must buy it too. The colour scheme that I have used is mainly red, black, grey and some yellow. This mainly because the magazines that I have researched have had these colours and they are the colours that actually go with each other.

The images in my content page show that their are different types of pop artist, artist who like to put make up on and dress to a high standard and then others such as Ellie who like to be comfortable and not wear much make up and love them sleeves for who they are. This shows that every though they are in the same industry the artists aren't the same and that there other people out there are different and that they don't think that is one type of pop artist. To understand that there are different types of pop artists I have decided to focus on real artists and adapt to them with my magazine. One example is that on my contents page there is another woman on it and I saw Jess Gylnne standing high and tall and professionally and so I wanted to include this in my magazine. I made sure that I used up to date technology to show that it is for the age of 15 and onwards. The masthead Sound! suggests that it is more up to date. I made a Facebook and Twitter page I also made a web page for my magazine. which will benefit the technophiles which I am going to target because they are more up to date with technology they are more likely to go on the internet with all the new technology. As there are more people going on to the internet I made my editors letter more child like and better if they wanted to read it on the internet because they are making 'fan clubs'. I made the language more informal because of the age the magazine is aimed at. As you can see the other image on my content page shows that she is dress up to show her self off with a yellow dress and heals to show that it isn't just about the music its also about fashion and looking nice, I can see that from the previous research that I have done I can see that what most artist like to make shore that they are dressed up to look nice as well as just being good at singing. this shows that people can take inspiration from their music artists.

 The information that I have used in my article would only apply to pop artists and the audience its aimed towards is because it includes what they want. My article is about how Ellie got back on the road again after taking a break and not being in camera (centre of attention) and how its changed her life. this could be linked in with other people living also not so much the fact of being famous but the fact of having so attention and then having non and what the effect it had on other people. Throughout my magazine I feel that I have represented the social group that attract people to my magazine in a accurate way. I feel this way because of the research that I have done throughout the task.