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Friday 7 April 2017

Thursday 6 April 2017

Evaluation question 5

Evaluation Question 5 by Alfie Morgan on Scribd

Evaluation question 6

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Photoshop –

Photoshop is a software that I used to format my magazine front cover, contents and double page spread. I took images and text and placed them so that it came out with my final product. In Photoshop, I had to teach myself skills of how to crop, resize, order layers, place, reatrersize, spot healer, blur, use rulers, and also arrange photos so that they fit with my genre (simplistic). To teach myself how to use these, I watched videos, inquired my peers, asked friends and taught myself.

Blogger –

Blogger is website that I have used to upload tasks and blog posts. It is a really useful way of uploading as peers can view whenever they want and keep up to date with my posts. Blogger also allowed me to embed codes so that different platforms could be available to view on my blog. Platforms such as, slideshare, scribd, soundcloud, Canva, etc. These different platforms allowed me to show off my skills which is a helpful thing that blogger allowed me to do.

Camera –

D3200 is the camera I used to take my images and I learnt to place subjects in the middle of my shots that I took so that the reader knew where to look straight away. I also learnt how take the photos so that the subjects were well lit ad I did this by placing lamps directed at the subjects and this made the subjects turn out well lit.

Soundcloud –

Soundcloud is a format where you can upload audio files. I used this to answer one of my questions and I learnt how to keep calm when recording myself. I also had to embed a link from soundcloud into blogger. Using soundcloud allowed me to broaden my range of platforms that I used.

In the past, during GCSE, I used these platform just briefly. This gave me an insight into what I needed to do when I started these questions and blogposts. This made it easier for me and furthered my knowledge.

Wednesday 5 April 2017

Evaluation question 4

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

I have chosen 16-26 year olds for the target audience for my magazine because my magazine looks at alternative/indie genre and I feel as though the music is quite mature so it targets towards adults (18-26) but also mature 16-18 year olds would listen to the indie/punk genre.

In my planning, I looked on UK Tribes for an audience that I wanted to target my magazine for. I chose the categories, “Scenesters” and “Stylers” because I feel as though they would be interested in the kind of things that would be included in my magazine. More specifically, the Scenesters would be interested in my magazine because the description for Scenesters is that they incorporate fashion and music into trends and their interests. My magazine would feature artists wearing trendy clothes as well as artists that are partially famous for their clothes. For example, Tyler The Creator (Golf Wang), Laurie Vincent (YLC Clothing), etc.

The other UK Tribes category I chose is “Stylers”. The reason I chose Stylers was because I believe they will like my magazine because my magazine would feature many different trends. One of the descriptives used for Styler is that they “Stay ahead of the cool” and my magazine will feature trends that will stay ahead of the cool. Also, “inspiration for the youth of today” is part of their description so for these to read my magazine may be inspirational to others o also read my magazine.

My audience would have to versatile in terms of their music taste. Although their music taste will be part of the indie/alternative bracket, it would be helpful for my target audience to enjoy the music of rap. Artists like MF DOOM, Rejjie Snow, Loyle Carner and Danny Brown would also be included in my magazine so my audience may not enjoy this music if they are not versatile and only listen to indie music. Not only the rap sides of things, but other artists that have their own partcualr genre would also be thrown in my magazine. Artists like Xxxtentacion, Grimes and Alfa Mist who have created their own audience their own audience would appear in my articles; so, therefore, my audience would have to like a broad range of music to enjoy articles in magazine. Needless to say, they would also have to be into music quite heavily to listen to some of the other Niche artists that would be included.

In conclusion, my magazines would have to be ahead of the fashion game and be incredibly trendy. Would also have to be into niche artists and be quite versatile. This can be related to the indie audience because they notoriously enjoy niche and unheard artists. Indie and alternative audiences also would have a versatile taste I music which fits my criteria.

This is my written answer to my evaluation question 4, I recorded my voice and uploaded to recording to Soundcloud.