1) In What Ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 1

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Time Management update

The initial deadline for the production work was the 3rd February 2012. I managed to meet this deadline by completing my pages in lesson and uploading most of the posts and feedback at home. A lot of the posts were adding pictures and then gathering the feedback from various sources, like facebook and word of mouth to insert into the posts for each stage of the process.

Production: Final Double Page spread

The images show my double page spread. each image shows one page with the bind in the middle. In context, the images would be closer together so 'Breaking margins:"me and my Uke"' can be read more flowingly.

Production: Final contents Page

This is my final design for my contents page. As the image shows, it is a very basic colour, which is shown throughout, as my target audience should potentially only be interested in the content of the magazine and not the colour and design of everything.

Production: Final Cover

This is my final design for my magazine front cover. It has very few cover-lines to connote a  sophisticated audience and that the cover is not the main aspect of the magazine, but the content which is inside.

Production Update 14

I Had created two double page spreads with two different titles and headings and I asked my focus group of which one they preferred.

The heading of the first one is long and goes across the two pages. My focus group said that this takes a lot longer to read because of it spreading over the two pages.






The second one has a short heading underneath the name of the artist. This is a lot easier to read, even if you are just glancing through the magazine and catch the heading to which you may want to read further.

Production update 13

After inserting this image, I then presented my double page to my Focus group.

The feedback I received:
Alan- I like how it is set out in columns and gives it the real magazine feel. The top picture is very basic which is good to catch the eye of the audience. Overall I think it is very good.

Mark- I Like how Matt is sat in the corner as it gives the pages a very personal feel. The text wrap round the quotes is a really good idea and works well. I do not think that conventional magazines have the website so big. I would suggest that it is smaller.

Alex- Looks awesome, the contrast between the two pictures shows a connection and the title of 'My Moment' really reflects on his story in the article. I am a bit confused whether it is a review or a biography type- could you make this more obvious?

Alistair- Its all right. (unfortunately Alistair is having a few family problems at the moment so I was not able to get any feedback from him for this.)

Mildred- Very good, Matt was always very good at posing for pictures. The title of 'My moment' and the 4 stars suggests that this is an album review. I would suggest that you change this.