Week 6

InIn what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My contents page is spread across the page with irregular text. The heading ‘Contents’ is turned at a 90⁰ angle and ‘Features’ is set at an angle. The list is set out down the page with photos around the texts. This challenges the conventions of other college magazines because everything is normally ordered out on the page and the use of images and fonts makes the contents page more modern and attractive to its target audience. 

2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?  

My contents page doesn’t represent any social groups. It includes all college students who are interested in what’s happening in their college and all the news. My magazine contents page includes all the articles like ‘sports, fashion, events, revision guide & ect’. This includes every member of the college not any particular social group.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The college library would distribute my media product also it could be place at the front desk of the reception and the school website. This is because it’s a college magazine so there’s nowhere else it can be distributed and it’s better that it’s distributed in the college because its free also college students have quicker access to the magazine and this will help them keep up to date with everything that’s happening in college.

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

The target audience for my magazine our any students who are in full time college education between the age of 16-18. This is because the magazine is based on what’s happening within the college and all the latest news on exams or anything new that’s going to happen. 

Week 5

1.      In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? The background of colour of my front cover magazine is a picture of myself this is very much like other college magazine who base their whole magazine on the students. i challenged the forms of real media product magazine by having a main picture of myself being a student which I done so it can stand out to other students. I used a colour scheme of black & pink and a bit of yellow so it sticks in the students head because it's noticeable. Also I used bold text which stands out unlike the real media products they normally go for fancy text and small fonts to fit it more pictures on their front cover. 

I took Inspiration from this front cover magazine.

    

 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? My college magazine applies to all the students that are in full time education from the age of sixteen to eighteen. It doesn't represent any social groups but all students who are interested in all the latest school news and all the students who want to know what's new in the SFX College.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? My school magazine may be distributed in the school LRC (Library). My magazine could also be uploaded online so students can get hold of it when they are at home. This is because it’s a school magazine for the students so it has to be established around the school so they can be kept up to date with all the latest news.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product? The audience for my school magazine would be both female and male students who are currently in college between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years old and who are interested in the latest news about SFX College. An example of one of my audience member’s. A young man called ‘Kareem’ he enjoys doing athletics and enjoys partying so my magazine would be perfect for him as he loves sports and social events and parts of my magazine are based on that.