Evaluation of My Product

I have completed and am pleased with my final product. The final product is different from some of my planning and drafts. The layout is slightly different, I changed the title of the magazine, my original main image I thought was to close up so I changed it, and I expanded the target audience of my magazine.

My media product uses typical codes and conventions of real media products. Primarily gossip, TV and music magazines. I have used a Masthead, banner headline backed with main image in the centre and headlines and captions all in a familiar layout to these types of magazines. I develop these conventions to create a certain type of style. The magazine covers subjects from sports to studying, but I have tried not to make the magazine look either to fun or childish, or to serious, giving connotations of an intellectual product. I believe the anchorage is solid. The signifiers portray to the reader a certain type of theme through then fonts and names of the titles. The masthead ‘Wyke Life and Leisure Magazine’ was originally ‘Wyke Life Magazine’. However, I added leisure into the masthead because ‘life and leisure’ reflects the subject matters of the magazine. My original main image was from the shoulders upwards. I decided to discard this image because I looked to large on the page and left limited space for the background and any writing on the page. Basically, it would look too cluttered. The picture I chose instead looks more like it fits. The magazines house style I have kept consistent. The main colours I have used are blue, purple and white (with the exception of image colours). I have also used only two fonts throughout, Showcard Gothic and Comic Sans MS. I chose them because they reflect the moods of the magazine. They look fun but at the same time tidy. Furthermore, some text boxes and images are in a certain style of box, to make them stand out and look similar.

The media institution to distribute this magazine would be Wyke, through print, the internet and word of mouth. Wyke would be the distributer because to target audience is primarily students and any person involved with Wyke, so it would only be distributed within the college.