Here I will be answering 4 questions :
1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
4. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?
1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
- literally compare your production to the existing marketplace.
- think about if your production reinforces or challenges cultural stereotypes relating to the genre. Think also about representations of gender, age, class and status, ability and disability, ethnicity, regional identity and sexuality – only if relevant
- link this with your previous work
- stand back from your production and deconstruct is as an existing media artefact. Just like you annotated existing music magazines, do the same for your own work here focussing on why it would attract an audience. Discuss here about images you used, either cropped or un-cropped and images you chose to discard
- be careful here – if your magazine clearly is targeting a niche demographic don’t claim that Bauer may publish it. Be realistic
- as stated earlier, evidence of progression is really important in this project – explain how your skills improved from the preliminary task to the main task, how you are now much more competent with software applications, how you feel your main task has a more sophisticated finish and also how it has helped you understand more about the links between layout and design, genre, representation and audience.
4. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?
- this is an important section and requires you to evaluate the wide range of technologies that you used. Think about the advantages and disadvantages e.g. Prezi v PowerPoint and if you did experience problems importantly, detail how you overcame them