media evaluation on powtoon

https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/fbCG3XCvBYb/my-media-evaluation/#/ this is the link to my A level media exam evaluation of my media production in the form of a music magazine.

media assessment

Our media work was to create a front cover and double page spread of a music magazine. I used many codes and conventions in my magazine. My genre of music was punk and skinhead music. The code and conventions used where distinctive and recognizable colors for the target audience as they would see them and immediately recognize them/it as a punk rock magazine. The colors used are the likes of pinks yellows black and whites. The pink and yellow is to represent attention, which punks and skins get a lot. It also links to probably the most famous punk album of all time “never mind the b******* here’s the sex pistols” which is very iconic. I’m sure this will meet audience expectations. The main image is of my friend, Bog, with very wacky and messed up hair as punk is seen as very messy and rugged in appearance. This appeals to the target audience as it meets their expectations. My questionnaire told me that a reasonable price for a magazine was 2 – 3 pounds so I put on my front cover a bar code with £2.50 on it as this met the expectations of the people I asked and the audience as it is a reasonable price in my opinion. My analysis heavily influenced my layout as it had a black and white background to show punk and skinhead go back a long time so I thought it was rather fitting and met the audiences aspirations. My target audience is for people any age and any gender who listen to punk and skinhead music and just want more information on the culture upcoming gigs and interviews with iconic bands. I would like my magazine to be published by NME because they do all kinds of music but because of my researched I have realized whenever they do a magazine similar to mine and I have based a lot of my work around designs however most of it is legitimate.

My focus group session was with my friend Marcus lam. In this session he answered my questions. He said that the color was rather fitting and met the target audience expectations as a whole, the codes and conventions where ones he would see on a real punk magazine he quoted. He said there was more to do on the punk parts of it (image wise). So I took pictures of my friend Boj Gonzaga with all his hair messy and in punk rock poses inspired by the likes of Johnny rotten Iggy pop and Sid vicious I had found in my research on punk magazines. These poses met the codes and conventions as the target audience of punks and skinheads will instantly recognize the pose and see it is a punk magazine. However the picture of him posing is inside of the magazine so it will keep them hooked and want to read about it. I also chose Boj without sounding weird but because he is Asian and it will symbolize that punks and skinheads are not racist despite what people think and that no matter what age ethnicity or gender you can still be whatever you want to be without being judged. This goes against the social stereotypes of skinheads being racist. Especially to the Asian race as depicted in the film “ROMPER STOMPER” so I think it is good Boj was in the pictures because it challenged social stereotypes.

double page spread analysis

my magazine is the one on skinheads. mine is similar to the professional one because of the colour scheme of black and white to look old fashioned. I like this touch. I have changed my one to have columns because it looks more professional as the real magazine has one therefore looking smarter and more real. however I believe mine needs improvement because I need first hand of my punk and skinhead friends who will pose. I have chose to take them as closeups so it will look better much like the pictures of john lydon in the magazinesas it looks very cool up close. I will soon put in a little bit of colour to kind of shadow the professional magazine like the purple at the bottom of it.