Preliminary Evaluation

The research and planning I did helped me produce an effective product by allowing me to a product that is accurate to genre conventions. This would allow my product to be easily received by a wide audience. My media product uses the forms and conventions of other products of a similar type such as having certain elements commonly seen in most similar media products. My product contains a main image, a main cover line, a masthead, a dateline, and a selling line. These are all very common elements to other popular media products of a the same style, that being a magazine cover.

My media product represents a specific social group of people of any gender between the ages of 13 and 19. This is because my product's primary target audience is college students and the most common age range for students in a college setting is 13-19. My product does not necessarily represent any other social group as there is only a small demographic for the primary audience of popular products similar to mine.

I believe the institution that would produce my product would be a college. This is primarily due to the fact that as it is a college magazine it would be most appropriate for it to be produced by an actual college itself as they would know far more about the target audience of students than most other institutions.

I used bright colours with positive connotations to address and attract my audience. The logo I used and the accent underneath it are both a bright red which is very eye-catching to most audiences. This is important as it means that the first thing most people will look at is the masthead/logo which makes the magazine immediately identifiable for most.

I believe the strengths of my final product are its ease of ability to be identified and its cohesion with most conventions of real media products that are of the same types as my product. 

When I start my main task I may need to improve on my target audience analysis as it may need to be more informative to properly allow the final product of my main task to be as successful as it may need to be.