1. Foundation Portfolio Evaluation

2. 1. In what way does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?

3. Masthead:
Colour Scheme:

4. Masthead
Direct
Address
Main
Cove Image
r Main Cover
Line Line
s
Barcode and
Price
Pull Quote
Banner Cover Line

5. Masthead
Main Artist
Main List-
Page
Numbers
Secondary
Images
Formal
Layout

6. Masthead
Page Numbers
Direct Address
Design Balance
Secondary
Images

7. 2. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
Hip Hop/ R’n’B Teenagers and Young
Male and Female
Adults 16-25

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

9. 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
Age
My magazine is aimed at people
10% 10%
aged between the ages of 16-25. 10%
-15
16-25
26-35
70% 36+
Gender
My magazine is also aimed at
both genders as my market
research shows both males and
females would purchase the Male
50% 50%
magazine. Female

10. Genre
10% 10%
Rock
RnB/Hip Hop
20%
Indie
40% Dance
20% Other
R‘n’B and Hip Hop Artists.

11. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
Young musicians
Direct Address
Familiarity
Bright Colours
Bold Text

12. 6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
Rule of Thirds

13. Lighting
Composition
Aperture
F Number
Depth
of
Field
Shutter
Speed
Tripod
Flash
Focus

14. Bloggin
g

15. Picture Editing
Brightness/ Contrast
Polygonal Lasso Tool
Magic Eraser Tool
Crop
Magnetic Lasso
Shape Tool
Sponge Tool

16. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt
in the progression from it to the product?

18. Conclusion
Success
- Images
- House Style
- Use of Rules of Thirds
- Masthead
Improvements
-Variety of Images
- More detail on layout
- Brighter Images