Evaluation of AS media

Evaluation of AS Foundation Production module  

Consider the following and give honest and realistic answers.

·       How successful was my research of real media? How could my research skills be improved? I think my research of real media was quite successful as I did a lot of research of existing music magazines and websites as well as analysing. I would improve my research skills by looing more into how I wanted to make my actual music magazine look as in pictures of colour schmemes etc, to meke it look more real.

•       How successful was my audience research? How could I have made my results more meaningful in order to take them into account when producing my media product? For my audience research I used a questionnaire, and analysed the results and presented my findings in a bar graph. I would say that conducting my questionnaire was successful, although I had to take into account that I had to ask 2 specific question before giving out my questionnaire to my target audience (adults) ''if they listened to classical music?'' and ''what genre of music they listned to most?'' The outcome to this was that I got some of the qustionnaires back with adults saying that they didn't like classical music but gave me an idea of what would look good on a classical music magazine. The reason I decided to add these two questions is becasue it was quite hard to find a representative sample of adults who listned to classical music. To make my results more meaningful I could have sent my questionnaire to a sample who all like classical music such as and orchestara for example. That way results could have been  easily generalized.

•       How successfully did I keep my blog up to date? How could I have made better use of its multimedia capacity? I posted ever step of the construction of my music magazine, although I did post them bit late and not on the actual day because I thought that I needed to edit it more before posting it.

•       How successfully did I manage my time? How could I have organised my production more effectively? How could I have improved my planning and drafting process (and showing evidence of these stages for the examiner?  I don't think I managed my time efficiently as I could have because I think I took too long with the research process, and felt like I had to rush some of the other bits. I would have improved my planning and drafting by using more then one draft on my blog to show the improvements and probably hand drawn them.

•       How successfully did I follow the conventions of real media? Where could I have improved? I would say that I did follow conventions of real media as most of the feedback I got from my audience showed that my music magazine looked similar to classical music magazine. I would have improved by including more information of what is inside the magazine on the front cover.

•       Which technology skills did I learn and develop? Which skills do I need to improve/learn in the future? I learned how to use photoshop more successfully as I constructed my cover of my magazine, contents page and some of my double page spread on photoshop. Skills to learn in the future would be to make sure I check my work thoroughly, so that I can check my mistakes and won't always have to go back and edit.

•       How successful was my creation of my media text? Could I have improved or been more creative? I would say my media text was quite successful, I included a lot of information in my double page spread and contents page to make it as realistic as possible. Although for the subheading on the double page spread I would have made the colour different so it stod out more, as with the current colour it was hard to see on the dark background. I don't think that that I needed to improve anything in terms of creativity as I followed the general convention such as the colour scheme, pictures etc

•       Did my text fulfil the requirements of the brief in terms of Audience, Representation,Genre? I think that my text did fulfill the requirements of the brief as the I tried my best to include stories in the contents page to suit my target audience adults. Although some of the target audience said the fact that I have a 'young artist' on the front of the magazine and article is about this young artist it makes the magazine seem as if it is also targeted to teenagers too. The genre was clearly recognized  quite easily, as the target audience could link that the colour scheme, font and the fact that the prop used is a piano and violin that the magazine is to do with classical music.

•       How detailed was my evaluation? How could you have improved your discussion of the success of the finished product? I would say that my evaluation is quite detailed, as I covered all of the questions required in the evaluation. To improve my evaluation more I would have answered the question about the what company would buy my magazine and why in more detail, I would have done more research into it.

•       Anything else? In general, I would say that my classical music magazine was a success, and I wanted to challenge my self by doing it, although  I would improve the process of constructing my school magazine puting in more detail with more steps.