Question 6 & 7 examples.

Q6&7 by jasonleefarr

These are examples of the type of content you can use in responding to Question 6 & 7.

You must answer these questions using interactive tools of your own choice based upon the ones we have used already or any others you think would be suitable.  Remember that you will get credit for being innovative in your use of technology.

Question 5 How did you attract/ address your target audience?

Q5 by jasonleefarr

Evaluation Question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Show the IDEAL READER of your magazine, try and create a virtual picture of who they might be and why. 

The JICNAR scales ABC1C2DE demographic is good to use here.

Consider the age range and the psychographic variables of your audience.

What type of job do they do? How do they dress? Where do they shop?  What type of house/ flat do they live in? What do they value in life? Where do they go when they socialise? What types of things do they spend their money on? How do they spend their free time?, What car do they drive or aspire to drive? What phone do they own? How do they listen to music, online, CDs, spotify/ sound cloud etc.?

You will need to include photos of your ideal reader.  You may take them or you may search for them.  

You will need to interview some people from your target audience on video, upload it to YouTube, as a video or to soundcloud, as an audio recording and then embed it into your blog.  What do they think of your magazine, have you appealed to their needs?  Would they buy it? What do they think are the strengths are or the areas for development? etc. develop some of your own questions too!

Evaluation Question 3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

In this question you need to:

1. Explain what type of media institution would distribute your media product to an audience

2. Explain why they would be a suitable institution, give details of their background, their circulation figures (abc.org.uk)

3. Explain what other opportunities they would offer you.  Online content, e-zines, flipboard content, radio broadcasting, TV advertising, phone apps etc.

4. Provide examples of other successful products that they distribute to similar/ related audiences.

Select the right distributor for your genre of magazine.  Do they already sell a product like yours?  Do they have a gap in the market?

Use magforum.co.uk for research into different institutions.

http://www.wikihow.com/Add-a-PowerPoint-to-Blogger

Create your answer for this question in Powerpoint and then we will embed it into your blog using Scribd.  The link above explains how you can do this.

Thinglink…..

Thinglink is a great tool for your evaluations.  It allows you to make your products interactive by adding hotspots.  These hotspots will allow you to upload text or link audio and video content.  To begin you must first create an account for Thinglink at www.thinglink.com.  To attach audio you will need to do this via soundcloud by creating an account on www.soundcloud.com and recording an clip.  You can add video through youtube.  You should already have created an account on youtube, once you upload files these can be linked to hotspots on Thinglink.

You will be using Thinglink for your answer to question four on the evaluation.

Evaluation Question 2. How does your media product represent social groups?

What are social groups?

Groups within society.  How do we categorise these groups?

We can use a range of variables.

Age
Gender
Race
Ethnicity
Religion
Culture
Able bodied/ disabled
Sexuality
Interests
Beliefs

Do they fit other categories or stereotypes?

Are they goths, emos, rockers, indie, ravers etc.

How are they represented?  Consider camera, use of language, words and text, costumes, facial expressions, locations, lighting, body language plus anything else that is in the mise-en-scene.  

How have you constructed these representations? What about the use of denotation and connotation?

Are they positive or negative portrayals? 

Provide illustrative examples from your text, use photos, screenshots etc. make it as visual as possible.

Do this question in PREZI and embed to your blog.  This needs to be completed by Wednesday 26th March.

Evaluation Question 1.

In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?

Use padlet to answer this question and link it to your blog with a title and question as above.

http://padlet.com/wall/ynsi22pmk1