Magazine Prelim Evaluation

How does your Prelim represent particular social groups?

Generally the content of the magazine would be aimed at a particular school, due to how grading systems might vary around the country, or specific curriculum being slightly altered. Most of the time, a school magazine would not be made to reference a particular age group, and instead to focus on a school; I made reference to 'Antony' in my Prelim, which would be entirely meaningless if you did not know who Antony was in the first place.

Who would be the Intended audience for your product?

As my Prelim Magazine is a school magazine, it means that it would be aimed at the age group that are still at school; primary 16-18, as this is around the age that School Exams become a lot more frequent, and coursework becomes more regulatory. Post-16 could be the Age group you could put my Prelim's Target Audience in more specifically as Exams around this time become a lot more stressful in comparison to that of the previous years, and in most cases, students have left their current school to go to a new College and need some support getting through the first year of the new term.

A lot of the content referenced in my Prelim magazine revolves around exams and Ucas; for this reason I would say for definitely that my target audience revolves around students that are of this age group, for if a person of a younger age were to read the content within the pages, it would not make as much sense because they are not subjected to this set of information.

How did you attract/ address your audience?

In my Prelim, I tried to go for a very casual approach as if it was a Student that was talking to the Audience (Which in retrospect it actually is). The reason I decided to go for this form of language approach is because when a Student needs help with something, whether it be Exams, Revision or anything else, it would be more likely that they would want another Student to give help using the linguistic that they are most fond of.

As I am currently in the current year as my Target Age Group, it means I am able to use the correct language with little to no effort as it is literally how I speak regardless; this means that while writing the different components of my Prelim, I can easily succeed at trying to grab the attention of the correct Audience and hopefully, if this was a real magazine, purchase a copy of the Magazine itself.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this products?

In order to produce my Prelim I needed to have some basic Knowledge of Photoshop; I already had such knowledge from previous work I had to perform throughout my other subjects, and as such it meant I was able to produce my Prelim very easily. The main Aim for the final magazine is to try and produce a Professional looking final product that would look as if it would be found in a shop amongst the shelf of every other already successful magazines.

I had to create a logo that looked Semi-Professional; so I tried to experiment with a sort of 'Techno' font that gave an effect of distortion, whilst using a different font to keep the first half of the logo plain, so that I did not overuse the same font continuously. If I was to redo my Prelim, I would definitely not use the font that I used because I think that I did overuse it a little throughout my magazine.