EVALUATION Q4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages ?

When competeing my research and planning and creating my products i used new media technologies by using the internet, photoshop and premire pro.

this is a screen shot of when i was editing my radio advert by using this new media technology i was able to edit my recording changeing the time it starts end etc. here i was editing the time the recording started as when i recorded it the sound didnt start till a few seconds in. After i used the same programme to add pictures that id used throughout my work to convert the sound into a video to be able to upload to youtube then to be added to my blog.

I aslo used photoshop to create the rest of my work newspaper front cover, second page and advertisement poster as it has many different features like editing photo's but then i was able to input text and transform text into logo's etc.

EVALUATION Q3

What have you learned from your audience feedback ?

From this section of my audience feedback from my advertisement poster I can see where i could have made improvements with making the trees lighter and text bigger but I also think my poster is realisticly a good advertisment poster. I tried changeing the levels when editing the poster in photoshop but it changed all the other levels of the image like over exposing the sky etc. As for the text it could have been clearer butthe bottom right corner blends so well with the colours and the theme of the poster i didnt want the text to stand out too much.

There was a lot of the same feedback i got from my poster for my second page newspaper like the image being too dull and leading to low quality but again i tried brightening the image but it changed the whole picture however i realise my image could be lighter. I also realise i need to add to the bottom of my newspaper as the framing and composition looks off from the way the page dosent seem to fit a A3 scale. I also got some good feedback about the smaller image i used as it linked the poster and newspaper together by using the same image, also about the contact details and advert section  as my audience feedback said it makes the page for realistic and believable.

Alot of my peers commented on the picture I used and said it was unclear,grainy etc. but i can jusitfy this as i edited the picture to look like this to create the effect of new journalism where as the journalist/editors get pictures from the public from low quality cameras and mobile phones etc, so when the image is blew up to the scale it is bad quality. as it matches the story line of a high celebrity who dosent want to be photographed hence the compostition of walking and not facing the camera directly. Other things that my peers commented on was how my text is unclear but like all conventional newspaper the text is very small maybe even smaller on the front cover but again its just the paper my work was printed out on as when the cover in open in photoshop we can read the text perfectly. The audience seemed to think that the strip of advertisements and feature stories was a good idea as its a common conventiona again making my newspaper more realistic.

Evaluation Q2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts ?

The combination between my main products and my ancillary is very effective as I took a lot of ideas from all of my deconstruction texts and the ancillary texts i have chose to use for my evaluation are the ones that i think are very similar and have similar conventions.

The gazette's newspaper front cover i got ideas from using a bar and quite noticable section of the newspaper for advertisements, i think i have been succesfull in using this convention as it allows people with different interests to the main story to still buy the newspaper. again the colour scheme is different colours but i still kept to a minimun colour scheme to stop the front cover looking clutterd and messy.

The second page of the newspaper I feel I Got a lot of my ideas for the Journal newspaper as it had adverts on aswell as weather and still had room for a short story. which from the first opening page of a newspaper is quite unconventional as its usually items promoting the newspaper or selling pages etc. so here i combinded all of my research from my second page deconstructions and used contact details, weather adds and proted my own oline newspaper website whilst still having a main story which i think worked well.

Evaluation Q1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms or convention's of 'real media' products ?
My media product challenges the conventions of many real media products as if differes from other local newspapers as it is slightly more stylised than local newspapers in the way that it's stories can be compared to 'the sun' with celebritised stories. Although I have stuck to the stereotypical compostion of the newspaper as all of the research deconstructions I used seemed to have the same format. for example: I wanted my masthead to be easily memorable as a logo rather than text.

By acheiving  this simple masthead I feel like if my product was to be produced in the 'real world' it would stand out and be recognisable like larger newspapers (the sunderland echo's masthead ^). Other parts of my newspaper shows the conventional narrative types that are always on newspapers like the stereotypical sub stories and advertisments, showing feature stories to widen the interests and appeal to a bigger target audience.

Although I have went into more detail with my feature stories than the 'real journal newspaper' I feel like it was relavent as I took a risk when changeing (challenging) the theme and narrative of a conventional newspaper, By having strongly edited images and entertainment rather than usual town news. The second page leans more to the Local newspaper stereotype as its a story about saving the local church this can be compared with Christopher Vogler's the hero's journey.

I can apply this theory to my work as the story has the same characteristics as Cristopher's Vogler's hero journey as it starts out with call to adventure which is when the hero is faced with a problem or challenge in my work this would te public as a group trying to save the church, then other conventions of this theory is meeting the mentor, ordeal etc. this is where they would plan the matter ahead then the ordeal of the problems the public may face trying to save the church before returning to the elixir which is a form of acomplishment, normaily and equilibrium.

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