Evaluation 6

Before media studies I had never used a blogging site before, to track my media product progress I have been blogging on the site ‘Blogspot’. This gave me a chance to give my opinion on existing institutions and well known music magazines such as NME. Blogging helped to show the progress made throughout the production of my magazine and helped to show how I improved it gradually to suit my target audience. Blogspot helps to communicate the meaning behind my pages and how the decisions best suited my audience. Also, it can show the steady development of my components and is a much easier way of showing how I have improved and in what ways such as content or photography skills. In my opinion, I think that it is easier to communicate meaning through pictures and print screens rather than trying to explain it. Blogging gives you the opportunity to do this as show in the print screen above with my reader profile.

To make the components for my magazine I used a black Samsung ES10 digital camera. Once uploaded to the computer I also edited the photos on Windows Photo Gallery to make them look of better quality. I took all pictures myself and edited them myself. With the editing, I mostly enhanced the colours to make the picture look warmer and not cold and washed out. I feel that if the picture are good quality, they make the magazine look appealing to the audience.