Sunday, 20 April 2014

Evaluation Question 2

Question 2) How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Question 2
My main product and my ancillary task of my poster and website work together effectively and the reason for this is because I have tried to stick to as many conventions for a newspaper as possible.




One thing that I have thought a lot on was the colouring for my product and have even changed the colouring of my product to make the whole of my product more effective. The running colour palette for my product is blue, white and black and I think because of this colour scheme I have been able to make a collection of products that work together to form one successful product.
 
Already in the media industry newspapers are not just a stand alone product any more as they also have a products which promote the newspaper and also allow a wider range of people to read the newspaper for example they have the newspaper which the locals can get, they have the poster to advertise the local newspaper product and then they have the website to help make the product more viral and more known to people who don’t just live in the area.
 
My main task, the front cover and the second page of a newspaper needed to work together well as they would be seen one after another and so I have used the same font, colour palette and simple layout for each. The products also work together effectively in the sense that all of my products, except the poster as that doesn’t have any articles on it, have the same articles and the same headings to the articles which makes my product consistent throughout.
 
For my poster I have used fun bright colours and have used this throughout my products an example of this would be for the front cover of my newspaper I have put ‘YOUR POSITIVE PAPER’, underneath the masthead and I have chosen the same colours as the poster and I have also used this technique of the multiple colours on my website.
Another element which makes my products work together successfully is the fact that the theme of my newspaper products is that it is a happy newspaper and even the slogan illustrates that ‘your positive paper’ and because of this all my products are combined together as all of the content is about happy news.
Further more all my products have been promoted effectively as all my products promote one another in some way for example the poster has the website details on the bottom of it, the front of the newspaper has a big advertisement for the website, the second page also has a link for the website at the top of the page and the website itself is promoting the newspaper.
 
Comparison between a real magazine and my own
(Left real - Right mine)






After looking through my products I can say that I have created a professional product that would not stand out if put along side professional products as being a media students work as I feel I have followed conventions correctly and in doing so have linked my products together to create a successful product.

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