Media Induction Magazine Evaluation

Media Magazine Evaluation

I believe my research skills were good as I used a wide variety of research spanning from websites to my peers. The research I found was not very hard to get because the information was everywhere. In terms of reliability the websites I used were BBC and bpi which were trustworthy as well as straight forward to get. Both websites had many statistics and facts about music piracy, however the BPI had more stats which were reliable to use too. Furthermore, BPI had more recent facts about the music piracy which was as recent as this year but the facts from the BBC were from 2012. In addition to websites, I obtained truthful information from my class peers. They gave me both positives and negatives about music piracy which was handy for my article too.

My journalistic skills were made easier as the research gave me a head start to writing my article. The article I wrote was formal because my target audience were late teens to mid-20s and was aimed at men. An important aspect of my journalistic skills was to write my article from both points of view allowing the reader to relate to their opinion on music piracy. I wrote in first person to show the reader my thoughts on music piracy.

InDesign was relatively easy to use because I used a similar type of software called Photoshop before. I got the hang of using the tools gradually e.g. text tool, rectangle box tool and rectangle box tool for images, the more I used it the easier it was too use. I created columns in my article and used subheadings to make it easier to read. I also added four images into my article; two of them world famous artists giving their views on music piracy, a guitar made up of skulls symbolising music piracy and advert for Bowers and Wilkins iPod dock.  

When setting my blog I came across a few problems especially trying to login into my new account. However after a few tries it worked and there haven’t been any problems since then. My URL for the blog is rohanramaleytonas.blogspot.co.uk. Overall I find blogger a website simple to use and a must for beginners.  

The feedback from my fellow peers was generally positive with a few improvements that I need to make. I agree with these improvements as they are relevant to my magazine article. I feel that with these improvements I can create a better magazine article which can be viewed by others instead of just my peers.

At the end of this induction tasks I feel there are four improvements that I need to make with my article. Firstly I think that I could have added a touch of colour to make this article stand out more and maybe also appeal more to my target audience. This brings me along to my second improvement. The content of my article could be made to be a little bit more informal as some of the content might be a little tedious to read. My penultimate improvement is to include more statistics and facts. This would have helped my reader to get to know the music piracy a bit more. Finally my last improvement would be to check my work after as looking at the finishing article I can see a few mistakes with the layout and content.