Evaluation: Representing-Constructing the "Real"

I felt strongly that I had firstly secured a strong representation of my audience in regards to a reflection of college life, especially in relation to a display of utilization with technology and how students today are surrounded to great extent with such appliances. More importantly, my objective mainly in both tasks revolved around the positive use of technology and how such engagement can transform mere hobbies to serious careers. I would without apprehension confirm that I have achieved such a task, and I would at the same time hope to think that my relevant audience would take upon such a message and incorporate it into their frequent use of technology, whether it be in relation to film or music.
Drawing stronger reference to my music magazine, I would also comment that this achieved a further reflection of the related genre of music and how young aspiring talent can be seen to be positively influenced by the capabilities of computers and how one can produce outstanding music. The fact that my design of my front cover, content page and double page spread strongly featured a use of graphics relevant to the feature raises the understanding that my work amounts a strong similarity as to how a magazine of the same genre may in fact carry out such articles in a tailored manner. Heavy use of graphic design being of lightning bolts, sparks and grunge brushes would be a way of highlighting a reflection of how the visual style of electronic indie could be captured (and the very truth that young people implicate this into they’re display of culture, whether it be in the way in which they wear their clothes or hair). I strongly believe overall that through my images taking upon the style of “indie” and its sub genre of “electronic” through graphics, I have put together a fair reflection of how one engaged in such a format of media would view such a style of music in its entirety.

The involvement of a heavy crossover of different age groups (being of adults and teenagers) in relation to my music magazine strongly raises the question as to whether I have fairly catered for both age groups. Although colouring may be bright and graphics rather “youthful”, I would argue that a level of maturity remains present when over viewing the written columns and the overall structure of the magazine. Such sustainment of this mature treatment I found was of great vitality, as from learning from self experience, a person more then anything of teenage age hates being patronised by informative revenues.