I feel that my product developed, used and challenged the forms and conventions of real media products. Through my research phase I picked the key conventions of my products and ensured that I included them within my products. Looking back at my newspaper product, even though it is quite simple in layout and design, this is what I was aiming for as this is how a real newspaper would look. My product developed as I asked people for feedback combined with the information that I had gained through the research phase and put these ideas and changes into place.
The combination of the main task along with the ancillary tasks compliment each other as my ancillary task is an advert for my newspaper, so I used features of my magazine to create the advert and represent it in a different medium. This is also the same for the website as I based the layout and design on the the print newspaper, in order to create an online version of the paper itself.
I learnt from my audience feedback as my peers helped me to create and improve my advert, newspaper and website. My most valuable feedback was from my brother whom recommended that I make the text of the stories on my newspaper 'fully justified' rather than aligned to the right. This small change completely changed the look of my paper and made the columns look neater and more like an actually newspaper. I also asked my peers if they felt the advertisments I had used were appropraite and they said they were adverts that students and teenagers would benifit from being about local shops, food places and health centers.
Different media technologies helped me in my construction and research of the product, including the internet, digital media and publishing software.
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