AS MEDIA UNIT G321

PRELIMINARY TASKCOVER AND CONTENTS OF A COLLEGE MAGAZINE

PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION EXAMPLE

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 2. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The Front Cover Similarities

Masthead Cover lines

Rule of thirds

House style

Differences with front cover

Different cover lines. My cover lines are about college and this magazine is about fashion. My main image is related to college as I have used a student and this magazine has used a fashion icon.

Use of colour schemes, bold and bright colours to attract my audience of both genders and the use of the college colours purple.

I have used a medium close up shot of a male. His smile and eye contact make it look and feel friendly. Fashion magazine is associated with looks so Mary-Kate has a lot of make up on and her hair done to make her look more fashionable.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Similarities - Contents page

Initial of magazine masthead Highlights front cover features. Uses sub headings to help reader Layout out of columns for features within the magazine and categorised. Images are used

DIFFERENCES WITH CONTENTS PAGE

The choice of contents within the magazine, adding a wider range. Using more then 1 image- my images arent very good but relate to my target audience as they go to the college. Vibes 1 main image looks professional and the image used is a well known celebrity. It also looks more sophisticated with the subtle use of colour and block lettering. The use of black and white looks elegant.

What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I used Moodle to get many resources for my magazine. These involved examples of other students magazine to get any ideas if I was stuck on something. Moodle is a great way to check if you are heading in the right direction of the course.

Using a camera is one of the main technologies need to make a magazine. You cannot have a magazine without any images. I used a digital camera to get my front cover and contents images in different shots e.g. Medium close up.

I made my double page spread in Adobe Design. It made laying out the magazine much easier and clearer to view and analyse to check if there was any changes need to be made.

Using photo shop was a big part of making my magazine as it wouldnt look right without it. As I am just a student I couldnt take the best photos of student as they are not models. Using Photoshop let me create the illusion hat the students were models. I manipulated images to make them stand out and look more appealing.

Using the digital camera, I could ensure that My image was an MCU which dominated the frame as this type of image is mostly used on front covers of magazines. I made sure my model for the image stood to the right as I observed the rule of thirds, this left room for my masthead.

In Photoshop I added effect to my front cover to make it more realistic as a magazine cover. For example on the left you can see my cover with no effects on the title Exam help! On the right you can see the effect I have added onto Exam Help! I have put a drop shadow onto making the cover line stand out more.

On the left is the original front cover image and on the right tis my edited front cover image.
I used Photo shop to manipulate and transform images. I have flipped the image so my masthead can go on the left as it fits in with the rule of thirds.

I changed the levels of the colours, to add more emphasis on the student. Originally she had red eye which I corrected with the red eye tool. I made sure everything looked perfect.

Using In-design For my Contents page

I placed my college logo into my contents page from my front cover so everything was the same colour so it matched the house style. I firstly didnt have a background colour so it was just white but then I felt like the contents page would get lost and looked boring and wouldnt stand out so I added a light transparent yellow to it as I felt this went well with the purple ands green texts. I used more then one picture as if it s a college magazine students dont want to be reading more texts that they dont need to as they read a lot ion lessons anyway. The images used are images the readers can relate to as it is the student council and about the canteen something that the readers will have used at one point. I have put the page numbers and features in a column down the side as most magazine contents uses this layout and I wanted mine to be like a real magazine for college. I put an editors message so the readers can connect to the people who work for the magazine and help put it together.

Feedback on my magazine

Positive: Good Image Clear fonts Clear colours Rule of thirds Professional

Disadvantages: Dead Space No clear header More coverlines

Feedback on my magazine

Positive: Good information Stick to colour scheme Good images Happy Negative: Different fonts Add more colours More features