Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread

Evaluation Q1

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

Conventions Followed: Front Cover

Conventions Followed: Contents page

Conventions Followed: Double Page Spread

Evaluation Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Q3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Q5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Q6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Products;

Camera- Nikon Coolpix L820, product details-

• Product dimensions: 8.5 x 11.1 x 7.6 cm ; 427g
• Boxed-product weight: 962g
• Batteries: 4 AA batteries required

I used the above camera to take the photos of my model in my magazine. Due to using a high quality camera I was able to produce high quality pictures that are good enough to be published in a professional magazine.

Prezi- is a cloud-based presentation software and story telling tool for presenting ideas on virtual canvas.

I have used Prezi throughout my work to present work and ideas.

Blogger-.a publishing tool to allow me to share text, photos and videos

Throughout the course I have used blogger to showcase and organise my work. Using blogger has various advantages as it allows me to present my work in all different types of media forms.

Slideshare- I used Slideshare as a digital software that allows me to upload PowerPoint presentations to blogger.

Evaluation Q7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Preliminary task- College magazine         Final product- My music magazine

                          

My Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task I had to create a college magazine front cover, the basis of this task was mainly in preparation for my final product on creating a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine. Additionally the preliminary task also developed my skills and gain experience using Photoshop. The image below shows the certain aspects I have learned from the preliminary task and the skills that i have continued to develop whilst still creating my product.

Preliminary Task continued...

The follow context shows a brief breakdown of my preliminary college magazine front cover compared to my final music magazine front cover. The benefits of doing the preliminary task helped me understand the key conventions that needed to be applied to a magazine front cover to make it effective to the target audience, as I found from my preliminary task it illustrated how unconventional it appeared and the mistakes I had made. For example it comes to my notice that my college magazine did not conventionally follow the code. Through doing research for my music magazine , it came to my attention that from looking at existing magazines that when it came to planning I had to take into account the colour scheme, masthead, bar code, skyline, sell lines and I also learnt of the different types of shots that are conventionally used on the front cover of magazines.

Comparing My Products

Comparative Table

From the table above it is clear that the difference between my preliminary task and actual product is obvious, as I have developed my skills from producing the college magazine to including key codes and conventions in my actual music magazine which where significantly lacking in my college magazine.