Evaluation

By: Mohammed Jaheed

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

Informal and direct

Puff is to attract readers to look at something specific. Main image

Differences with front cover

The main difference between the two magazines is that they both have different purposes to attract a specific audience. Mines is a college magazine whereas MensHealth is mainly for Men. With the mens health magazine there is more writing and the picture is a lot smaller compared to mines. The use of colour is also different as mines contains certain colours and there is a background.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Contents
The picture layout Positioning of the heading
Layout of columns and features making the magazine more categorised ...

Refers back to the front cover features... Captions of pictures to help readers understand a bit more

DIFFERENCES WITH CONTENTS PAGE

The differences between the contents pages are that the mens health magazine consists of more detailed information and a lot more pictures are used this is to make the readers life a lot easier. My contents page seems more colourful and there is a lot of space still left to be used. However with the Mens health contents they complete the page with a lot of writing and images. The use of images theyve put on makes the magazine seem more professional and sophisticated whereas mines seems more random.

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

Digital camera use: angle, shot , type of shot. (MCU, CU, MSL) etc

Moodle was useful for getting certain resources.

Using in design for layout and effects for my contents page.

Manipulating images adding certain effects for my front cover.

Using the digital camera , I could have a certain shot type that would be beneficial to me in this case the MCU was most appropriate and it is for most front covers of magazines . This type of shot is mostly dominant in the front cover as it follows the rule of thirds, which I carefully thought about and left enough space for my cover lines on the left hand side. Also taking into account the model I used and where his eyes are placed. Initially in the top third of the magazine.

Using adobe photo shop was very useful as it helped me to make my front cover very colourful , I manipulated the image by adding more brightness to it and the writing around the image is also due to photo shop. Using photo shop I added certain shapes to attract the readers attention such as the puff and the star shaped puff. Which looks very attractive also the black fx used around the writing makes the magazine seem more legible.

Using In-design For my Contents page

Using in design was very beneficial to me as it helped me to experiment with my contents page. Firstly I had to think about the colours I was going to use, they had to be similar to my front cover. I also manipulated shapes so it could make my page look better. Also with the writing effect I used was similar to my front cover. I used the fx tool which gives an outline to the writing. I ensured that it was a subtle look. I did think about the layout of my contents page as I had drafted it similarly. For the pictures I could of changed the shape of them and make them look more interesting. But instead I left a picture box and just added the picture, which makes the pictures seem standard. I also added a background colour which completes my contents page, it also adds a more teen look to the page. I could however have improved this page by adding much more detail to the page and make it seem more informative. I also could have changed or rotated my images and give it a better look. Using in design was very difficult but because I had thought about my contents page and the layout it made it seem a bit easier. I have learnt how important technology is in making magazines. Using the stroke effect to add to the text.