AS Media Preliminary Task

Niamh Reilly

Drafts

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

Consistent colours in house style.

Masthead

Main image

Direct eye contact

Dateline

Cover line

Sub image on cover

Puff

Rule of thirds: As you can see the masthead is in the first third of the magazine this is because of the way the magazines are stacked in shops. The magazine is stacked with the first third showing therefore the masthead is usually dominant of this section because the consumer will see it first and it is the most recognisable aspect of the magazine. This reinforces media conventions because the title is always in the first third because of the way the magazines are stacked. My title further reinforces the conventions of a magazine because it is horizontal rather than challenging conventions with a vertical title.

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

Rule of thirds: The main cover image is also central to the cover this reinforces media magazine conventions as it is the most used style. There isn’t much going on in the mid section (2nd third) this makes the cover image dominant, because the image is dominant it draws the consumers attention towards the image and the cover girl being a normal girl makes the audience relate to her and the magazine.

Image is dominant of the 2nd third

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

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

Unlike many media print products my magazine doesn’t have a barcode, my magazine doesn’t have a barcode because it is free as it is a student magazine. I made my magazine free because it would incline the students to pick it up and read it. It’s more appealing to students because it is free. Also being a student myself I feel as if everything is super expensive and am more likely to collect a free magazine than one I have to pay for.

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

My magazine conforms to most media conventions for example, my dateline is directly underneath the title and I have stuck to a set house style. The matching house style brings together the magazine because it makes it look complete and its more appealing to the consumer because there’s not too much going on. My magazine also conforms to media conventions by having different sized fonts to draw attention to certain aspects of the contents, and the use of capitalisation is a subtle way to draw the viewers attention to a certain story or article in the magazine.

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

Where you can find the picture stories

Letter from the editor

Page listings,

top stories

TitleDateline

Contents images

My contents pages conforms to media print conventions by having a letter to the editor, most contents pages include a letter to the editor to make the consumer feel more including and part of something this reinforces the need for affiliation in people. It also reinforces conventions by having a dateline, datelines are conventionally used on magazine contents pages near the title, my dateline is situated by the title.

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

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

My contents has a total of three big dominant pictures on it which is more than conventional magazines this is because it attracts the readers attention and gives the reader a further insight to the contents of the magazine. As you can see to the left there is a white strip before the text box this is there to allow ‘bleed’ so when in print the binding or such wouldn’t compromise the text.

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

I learnt useful skills in Photoshop and Indesign whilst making my preliminary student magazine. The most useful for me personally was the use of the eyedropper tool. I found this tool particularly useful because it allowed me to get the exact same colours throughout my cover and my contents page so the colours were exactly to the house style and didn’t even differ by one shade.

Another skill I acquired whilst making the preliminary magazine was using layers to my advantage. Using layers helped me see the magazine in steps and made it easier to manage different parts of text, images and such.

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

I used this bar to change the angles of my pictures on indesign. It was a useful technique to learn because the positioning and angle of the pictures drew the consumers attention back onto the page which made them look at it for a longer amount of time

I used the box tool to make it appear like there were borders around my pictures. This made the pictures stand out and attract the consumers attention to them