AS MEDIA UNIT G321PRELIMINARY TASK

My Evaluation

Emily Jones

My magazine

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms

and conventions of real media products?

For my magazine I feel that it has both developed and challenged the forms and conventions of real media products. It has developed the forms and convertions of real media products by having a master head, cover lines, a main image, MCU image shot, a title, a editors letter, images, a front cover overall and a content page, these are the main things that are developing media products. On the other hand it is challenging media products by it being a college magazine, having the logo of the college as the title, having images of students instead of models, having information on college etc. whereas in magazines it might have things about sport, fashion etc.

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

In this I have learnt about using things like Adobe photoshop, I have learnt how to use things like Indesign documents, the shots of images like MCU, CU, LS, etc. I have been able to use and edit my photos such as bluring, cropping, brightening, contracting etc. and also use the resources off moodle and also use things like document and paint

Title/logo of the magazine

Main image

Cover lines

Colour scheme/same colour theme used

Similarities

differencesGlamour is aimed at women who wish to look at fashion whereas mine is aimed at both genders looking at college

Image of a guy in one image of a famous woman the magazine

More girly colours in one and the other is linked to the college colour theme

One is took and edited more professionally the other isn’t

More fonts used in one the other hasn’t One has a masterhead

Similarities Logo/title

Images

Sub groups/pages

Colour scheme

Website

Differences One is aimed at fashion one isn’t

One is more basic and simple and professional looking

One has block shapes with the headers of each section

Social networks

More images ant colours

Editing

For this I used Photoshop CS6, I used the brightening and contract tool to give it more shadow, contrast, colour and light. I then used the blurring tool to blur the background so that it make him the focus of the front cover image. I then added the master head with just basic shape