Media evaluation final
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Media Evaluation
Initially I use four different magazine companies and analysed there rot covers and
discussed the styles and appearances. This was my main research so I could grasp a better
idea and concept for my magazine. My front cover includes a masthead, barcode and other
qualities you would expect for a standard magazine cover. I have the main illustration in the
background of a college student revising. The photograph is well light and has allowed me to
print legible writing over top.
My media product represents the college society and targets young people. I have shown
this by making the title relevant “College News!” it immediately shouts out to students by
incorporating the word college. I have labelled it with a price that a student would expect to
pay for such media. The annotations on the front cover also suggest it is being focused on
students “A* Guaranteed” this is advertising and appealing for students. I would expect a
college or library to be the media institution that would distribute this media product. The
colour scheme is primarily based round the colours white, red, black and yellow, all stand
out and are fairly vibrant. This was fluent throughout my media product to create
consistency.
The contents page also follows the colour scheme as you would expect from a magazine. It
contains a large appealing title with a simple style that is fairly old school but still in date
acceptable. Again I researched four different magazines to obtain information and
inspiration for creating my contents page. I decided to have to simple illustrations that
represent different areas of the contents that back up the vocabulary printed. I kept it
simple, clean and professional. I feel this look worked well as it is easy to understand and
gives you everything you would want from a contents page.
I used Photoshop to carry out media product, rather than using different software such as
word because I know how to use it and I thought it would give me a more creative
advantage. Another reason is I didn’t want my magazine to be in a grid format, rather a flow
product such as one you would find on the shelf, Photoshop allowed me to do this and give
me that freedom. I learnt a lot of different techniques that I will be carrying out in my future
projects.
There are a lot of things I liked about my media product and feel I succeeded in pursuing my
target audience and in creating a fairly realistic college magazine. I also felt I achieved a
reasonable amount of artist research that helped me achieve my final product; I will be
doing this again next time. However there are a few things I will do to improve on for next
time, such as spending more time experimenting with different ideas to maximise
professionalism and realism. I will also be taking all my own illustrations and creating the
logos. All in all I feel it was a successful project that looks good and appeals to the right
audience. I will take on what I have learnt and will be improving for next project.