Evaluation questions preliminary task

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My Product is very similar to a magazine as it uses a large picture for the front page, a clear title, date barcode, and price. Text to go on the page with main headlines to interest the reader. My contents page is similar by having a photo on their, headings and all of whats in the magazine just like you would see in a real school magazine.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I think with my school magazine it is hard to represent a particular social group , other than those attending school. The picture on the front of my magazine is educational with the two models reading books and i used headlines like 'Brain Food' which would give an audience the intention that it is educational but fun. The contents page continues with this theme as there are headings such as 'fold out revision guide' which continues the theme of it being educational and attracting a group of people who are wanting to read about school.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I learnt how to use photoshop, tools such as clone stamp, spot healing brush and lasso tool. I also cropped pictures and adjusted the brightness and contrast. I learnt how to use indesign which is the programme i made my magazine on, I think that both programmes were fairly hard to use but with some practice would become easier. I also learnt how use a SLR camera and blogger to show my updates in my work.

Who would be the audience of my media product?
My school magazine has a very specific target audience, specifically people who attend Wilmington Grammar School for girls. So they will be school girls aged 11-18 and Teachers which could be male or female.

How did it attract/address your audience?
It attracts my audience by using school themes and photos, similar to 'How does your media product represent particular social groups'. The photos are educational of people reading books and the headings and features are all to do with education and improving your learning.

School magzine final contents page

This is my final contents page.

School magazine how i made my contents and final contents page

Here is how i made my school magazine contents page:

I begun by placing my magzine title in the far corner, and the text "whats inside this week.." to show off the fact that i was making my contents page. I then began placing text boxes and writing in my text. I also placed my photo in the contents page.

I began manipulating my text, writing headings and page numbers and changing the colours.

I then added in a text box to create the "next week" box and roated it slightly . Iunderlined all my headings and the title.

School magazine font research

For my magazine i done some font research, looking at different styles of font and deciding which to chose, which reflected my magazine style and which i liked best.
I started off by producing a selection of random fonts of all different colours and styles on indesign.

Then i narrowed it down to some fonts that i thought all corresponded with eachother and placed them on another page.

final front cover school magazine

This was during the design process of my front cover, i included a price, barcode, picture, title and had begun adding text to the front of my page.

Here is my final magazine front cover

This is my final media front cover, with everything included. I like my final product as i think it reflects the sophisticated theme i wanted for my magazine. The title font is relevant to the colours in the picture and  the text on the front of my magazine. All of my font colours and different fonts adds up to the type of magazine i was trying to create.

School magazine My pictures i took for my front page and contents

I took some photos for my school magazine, out of a selection of photos these were the ones i chose as the best.

school magazine picture research for front cover

Here are some pictures i researched and chose and would like my magazine front cover pictures to relfect.

I like the general idea of a student reading a book as i think it potrays a school formal magazine well, i dont think this photto is too posed and would use it for my magazine.

This is another example and qalthough iu like this photo i think it is too posed but potrays the concept clearly.

I liked the idea of someone looking like they were engaged in something school-related and i think this is a brilliant portrayal of what i would like on my front cover. I also think this photo is good for a front cover as the people nand objects in the background are blurred .

School magazine how i edited my contents page pictures

This is how i started editing my contents page picture,

I began by cropping the picture i chose to use.

I then used the clone stamp tool to change the background .

I then used the paint tool to paint the colour i used with the colour picker tool behind my photo.