evalutation questions

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

My school magazine has all the same features that other school magazines have. For instance it has a photo of school children playing a sport looking happy, like many other magazines as it makes the school look better than that if it was unhappy children or just of the school. Also the title of the magazine is that of the schools so it is easy to see what school it is about. The contents page also has photos of the children attending the school. The two pages have the same type of colour scheme as the red and green colours of the text are from the two girls at the front (the bibs they have on). The text that is on the front cover stands out and is all about school subjects, nothing else.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

It represents my social group as it is very informative about the school and what is happening. It has details of everything that a parent needs to know about the school and also how to get in touch with them. However it also has information about what is currently happening which the daughter of either a pupil looking to come to the school or one already attending would find interesting to read. I do believe it is mainly made towards pupils already attending the school as it has information about exam help, yet it can be read by others like parents.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I believe that the school itself 'Lilli's' will distribute my magazine as they will be able to hand it out very easily. This could be done either by giving in to the pupils in the register or handing them out in lessons, however children then may not give them to there parents as they forget. So the school could also send them out my post to the childs home. Also for the people that wish to read it that do not have a child at the school they could either put an internet version on their website or have a few copies in the office for parents to see and take if they visited the school.

Who would be the audience of your media product?

The audience of my magazine would mainly be for the students that go to school to see what is coming up such as events, have help with exams or certain subjects and to see how well there school is doing in compititions. Also it will have collums for them to write what they want in it as well so it will interest them. However my audience could also be for parents to see how well the school is doing.

How does it attract/address your audience? 

The picture at the front of my magazine is very eye catching as it takes up the whole page so you can see every detail in there facial expressions. This attracts my audience as they may know the pupils on the front and what to read more or they may just want to see what it is about. It also addresses the audience in this way because they are pupils from the school so they know who they are and not some random people. This is the same case for the contents page as there are two more photos or pupils from the school. The text also helps this as it is bright colours such as the red and green used on both pages.

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

I have learnt very basic skills in both Photoshop and Indesign such and placing images, croping and the clone tool to remove the bin in the background and any rubbish on the floor. Also I learnt a little bit on how to take photos and how difficult it can be to get the photo you want. However because I had never used the programs before I felt proud of myself to be able to use tools and produce pictures that I have done.

Contents page

To go with my title page I also designed my contents page.

I have used the same colours from my front cover and placed them on my contents page. This is so it flows well. I also added in two more pictures of girls playing more football as it is what my magazine is based on. I feel that if I had more time I could have designed it better and made it look slightly more professional. However, I do think it does what I want it to, which is to show information clearly yet still be entertaining to look at.

Front cover

After editing the background on photoshop and researching front covers and titles, my final front cover design looks like this.

I have used the red colour from Charlotte's bib as the sub-heading colour. This is so all the colours link together and flow. Instead of using the purple as the heading I went with a plain white. This is because it stands out a lot better and the purple clashed with the green background when I put it on there. The white also links in with the football. I think my front cover looks quite realistic and like a school magazine cover and quite proud of it.

Photoshop

I think this photo is the best one out of both photo shoots I did. It has the ball centered in the middle at the bottom then two people running after it and looking very happy. The problem with this photo is it has the bench and bin in the background. Hopefully I will be able to get rid of them in Photoshop and brighten the background slightly so it can be used as my front cover.

This is the photo after I have edited it on Photoshop. I have managed to remove the table, bin and also any small pieces of rubbish that where on the floor. I also zoomed in on them so you can see there expressions clearer. When I use this for my front cover I may crop it down more so I only have them and the ball in the picture and not as much greenery. But I may on the other hand keep it as it is because I will be able to use it as the whole background and there is a lot of extra space around Josie and Charlotte for my title and other pieces of text.

Contents page research

I do not like this contents page because although it is very clear and easy to read  I feel like it should have a picture of some kind to show what the contents page is for. Or if it does not have a picture of some kind it needs to have a bit of colour put around the edges or in the text. I do however, like the font as it is big, bold, and stands out so it is very easy to read and understand.

                                                               



This contents page however is the opposite from the one above and has too much going on. Although you can see in the top right corner what is on each page page it is not clear and easy to read like the above one. If the text was bolder and bigger however, I think it would be better because then it would be easy to read but also it would not be plain and you would be interested in the page.

This is a contents page for a music magazine and I prefer this one to the other two. This is because its not plain and it doesn't have lots of pictures on the page. Also its easy to read and understand where specific things are in the magazine because of the sub-headings. It also has 6 small pictures on the side so its not full of text, which would be boring. In my magazine I would want to make the contents page like this because it is easy to read and has a design to it which makes is interesting to look at.