evaluation for preliminary task

Media Evaluation

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

In comparison to the colour schemes I had looked at in my style model, I decided just to keep a simple colour scheme for my front cover in order to make the magazine look basic and not too complicated. The reason I used such a bright colour was to grab the reader’s attention which I have found, from past class research, is a necessary convention of any magazine.

I have strictly stuck to the “rule of thirds” by keeping the magazine name at the top, and the subheadings on the left. I decided to keep the magazine simple and not challenge the codes and conventions of real media products too much, in order to keep the magazine looking simple and professional, instead of making it look too busy and complex which is one of the negatives of the style model I looked at.

My contents page sticks to the same colour scheme as my front cover. I did this differently to my style model, because I found that this was a negative point, and didn’t make the magazine look professional. I do think my contents may be a bit too basic, but this was only because I didn’t want to challenge the conventions of real media products too much. I am planning to when it comes to doing the real project.

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

I have my personal digital slr therefore I already know my way around a camera, I used my knowledge of different settings to get a effect in my photographs. I used this for an advantage to give a high quality and professional finish to my school magazine and will carry on using this in the future. On Photoshop I also used several things I was taught my Mr Convrey. The things I were taught are the magnetic lasso, hand/move tool, click the tick, hold shift to resize in proportion, colour tool, text tool the spot brush and the healing brush. My blog is what I am uploading all of my coursework to therefore the examiner can read all of my coursework and means that I can access it from anywhere with an internet connection.