Preliminary Task - Evaluation

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

The magazine that I produced represents a sporty magazine. We completed this with a Mid Close Up, main sell that is the conventional use in major student magazines. We decided to use some strap lines and cover lines as we saw that most magazines use these to inform their audience of the content inside the magazine. We used a sans serif font as we did not want our magazine to connote a formal ‘read’. Our font we used for our masthead connotes a sporty, exciting style.

• Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience would be students who are succeeder and are also Hedonists. The magazine is mainly targeted towards the male gender.

• How did you attract/address your audience?

We addressed our audience at first by offering them freebies, as the student audience would most likely prefer to be able to get a freebie from their magazine. We also added some radicals, by blending in some of the masthead and puff, and also the rugby photograph in the bottom left (cover) this connotes an intensive read. The typical functions for a succeeder are to feel that they have achieved their goal in life. The reason for the contents page having a couple of sport stars on it, allows the reader to believe that they are going to follow the ‘star’ in the future.

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

From creating this magazine contents and front cover, I have learnt how to uses tools such as the ‘clone stamp’, ‘spot healing brush’ and the ‘magic lasso’ tools to a high level in Photoshop and have understood the concept of how they are used for main magazines to produce a high quality image. I used Quark Express to produce my contents page and learnt how to rescale an image to fit the area that I wished it to fill. I also learnt how to create invisible lines, to set a suitable column length to show through my magazine. Also from using Photoshop I have found out how to include fonts from an external source.

Student Magaizine creation (preliminary task)

This is my front cover for my student magazine

This is my contents page for my student magazine.