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AS Media Foundation portfolio G321 Schedule 2012

Magazine summary evaluation

My magazine turned out similar to how i imagined it, when starting to brainstorm ideas for the magazine I looked at a lot of others and they all seemed to how simple in common, they were all set out fairly simple nothing to fussy, with clear text, and a bold title, when I imagined the front cover I wanted to stick to this so it wasn’t to in your face. We used Photoshop to create the magazine which at first seemed complicated adding the layers and cutting all the images out etc. I feel like the magazine front page and contents page have turned out well, they are both quite layed back which I thought was quite important for the genre of the magazine being school and school fashion you don’t want anything too intense.
The magazine front cover followed rules that alot of other popular magazines follow- i stuck to 3 colours for it (white, red, black)- the issue was the first and a christmas time issue so for future issues of the magazine the 'red' sections of the magazine could be changed to suit another type of the issue, big bold title in capital letters, barcode, issue number, price mid shot image, text desciribing whats in the magazine.
  

magazine layout

When choosing where to place my image i looked through exsisiting magazines and tried to follow the "Rule of Thirds" or "Golden Ratio", by putting the main subject image slightly off to the right hand side of my magazine with text to the left to make the magazine more interesting to look at rather than being smack bang in the middle which can be confusing.

also when decided and trying out different layouts i looked at the gutenburg diagram, which is a theory of how you would read something like a magazine, i tried to follow this diagram and i made a concious decision to put all the text on the left so things are viewed in a logical order.

School magazine evaluation

school magazine evaluation

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

my school magazine challenges other real magazines of its kind because its more of a social school magazine, it has a simple layout but is quite quirky in the way things stand out, i have chosen typical magazine features- main subject(mid shot), 3 different colours for the colour scheme, a large masthead with a one word title in the middle at the top.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

my media product represents young students mainly girls probably because of the fashion side and the way things are worded but also boys too.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The magazine is aimed at any student at lutterworth college who enjoys fashion and gossip and wants to read about the news and events going on.

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

i have learnt from the process of making the school magazine, what works and what just doesnt and never really will, i have learnt how to put together a magzine on photoshop and how to use layers and insert images onto the magazine etc.

FRONT COVER AND CONTENTS PAGE

My front cover and contents page for my 'ORIGINAL' lutterworth college school fashion and news magazine.

title of the magazine

name and font for the title of the magazine