The document evaluates a preliminary student magazine. It summarizes how the magazine's front cover follows conventions of magazine covers such as including a masthead, cover lines, and images of a model representing the target audience. It also discusses some developments from conventions including using a medium shot of the model to show more of the college environment. The contents page is also evaluated for how it follows codes like direct addressing of the target audience and chronological ordering, while developing elements such as placing page numbers before subtitles rather than after.

1. EVALUATION OF
PRELIMINARY STUDENT
MAGAZINE
MEGAN WARD

2. 1. IN WHAT WAY DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT, DEVELOP OF
CHALLENGE THE FORMS AND CONVENTION OF MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
THE SIMILARITIES OF THE FRONT COVER
Bold
masthead
Model for
main
images
Cover
lines to
the side
Reference
to the
genre of
magazine

3. THE DIFFERENCES OF THE FRONT COVER
Date
line
and
edition
Puff
Barcode
and price
Medium
shot
Anchorage

4. HOW I FOLLOWED THE CODES AND CONVENTIONS
OF THE FRONT COVER?
I followed the codes and conventions of a front cover because
my masthead is at the top of the front cover and not placed
somewhere else. The cover lines run along the side of the front
cover , which is a convention of a magazine. I included a puff to
advertise the magazine because it was the magazine first edition
so it needed another selling point. The puff is a discount code
for Costa that applies to the target audience, Solihull Sixth
college students, because the canteen has a Costa.
The main images is of a model that is reference to the
educational genre as the model is college student. This is a code
of magazines that means the target audience will know the
magazine is aided at them as they would relate to the model
and the Mise-en-scene of the main image.
A convention I used on the front cover was an edition number
so the reader would know how long the magazine has been
running and a date line to inform the reader that the articles are
relevant.
*features of magazine

5. HOW I DEVELOPED THE FORMS AND CODES OF THE
FRONT COVER?
*features of magazine
I developed the form of using a medium shot on the
main image so I could include more of the background
of the college environment. I did this so the target
audience would know the magazine was about the
college as they would recognise the surroundings used.
This development adds to the college Mise-en-scene.
The code of using an anchorage to explain of the main
image , I did not include as I wanted to use a model of a
college student but my main article was general guide to
the Sixth form made by the students. Therefore, using a
college student as a model was important but there is
not direct referencing to the main image.

6. COMPARISON WITH THE DRAWN DRAFT.

7. 1. IN WHAT WAY DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT, DEVELOP OF CHALLENGE THE
FORMS AND CONVENTION OF MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
THE SIMILARITIES OF CONTENTS PAGE
Contents
title
Picture with
page
references
Page
numbers
Different
colours for
different
articles

8. THE DIFFERENCES OF CONTENTS PAGES
No date
Paragraph
instead of
small
sentences
No
website
The page
numbers are
before the
subtitles
Multiple
pictures for
contents.
Not one
main image.

9. HOW I FOLLOWED CODES AND CONVENTIONS WILL
THE CONTENTS PAGE?
I followed the codes and conventions of magazine while I was
making my College Days contents page. One way I did this was I
used direct address in the contents page to attract the college
students as it makes the target audience feel like the magazine
is personally important to them. I have also used page
references on the pictures which is a convention of contents
pages as it helps the reader to relate the pictures to correct
articles and visualise the articles. Another code I used was I
placed the content page in chronological order , this code is
extremely important because it means that reader can easily
find the articles they want to read.
A convention I included was using different colours for different
articles. This means that the page is visually exciting and the
reader is able to tell the difference between each article. This
makes the content page easier to navigate.
*features of magazine

10. HOW I DEVELOPED THE CODES AND FORMS OF THE
CONTENTS PAGE?
A code I changed was putting the page numbers in front of
the subtitles of the articles. Instead I put the page reference
behind the article subtitles.
I did not include a website because the magazine was on it’s
first issue , so there was no need for a website.
*features of magazine

11. COMPARISON WITH DRAWN DRAFT.