1. AS Media Preliminary
Task
Preliminary Task-
Cover and contents of a
college magazine
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
2. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of
constructing this product
2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
Front cover similarities-
Masthead
Dominant MCU
image using rule of
thirds
Cover lines
Both have a
background matching
the colour scheme
3. Front cover differences- My mast head is
rounded and the
VOGUE mast head is
over the image
whereas my image is
underneath
The VOGUE front
cover has cover lines
on both sides
whereas mine only
has them on the left
My image the girl is
looking towards the
camera front on
whereas the VOGUE
magazine her body is
turned away from the
camera but her head
turned towards it
creating a more
mysterious effect
I have used banners at the top
and bottom whereas this one
hasn’t included them
4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
Contents Page
Both include mast
head titles
Use sub
headings to
help reader
Both include
page
numbers
Both include
images to
attract reader
Both include the date issued
in the top right corner
5. Contents page differences-
My contents includes
3 little images
whereas VOGUE is
one main image, by
using one main image
it is as if that person is
welcoming the reader
and telling them what
to expect
A lot more text is on
the VOGUE contents
page whereas mine
states the page titles
VOGUE gives more
extra information
My titles have
banners behind
them whereas
VOGUE’s doesn’t
VOGUE contents
page doesn’t
include a banner
6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the
process of constructing this product
Digital Camera
We used a digital camera to take the original images that
we were potentially going to use in our contents and front
cover magazine, we could then upload them onto the
computer ready to edit in the other programmes
We used adobe Photoshop CS6
