1. AS MEDIA UNIT G321
PRELIMINARY TASK-
COVER AND CONTENTS OF
A COLLEGE MAGAZINE
PRELIMINARY TASK
EVALUATION EXAMPLE
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?
THE FRONT COVER-SIMILARITIES
Masthead
Cover Lines
Barcode
Straplines
Footer

3. Differences with front cover
The layout I have used for my
magazine involves ‘The Magic
C’ in order to make the layout
more effective aesthetically.
Furthermore I have
challenged this convention by
doing the ‘C’ backwards.
The image I have used for my
magazine is of a friendly
student smiling to give out
the message that the college
is a friendly place. Where as
in Men's Health they have
used a slim actor with a
serious face as well as pose
to suggest the magazine
involves serious topics
My cover lines are to do with
the students interests which
links to their cover liens and
in Men’s Health the cover
lines are aimed at a common
activity and social life

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products? contents page
The masthead being in
the traditional area
Descriptions of what
The text is columned in
the images are about
short paragraphs
traditionally beneath
each picture
Use of Headings and sub
headings
The images are related to
certain pages of the
Going into further
magazine
information about the
page contents to help the
reader but not giving to
much away

5. DIFFERENCES WITH CONTENTS PAGE
I have used actual images from
the pages within the magazine
and put them upon the contents
I have used only two colours to
Men's Health have given keep the consistency between
previews of the actual pages the front cover and contents
as well as the headings and where as Men's health they have
subheadings as detail used more than two colours

6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this
product
Using Moodle to obtain
resources to compare with
Using Adobe Photoshop to
create the layout of my
front cover and add effects
to the text
Using a digital camera to take
the specific images I needed to
put upon my magazine

7. Using Moodle to obtain
resources to compare with
I have used Moodle in order to connect wit the
resources provided by my teacher to help compare Using a digital camera to take the
some of the pages of other magazine covers that I specific images I needed to put
am familiar with and also to look at ideal students upon my magazine
past work to get an idea of what I need to do and I used a digital camera to capture the images I
include within my magazine. needed to add to the pages in the magazine. I
adjusted some of the settings such as the flash
in order to capture a clear image so they were
all high quality enough to go onto the magazine
an be edited. I took into consideration the rule
Using Adobe Photoshop to create the of thirds so that when it came to uploading my
image the magazine would look aesthetically
layout of my front cover and add effects
pleasing.
to the text
I used Adobe Photoshop to create the majority of my front cover
as it has exclusive features compared to other software's which
allows me to obtain a professional finish. I used the FX tool to
make the text look more appealing to the target audience rather
than have it in a plain font as it gave me many options to create
shadows and overlays all of which I controlled at a level to create
the text I now have upon the front cover. I also had to remove the
red eye produced from the camera via Photoshop and it also
allowed me to adjust the image in terms of brightness and effects.