Here I have completed my Task 8 evaluation for my Preliminary task.

1. Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
Task8-Evaluation
The sub questions I need to answer…
• ‘In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of media products’
• ‘What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product’

2. Front Cover & Contents Page
Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
The brief was to use a image
manipulating programme to
produce a front cover and
contents page and write the
process of how on to a website
‘blogger.com’. Here I have
produced exactly that for my
preliminary task.
As you can see on the left I have
I have designed the front cover
using the software Photoshop
and the contents page on
Adobe InDesign and finally
placed both products on to
InDesign. The brief indicates
that we feature a photograph of
a student in a medium close-up
the text laid out appropriately
alongside a masthead.

3. Here I have designed my main image as a medium close up shot which
is stated in the brief, this allows the audiences to focus immediately at
My Front page
her, the way her posture and stance is positioned allows the readers to
feel comfortable and at ease whilst reading the front cover. The fact
that she is listening to music is a plus point as students enjoy and spend
their free time listening to music.
By positioning the colleges
Here I have produced my website, date, price and
masthead at the top left hand issue number at again the
corner which is known as a terminal area of the
terminal zone. This area does not magazine allows students
attract many people as this is not to read the entire front
where the eye travels cover before laying eyes on
first, however abiding by the the price-as the audience
conventions of industry loses interest.
standard, I feel it stands out
clearly by the use of blocked
typography and colour schemes.
Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
Here I have placed one of my
main cover lines ‘ world of
work’ this suggests students I have used 3 words at the
who are now thinking about bottom of the page almost
university or joining the as a banner to show the
working atmosphere suitable jump students have made
here. I feel by capitalising the from summer back to
lexis ‘world’ gives the sense of college- the way the
hard work and determination. colours of ‘stay summer
I have also used many other successful’ transition from
sell/cover lines surrounding one colour to the next
the main cover line for connotes the summer feel.
example ‘ back to college
5 fashion tips’ interests young
females as they want to look
fresh, prepared and By using the word ‘FREE’
comfortable in what they wear capitalised attracts interest
to college- by using the as students wouldn’t want
number 5 shows a sense of By placing an insert of a photographed image that I have
taken, gives more of a natural free to the magazine her body to miss something on offer.
informality and slang to gain
the readers attention easily. language suggests her free period revising in the park. This attracts
readers as she is more relaxed and doing what she wants.

4. By using the title centred and
My Contents Page
spaced shows the bold, blocked
typography this suggests it’s used
for emphasis.
Here I have attached a editors
note to show and have a sense of
who she is and why, how and
By using the same three
when she writes these sorts of
phrases here shows the
magazine.
consistence approach to
this magazine and that
everything is here to
evoke meaning.
The colour schemes
used throughout the
Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
contents page is very
The images on the
basic colours such as
contents page are
reds, oranges and blacks
placed at different
these sorts of colour
orientation's gives the
connote
magazine some edge
passion, success and
and student feel to it.
new life- this is what the
magazine is about.
Here I have used student
quotes to give new students
that are joining the college
some information about
what they feel. The contents
page is purely aimed at
students at college and what
interests them.

5. Comparing Front Covers
Barcode- to purchase the item.
Serif Fonts
Masthead- main text on a
magazine.
Website- for more details about the
magazine.
Date Line- to indicate how old the
issue is.
Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
Main cover line-to attract audiences.
Main Image-to attract you to the
magazine.
Colour schemes- this is consistent to
show the professional aspect.
Both magazines follow the rule of thirds which
divides the page up into 9 boxes- where each box
Image
insert- show
Banner-to frame the magazine. holds meaning towards the audiences most
what’s important corners for gaze.
inside.

6. Comparing-Contents Page Website- to find out
more about the
magazine.
Masthead- main text on a
magazine.
Images-make the contents page
more attractive and illustrates
items much better.
Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
Page Referencing- to easily
navigate through the magazine.
Serif Sub titles & numbers.
Editors note- allowing students to
Quotations from students to help get to know the writer in who writes
make other students feel these magazines.
comfortable and giving there
opinions.

7. ‘In what way does my media product use, develop or
challenge the forms & conventions.’
My magazine has followed many I followed the rule of thirds
of the codes and conventions a divide up which allows me to
typical magazine would have, for position my text and
instance using a bold masthead photographs that would interest
near the top centre to ensure the reader.
this catches the audiences
attention.
Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
Almost every magazine has a
The use of cover/sell lines on the
barcode, date, issue number, maybe
front page sticks with the
and insert and a lot of colour to draw
conventions as this helps draw
certain audiences in. I have followed
attention to what the magazine
these conventions by abiding by this
wants to known for. My
and using this in my own magazine.
magazine ‘back 2 college’ main
cover line is ‘world of work’ you
can easily see this from the bold
lettering this follows industry The main image on my
standards house style such as magazine, I feel I haven’t entirely
lucky their main cover line is met the conventions as the
‘perfect hair & gorgeous glow’ image is big and at a medium
again this is following the close up which does follow the
conventions of a typical convention however the way it
magazine. is aligned does not look like a
official magazine cover.

8. ‘What technologies have I learnt from the process of
constructing this product?’
Photoshop In Design Blogger Digital
Camera
Photoshop is a desktop In Design is again an Blogger.com is a website In order for me to take my
publishing software used industry standard experienced in catering for own photographs I had to
across many industries. programme from Adobe, personal diaries or a use a Sony digital camera,
Photoshop is a design which is a text based collaborative space. to capture the different
programme used to product which helps finalise shot types; long shot,
manipulate images. Using products- you create text I used blogger.com for the medium close up and a
Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
this programme I have and images using another first time and learnt the range of others.
gained a lot of basic software and bring basic essentials quite easily-
knowledge to create a front everything together using in how to create a post, Getting to grips with a
cover and contents page InDesign. how to upload and publish digital camera wasn’t
such as specific tools like a post. Also, adding images difficult however using a
‘crop’, ‘colour swatches’ and InDesign was a new from my home drives and Sony camera was- after a
‘colour gradient’. software to me and using inserting it was difficult at few attempts I knew how to
this has helped with my first but was soon control it.
I had not used this image assignment for instance overcome.
package before this task tools such as the This helped me structure
and have learnt many ‘rectangular tool’ allows I feel blogging my my image/model as I could
things from this which will images to exported in. procession through this task hold the camera at any
help me in the future to has helped me keep up to position/angle to ensure I
create/manipulate images. Overall I enjoyed using date and write down step get my photograph how I
InDesign and feel that this by step what I needed to do wanted it, however due to
helped the layout in my and finish. time constraints I was
contents page. unable to take more
photographs.

9. Stages
Above you have the stages that I have used to work with my ideas using the software
Photoshop.
Poonam Parmar Candidate
Number: 1786
Below I have used the programme InDesign to show the stages I went through in inserting
images such as this close up for instance, I had to use the rectangle frame tool to size how
big I want the image then from file placing a image I want from my home drive then select
it.

10. Strengths-Front Cover &
Contents Page.
My magazine-front cover and contents page were
given audience feedback from a student itself, the
strengths they had mentioned about my
magazine was that;
• The use of colour schemes was very effective as
this caught her attention at first glance also is
very consistent through out the magazine which
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Number: 1786
appeals to the audiences both female and male.
• The cover lines are very informative and pin point
the exact detail to the magazine and what is
inside.
• The images used on the contents page is very
different orientations which give the magazine a
sense of edge which would appeal to young
adults. The use of a variety of shot types interests
them to read on.
• The magazine overall fits the brief and is aimed at
students.

11. Weaknesses-Front Cover &
Contents Page
My magazine-front cover and contents page
were given audience feedback from a student
itself, the weaknesses they had mentioned
about my magazine was that;
• There was many blank/white spaces on the
contents page which almost gives the idea
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Number: 1786
that the contents page is incomplete and
needs finishing.
• The main cover line on the front cover needs
to be big and bold, you needed to increase
the font size, also by using a very basic font it
wouldn’t attract a student reading it.
• A lot is going on in the contents page which
can be confusing at times and looks very
clustered/ untidy.
• By using the obviated form PG4 to stand as
page4 doesn’t tend be on a magazine.

12. Overall Success
• The overall success from this preliminary task was using
different software's and programmes to design a front cover
and contents page. By learning now this will help me in my
main task.
• I am quite happy with the overall result of my magazine
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Number: 1786
however due to time constraints I couldn’t finish it how I
would of liked to.