1. COVER AND
CONTENTS OF A
COLLEGE MAGAZINE
PRELIMINARY TASK
EVALUATION
EXAMPLE
By Paige Coles
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. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products? SIMILARITIES
Masthead
Main Cover-Line
In the left third
Blank Background
Cover-Lines

3. Differences between the Front Covers
Different cover lines used as
the target audience
are different
Celebrity used as main
image but I have used
a student
The colours used are very
different as the TA are
different.

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
CONTENTS PAGE - SIMILARITIES
Plain background
Large title ‘Contents’
Listed pages in the
magazine
House style is kept
through out contents

5. Contents page – Differences.
The colours used are
different because of
the different target
audience.
There is just one
main image used
in this contents
page. Whereas,
I have 4 images.
They have different
relevant information
for their target
audience.

6. Technologies I used
Moodle
I used moodle to get resources for making my
magazine and I also used it to make sure that
I was doing the right thing throughout my
Preliminary task.
Cyber Shot Camera
I used a Cyber Shot camera, supplied by the college,
to take all of my pictures featured in my magazine.
Adobe Design Premium
I used this software to put both my front cover
and contents page together in one document.
I also used it to create my final contents page.
Photo Shop
This is the software I used to create my final front
cover for my magazine. I also used it to edited image
I needed for my magazine contents page (and cover).

7. Using the Digital Camera I made sure that
the image was an MCU. I put my model in I used Photo shop to
front of a blank wall as this is the way I manipulate the
wanted the background of my front cover
to turn out like. models face so that it
was more suitable for
the main image of a
front cover.
When using Photoshop I
manipulated the lighting of
my main image to
emphasise the person in
the photograph.

8. Using In-Design for my Contents Page.
When creating my contents page on In-Design
I started off by adding the images first. I did
this by adding frames from the tool bar then
opening the images into the frames. This made
it easier for me to figure out where to put the
text around the images. I then added the text I
wanted around the images. I copy and pasted
my logo from the front cover onto In-Design so
that it would be featured on the my contents
page. I then wrote the word ‘Contents’ next to
the logo to show what the page was about.