1. The document discusses the front cover of a college magazine, comparing its conventions to real magazines. It notes similarities like using a masthead and house style fonts, as well as differences like using a banner and appealing to both genders. 2. It describes the technologies used to construct the magazine, including a digital camera to take pictures, Photoshop to edit photos by adjusting levels, and InDesign to layout the contents page while maintaining the house style. The author learned how to take shots, edit photos, and incorporate texts while keeping branding consistent.

1. AS MEDIA UNIT
G321
Preliminary Task
– Cover and
Contents Page 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?
THE FRONT COVER-SIMILARITIES
Use of a mast head covering
the top of models head
House Style, keeping the
font colours the same as
the mast head
Cover lines laid out around
the models to bring
attention to them.
Both have a Mid Shot of a
model showing head and
shoulders.

3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
THE FRONT COVER-DIFFERENCES
Flasher used in my
magazine to grab the
readers attention
Use of a banner at the
bottom keeping the House
Style of the magazine and
adding an extra cover line
focusing on the magazine
as a whole
Cover lines which appeal to
both genders, giving the
magazine a larger target
audience.

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
THE FRONT COVER-SIMILARITIES
Both have the
logo/name of magazine
positioned at the top of
the page.
Initial listing of the
contents of the
magazine, positioned in
columns
Continuous House Style
following on from the
front cover.

5. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
THE FRONT COVER-DIFFERENCES
My magazine features
an editors note in order
to involve the audience
with the magazine.
My magazine features
an editors note in order
to involve the audience
with the magazine.
Featuring of more than
one secondary image,
shows the difference in
genres between the
conventional magazine
and college magazine,
shows more than one
student.

6. 2. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing
this product
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7. 2. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing
this product
• Through the use of the
camera I managed to obtain
pictures to use in my
magazine, using different shot
types for practise pictures and
the MCU (Medium Close Ups)
for the final images I used.
• After I had the images I edited
them in Photoshop and
changed the levels of them by
increasing contrast and
brightness to make the images
stand out more.

8. 2. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing
this product
• Also in the production of • I also used the different texts on
my magazine I used InDesign to create an editors note
InDesign, in this I managed giving the impression it is written t
to create a contents page make it a more personal addition
using texts and cropping to the magazine.
and positioning them in
the frames for the
secondary images. I also
managed to keep the
House Style through the
use of a dropper tool
which carries colour from
one item to another.