This document discusses how a student's media product compares to real media products in its use of forms and conventions. It also discusses what the student has learned about technologies from constructing the media product. Specifically: 1) The student discusses similarities and differences between their product's front cover, masthead, images and styles compared to real magazines. 2) For the contents page, the student notes differences in use of text, fonts, colors and alignments between their page and real examples. 3) The student is asked to reflect on what they have learned about technologies from creating their media product.

1. 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
AS MEDIA UNIT G321
• PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION

2. Masthead
Cover Lines
Rule of Third
Colour/House Style
Front Cover Similarities
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?

3. The house style is different in
the magazine along with the
size of the font, the college
one has larger font size
The camera shots that are
being used in the pictures
are different, the college
magazine is using a mid
shot but the other uses a
close up shot.
Colour of the
background is
different with the two
images and different
contrasts have been
used the college one
ins in surrounding
while the other isn't.
Differences with Front Covers

4. Bold masthead font
Images used in contents,
places in shapes
Different text styles used
and colour in font
Text is aligned and
styled, left aligned
and in columns
Contents Page
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?

5. More text is used along with
different bold, italic fonts also
used in the contents page
There are different colours
being used in the two maybe
showing that the college
magazine is sticking to the
house style or just used to
promote different things and
make them stand out.
Differences with Contents