The document summarizes the ways in which the student's media product challenges conventions of real magazines. Key similarities to real magazines include a masthead, date/issue, dominant cover image following the rule of thirds, barcodes, and price. Differences include educational rather than celebrity focus. Techniques learned include using InDesign for layout, Photoshop for image editing, using themes/colors, and techniques like drop shadows, bolding, and column formatting to make the design look more "magazine-like". Headers and footers were added to link pages and look more professional.

1. AS Premilinary Task G321
Grace Williams

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
Front Cover THE FRONT COVER-SIMILARITIES
Front Cover
COLLEGE STUDENT MastHead OK Magazine
Date and
the Issue.
Dominant Image,
Rule of Thirds:
Medium Close up
StrapLines
Barcode and
Price

3. Differences with front cover
OK has a header
but the College
Student has a
footer.
There is logo on the
front cover of
OK, which
recognisable on the
College student there
is only a title.
Main cover line is larger
and stands out much
more. There isn't a main
cover line on OK but
straplines instead.
More pictures on
the front
cover, whereas
there are less on
the College
Student
OK is about
celebrities and
soaps, College
Student is more
educational

4. Main Head Line has the
same colour
scheme, College
Student has challenged
the conventions by
having the Headline
eon the three lines
instead of one.
Main Cover Image is
clear and is the focal
point
Page Features are
in the left
third, there is
roughly the same
amount of page
features. They are
spaced out and
are in a column
formation.

5. DIFFERENCES WITH CONTENTS PAGE
There are more images
on DRUMMER
magazine and they all
follow the theme of
music and so looks
professional. On
Student College it looks
more random and
doesn’t follow a
specific theme and so
doesn’t have much
direction.
There is a
footer, but no
header of footer
on DRUMMER

6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing
this product
In Design I
made my
Contents page.
My barcode was
from Google. I saved
into in my images
and exported it.
I used a camera to
take all of the
pictures that were in
my Front Cover and
my Contents page.
I used Photoshop
to edit and
minipulate my
images. I also
made my Front
Cover in
PhotoShop.

7. I used an earthy theme of colours such as
green, black, brown, to keep within the
educational theme throughout. I used these
colours on my Mast Head, Cover Lines and on
my Header and Footer, it also runs through
her hair colour and so keeps within the
theme.
I added font with drop shadow effects
and bold effects also, so that it doesn’t
look like normal text but magazine like
font.
I used a Medium Close Up image of
a student and placed her in a
specific way to create a magazine
model look.

8. I challenged the conventions, by
putting the Mast Head on
different levels instead of just
one. I made it bold by putting in
a black block colour.
I used Photoshop so that the I have put the
image of this student has no features in columns
background, originally there so that it looks like
was a building behind her to a list also.
merge it into the page I
edited this particular image.
I have used a Header and
Footer to link the title of the
magazine in with other
pages. When a reader looks
through the magazine they
will see the name of the
magazine running through it
which makes it more
proffesional.