The document discusses a college magazine cover and contents page created by Media Unit G321 - Neelam Mattu. It compares the created cover and contents page to real magazines, noting differences in color choices, positioning of elements, and use of images versus text. The document also describes technologies learned through constructing the magazine pages, including arranging text styles, importing photos, changing text effects, matching colors between elements, using selection and layer tools in Photoshop, and warping text.

1. As Media Unit G321 – Neelam Mattu
Cover and contents of a college magazine
evaluation…
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products…?
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…?
Masthead
Barcode
Header Or footer
Cover lines
Similar colours
Main cover
line
Date

3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products…?
Differences between my cover and an actual
magazine cover…
Colours – in my magazine I have used the college
colours to reflect the to the students that the
magazine is relevant to their student lives, this will
also attract the audience to the magazine.
I have used the magic “C” idea to ensure if it was on
sale that the audience can see some of the cover
lines, this will entice the audience to want to read
more.
Positioning and arrangements - in my magazine I
have not covered my masthead this will enable the
reader to know what they are reading. My barcode
and date is in the first third of the cover.
Uses a flash to advertise a free gift included within
the magazine.
I have used an image with no background in it
(simple) make the person relatable to the audience.

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products…?
Differences between my contents page and an
actual contents page…
Colours – on my magazine contents page I have
used the college colours once again to show
students that the magazine relates to them.
I have used bold writing on my contents, so that the
audience can read it and see it clearly on the page.
This will make it easy for the reader to identify the
page they want to go to.
Positioning on the page - I have used 4 images on
the page and placed them so that the audience
does not feel that the page is empty or spacey.
I have used two separate lists for the contents so
that the reader can get to the cover page stories
easily, this will make the reader feel that they are in
control.

5. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of
constructing this product…?
I had to learn how to rearrange all the text options to
ensure that I got the style, size, width and font that I
wanted. That would also fit into the house style of
the magazine. Using the program in design was a
challenge as I have never used it before but playing
around with the different functions helped me
understand the program and I was able to get what I
wanted afterwards.
I had to import photos into the program so that I
could use them on the page, I did so by using the
“place function”. This enables you to bring in an
image or file (Photoshop file) into the document.

6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of
constructing this product…?
I had to change alot of the effects settings on the
text, this proved difficult as you have to use the
stroke and swatch colours which is completely
different to office word or Photoshop.

7. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of
constructing this product…?
I learnt that you are able to
pick the same colour as u
have used with the pipette
tool and then relay this on
another piece of text.
For example I used the tool
to select the colour form
my flash and used this on
my footer text so that they
would match. This enable
you to keep a similar
theme throughout the
pages.

8. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of
constructing this product…?
I had to take all my images and
then use the magic wand tool
in Photoshop to make the
image look like it was just text.
To make my flash look like it
was all one image I used the
merge layers function, this
helped a lot when I needed to
move or change the layout.

9. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of
constructing this product…?
I also learnt that in Photoshop you are able to warp text to
any shape or form you need, it took me a while to figure out
how I would get the arched shape title I wanted (for my
contents) but I used the transform tool to do so.

10. My original images…