My front cover and contents page for my college magazine, preliminary task evaluation. The document discusses the similarities and differences between the student's media product and real magazines like Men's Health. It also summarizes the technologies used - a digital camera to take photos, Photoshop to edit images, and InDesign to layout the front cover and contents page. The student learned how to design elements like the masthead and manipulate images in Photoshop, and create a double page spread and layout in InDesign.

1. My front cover and contents
page for my college magazine,
preliminary task evaluation.
AS MEDIA UNIT G321
Preliminary Task
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?
FRONT COVER SIMILARITIES
Masthead
Cover lines
Main image
Background
Barcode
Selling line

3. FRONT COVER DIFFERENCES
Use of masthead and cover
lines
My main image is
dominating the whole front
cover including the
background but the Men’s
Health is taking up the
right third of the front
cover. My image is of a
female and Men’s Health
use a male.
Colour schemes

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
CONTENTS PAGE SIMILARITIES
Initial magazine
masthead
Text layout
Columns
Images

5. CONTENTS PAGE DIFFERENCES
Men’s Health magazine
use professional images
unlike mine.
The way the text is
written.
Men’s Health is more
appealing than mine.
Men’s Health is more
sophisticated with a
subtle use of colours.

6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this
product
TECHNOLOGY/SOFTWARE USED
Digital camera
to take various Blogger to
types of shots upload all of
and middle preliminary
close up shots task.
Photoshop to InDesign to create
manipulate my a double page
images. spread and to lay
out my front cover
and contents page.

7. Photoshop allowed me to edit and manipulate my images, I was also able to design my
front cover using Photoshop.
PHOTOSHOP
I created a
masthead which I
made bold and I
also changed the
colour. I added a
drop shadow to my
I used Photoshop to crop and masthead to make
edit my picture for my front my title stand out
cover. I also put on some more.
levels to make the image richer
so it becomes more appealing
for my target audience.

8. InDesign allowed me to create a two page spread of my front cover and contents page. I
was also able to create the layout of my contents page using InDesign.
INDESIGN
I used InDesign
to help me layout
my contents page.
I was able to add a
background
colour. I added
my manipulated
images which I Above is a picture of my final design
edited using of my front cover and contents page.
Photoshop. I also InDesign allowed me to place my
added text to my designed front cover from Photoshop
contents page. I on to a two page spread.
added colour and
an effect to my
masthead.