1. AS MEDIA UNIT G321
Preliminary Task
Cover and Contents Of A College Magazine
Evaluation

2. 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?

3. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
Masthead My front cover is
very similar to that of
Cover a professional
Lines magazine, both
including cover lines,
Rule of masthead and
Thirds flasher.
Coincidentally, we
Flashers match when
concerning the rule
of thirds as my
aswell as my the majority of my text being left justified. As forimage iswhich is
image, right
justified just like
most important as is the first thing the audience is drawn to, there is the same
‘Cosmpolitan’,
facial expressions medium close up (MCU), a happy confident smile to represent
my magazine.
There are slight differences, obviously there is more sell lines on Cosmopolitan
than College Life but apart from that I think our magazines are very similar in
both feature and layout. In addition, the model on the cover of the opposing
magazine is very made up this would link in with the idea of a fashion magazine

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
In my opinion, my Date
contents page is
quite similar to that Categorised
of Cosmopolitan. By contents
categorising the
contents it makes it Images
easier for the reader
to navigate. In Columns
addition, we both
chose to stick to
columns layout
which gives the
The main differences in these contents pages are firstly, how I included the title
magazine more unique layout and the way Cosmopolitan have organised their
and made a more
order. to coincide with features within the magazine (e.g. putting captions over
pictures
photos to indicate pages). I also believe that the other magazine relates to its
topic more than mine, such as a fashion magazine includes images of glamorous
people. If I were to do my contents again I would insure my images are linked to
school such as including a photo with the school in the background rather than a
photo that can be applied to any situation.

6. Stages of
Development
Using Photoshop

7. Stages of
Development
Using InDesign