The document is a media studies evaluation that describes the conventions and forms used in magazines and how the student's media product challenged or developed those conventions. It discusses magazine elements like mastheads, sell lines, barcodes, and images and how the student incorporated those elements into their magazine cover and contents pages. It also asks questions about how the media product represents social groups, what type of institution might distribute it, who the audience is, how the audience was addressed, what was learned about technologies from constructing the product, and what was learned from the preliminary task to the final product.

1. Year 12 Media Studies Evaluation
Will Sutton

2. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
Skyline – usually giving
information about offers
or information or things
that might feature in the
magazine
Sell lines – Writing which
tells the reader about other
articles in the magazine, they
usually down the side or at
the bottom of the page.
Barcode & price – The
barcode allows the magazine
to be scanned at the
checkout, it is usually at the
bottom right corner. The price
of the magazine will be shown
at the bottom with the
barcode. The size of the price
shown depends on how
expensive the magazine is.
Masthead- name of the
magazine. The
masthead will normally
be the biggest part of
text on the page.
Anchorage text- writing
relating to the main image
which tells you what the
main picture is about.
Main image – the big
picture in the middle of
the page which is the main
focus.
Front cover

3. Masthead- name of the
magazine. The masthead will
normally be the biggest part of
text on the page. On my
magazine I have made the
masthead large so it stands
out, but it also sits behind the
persons head which magazine
tend to do.
Anchorage text- writing
relating to the main image
which tells you what the
main picture is about. I have
made this bigger than the
sell lines but not so big that
is covers the width of the
page.
Main image – the big
picture in the middle of the
page which is the main
focus.
Puff(s) – gives information
about content in the
magazine, is usually in the
shape of a circle or star.
Barcode – The barcode
allows the magazine to be
scanned at the checkout, it
is usually at the bottom
right corner.
Sell lines – Writing
which tells the reader
about other articles in
the magazine, they
usually down the side or
at the bottom of the
page. On my magazine
used two sell lines along
the right hand side.
Date line – on my
magazine I have put in a
date line instead of having
it next to the barcode
where most ,magazines
have it.
Front cover

4. Contents

5. Contents

6. Double page spread

7. Double page spread

8. How does your media product represent particular social group?

9. What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?

10. Who would be the audience for your media product?

11. How did you attract/address your audience?

12. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

13. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to the full product?