The document contains questions about how a media product uses, develops or challenges conventions and what was learned about technologies from constructing the product. It provides examples of differences between magazine mastheads and layouts. It also discusses the use of a digital camera to take photos for the magazine following conventions like rule of thirds. Photoshop skills like inserting images and adding text effects are highlighted. Experience using InDesign to create pages like the contents page by inserting boxes for images and text is also summarized.

1. Preliminary Task
Evaluation
Chelsea Nicholls

2. QUESTIONS
1.In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of media products?
2.What have you learnt about technologies
from the process of constructing this
product?

3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of media products?
Masthead
Date
Coverline
Main image
(Rule of thirds)

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of media products?
Puff
Main coverline
Barcode
Footer

5. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of media products?
Differences
The Red masthead is
only in the top third of
the page whereas
College Life
masthead covers the
whole of the top.
The main image on
Red is a mid shot but
the main image on
College Life is a mid
close-up.
College Life uses
much bolder colours
and fonts to attract a
younger
audience, whereas
Red uses more
mature colours to
attract an older
audience.

6. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of media products?
Masthead
Dateline
Articles within
the magazine
Images relating
to articles in the
magazine

7. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of media products?
Differences
OK! has a section
written by the editor
but College Life
doesn’t.
OK! tells you more
about what is inside
whereas College Life
only has the main
articles on the
contents page.
OK! has subheadings
to separate the
articles and put them
into categories
whereas College Life
doesn’t have
subheadings and just
lists them in order of
how they show up.

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

9. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Digital Camera
• I took the photos for the magazine with
the digital camera.
• I learnt how to take pictures of different
shot types, e.g. a medium close up. I
made sure that my front cover photo
was a medium close up (MCU).
• I made sure the image followed the rule
of thirds.
• I took pictures for the contents page of
my magazine in more natural poses.

10. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Photoshop
• I created my front cover on
Photoshop.
• I made a blank template to start off
the magazine.
• I learnt how to insert images into
Photoshop.
• I added text and shape and learnt
how to change their colour and add
effects onto them.
• I used the drop shadow effect and
stroke effect to make the text stand
out on the background.

11. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
InDesign
• I created my contents page on
InDesign.
• I learnt how to use boxes to insert
images and text.
• I changed the colours to complement
the colours on the front cover.
• I used the gradient swatch tool to
make the background fade into a
different colour.