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- The document is an evaluation of a magazine cover created by Mariya Ahmed. - She positions the masthead, logo, and images intentionally following design conventions to grab attention and engage readers. - The colors, fonts, and layout are chosen to look professional and appeal to her target audience of 16-18 year old students and their parents at her sixth form school.
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- The content and images are tailored to the target audience of students aged 11-16, including topics related to school life.
- Distribution would be within the school to students, teachers, and parents through students.
- Creating a questionnaire helped identify what the target audience wanted to see.
- Learning experiences included using InDesign software, improving image selection, and realizing multiple fonts are typically used.
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- The student learned many important lessons in magazine design by comparing their initial school magazine to their final music magazine project. Their early magazine lacked proper formatting, clear cover lines, and consistent photo quality, while their later magazine followed industry codes and conventions more closely.
- Through the process, the student gained experience using design software like Photoshop and QuarkXPress. They also improved their photography skills by practicing various shots for articles. While organization was still a challenge, the student was able to produce a higher quality final magazine that showed clear progression from their initial work.
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The student learned many important lessons from completing their school magazine and music magazine projects. For the school magazine, they did not properly follow design conventions or include enough content. However, for the music magazine, they applied what they learned by including more articles and regular features, improving the layout, and making sure to follow conventions. They also gained experience using QuarkXPress and Photoshop and felt they improved their photography skills. Completing the double-paged spread was a valuable experience that made them feel like a real journalist. In conclusion, while organization was a challenge, the student is proud of the improvements made between the two magazine projects.
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The student magazine uses unconventional forms by featuring objects rather than people on the cover. It challenges font conventions by mixing sans serif for headlines and serif for subheads. The colors were changed from green and purple to white and purple for better visual appeal.
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The document discusses Ross Richardson's research on magazine front covers, content pages, and double-page articles to help design his own magazine materials for a school project. It provides analysis and inspiration from existing magazine designs, including mastheads, images, color schemes, layouts, and article headings. Potential names, fonts, images and elements are considered for Richardson's own health magazine aimed at teenage boys.
School magazine evaluation
The document summarizes the student's process of creating a school magazine as a media product. Some key points:
- The magazine includes conventions of real magazines like mastheads and cover lines, but not things like barcodes and prices since it's a school magazine not produced for profit.
- The content and images are tailored to the target audience of students aged 11-16, including topics related to school life.
- Distribution would be within the school to students, teachers, and parents through students.
- Creating a questionnaire helped identify what the target audience wanted to see.
- Learning experiences included using InDesign software, improving image selection, and realizing multiple fonts are typically used.
Analysis
The document describes the color scheme, layout, and design elements of a school magazine. The color scheme uses the school colors of red and blue to make the writing stand out. The masthead font stands out against the red text. The school logo is incorporated in the top right corner. The main image is of the new six form building to attract readers. Subheadings are layered over the image to promote news stories. The layout incorporates images and text in boxes for visual appeal based on survey results. The main text is in an easy-to-read font. Contact information for the school website and Twitter are displayed prominently in red boxes at the bottom.
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Evaluation
The student magazine represents their target college student audience through stereotypical articles about music, technology, and gaming on the front cover. While not all college students are interested in these topics, the student believes most would be. The youthful font may limit older or visually impaired readers. Positively, the magazine title "Voice" implies college youth have a voice.
The magazine aims to attract its college audience through a youthful feel. Models on the cover and in content are the average audience's age to seem relatable. Colors used were preferred by questionnaire respondents to catch eyes. Articles cover entertainment and college topics for a work-life balance appeal.
Areas for improvement include higher quality cover and content photos with
Creating my college magazine
Here is a slideshow of how my preliminary task of creating a college magazine has helped me and allowed me to gain skills for when I create my music magazine.
School Magazine
The document describes the process of creating a school magazine, including determining the target audience, developing ideas for the front cover, and designing the contents page. Key aspects of the front cover include using a student photograph, including the main story and additional cover lines to intrigue readers, and keeping the design simple with typical school colors. For the contents page, images and text are arranged to showcase the internal sections and page numbers. Creating the magazine in Photoshop allowed experimenting with layouts, images, and text styles to effectively promote the stories and appeal to students.
Purpose of a school magazine
The document discusses the purpose and key conventions of school magazines. A school magazine informs parents about recent events at the school and aims to impress parents to attract more students. It provides information about upcoming events and issues. Key conventions include a masthead with the school name and logo, photos of main events, and no barcode as school magazines are free. The magazine aims to engage readers with colorful designs and images related to the school.
School magazine Evaluation
The document evaluates a school magazine media product created by Sacha Relf. It discusses how the magazine both used and challenged conventions of real magazines. On the front cover, four images were used instead of the conventional single image. The contents page followed conventions but used two images instead of one. The magazine represents students in a professional way through smiling, happy images of students in uniform. There is no single publisher for school magazines as they are created by students and teachers within each school. The target audience is the students, parents and teachers of Chislehurst School for Girls. Bright colors and images of familiar school settings were used to attract this audience. The process taught Relf about using blogger and InDesign technologies to construct the magazine
School magazine evaluation
The document evaluates a school magazine media product created by Sacha Relf. It discusses how the magazine both used and challenged conventions of real magazines. On the front cover, four images were used instead of the conventional single image. The contents page followed conventions but used two images instead of one. The magazine represents students in a professional way through smiling, happy images of students in uniform. There is no single publisher for school magazines as they are created by students and teachers within each school. The target audience is the students, parents and teachers of Chislehurst School for Girls. Bright colors and images of familiar school settings were used to attract this audience. The process taught Relf about using technologies like Google Blogger and InDesign.
Media Preliminary Task - School Magazine
The document describes the process of creating a front cover and contents page for a school magazine targeted at sixth form students. Key points:
- The creator took photos and used Adobe Photoshop to design the magazine pages over several hours.
- The front cover features a medium close-up photo of a student, along with headings about exam tips and school news/events aimed at sixth formers.
- The contents page lists additional stories inside the magazine on topics like workloads and uniform that would interest the target audience.
- Both pages use a combination of fonts, colors, images and layouts to clearly present information while appealing to 16-18 year olds.
Evaluation
The document provides an evaluation of a magazine front cover and contents page for a student magazine. It discusses how the magazine represents its target audience of students through images and text on the cover. The cover uses dull colors and images of students to appear mature and attract students. The document also discusses how the cover and contents page address students to seem professional. While pleased with how professional the cover looks, the document notes the contents page could be improved by adding more material and links to social media platforms students regularly use.
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This magazine cover follows conventions by placing the barcode at the bottom left. It draws attention through a large, bold masthead that contrasts well against the background. The big, bold logo and cover lines are also designed to be recognizable and engage readers.
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Representation
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Blocks
- The document outlines Mariya Ahmed's plans for layout and design of different sections of her classical music magazine, including the front cover, contents page, and a double page spread.
- For the front cover, she will feature a female model in pink dress with limited makeup/jewelry and include cover lines and masthead.
- The contents page will have subheadings and images on one side with text on the other to look organized. It will also include an advertisement.
- The double page spread will feature the model in multiple images and quotes from an interviewed famous opera musician, as well as text and an image related to the magazine's theme.
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- 1. Mariya Ahmed Magazine Evaluation Tuesday, 15 October 2013 Magazine Evaluation My masthead is positioned at the top, and it is simple and bold so it can grab the reader’s attention and also it follows the convention of having a masthead at the top. The key image is the medium close up which has eye contact towards the reader, which makes the reader feel engaged and displays the student’s emotions as she’s smiling which connotate’s happiness.I positioned the image on the left hand side because it’s in the optical centre and if the image was positioned on the right hand side, it would seem as if the student is walking out of the magazine.My font style and size is appropriate, however, the font sizes are different which shows the importance of the information in the bigger font and the less important information is in smaller font. Also, the font style is simple and understandable for my target audience and not too funky because I wanted it to stand out and be understandable.I added the logo on the top left hand side so the students are familiar with their school logo and it makes the magazine look more professional. Also, I added the boxes around the text because it makes my magazine look more professional and stand out and also changed the colour of the outline to a lighter shade of blue to blend it in with the background colour. I used appropriate colours as purple has connotations of femininity and royalty, whereas the colour blue connotes masculinity, loyalty and intelligence. I decided to add a bit of red to the text because it had the colour in the school logo which represents ‘Success & Harmony’, the colour symbolises love and danger. Nonetheless,if I had the opportunity to do my magazine again, I would want to add a barcode on the bottom right so I follow the conventions of magazines, and I’d also like to delete the background of the logo using fireworks to make the magazine look more professional, I would also add a slogan underneath the masthead which would attract the audience and grab their attention and finally, I would do a spell check after I have finished the whole magazine cover, just to make sure I don’t have any spelling errors. The images I have taken of the sixth formers are suitable because they are dressed formal/smart which gives out a good image to the students at this sixth form and their parents. The image at the bottom right connotes that students at this sixth form are happy and enjoy their time here, as they are smiling and having a laugh. Also, the medium close up shows the students’ facial expression in more depth which emphasises that she is happy and is enjoying her time at this sixth form. I also took an image of the new school building which they have built for the sixth form students, this shows how much the school has spent for the students to have a good education and are providing everything the student’s need, in order for them to get a high grade. Also, the image on the top right suggests how hard working the students are at the school and it also gives the chance to show the technology the school provides for the students. The school will distribute my media product because it’s about this sixth form and the school would like to promote their school so they have more students coming to attend this sixth form. Likewise, 1
- 2. Mariya Ahmed Magazine Evaluation Tuesday, 15 October 2013 the students would like to be kept up to date with what’s happening at their sixth form and maybe would like some tips on revision or even careers advice. The students would also like tocheck if the school exam results are improving or not and maybe give the school some suggestions on how to improve the examination results e.g. by organising more after school clubs.. The target audience for my product are students from ages 16-18 because the information put in the magazine is relevant to them and it will help them develop more skills and decide what they want to do in the future. Similarly, the target audience are also parents as they would like to know how good their child’s school is and whether it’s progressing to aim higher in exam results. I changed the colour of the cover lines to blue and purple as the colours are bright and bold, and it would attract both genders, and the font style is simple and readable which would want the students to read on.Also, there is a quiz to do in the magazine which the student would want to do as they would want to know what kind of learner they are. Also, I used a little bit of slang as I wrote ‘Uni Advice’ instead of ‘University’, through the use of slang we can immediately tell that the target audience for the magazine are teenagers, but other than that, the language I have used is formal. I used a medium close up image which has eye contact towards the audience so it makes the reader feel engaged and you can see the students facial expression more clearly as she is smiling and happy. I have learnt several of techniques from the process of constructing this product, one of the techniques I learnt was how to blog as I have never used a blogger before as I never needed to, and then I had to adjust the blog layout and make it suitable for the purpose of the blog. Another technique was, using slide share to upload my presentation work on it and then I embed it so I am able to upload it to my blog. However, my magazine front cover and contents page was on publisher so I had to covert the file to PDF and then JPEGto be able to upload the file to the blog as you can only upload the file on the blog if it’s saved as a JPEG file. I also learnt how to use Photoshop because I needed to edit a few of my images which I had taken for my magazine cover. Overall, I have learnt many things such as the alignment has to be straight on both sides so it looks professional and make sure none of the text is cut out, the barcode has to be small and mostly put on the bottom right hand side, the colours need to contrast well,there should be no dead space because it doesn’t attract the audience and it would seem as if there is nothing interesting in the magazine, the cover lines should be short and simple so it can stand out, the cover lines should have little information on what the magazine will contain and the masthead should have a big and bold font so it can be the first thing that the reader sees and makes them want to carry on reading. Also, the image would stand out more if its placed in an optical centre, as then it will be the first thing the reader sees as the first place the reader positions their eye is on the left hand side , and then the right hand side, they look in a ‘Z’ shape. 2