The document discusses the student's evaluation of their school magazine media product. They followed several magazine conventions for the front cover, including adding a date, masthead, cover lines, and barcode. However, they also challenged some conventions by using full body pictures for the models instead of waist-up shots and making the barcode too large. The contents page included both text and images as is typical, but they should have included more pages overall. The magazine aimed to appeal to both students and parents by including articles, quizzes, and information about school events and deadlines. The process taught the student new skills in using Photoshop to design the cover professionally.

1. My Evaluation

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
My front cover follows the conventions of a real magazine. I used most of the
usual conventions; I put in the date to show audience when it had been
published. A Masthead which is positioned top left of my cover. Cover lines
to show them what my magazine is about and that they want to read the
articles inside and draw attention to the magazine. I also included a barcode
in the bottom left and lastly one of my two models were looking directly at
the camera. However, I challenged some of the conventions as I used full
body pictures of my models whereas normally magazines use waist up
pictures, the barcode is in the wrong place and also I have made it way too
big.
My contents page was as well as I had hoped, I used 50% text and 50%
images. I did this because this is a normal convention of a magazine. I
should of put a lot more pages as I only did 10 pages overall. And I need to
have sections in my contents page.

3. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
•
My magazine is aimed at lots of different social groupings and aims to
involve all of them in the magazine. The audience would be parents as
well as students therefore, as well as quiz’s and competitions. I included
different articles about revision sessions and key term dates in order to
appeal to parents. I added these so parents could push their children to
be able to go to important things at school and to revise for their subjects,
as well as have fun in school.

4. What kind of media institution (publisher) might
distribute your media product and why?
• The students will be making the magazines because it is
a public school and it wouldn’t need a professional
publisher to show what is going on in the school. A
public school doesn’t normally pay a professional
company to make a school newsletter because it will
show parents that the school is interactive and promote
the school in an encouraging way. If the students create
the magazine this will means they know how to promote
the magazine and attract students of their age group

5. Who would be the audience for your
media product?
I would have two different audiences for my magazine. The first would be
the students at the school. This is because I have included many things
inside my magazine that would appeal to them, for instance I have
included fun quizzes and a welcome pack from the head girl. As it is most
likely to be made by students they are going to want to buy their own
magazine and their friends are as well.
My magazine is also aimed at parents of the students that go to school.
This is because parents like to find out what is going on at the school their
child's school which is why I have included things like key term dates to
keep the parents involved in the school. Another reason may be if their
children are making the magazine their parents will most likely want to see
what the magazine.

6. How did you attract/address your
audience?
• My masthead is one of the things that will attract my audience as it
is in a bold font and is quite big. Also the main picture is there to
attract the audience as once they have seen the picture they will
want to find out who the models are and what we have written
about them. The models I have used are around the same age as
the students that will read the magazine so that will attract the
students.
• I have put two different cover lines on my magazine which have
dramatic story's to draw the attention of the reader.
• Lastly I have put a puff telling my readers about a quiz inside my
magazine to make them want to open the magazine to the contents
page and see where the quiz is then they will see what else is in my
magazine

7. What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
During the course of the making of my magazine I have learnt how to use the
usual conventions of a magazine effectively and I have learnt about detail and
specific things that are put into a magazine. I learnt how to use Photoshop
successfully and then applied the knowledge I learnt into creating my own
school magazine. I used Photoshop to create my front cover as it allowed me to
resize, position and edit the photos I photographed. I outlined my images with
a shadow to make them stand out on the contents page. These skills I have
learnt from will be carried over into creating my music magazine. I learnt several
new skills during the process of making my magazine such as, cropping,
resizing and editing. In my opinion, this is why my magazine looks quite
realistic and I am happy with the outcome.