The document provides an evaluation of a college magazine cover and contents page created by the author for an assignment. It compares the author's work to examples from real magazines. The summary highlights how the author's cover uses conventions like prominent images and cover lines but challenges conventions through a darker color scheme. The contents page also uses conventions like separating text into boxes but challenges conventions by making information the focal point rather than images. The author learned about considering camera angles and lighting when taking photos and using software like Photoshop for editing and layout. Comparing to real magazines helped with design but making the magazine original was challenging.

1. By Rianna Landell
AS MEDIA UNIT G321

2. COVER AND CONTENTS OF A COLLEGE MAGAZINE
PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION
1. In what ways does your
media product use, develop or
challenge forms
and conventions of real
media products?

3. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
The masthead is
bold on the vibe
magazine and my
masthead could be
a bigger font to
draw the reader in.
The cover lines are
distinct and
informative to show
exclusively what the
magazine is going to
contain.
My Magazine is quite dark
whereas the ‘Vibe’ magazine
is light and inviting. Added featured boxes to the
Showing that its for different cover lines to show exclusive
Added freebies and target audiences and age content, that will be featured in
competitions to advertise classes. the magazine.
other companies.

4. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
Both made the main
images the visual
centre point of the
magazine cover to
draw the readers
attention when
looking for a
magazine.
Have added the
masthead at the top
filling the top thirds.
Cover lines
have been
added to the
magazine
cover.
I thought that the main
image was one of the most
I chose to make the most important things similar Both have a colour important because it’s the
to other magazines, so it fit the layout of a typical scheme to fit the main focus point and its
magazines and showed all the information that target audience. what initially draws the
will advertise the magazine.
readers attention.

5. One main difference is the
contents mast head and how
its layout, I could've made
the layout more exciting and
aesthetically pleasing to the
reader.
On the ‘Vibe’
contents page they
have made the
image the main focal
point, whereas on
my college contents
page I made the
information more of
the focal point.
From the layout alone it is easy to see that
these two contents pages are aimed at
different target audiences. And on the
‘Vibe’ contents page there are no text
boxes, the text is set out freely without
boxes. However my text is all seperated in
boxes.

6. What it similar is the colour
scheme in the sense that the
images used match the
background and the colours in
a consistent way. Because mine
is a college magazine I wanted
to make it fit the targeted
audience by creating a
welcoming atmosphere when
looking into the contents page.
Which is similar to the ‘Vibe’
contents page because it fits
the older target audience and
welcomes them to what we
expect to see from a typical
‘Vibe’ magazine.
Although I have stated some similarities, I wanted to make sure my magazine was original and
different overall to other published magazine covers and contents pages.

7. When using the camera, it was essential for getting my original pictures.
It showed me that I need to consider the camera angles, the positioning
and the lighting. I also had to consider what kind of shot I was going to
take and the scene to where the shots were going to be taken.
I discovered that the computer, was the most important part
when producing the magazine, because it was all about
editing, contrasting, lighting and layout. I used software's
like Photoshop which I found pleasing when it came to
editing my pictures and shapes. This also helped me to
manipulate images in a way that would satisfy the targeted
audience.
I also discovered that looking at different
magazine covers and Contents pages would
really help me set out my college magazine.
Some things I found difficult. For example how
to set it out because I wanted to make my
magazine different to others, so the task became
more tricky than initially anticipated.