Ruby Aylin

1. Pre Lim Evaluation
Ruby Aylin

2. Key Questions
1. In what ways does this media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products?
2. Who are the audience and how did you
attract/address them?
3. What have you learnt about technologies
from the process of constructing your
student magazine?

3. Key Question 1
• In what ways does this media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have used a masthead and
positioned it at the top of my
page
I have positioned my cover lines
to the right side of my model,
this layout can be seen in this
cover of Self but not on this
cover of Vogue as I challenged
the conventions by positioning
my model off centre.
My model’s positioning challenges
conventions as not only is he off centre,
he is not directly addressing the
audience however is works as it links to
the student’s focus on his work.
My model’s face is positioned on a
hot spot to draw the reader’s eye,
Beyonce’s body is on this spot in Self
whereas it is on the text in Vogue. All
3 covers have utilised this area, just
in different ways.

4. Key Question 1
Title of the page positioned
in the primary optical area
Listings going down the left
hand side as to not distract
from focus of the image.
My contents page
challenges conventions as
most contents pages have
plain backgrounds with
some images relating to
page listings however I
decided that the positioning
of the models in my
photograph meant that the
image could fill the pager
without distracting from the
listing.

5. Key Question 2
• Who are the audience and how did you attract/address them?
The audience of my magazine is AS students and I attracted them by making my
magazine a “settling in special” aimed directly at them while they are settling into
college. I also used cover lines that appealed to them by offering what they want to
help them settle in, for example an “AS survival guide” I also used students as
models, this use of relatable figures means that the reader can identify with them as
they are similar.

6. Key Question 3
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your student magazine?
I have gained a greater understanding of how to use photoshop as I have now learnt
how to import fonts from dafont.com into photoshop and select the text, delete the
background and change the colour.