Coursework for Media

1. PRELIMINARY TASK-
COVER AND CONTENTS OF A COLLEGE MAGAZINE
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
2. What have you learnt about the technologies from the
process of constructing this product

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
THE FRONT COVER-SIMILARITIES

3. with front cover
The main images are
different as both
magazines have
different key
demographic
Use of colour
schemes include
bright and consistent
colours to attract my
target audience
Use of different cover
/seller lines
Both main images
include MCU but my
image is of a male
smiling which is used
to create a positive
effect

4. In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products? contents page
Initial magazine
masthead
Use of images
Layout out of columns
for features within the
magazine and
categorised
Magazine logo
Same colour
background

5. DIFFERENCES WITH CONTENTS
PAGE
The colour scheme of
the font is different.
Consistent house style
Different images are
used. My magazine
used 3 which are all of
college students who
are either happy or
studying which again
creates a very positive
effect towards the
audience

6. What have you learnt about the technologies
from the process of constructing this product
A lot of technology
was used to
construct my
magazine, each of
which included a
great learning
I used a digital camera to take
different types of shots and experience here are
camera angles of students for a few that were a Learned the features
the magazine great asset of In Design to create
my contents and
Photoshop was a great double page spread.
learning experience as it
helped to edit my image
and add effects
I used Moodle to get
certain resources that we
needed for the magazine

7. I use Adobe Photoshop
Digital Camera & Adobe to make an average
student into a “model”
Photoshop CS6 student for a college
magazine
Using the digital camera, I would ensure that
the main image that I would use for my front I manipulated the image of the student
cover would be a MCU which dominated through different tools in Adobe Photoshop
most of the frame. I left a little bit of space cs6. The first tool was used to cut out the
for the masthead so that you could see it very background which I thought was a great
clearly. I took into the account of the rule of skill.
third which is where I put what the magazine • I changed the levels of the colours, to
was offering as it was very important for my add more emphasis on the student.
target audience. The main image itself is well • Added drop shadow to some of the
taken and saves a lot of space for the cover information/cover lines/masthead so it
lines however I should have taken the photo looked more appealing
closer as it looks more of MS instead of MCU. • I also added a lens flare into the
I have taken the image of a model student masthead so it would seem more
who seems happy which gives a very positive attractive and catch the attention of the
effect towards the product. viewer

8. Adobe InDesign CS6
I used Adobe InDesign
CS6 to create my
contents page of my
magazine
I had a main text box at the
top with the main title and I I placed 3 images in my
made sure I used the same contents page to make
colours as on the front it look more visual.
cover so I could a The images are all
consistent house style. I
actually used word art for
photo’s of current
the title so the content students who all seem
page would be more eye happy, this creates a
catching. very warm feeling.
I converted all of the
image’s shape to circle
I also added different effects to all the information, figure that would make
including drop shadow, levelling colours, etc. the images look more
unique.