School Magazine Pages

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge conventions of real media products?

It uses the typical conventions of a media magazine as there is a masthead in which is larger than the rest of the text on the page. Like other magazines it also contains headings which will alert the reader of what they will find inside this issue. Like all magazines, there is a colour scheme going on, and I have stuck to burgundy and gold as they are both quite royal colours and they would present this school as being quite high-end and prestigious as far as schools go. I did in fact take a quite maverick approach regarding the contents page, the numbers on most contents pages are quite simply in a straight column, yet mine are separated, with some page references going down the right side, and some going down the left. This may show the school to be fun, but the colour scheme will also maintain the school to be quite prestigious.  

Q2. How did you attract/address your audience?

The audience for this magazine are the students of this school. The first thing I did was ensure that the photos taken will include students of the school, which would immediately engage the audience as the character in on the cover is also a student at their school so they immediately would relate to the character. I have also used the colour gold to alert the audience. Gold is a bright colour and would appeal to anyone purely because of its prowess as a colour. On the cover, I have pictured two students, both looking different ages, meaning it will appeal more than just one age group.

Q3. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Honestly, I am quite a seasoned veteran in regards to using Photoshop to produce magazine pages and so I didn’t really learn much about it. I did, however, learn how to use the ‘bevel and emboss’ tool which enabled me to make my masthead and other headings look more clear, which can only benefit me as it will catch the eyes of the target audience and stand-out more.

Q4. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your final product?

Strengths:

·         My cover looks quite professional and don’t look too bad for a preliminary task.

·         I have taken good pictures and they are cropped appropriately and do not tarnish the structure of my pages

·         My contents page maintains the colour scheme on  the cover

Weaknesses:

·         My pages needed more images

·         My cover needed more content which would show what is inside this issue, as there are only two pieces

It doesn't look anything near as good as what I want to produce for my final music magazine piece.