Evaluation

Student Magazine

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of media products? - Similarities
Rule

Of

Thirds

Masthead
Main coverline
which anchors
to main image
Main
image
Coverlines

Consistent
Colours

Puf
Barcode

Issue number
and date

Rule

Of

Thirds

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of media products? - Differences

Direct address

Logo

Use of
diferent
colours to
attract
diferent
audiences

Banner

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of media products?
I have used one big, main image that follows the structure rule of
thirds on my magazine like the example showed. However, my
main image doesnt give a direct address as the student is
looking at the revision book which targets my audience, also I
wanted to be diferent from other magazines. I used a medium
long shot which challenges conventions, however I wanted to be
diferent and show the audience what college students wear to
college. The student is smiling in the image because it tells the
audience that college can be fun so they should look forward to it.
The student is also wearing smart casual clothing which is similar
to the teenage fashion. Therefore, this presents the student as a
teenage student who is at college, which sets the target
audience. I followed a specific colour scheme on both front cover
and contents page which is purple, green and white as that
follows the college colours so the audience will instantly know its
for Solihull 6th Form College students. I placed a large masthead
with big, bold writing to show the audience what the magazine is
about. I used the same fonts both in my main cover and contents
page which are Pristina, Segoe Print and Enbrima. But for my
masthead and contents title, I used the same font from
dafont.com which is Prezident. I have made a main coverline
which anchors the main image and also targets a specific
audience which is college students that need information and
tips. This is also done in the example shown below my magazine.
I have placed coverlines in a box and underlined them to make it
stand out more to show the audience what it features.
Furthermore, I made a banner at the bottom to make it more eye

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of media products? Similarities
Contents
title

Consistent
colours

Selection of
photos

Page number
reference

Page numbers
and titles

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or

challenge forms and conventions of media products? Differences

Coverline
s

Insight into the

information on
the pages

Contact
information to
follow

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of media products?

In the contents page, I did not follow the rule of thirds

structure which challenges conventions, I did this because I
wanted to be diferent and stand out more from other
magazines. The coverlines anchors to all 3 images on the
contents page. In the 3 images placed on the contents
page all has a page number reference so the audience can
instantly go to that page, however, in pictures numbered
2 and 6, they do not give direct address which
challenges conventions, I made this action because I
wanted to send a message to the audience saying that
college life is busy and theres work to get on with. In the
picture numbered 4 is a photograph of a football field as
there is a scenery which makes the photograph look more
eye catchy and targets my audience. I have placed contact
information in the bottom right hand corner to give my
audience more details on the college so if they have any
worries, they can use them. All the fonts used on the
contents page is the ones used in my main cover as it
follows through and looks more neat. Furthermore, I have
followed the same colour scheme used in my main cover
which is purple, green and white due to because it follows
the college colours.

2. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?
Blogger.com
This was the first and major technology feature I came across during the preliminary task
which was to create a blog using blogger.com and upload all the tasks on there. Using
blogger was a new experience for me, however, I was able to manage my work at ease,
also was able to keep on top of my work. The feature that was quite challenging was to
upload documents from diferent websites/softwares onto the blog using embed and/or
share links. Overall, it was pretty straight forward to get used to after a couple of tries.
Scribd
One of the key websites manipulated to upload work from word documents and power
point presentations onto my blog page. Its stress-free to work with as it is a simple 3
step process. I had never used this before so it was a new experience for me, but it is
really straight forward to use.
Emaze
This website helped me produce presentations which I had to upload to my blog, it is
very similar to power point presentations but through a website which was then
uploaded using the embed code/link. I had never came across this website before but by
using this, I was able to create slides using the features included on the website, which
were only slightly diferent from normal power point. This wasnt very hard to use as its
similar to power point but much more easier in my opinion.

2. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?
Embedding
Embedding was used to upload and share certain tasks to my blog, I had to use two diferent
sites (Emaze and Scribd) and gather embed links then embed the link onto my blog. I never
knew how to share documents using embed codes before but during the process of creating
my student magazine, Ive gathered the ability.
Scanner
A device which I used to scan in work that was completed on a piece of paper, save it as a
JPEG then upload it to my blog. I have used a scanner before to scan objects for GCSE
Photograph but not for pieces of paper, I didnt think it would be the same process, however
it was the same process so I happily managed to scan my work successfully and upload it to
my blog.
Photoshop Software
A fundamental program used during the preliminary task was Photoshop. Using this program,
I had created my magazine front cover and contents page. Even though I have experience in
using Photoshop in GCSE Photography, I still learnt a few extra things that I didnt know how
to do when making my student magazine. I learnt how to add a masthead from a diferent
website and used the Magic Wand Tool more than expected for extra things during the
process of making the magazine front cover and contents page. Also, I learnt how to add
extra efects to fonts which was really interesting.