Preliminary Task Written Evaluation

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My magazine follows conventions in some ways, for example some or most magazines will usually have a main image to focus on, mine has a medium close up of a student at CTK. I think i have used a structure which would be used for professional products but not neccesarliy stuck to one layout. The film reel i thought was quite original even though it has most likely been used before, i wanted to incorporate more than one image on the front cover as well as adding more on the contents page. It doesn't really challenge real media products because I decided to go for a safer option rather than experimenting to much with this preliminary task.

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
On my front cover I wanted to portray the general atmosphere of college life. The student i used as my main image is shown using a camera, this is to show she is hard at work giving an impression of the work ethos of the college. Whereas the other images which are in the film reel show more of the social side of college, making friends and getting to know people. I didn't really use props, just the camera in the main image which sort of ascoiates with media or any other art related subjects. The other images I just used the natural surroundings of the college.

Q3. How did you attract/address your audience?
Firstly i decided to use a bright colour which will attract the audience, so i chose yellow, but i also chose this colour to go with purple the colour which is asociated with the college. Using bold short statements on the front cover is eye catching and grabs the audience attention because hopefully reading the short statements would make people want tp pick it up and fead the reast.

Q4. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I learnt how to use a camera properly by making sure i get the right type of shot and that the light or the area i used was appropriate for the image. I already use photoshop in graphics but i learnt how to use a few new things like the magnetic lasso to go round my main image to get rid of the background. I used drop shadow and other effects which i played around with to add some effect to the text mainly the masterhead. I also warped the images to fit into the shape of the film reel going across the page.