Sunday, October 18, 2009

Planning

Very good research into similar texts. Some good research into audience, but could have used graphs to show results. Some good drafts.

17/20

Construction

Proficient use of software to construct pages. Good manipulation of images and text. The front cover is ambitious and a bit weird, but well constructed. The contents page is very well constructed, but could contain more images

51/60

Evaluation

Some attempt to address the seven set questions. Some critical analysis but could contain more detail in places.

14/20

Overall

82/100 Grade A

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Evaluation of my pre-production work:

my magazine develops the conventions of magazines by keeping the masthead at the top of the page, it also develops the conventions, particularly of college magazines by having a picture of their building on the cover and also includes pictures of people on the cover of the magazine. The use of a slogan is also a convention that i have developed in my magazine. However my magazine challenges the conventions of magazines by not including highlights of articles in my magazine on the cover and it doesn't have any seperate images on the cover, also my magazine challenges the conventions of magazines because it does not include a dateline as it is not going to be sold on a widespread basis and just sold within a niche audience.

My Magazine cover represents the school as a school that has plenty of history behind it and has great traditions that go back many years, a school that many great minds have come from that are well-known and respected people.

The media institution that would distribute my magazine would be the school, it would give it to the families of students and even past students and members of staff, to see what has happened in the school over the past year.

the audience for my magazine would be for parents of students, i have tried to attract my audience by keeping the magazine traditional and simple by using an old fashioned font, and keeping the cover and contents page formal rather to inkeep with an adults more intellectual approach to a magazine and including articles that parents would be interested in.

by making this Magazine front cover and contents page my knowledge of adobe photoshop has improved dramatically also the use of photography has been important in producing the product.


finally I added the articles that were going to be included in the magazine and incorporated the colours of the houses into the headlines of the articles


i then added the crests of the school to the contents page to give it a more homely feel and make it seem more like the school's magazine


i then added a drop shadow and bevel and emboss effect to the text to keep it the same as the front cover


then i added the title for the context page, using the same font as the front cover to keep with the schools theme


then i added an image of a student to the contents page, then I added a gradient to the page in order to make the text of the contents of the magazine more readable