Preliminary Task: Evaluation of the Preliminary Exercise

Evaluation of the Preliminary Exercise

In what ways does your media product use, develop or change forms and conventions of a school magazine?

One way my product uses the conventions of a school magazine cover is that I have used a simple yet professional layout. also, i have used the house style which matches the schools badge for the lower school as it is mainly aimed at their age groups. Comparing my magazine to ones that i have looked at, my magazine is a bit different in the way that i have a banner at the top and bottom of the cover, whereas the other school magazines would not have a banner or only have one.

 

How effective is the front page of your magazine in focusing on the ethos of the school?

The front cover of my magazine does focus on the ethos of the school. The school always aims for higher results year after year, the picture pointing diagonally upwards shows that students are aiming higher for better results. Also, I have added the phrase 'This year aiming for even higher results!' This tells the reader that there is definitely going to be a higher work ethic to get better results for the students taking their exams this year, GCSE and A level.

 

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

From my audience feedback I now know how my work can be improved. I could cut out the main image better without any white marks from the background on it, also, I could fill in more of the dead space on both the cover page and the contents page. In the dead space I could put the headline of a story from inside the magazine so the magazine cover will look more professional as the dead space will not be there and will be filled in. The colours on the banner at the bottom clash and need to be changed, the black on the dark blue is very hard to read so I could change the background to a lighter blue so you can see the text.

 
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages?

Throughout the construction of my school magazine prelim I used the fireworks software. I was able to use this software easily as it is very simple to use. I could make the front cover however I wanted to and how I pictured it with everything on it. I was also able to download fonts to give my front cover that extra thing to draw the readers eyes. I also used fireworks for my contents page as I found it very easy to use. I was able to do whatever I thought was right for my contents page as fireworks aloud me to work how I wanted and put things where I wanted. Overall I think fireworks is a very good piece of software to use to make a school magazine as it is easy to use and you can work to what you want.