Evaluation of Preliminary task

When looking back at the work I have produced for my Preliminar task; front cover and contents page. I feel that I have been able to successfully achieve what I was aiming for, I have managed to use all of the right conventions and forms in order to create the school magazine of which appeals to my target audience. I wanted my magazine cover and contents page to appeal to sixth form students, but mainly aiming it at female students. I mad this evident in my front cover and my contents page mainly due to the colour scheme of which I decided to use; purple, black and white, these colours to me connote femininity together. I realised that although I wanted my magazine to appeal to sixth formers, I did want it to appeal to sixth formers of which do not only attend cola's sixth form, I wanted a bigger to atchieve a bigger market. I felt that when making my front cover I had to ensure that my typography and colour scheme appealed to my target audience. I chose to call my magazine 'Students 2 Students' as I felt that by instead of initially writing 'to' the number would be less formal, and I would have much more of an oportunity in being creative with the mastehad and making a logo out of it. By naming my masthead after 'students' I was aiming to make it personal for my target audience and I wanted the message of my magazine to be clear; the message is that the magazine only focuses on student life in the process of studying. I stuck to the colour scheme and made the masthead purple as it was eye catching and feminine. The main image I chose to use for my fron cover is of a medium close up shot of a girl reading a book, I felt that this would be most appropriate of all my captured images as it shows a learning environment and poductivity. I placed my subheadings below the main image in rather small font as I did not want to attract attention away from my main imgage. I also placed a smaller image of a girl posing and smiling to show a fun side to sixth form and relate back to the audience, I've also kept it female dominant by doing so as I want my target audience to be clear. My contents page for my preliminary task features a variety of images,in this I decided to add an image of a male to resemble some of the interests or issues many females are faced with at Sixth form. I wanted to create a classier approach to my contents page and by doing so I edited the images to black and white to resemble maturity. Again I stuck to the colour scheme of purple, white and black to create a clear and unique pattern within my magazine. I did however change my font to a less formal approach as I felt that the contents page should be far more fun and would draw the attention of the reader as they are sometimes underminded. Although I feel that I have been successful in reaching out to my target audience, I can still recognise some of the ways in which I could improve on my front cover and contents page. I could have added additional images to my front cover to stick to some of the typical magazine conventions and also added some pull qoutes to draw the attention of the target audience. I realise that I must include these elemements for the next time, as I now see how they could of improved my production.

My flap plan

magazine front cover

Contents page.

Survey response and analysis

This survey has helped me gather the information I need to make my Magazine better for the sixth form community. The responses I have received have answered all of my questions from my survey and has also given me further ideas to improve, and make the magazine best suitable for its audience. The survey overall has been fair as I have tried to make the questions reasonable for the target audience of my magazine. Therefore, the results have been fair and clear as to what people from the sixth form community are expecting from the magazine and what will make them want to read every issue of my magazine.

5 pictures for PT

Magazine Survey

click on this link to access my survey; http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NJGQLF9

The preliminary task

The project I am working on is one where I am required to produce a front cover page of a magazine that is suitable for the target audience; students.
The front cover must feature a photograph taken by myself of a former student, the shot must also be a medium close up shot where by  the students face and some of their torso can be visible. I must also include an appropriately laid out text and a masthead.
Additionally, we are required to produce a DTP mock up, possibly using Photoshop or Publisher, this would help us to manipulate the image and the laid out text.

Magazine image analysis

Magazine analysis

Media terminology on Prezi

Audit

I am able to recognise some of my strengths and weaknesses when applied to the skills needed for Media AS studies.  Many of my strengths lie in essay writing and working as part of a team however, specifically my general skills seem to be at a good standard.

I am able to recognise the basic movie poster conventions such as, genre, representation, audience, institution, narrative. Whilst applying these movie conventions to a text I am also able to develop my points I’ve made and can analyse the narrative just by looking at the poster. I can also use Microsoft PowerPoint, Macromedia Fireworks and Microsoft word.  I have a lot of experience when dealing with a digital camera and taking complex photos with them, after this I am able to manipulate the photo and add more elements to the image. 

One of the reasons why Media studies had attracted me in the past is the fact that I have watched many films and very much enjoy analysing them at the same time.  Whilst analysing I consider the different camera shots and why they are being used, as well as lighting, props, costume. I like to look at these areas to understand the different meanings that may apply to a certain extract of a film. In the past I have studied Drama GCSE and managed to get a solid B grade, this has given me the confidence to perform in front of an audience.  With this I am also able to recruit actors to play parts in a short film.  Many of my other strengths lay in my ICT skills this allows me to use the internet widely and other software’s that are required for my AS media studies.    

Moreover, I also take into consideration I have many weaknesses to.  Some of these are, my lack of practice in some software’s that may be relevant when doing my AS Media studies. The software’s I mainly struggle to use are Photoshop, as I do not have much practice in doing so, and Windows Movie maker as I have not had any previous experience with this software. I also recognise that I can be disorganised at times when recording my work, this problem I know I have to deal with quickly to stay on top of all my coursework for AS media Studies.                                                                                                                                                                                   

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