Evaluation of school magazine

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?


The school magazine follows the conventions of a real media product because the front cover contains one main image of a person in medium close up. The front cover has a main title which fills the whole top of the page. The front page doesn’t have too many cover lines but they are all in a bigger font to the writing underneath the cover lines which makes it stand out. The front cover has buzz words on it, the word exclusive would make people buy it. The front page has a barcode which every magazine has to have. It has a price, issue number and the date of the magazine. It doesn’t follow the conventions because it doesn’t use other smaller pictures. The magazine cover doesnt follow the conventions of a magazine cover because iy doesnt have a unique font. The contents page follows the conventions because it is layed out in columns and the spaces are filled with pictures and there is an image of the front cover on it.
I used new media technologies in my magazine.

How did you use new media technologies in the construction of your media product?

I used quarkexpress which is a media software which creates contents pages and articles in magazines easily. I used this for the contents page and found it easy to use. It easily layed work out in columns and was similar to photoshop which i used for the magazine front cover.

What are the strenghts and weaknesses of both the product and your use of new media technologies?

The strengths of the products was the main image on the front page it was in the right shot and fitted with the magazine. The person on the front page was in uniform which relates to school. The strenghts of the contents page where that there were enough images to fill the contents page without leaving any spaces.  

School magazine front page and contents page

Magazine front page

Contents page

Magazine photographs

I used this image for an article

I used this image for the contents page

I used this image for the contents page

I used this image for the contents page

I didn't use this for the front cover image

I used this as the front cover image

I didn't use this

I didn't use this

I used this for the contents page

School Magazine Sketches

School magazine front cover

Scool magazine contents page

School magazine planning

Plans for the school magazine

School...
pens, pencils, pencilcase, uniform, fun, friends, boring, work, paper, tables, class, teachers, lunch, food, people, eyes, blackboard, whiteboard, languages, science, math, english, art, paint, scruffy, tie, shirt, shoes, burgers

Regulars
Why our school? Sunday
Drama, drama
Teacher talk
Newest clubs

Feature articles
Lunch fun
NUMBER NINJA
Get involved
Clubs!
Learn your way
Arrr Mr Pirate

Annotations of music magazines

Here I have annotated a music magazine. I found that this magazine followed the codes and conventions of music magazines.

Codes and conventions of a magazine contents page

A magazine contents page is laid out in columns, usually 3 or 4 columns.

There is one main picture relating to the feature article an there are other smaller pictures with page numbers on them which anchors them to the written contents.

The name of the magazine is at the top with the word contents and the issue date, subscription ad contact information. There is sometimes an editor’s letter.

The contents page is divided into categories and headings of regulars features of the magazine, which appear regularly and features which will only appear in the issue.

An image of the front cover of the magazine is usually on the contents page and the contents has a simple color scheme like the front page.

Contents are written with the page number and one or two words which could be the artists name or ambiguous text to intrigue the reader in bold type, often capital letters.

The sub lines give more specific details about what the article is about. Smaller font in roman (no bigger than 11pt, the headline is usually average of 12 or 13pt)

Photography is credited for the front cover, the main image and the photographs are interesting and vary.

At the bottom is the page number followed by the issue date and the magazine title. There is often a web address and the contents is usually one or two pages. The total number of pages is divisible by four.

The fonts (typeface – look of letters)

There are only two types of font

Serif

A this font is used in articles because it makes it easier to read.
Sans Serif

A this font is usually used for the front cover because it gives it a modern look