Wednesday 13 October 2010
Tuesday 12 October 2010
SCHOOL MAGAZINE EVALUATION
my school magazine front cover and contents page follows the form and conventions of a typical magazine.
It contains a masthead at the top to show the title and could also show the genre of the magazine, also the main image on the front of the magazine is one person.This person is surrounded by feature titles to show the reader what is inside the magazine. this could also show the genre of the magazine. my front cover also contained the issue number which was number 1 this could show that it is a fresh new magazine, however it could also show how established the magazine is and if it is successful or not.. It also shows the price and a bar code. In my opinion my magazine could challenge the form and conventions of a magazine as school magazine are not sold in a newsagents however they are sold in the school.
On my contents i also used the form and conventions such as having columns to break down different sections in the magazine such as 'charity' and 'clubs' and a masthead at the top of the page indicating it was the contents. i also used a bold font to make the page numbers clear. I also used action pictures connoting a article such as 'Weatherhead's new restaurant' i took a picture of the cafeteria and placed a page number on it to show what page it would be placed on.
The new media technologies that i used to construct my media project was adobe photo-shop and quark express i used the the different software to have an understanding of how different they could be and what similarities and differences they have.
i used photo-shop to create my front cover, which i have used before to create different magazines for projects in school. photo-shop allowed me to open pictures and edit them and also to create titles and had a variety of different fonts to use. you could also cut out photo's in photo-shop and put them on a different background which i thought was helpful.I used quark express to create my contents this however i have never used but i thought it was similar to photoshop i could also create titles, However it couldn't cut a photo and put in on a different background or edit the pictures also there wasn't a variety of different fonts to use which i thought was disappointing. However it was better than photoshop to create a contents as the columns paced on the page helped alot.
My strengths and weaknesses of both my front cover and contents page were; in photoshop even though i have used it before i forgot how to create certain things or forgot what button did what on the tool bar, which i thought slowed me down. however when i got used to photoshop it was really easy to use, and personally i thought it was easier than quark express which at the start was difficult to use and confused me alot. However once i was shown how to create a title and to move things around i slowly got to understand quark express and could be as easy as photoshop to use.
Overall i think i have done quite well on my preliminary task, and any errors that i have made such as not saving my work properly can help me in my main task to make sure i dont do it again. I will also be alot quicker in quark express and photoshop as i have had practice and got used to the software's.
It contains a masthead at the top to show the title and could also show the genre of the magazine, also the main image on the front of the magazine is one person.This person is surrounded by feature titles to show the reader what is inside the magazine. this could also show the genre of the magazine. my front cover also contained the issue number which was number 1 this could show that it is a fresh new magazine, however it could also show how established the magazine is and if it is successful or not.. It also shows the price and a bar code. In my opinion my magazine could challenge the form and conventions of a magazine as school magazine are not sold in a newsagents however they are sold in the school.
On my contents i also used the form and conventions such as having columns to break down different sections in the magazine such as 'charity' and 'clubs' and a masthead at the top of the page indicating it was the contents. i also used a bold font to make the page numbers clear. I also used action pictures connoting a article such as 'Weatherhead's new restaurant' i took a picture of the cafeteria and placed a page number on it to show what page it would be placed on.
The new media technologies that i used to construct my media project was adobe photo-shop and quark express i used the the different software to have an understanding of how different they could be and what similarities and differences they have.
i used photo-shop to create my front cover, which i have used before to create different magazines for projects in school. photo-shop allowed me to open pictures and edit them and also to create titles and had a variety of different fonts to use. you could also cut out photo's in photo-shop and put them on a different background which i thought was helpful.I used quark express to create my contents this however i have never used but i thought it was similar to photoshop i could also create titles, However it couldn't cut a photo and put in on a different background or edit the pictures also there wasn't a variety of different fonts to use which i thought was disappointing. However it was better than photoshop to create a contents as the columns paced on the page helped alot.
My strengths and weaknesses of both my front cover and contents page were; in photoshop even though i have used it before i forgot how to create certain things or forgot what button did what on the tool bar, which i thought slowed me down. however when i got used to photoshop it was really easy to use, and personally i thought it was easier than quark express which at the start was difficult to use and confused me alot. However once i was shown how to create a title and to move things around i slowly got to understand quark express and could be as easy as photoshop to use.
Overall i think i have done quite well on my preliminary task, and any errors that i have made such as not saving my work properly can help me in my main task to make sure i dont do it again. I will also be alot quicker in quark express and photoshop as i have had practice and got used to the software's.
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