AS MEDIA UNIT G321AS MEDIA UNIT G321

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COVER AND CONTENTS OF COVER AND CONTENTS OF A COLLEGE MAGAZINEA COLLEGE MAGAZINE

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1. In what ways does your media product use, 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge formsdevelop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? and conventions of real media products? 2. What have you learnt about the technologies from 2. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?the process of constructing this product?

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

products?products?

THE FRONT COVER-SIMILARITIESTHE FRONT COVER-SIMILARITIES

Masthead – big bold writing

Block cover lines

Selling line

Barcodes in the bottom left third

Main image using the ‘rule of thirds’

Differences between the two front covers

The main image for the college magazine is under the writing, but ‘Vibe’ the main image is on top the masthead.

The cover lines are also different.

The colours used are different.

The image I used of a student, he is smiling showing he is happy and enjoying college.

Drake is a rap artist he is showing that he is serious and means business.

My barcode is horizontal and the ‘Vibe’ magazine one is vertical.

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

products?products?

Contents – SimilaritiesContents – Similarities

Both have ‘contents’ in big bold writing.

The backgrounds for both are light plain back grounds.

Both have a selection of images including one main one

Difference between the two content pages

The layout for both the content pages are different.

There are more images in the ‘Kerrang’ magazine than my magazine.

The colours are different in both magazines.

The ‘Kerrang’ magazine has subheadings mine does not.

The ‘Kerrang’ magazine has captions under the images, my magazine does not have captions.

What have you learnt about the technologies from the What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?process of constructing this product?

I have learnt to use Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. I had never used either of these software's before. These software’s are time consuming and challenging but I managed to complete the tasks I was given. I used a digital camera; I took a selection of MCU’s.

Adobe PhotoShopI used PhototShop to make my student look like a model as though he was airbrushed and perfect. I did this by changing the contrast and lighting on the image.I used the patching effect to perfect the blotches on the skin that the student had.I also used the whitener to white his teeth.I also cropped the bottom bit of the image.I added a slight blur effect to the background of the image.

Adobe InDesignI used this software to make my contents page.I should have adapted the images in Adobe PhotoShop before I added them to the content page.I resized all the images to the right size so I could add them to my magazine.I could have made my content page more appealing to my core audience. It looks boring a dull.