Media Studies:

Evaluation Questions

Questions for evaluation:
Who would be the audience for your magazine?
How does your magazine represent particular social groups?
In what ways does your magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real (music) magazines?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Screen Shots

My Final Magazine

Overall I am quiet impressed with my final magazine turn out, it was difficult using PhotoShop at the start and figuring out how i could use my new knowledge of camera angles and lighting to my advantage, but in the end it all worked out and i was pleased with my final result.

Preliminary Task

At the start of the year for my AS Media Studies, i was assigned a task, which was to create a magazine for students. I chose to do it on helping children from year 11 adjusting into 6th form life. This was the first time i was doing something of the sort, by starting off like this it helped me learn new skills, i learnt a few brief conventions of magazines in order to help me with constructing my own magazine. However, my Preliminary Task was not too much of a success, my final magazine helped me to use many different skills.

We were told to use Publisher in order to do our Preliminary Task, whereas i did my final magazine using PhotoShop.

That is the main difference, and by using different programmes you can see a huge change in the quality of both my magazines.

Throughout the process of this course i have learnt to use PhotoShop and also developed on my camera skills, and learnt about many different magazines and how much thought goes into every single little detail which is put at the front or inside the magazine.