Main Task Brief

Brief-

To produce a front cover, contents page and double page spread of a new music magazine for a genre of our choice including original images 

Review

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?-My media production challenges certain form and conventions as I haven't used the typical rule of thirds, there are 3 images and non of them are particularly the main image. There was a lot of text on the front cover. My media product used puff/plugs and a date and issue line.
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?-My media product shows females(as they are the only people I took pictures of to be happy, smart looking, approachable and hard working this is because the images of the two females i have on here are happy and working this shows to he audience that are not of the stereotype of teenage girls are underage and pregnant and the image of the wall are is an image of students working this shows the school promotes a good school work ethic. 
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?-The  media institution of my media product would be the school its self as is  promoting the school to it students and what the school can offer them. 
• Who would be the audience for your media product?- the audience of my media product would be students, staff and maybe parents or even governors. 
• How did you attract/address your audience?-I attracted and addressed my audience as when writing in the column I used direct address, I used puffs/plugs and a competition to grab attention and gave them something that they would enjoy. 
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?-I have learnt that lighting in a picture is very important and what angle the image is a because if the image is taken at the wrong angle its very hard to manipulate and edit. Using layers in photoshop was good because I could change and edit different properties of my product without having to change everything. 

My finished cover and contents page

What I changed and why

Re-done front cover and contents

Feedback

Cover:

• to fix the text over lapping the bottom picture
• to have less text on there to fill grey space under main picture
• to make the main picture bigger 
• add a competition 
• add free give away 

Contents:

• to move acknowledgements down a bit 
• to enlarge and make the leaves more central 

Annotated front cover and contents page

Annotated images

1st edition of school magazine