The document provides information about a media product and what was learned from constructing it.
It first discusses how the media product compares to real media products in terms of its front cover, masthead, cover lines, fonts, and positioning of images. It also notes some differences like the lack of a barcode.
Next, it examines the contents page and notes similarities like listings of page contents and images, but differences in the number of images used and color scheme.
The last section discusses the software and resources used, including editing a photo in Photoshop by cropping and adjusting contrast. It also describes framing an image in InDesign by drawing a box and adding a drop shadow.
2. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. What have you learnt about the technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
3. Front Cover - Similarities
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Masthead
Cover Lines
Dominant
Image
4. Front Cover - Differences
• Different masthead and
cover lines
• Colour scheme – my
colours are more
neutral to both genders
• Fonts and text sizes –
the ones on the real
media product look
more sophisticated and
professional.
• Barcode – mine does
not have a barcode as it
is a free magazine
• Positioning of image
• Use of a competition to
attract customers
• Pose of model – the
real media product has
a model with a more
arrogant pose to go with
the theme of that
magazine.
5. Contents Page - Similarities
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• ‘Contents’ title
• Brief
description on
what is on each
page, with
page numbers
• Text which
highlights front
cover features
• Images
6. Contents Page – Differences
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• I have used 4
images on my
contents page
whereas the real
media product has
only one main
image and one
smaller images
which looks neater
and more
professional.
• The colour scheme
on the real media
product is clean and
simple as it is
consistent, but my
contents page has
random colours
scattered
throughout the
pages which doesn’t
look as attractive.
• The large use of
blue on my contents
page could be
associated with a
‘male colour’
8. Software/Resources Used
What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The image on the left is the original
image which I took on my digital camera.
On the right is the finished image after I
used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to edit it.
I edited this picture by cropping it so that
the main focus was the student, not the
background. I also lowered the contrast
to make the picture look sharper.
9. Software/Resources Used
What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The image on the right is an image which I
had already edited on Adobe Photoshop.
The image on the right is the final image
which I used in my magazine after using
Adobe Indesign CS6 to edit it some more.
I added a frame around the image by
drawing a rectangular box which was
slightly larger than the image and I
formatted the box then placed the image on
top of it and arranged it so it was on top. I
then added a drop shadow to the image to
give make it look as though it was actually
in a 3D frame.
