Preliminary Task - Evaluation - Question 7

Looking forward towards your main task, what do you feel you have learnt about the production process that will help you as you approach the full product?

I feel that the production process for the preliminary task went fairly ok. During the production I have found keeping to a time schedule was extremely important if you wanted the task finished in time. As I thought I had all the time in the world towards the end of the production process I was needing extra time, so time managment needs to be improved in order to present the best work up to a good quality. If my drafts had been more thought about I would of found this task a lot easier because my designing process would not had set a time schedule I would have been able to produce a better media product. Now my final versions are complete I  feel that I would want to change the photos I took because I rushed these and they could of been better quality if I managed my time properly. As my magazine was based around Trinity School and religion I could of used more of a variety of images in my media product to show I have used useful research and technology. The time management would definately been one thing I learnt during the production process and definately be more organised with time, when this is down this will allow me to produce a best standard piece of work, this will also help me as I approach the full product.

Preliminary Task - Evaluation - Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of 

constructing this product?

I have studied media studies for two years in GCSE and I feel like I have gained and learnt a good knowledge of Photoshop. I know our preliminary task involved Photoshop which was to edit our images. However the task also involved using Illustrator which I have had not much experience of so my knowledge of this software wasn't up to great standards. As a class we was then introduced to InDesign which was a completely new and had no knowledge of this programme. Though I had not much experience in using the different softwares I didn't have a good understanding of taking professional like images but by taking many varities of shots I was able to gain more of an understanding especially when it come to taking a photo that had to be reframed. However I do feel that my knowledge of InDesign, Illustrator and using a camera has improved a vast amount and I will be able to maintain these skills and abilities in the next given task.

Here is a prezi to show my skills and abilities that I learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing my media product: http://prezi.com/eubnglmjarsr/edit/?auth_key=7ivmfsv&follow=zxwa4r06ypup

 

Here is also previous work that I used with different technologies:

 

Preliminary Task - Evaluation - Question 5

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Here is a video explaining who would be the audience for my media product.

Preliminary Task - Evaluation - Question 4

How did you attract/address your audience? 

I asked students to review and comment my media product. The audience were asked to comment on what they found attractive and what attracted them to the magazine. A Wordle image has been created to show the good comments of the final and drafts of my media products.

  

During the designing I have thought about what different elements would be used to attract and address the audience:

I have used the institution of school to attract and address the audience this is done by making sure my images follow this. I emphasised this by the children  in the image wearing school uniform. This reflects that the school take pride in their environment and everyone in the school is an equal part. This also shows who the targeted audience is by the children doing their work and what type of environment they are in and by the cover lines its introducing the audience to go to the school chapel which highlights the what type of audience will be reading.


I have also attracted/addressed the audience by using particular furniture and code and conventions that will want the audience to read on, this is shown by using cover lines to engage the reader to find out whats going on at Trinity School. Also images I have included on my media products will attract the audience by using an image of their work, which will make the audience (school children) feel like they are involved in the school community.

Preliminary Task - Evaluation - Question 3

What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why?

My magazine front cover and contents page has a targets Secondary School children. However other audiences such as, primary school children may take an interest as they are looking for a Secondary School to attend.  Also staff or adults of the pupils could also be interested in reading the magazine. The kind of institution that might distribute my media product is a local church because of the religious theme my magazine front cover and contents page has created. Although Primary schools may also want to distribute my media product because the year 6 group are looking for a secondary school so this will inform them of what Trinity School is about within the school itself.

Below is a link of a Primary school that would be a useful distribution of my media product because they follow the C of E school community just like Trinity.

http://www.stmichaels-eastwickham-ce-school.co.uk/

Preliminary Task - Evaluation - Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Here is my video of me showing how my media product represents particular social groups.

Preliminary Task - Evaluation - Question 1

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

I have demonstrated this question by using annotated magazine front cover page and contents page. I have annotated professional and my designed front cover and contents page these have have been labeled and explained with the use of why codes and conventions are followed. Below is the final version of my front cover page and contents page, they have been annotated to show what codes and conventions were used, developed or challenged forms and conventions of the real media products, also shown below.



Preliminary Task - Final Versions

These are the final versions of my front cover and contents page of a school magazine. I have toke note of the comments made by the students and then I improved aspects of my work until I was left with error free versions.

My front designed cover of a school magazine:



My final designed contents page of school magazine:

Preliminary Task - Development - Draft Version (Front Page)

This is my draft version of my cover page. The draft is going to be evaluated and then students will be asked to comment on the draft, commenting on what is a good aspect and what could be improved.

My opinion towards the front page was I found it not very organised, it seemed like images were being placed randomly and the lure's were over-powering the background image. The background image was iconogrpahy to Trinity School. The images I felt didn't really look superior so I decided I was going to move them into my contents page.

Preliminary Task - Development - Draft Version (Contents Page)

This is my draft version of my contents page. The draft is going to be evaluated and then students will be asked to comment on the draft, commenting on what is a good aspect and what could be improved.

My opinion towards my draft copy of the contents I found this very 'busy' and unorganised. In my final copy I was going to rearrange the images to make the magazine contents more superior.

Students point-of-view:

Louis Irving -
Shannon's contents page I found was good but also included bad points such as, she should include few less images. The good points were the pictures of people engaging in worship or having fun during prayers or school activities follows the institution well and the variation of images was good.

Nick Porter -
The good points about the contents page as followed are clear title, good use of lures, pictures are spread out well, clear references to the genre and good use of consistent font.
However, the bad points of the contents page include, the table being unattractive/not very nice looking, the lures are good but could include more and the there is some dead space.

Eden Tanner -
In this contents page Shannon showed good and bad points in her work. The good included, the use of shapes for the images and the use of the logo as it was a consistent reminder of the school and it emphasises iconography.

Robin Saker -
I found Shannon's work not very good as I found quite a few bad points such as, lack of line-bordering on the featured photography, the font for the contents is too stretched and I think Shannon could add approriate coloured boxes for featured titles/labels.

Kieran Cottingham -
Whilst reviewing Shannon's developmental draft, I have found the good and bad points. The good points consisted of the colour scheme as it represents the housestyle for Trinity school and this makes the copy easy for the audience to read. One bad point that the draft has is that there are to many images all pushed together and this makes it hard to look at each one indivdually.

Harry Stone -
I like the layout of the contents page, I think that it is inviting and attractive. I do believe that the there are to many pictures on the page. This can make the page look to busy and overpowering. The images could also be made to stand out more. Using an outline or shadow would make them more attractive.

Preliminary Task - Development - Chosen images

The link below is to the Prezi I created in order to show the images that I have chosen and edited in order to put on my magazine cover or contents.

http://prezi.com/efrhnhx_wmox/edit/?auth_key=9ojs4iu&follow=zxwa4r06ypup

Preliminary Task - Development - Original photography

Here is a selection of my original images that I took for my magazine. I took serval of shots of images that I knew what I was going to use as I kept the images the same as my draft versions. I particularly concentrated on 'religion' as this was going to follow the institution of my magazine.

The link below shows my selection of images in prezi:

http://prezi.com/gew3nrsdwtfv/edit/?auth_key=azxxhrz&follow=zxwa4r06ypup

Preliminary Task - Development - Drafts of Contents Page

Here are my three hand-drawn drafts of contents page. I designed these drafts of contents school magazine which appealed to the specific target audience. The analysis of existing contents pages helped me get an idea of layout designs. I then used different aspects from different magasinzes that improved my drafts and was going to help create my final version.

I have created these drafts using  furniture and codes and conventions from the existing contents pages, which I analysed which then helped me gain ideas for the final version. The furniture and codes and conventions helped improved the design impact towards the audience includes by using images to make the page look more attractive, which encourages the audience to view the magazine. Both front and contents drafts have an on-going colour motif; blue, red and yellow.

Preliminary Task - Development - Drafts of Front Covers

These are my hand-drawn drafts of school magazine front covers. I designed these drafts after analysing other school magazines. Analysing the front covers of magazines helped me gain ideas and aspects of how I was going to design my draft versions, I particularly looked at the targeted audience whilst designing.

These are the three drafts that follow the targeted audience. I looked at codes and conventions from my research which include the mast-head across the top of the page and lure, the information for the front cover. For the title I will use the font style ‘Trajon Pro’ I choose this font because I think its clear and stands out, which will attract the audience. However the lure I have not yet chosen yet as I will look once designing to see what suits the layout of the magazine front cover.