Media studies: November 2013

PLANS FOR MY MAGAZINE
Magazine name:
Student Life

Priestley Life
Fetialis Aevum- College Life in Latin
The Can'Teen'
Carpe Diem
College Life

How to guarantee yourself an A!
Quick and easy ways to revise!
How to perfect getting into college on time!
Football team does it again!
College events coming up!
Win a free iPad!
How to make sure you meet your deadlines!

FINAL IMAGES FOR MY COLLEGE MAGAZINE

PHOTOGRAPHS FOR MY COLLEGE MAGAZINE

PLANNING CONTENTS:

The content that will regularly feature on my contents page will be interviews with staff and teachers and news about holidays.

"Exclusive on the new building!"

"The football team score a win!"

"How to achieve easy A's!"

"What's the hardest subject in the college? We take a look!"

"How to find your way round the college!"

"is one of our students going to the Olympics?"

"How can you help the college this term?"

"Is there anything you can get involved with?"

"Performing arts put on a masterpiece!"

"Life after college"

COLLEGE MAGAZINE EVALUATION:

The magazine is the first project of it's kind that I have produced, meaning it is the first magazine that I have created. For a first attempt, it is ok as I had little understanding of the tools required yet there could be vast improvements to it. I have incorporated some of the conventions that a magazine typically has like subheadings, a mast head and a cover star. Also it follows a consistent house style on the front cover and the contents page of red white and black so it further follows the conventions of a magazine. The magazine could be improved by making the designs more slick and professional as it is obvious that it is a student project, I would do this by including more conventions on the magazine and making it more original, I think that if I re-did this project at the end of the course my understanding would be better and my magazine would be more developed. One of the tools that I used in this production was an SLR camera, I used this in order to gather photos for my magazine. I took photos of students and key areas around the college so that if it was published it would all be familiar content. Also, I have used Photoshop to design my front cover for the magazine. I used Photoshop so that I could incorporate shapes like poofs in order to add more conventions to my magazine. I also used Quark in this production in order to edit and create a contents page, I used Quark for this as it was not a familiar piece of equipment for me so I had to get practice with it, also it meant that I was then able to shape the columns for my contents. Although, the issue with Quark is that it is difficult to do any design work on it and is mainly for the layout so the contents page was not developed in terms of design.

Media studies

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Music magazines and their conventions

Wednesday 6 November 2013

Preliminary exercise

COLLEGE MAGAZINE EVALUATION:

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Conventions of a magazine and magazine names