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Rock Sound Media Pack



 

Rock Sound 2012 Media Pack from CrudgeRockSound

Evaluation

    My magazine front cover uses some of the forms and conventions of real media products because my cover uses 1 main image only and from previous research, the majority of magazines on the market use only 1 main image. My cover page also contains many coverlines and a masthead at the top of the page. Another thing that my magazine cover follows is that it has an issue number and issue date at the top and a price.
My contents page not only follows some of these codes and conventions but challenges some of these because my contents page doesn't have a larger main image and the images have no relation to any of the content but is more advertising purposes. On the other hand, my contents page does use a column layout.

I used new media technologies, for example photoshop to construct the cover page of my product because photoshop is simple to use and its is easy to layer images and text together and easy to import images into the product. For the contents page, i used quark express because its simple to use and we could set guidelines to follow as contents pages all follow a column layout and this software allows us to create text and images that will fit into these guidelines.
   
    The strengths and weaknesses of the product and new media technologies is that with this, we can change and manipulate images to suit our needs and we can easily layer text over the top of images to make our magazine covers. Another Strength of using new media technologies is that we can produce accurate work quickly. the strengths of my product are that is uses many of the forms and conventions of real media products, which makes my product look like a real magazine. Some of the weaknesses of my product are that my cover doesn't have enough detail on it. My cover needs More coverlines and more information regarding regular and feature content.
  
  To make my product better i could try to keep a consistent colour scheme throughout my cover page and my contents page.

Final contents page:

Cover page

Final cover page:

Magazine images

These are the pictures that i took to use om the front cover of my magazine and the contents page:
                                                                 COVER IMAGE

CONTENTS PAGE IMAGES

Cover and contents plan

PLAN FOR COVER PAGE AND CONTENTS PAGE

Magazine plan

Planning for college magazine

Title: CAMPUS
Mise en scene: Medium close up of a student smiling in front of one of the college buildings, smiling and looking directly at the camera.
COVERLINES:
"ten top tips for good grades"
"meet the college council"
"PLUS map of the college"
"where to hang out"

CONTENT:
Feature content:
-students of the month
-menu list and pricing
-revision and study tips
-subject information
Regular content:
-start of term tips
-enrichment information
-college band
-places to hang out
-staff of each department
-map of college
-list of courses
-where to eat outside of college
-travel information
-clubs and other activities
-student council

IMAGES TO BE USED:
-front of the crescent building
-students working in the LRC
-students sat in the crescent cafe

Camera angles task

media camera angles from jacquesASmedia

Codes and conventions

CODES AND CONVENTIONS

All magazine front covers follow a set of codes and conventions. these codes and conventions are:

-1 main image.
-masthead at the top.
-issue date.
-price.
-coverlines.
-sometimes puffs.
-bar code .
-1 main storyline .
-bright colours/and rage of colours.
-self advertising.



Contents page:

-column layout
-smaller images
-page numbers
-title
-larger sized image

Brief

BRIEF

preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation programme, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

MAIN TASK: The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text must be original, produced by the candidates, minimum of four images per candidate.