As media preliminary task
- 1. AS Media Preliminary Task Preliminary Task- Cover and contents of a college magazine 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
- 2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Front cover similarities- Masthead Dominant MCU image using rule of thirds Cover lines Both have a background matching the colour scheme
- 3. Front cover differences- My mast head is rounded and the VOGUE mast head is over the image whereas my image is underneath The VOGUE front cover has cover lines on both sides whereas mine only has them on the left My image the girl is looking towards the camera front on whereas the VOGUE magazine her body is turned away from the camera but her head turned towards it creating a more mysterious effect I have used banners at the top and bottom whereas this one hasn’t included them
- 4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Contents Page Both include mast head titles Use sub headings to help reader Both include page numbers Both include images to attract reader Both include the date issued in the top right corner
- 5. Contents page differences- My contents includes 3 little images whereas VOGUE is one main image, by using one main image it is as if that person is welcoming the reader and telling them what to expect A lot more text is on the VOGUE contents page whereas mine states the page titles VOGUE gives more extra information My titles have banners behind them whereas VOGUE’s doesn’t VOGUE contents page doesn’t include a banner
- 6. What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product Digital Camera We used a digital camera to take the original images that we were potentially going to use in our contents and front cover magazine, we could then upload them onto the computer ready to edit in the other programmes We used adobe Photoshop CS6