Evaluation Of Preliminary Task
I have made my magazine so that it looks like what a real school magazine would look like. I have managed to do this by looking at different school magazines and seeing what techniques they use to make their magazine so successful. I decided that for the front page one image would work best. This would be a medium close up of students. The cover should also have the school crest on the front to identify it as being a school magazine. I discovered that this is what most school magazines look like, and so therefore I decided that my magazine would be successful like them. I had to be careful not to make my magazine look like a school prospectus rather than a magazine though, as it would not be as successful or attractive if this happened.
My magazine is for an all girls secondary school, therefore my target audience is girls aged 11-18. I have looked at the colours, activities, etc that girls at this age like and used this to help design my magazine. There are many different social groups between girls of this age, and so therefore I had to try to make my magazine appeal to all of these. To do this I used the house colours of purple and gold for all text on my front cover and contents page.
My magazine would be sold in the school. it would be a cheap magazine as it is for students, and it won’t sell if it is too expensive. I don’t think that my magazine would be sold in shops as you wouldn’t find a school magazine there.
The audience for my media product (school magazine) would be girls aged 11-18. This is because it is a magazine for an all girls secondary school.
I have attracted this audience to my magazine by using colours that I think most girls aged 11-18 would like and also using images that would relate to them. I have also used a serif text that I think is appropriate for a girls school magazine. This makes the magazine appear more elegant and personal.
By making my school magazine I have learnt some different things about the technologies that are available for me to use. I knew quite a lot already from using the programmes before. I have discovered different ways to do the text to make it more interesting and appealing. For example giving the text a background, or outlining the text with a different colour so that it is easier to read. I have also learnt how to erase parts of pictures to make them look better, and also how to make a school crest using different shapes and colours.
Looking back at my preliminary task I now have ideas on how to make my full product more successful. I could experiment with the photos I take, having different types of pictures such as close ups, long shots and medium close ups. I could also change the affects on the camera making the images black and white etc. I could also experiment with colours, making things darker/lighter and merging different colours to give different effects.
