Prelim Evaluation

In my media product i have had to develop on a lot of my ideas one example of my developing was that on my magazine cover my model for the main image was wearing a dress and the background was all white, but i changed this on my professional magazine because i wanted my model to look like a "casual" "trendy" college student just stood in the park which, is an attraction to a lot of the college students. The white in my magazine symbolises calmness and purity suggesting that the college is a chilled out relaxed place to study. I have used the colour purple in my magazing which can imply a sense of royality and luxury in attending queen elizabeth college, i have also included the colour green in my magazine which can influence maybe the idea that other students from other colleges should be jelous of QE students and also the colour green can suggest the idea that QE is environmentaly friendly.


I feel that my media product represents different social groups because on my front cover i have an image of my model as a "typical" teengaer which most of the QE students are she is porttrayed wearing trendy but yet casual clothes this is what most QE students wear. I have used this for the front of my magazing because it suggests to students that it is a magazine for normal people who are like them.


The audience for my media product would primarly be aimed at the college students where there ages variey from 16-18 years, i think that my magazine is directed at both male and female audience's because it gives information which is aimed at both sex's. The interests of my target audiene is what a general teenager is interested in music, fashion socializing, college etc.. I attracted my audience by using bright colours and a bold font this will easily catch my audiences eye. My model on the front cover of my magazine is photographed in Stanope Park which is the park opposite the college this is a place were a lot of students "hang-out" out the majority mainly on a lunch time or break time, this can show my audience that this magazine is purposed to the majority of Queen Elizabeth not just the people at college that are stereotyped as "Geeks".


Whilst constructing my prelim i have learnt different ways in which doing my work, I have learnt  this by using different software's that I was unaware of until I started my project like indesign and photo shop which i had never used also blogger, i have found all these softwares very useful in the process of completing my work one thing i found very useful was the fact that you can insert sell lines into your work so that you could make it neat and straight. I had never used apple macs before creating my media product i feel that i have benefited from using them because they are very good in helping me in the work that i had to complete. The cameras that i used for my front cover of my magazine were very good and helped the whole look of my magazine dramatically with theire high resolution and a large mega pixel which was a lot better than say using a camera on a normal camera which usually has a low mega pixel or say a mobile phone in which the quality of the photographs is usually very poor. Overall i feel that the technology I have used had benefited my work by making it look a lot more presentable but also enabling me to do my work step by step in easy ways.

Prelim

Prelim Flatplans

The colours that I have chosen for my flat plan are pink green and blue, the reason that i have chose these particular colours are because they are bright and are bold so therefore it will catch my target audiences eye, i did not highlight my main cell line in colour because i want it to be bold and black so that it will stand out more, although i have highlighted to of my other cell lines and rotated one of them so that it will be more noticeable. I have used the colour pink to show that it is a feminine and flirtatious colour and also included the colour blue which is quite masculine but also quite sensitive, to show that it is a college were boys and girls attend. The colour green i have applied to my front cover can show to other college's that they may envy the college.

The layout automatically portrays an idea to my audience what my magazine is about my mast head is bold and large font i have deliberately made the large font so that it will be easily reconisable as being the title of my magazine.

I have decided that i will take and image of a young girl dressed in a good fashion to convey an image to my readers that this college is quite fashionable.

These are some examples of the fonts i am choosing to use for my mast head:

This is a comic book style of font which would make the college look more fun.

This font is more classic and would be good to be used as a college font as it is the font used by many american colleges, and i think that it would look classy used as my font for my mast head.

My contents page is very simple as i do not want it to be very busy and fussy, i have chosen my mast head to be bold and the font size being large to catch my audiences attention, i am going to include certain images of the college in my contents page. One change i would make to my content page would be to highlight each content that i have included on my contents page but also make the font size larger so that it stands out more and will be more noticeable. The articles are listed down the side of my contents page.