Prelim Evaluation

1.In What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? ( To answer this question you should compare and contrast your magazine cover with a professional one, discussing photography (shot distance, props, use of lighting, costume and pose), page layout, use of font, use of colour and the content of the sell lines.)


Photography- my picture is of a Q.E student, wearing just smart comfortable clothes. The shot distance is a medium close up, showing his head, arms and body down to his hips. Comparing this to a professional magazine the shot distance is more or less the same, sometimes professional magazines just have the face of a celebrity also. We didn't use any props, this is because i wanted it just simple, also we only used natural lighting, this is because it would look less poesy and so on. The pose he used was just natural, and was actually a mistake, i thought it just looked naturally and quite good, compared to a poesy one. The picture on the contents just looks smart and cool, making the students have a good impression on the magazine. 
Page Layout- The page layout is simple and like many professional magazines, it firstly has a skyline following the masthead, and underneath of that to the left is the bar code and to the right is my image. Following on from that all the way down the left hand side of the magazine is my sell lines, and to the right of them is my image.
Use Of Font- I used three different fonts that i thought were trendy and right for my audience, i used the same font for my skyline, masthead, and ab it on some sell lines. The i used a different one in one of my sell lines and then another different one in two of my sell lines. I carried all of these fonts on into my contents page. Use of colour is also important and i used red, grey, black and white, i thought these colours would stand out, catch peoples eye and they are also trendy and not over the top.