Evaluation

Firstly I produced a school magazine as my preliminary task for A-level media studies. Then I researched other school magazines to examine the way in which they are presented, such as texts, layouts, language, pictures pages etc. in the magazine. This research helped me a great deal to produce and create my school magazine as I was able to get a many idea's in the way that a successful school magazine is developed and produced.  

The Conventions that I have observed in the terms of the design and the use of imagery is that every school magazine is designed and text language to the right target audience, which means that the font and the use of language are right for the target audience. The use of imagery that is mostly used in a school magazine is pictures of students, teachers, student’s school work and the school building itself. They have made it so the angle in the pictures is good so it makes the magazine look professional. 

I wanted to achieve all of this in my magazine, that’s why I set out to include all the research I did in my magazine to produce an outstanding piece of work to the best of my ability. My target audience for a school magazine are students and staff that attend or work at the school, parents of the students and the community of where the school is located such as local shops etc. Also the government of the borough and school will be interested as well. I have to remember who my target audience are so I put the right information in to attract them, I attracted my audience by including relevant and interesting things that will appeal to everyone;  so in the magazine there will be different parts which appeal to different types of target audience.

For example I have a page which is based on sport which will apply to most teenagers  which is most of the students,  I have also created an issue and information page which more intentionally staff and parents will be attracted to. I have also made sure that I haven’t made the layout and design of the magazine to formal and boring but yet haven’t made it too childish so everyone will be interested and be able to read it. While creating this media product, I have learnt how to use a different range of software’s to design and create my final piece. I have learnt to experiment with new tools on the computers software’s such as editing photo's, layouts and texts and adding effects aswell as pictures.

I have always been computer literal and very creative with my design work but I feel that experiencing different software’s has increased my level of knowledge about design work and technology you may use as I never used to be able to do any of this. Having created a school magazine for my preliminary task, I have learnt the basics and the knowledge of how to create a magazine using computer software, digital cameras and my own creative mind. I feel that I could manage the time and deadlines alot better in this task as I was a bit behide of some of the tasks that needed to be completed but with determination and effort I was able to complete the preliminary task and to the best of my ability