Student Magazine Evaluation

The Evaluation Questions:

1.      In what ways does your student magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2.      How does your student magazine represent particular social groups?

3.      What kind of media institution might distribute your student magazine and why?

4.      Who would be the audience for your student magazine?

5.      How did you attract/address your audience?

6.      What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the student magazine?

 

Here are some links to good student evaluations...

http://amysasmediablog1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/student-magazine-evaluation.html
http://danielclewlow-asmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/evaluation-of-preliminary-task.html
http://indiajonesmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/my-evaluation.html

Your evaluation most be completed and posted on your blog by Friday 9 October.

Magazine ideas

Creative Bloq have an really interesting article on what they feel were the best magazine covers of 2014:

You can read the full article here: http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/13-best-magazine-covers-2014-121411963


Fubiz also have their own opinion on the best covers of 2014:

http://www.fubiz.net/en/2014/12/19/the-best-magazine-covers-of-2014/thetime/

• Which is your favorite any why?

• Any ideas that you could use for your student magazine? E.g. fonts, layout, house style, images...etc....

Directed Study next week

Spend at least 1 hour designing your Student Magazine - front cover and contents page, before our lesson next Friday (2nd Oct).

You have two choices:

1. The free and best option - come and work in P35 anytime you like.

2. Download the Free Adobe Trial - 30 days of all of the Adobe Creative Cloud Products or you can choose just InDesign or Photoshop:

http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads.html 

Any problems, then please let me know!

Useful links for magazine design

http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-music-magazine-cover-in-indesign--vector-1052

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/adobe-indesign/how-design-magazine-cover-with-pantone-colours-spot-varnishes/#6

Links to student magazines

Here are some examples of real student magazines that you can use to analyse:

https://www.eastridingcollege.ac.uk/students/student-magazine

http://www.gloscol.ac.uk/student-and-parent-guide/the-students-union/the-hub-magazine/

http://issuu.com/ps-zineplymouth

http://issuu.com/reaseheath/docs/coverage_5

http://issuu.com/oaklandscollege/docs/college_life

http://issuu.com/oaklandscollege/docs/college_life_lr-_06-01-2014

http://issuu.com/reaseheath

http://issuu.com/hshippam/docs/14_10_-_magazine_-_web_-_artwork

 

Remember:

• You only need to analyse the Front Cover & Contents Page

• You will be rewarded for if you use lots of Media / Magazine terminology

• You must include a copy of the front cover and contents page in your blog post.

Student Magazines Examples

Past Ludlow Student Magazines Examples

Student magazines from lou80

Research and Planning Tasks

Research and planning tasks to complete by next week:

1. Set up your blog and email your blog address - my email is cottrelll@hlcollege.ac.uk.
This is the address that you see when your on the homepage of your blog. 

My blog address is:


http://mediacourseworkludlowcollege.blogspot.co.uk/

2. Write your first blog post – Introduction to Preliminary Task and Action Plan for Preliminary Task

In your post briefly introduce what you have to do for the task and outline what you are going to be doing each week. The work flow on the first page of this h-out can help you complete the plan.

3. Post your work on the generic conventions of student magazines. This is the work that we did on A3 paper during the lesson. You now need to figure out how you are going to get the A3 piece of paper on to your blogs!

4. Complete your textual analysis of a student magazine (front cover & contents page) that you started during the lesson, and post it on your blogs. If in doubt refer to the handout I gave you during the lesson which includes a good -ish.

5. Target audience research

6. Initial ideas post

7. Experimentation with fonts and colours

8. Mock-ups

All of theses tasks need to be completed by:

Friday 25 September

If in doubt, refer to the handout I gave you during the lesson on Tuesday or Thursday, it's got all of the information you need to complete the tasks.

Preliminary Task Brief

Welcome to our AS Media Coursework blog!

Here's an overview of the preliminary task:

Using Desk Top Publishing (InDesign) and an image manipulation program (Photoshop, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. 

Additionally candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP. 
 

Deadline: Friday 9th  October