Improved magazine front cover.

As part of this production I have decided to evaluate my final magazine front cover with the following questions:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of school magazines? 

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

How did you attract/address your audience? 

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of school magazines?:

Also each of the coverlines each have something to do with the school, for example the new build. I feel that this helps develop the conventions of the school magazines as the majority of them are education related coverlines or are about the school as a whole. 

The colour scheme is of red, black and white as I think all of these colours contrast well to the main image and is of the school colours. This helps to develop the conventions as I have kept a formal look of the magazine front cover but have made it personal to the school and the students. 

The main image consists of two female sixth form students who are sitting in the hallway of the school. I have used a long shot to help with the mise-en-scene to show they are in a school area. But helps to develop the conventions of a school magazine due to the anchor text to relate to the main image, which is about the sixth form. However I have not made the whole front cover related to the sixthform as it is for the audience of the whole school therefore the coverlines make the front cover more related to the younger pupils and the school as a whole. However the main image does challenge the conventions to an extent as this photo looks very staged and less naturalistic and they do not look happy which may connote negativity but this helps to get people to talk more about the magazine making more people look at it. 

I have included the logo as not many other magazines have an actual logo, the recognition of the magazine is the masthead, therefore I have helped develop the conventions due to using the school logo. It also makes a more niche audience as this is purely for an audience of pupils of Plantsbrook school. 

www.mq.my/10ffd8 -Here is a link to my marqueed which is similar to thinglink which I have explained why I have put each of the conventions on my front cover.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of school magazines? 

How did you attract/address your audience? 

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have made sure that all of the conventions of my contents page follow key conventions of a school magazine contents page so that I target my audience. I have used a semantic field of school vocabulary. This attracts the audience as the words may only be understood by the targeted audience. These are also coverlines of the page that are informative and clear to understand. Also I have made sure that it is easy for the audience to navigate through the magazine by using coverlines and including page numbers next to it so that the audience know what page to go to.

The images are not of actual students as this would not be as exciting for the audience than about the actual school which a lot more people will want to know.
I may have challenged forms of school magazines as I have included links to social media, this is so that the audience can follow updates on their phone about the school. However this could be taken negatively as the audience might feel they are being encouraged to use social media in school.