Evaluation

By Abbi Harris

‘In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions

of media products?’

‘In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?’

Masthead in topSerif font

Masthead in topSerif font

Date Date

Eyes in topleft third,Direct eyeContact, MCU

Eyes in topleft third,Direct, MCU

Plain white background

Strap lines

Strap linesRelatively informal language

Relatively informal language

Feature being on one person (model)

Similarities

‘In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?’

Differences

Inconsistent use of colour in font

Consistent use of font colour

Utilising other forms of mediaIn synergy, social networking options popular amongst target age group

College student, not a-list celebrity

Puff with largely contrasting colours

‘In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?’

Clear white background to show clear font

Clear white background to show clear font

Photos laid out in a formatted way

Photos laid out in a formatted way

Captions with more information

Captions with more information

Similarities

‘In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?’

Differences

More complex graphic design

Vertical unconventional contents header

Blockers to splitup the content

Numbered pictures, more professional than mine

What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of

constructing this product

Camera

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

Being someone who has never used Adobe Photoshop before I have picked up on many different skills including on how to utilise different tools to create texts and to add different effects to them such as the Stroke tool, to make them easier to read.

I also retouched my original photograph by using brightness and contrast adjustments to give an airbrushed and flawless complexion to my model.I used the brush tool to edit

out my background into white, I could have used an easier option for this!

I also learnt that Photoshop works in layers to construct your photo, this is useful as you can conveniently locate each part of your picture and use the eye tool to see whether it looks better with or whatever it

Being able to construct different shapes such as the elliptical for my puff was also very useful.

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

Through experimenting in Indesign with my contents page, I found out how to add the lines around my circular photos to give it a bit of decoration using the Stroke tool.

How I created my vertical text, this I copied from Photoshop and ‘placed’ in Indesign.

I fitted the circles to proportion with the Fit to Proportion tool in the top left, this meant that the photos fit completely inside the elliptical neatly.

I have learnt alot from this preliminary task!