Evaluation of School Magazine

I believe that my school magazine does not challenge other media products as it follows the same structure as other magazine media products because it follows the Left Third rule and uses big bold texts  on the cover page etc. As the school magazine follows the same rules I can only come to the conclusion that my school magazine does not challenge other media products.

My media product does mainly represents the academic social group or the "nerds" of the school as that is who my target audience is aimed at as the media product mainly informs the reader of academic events happening at Idsall. However, it does target the adventurous social group of Idsall as it informs the reader of the Peru expedition which is sporty not academic.

This media product mainly addresses the older academic students in the school by only reporting about academic events and stories mostly because other events such as sport competitions might not appeal to the stereotypical academic student. By writing about academic topics and events, it attracted the target audience that I desired so by writing academic stories, it attracted the academic students.

From this media product, I have learnt many technological techniques such as lighting effects, background editing and gradients. Lighting effect techniques helped me greatly as the images I took sometimes are quite dark and I would have to retake the image myself which only creates hassle for me. The lighting effects helped me greatly as I was able to lighten my media product instead of retaking it. The background editing helped a lot as well as instead of editing certain objects out of the background, I could simply edit out the background entirely which clearly helped me remove undesired objects from my main image.  The gradient tool helped me design my media product as it created the sliver banner and faded quality of the media quality which showed me that faded textures could be used in future media products.

The main thing I would do differently would be to add more natural images and colours on the pages as the black background created a very plain school magazine that doesn't really entertain the reader which is against one of my initial aims. As well, looking back I would definitely change the colour scheme I followed for the media product as it limited my creative options and thus limited the quality of the entire media product.