Media Studies

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?    My media product is a fashion magazine and to create my fashion magazine I looked at real magazines and analysed what each magazine had and it helped me create my magazine. My layout is similar to a real fashion magazine and it looks realistic too. My media product does have the conventions of a real media product as it has mostly everything a fashion magazine would have. My magazine contains a fair amount of cover lines and has a nice clear masthead. My masthead is eye catching as it pops out to my reader. I have used a small graphic to make it look even more realistic with a little help from some fashion magazines that I found online which helped me think what sort of graphic I would like to have on my magazine and how it would fit with my house style. 2. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation st...

This is my final product that I have created using Photoshop.

These are my test shots that i took before i started to take my magazine pictures. As I was taking these i thought about the angles and poses that my picture should have. I thought about the lighting as well and made sure that my models facial features were clear to see. Most of these shots were a little of having fun and trying out new ways that would probably be good for my magazine pictures. These shots were taken in the studio with limited lighting but it was great to explore the shots that I took as I got experience by taking pictures with the school camera and to try and experiment with different angles and shots.