Evaluation.

My front cover develops the codes and conventions by having things that a normal magazine would have. This includes a title that is a larger font than any other form of writing on the page. It has a main image to tell you what the main story is in the magazine and it has smaller images with captions to give you an idea of what stories are in the magazine before you buy it. My school magazine front cover also has a price on it. This develops the codes and conventions of a real media product. My magazine front cover however does challenge the codes and conventions of a magazine front cover because it does not have a barcode on it. I thought I would not include a barcode on this piece of work because it is only for school use and not being sold in mass production. There is also the schools website and the issue number of the magazine on the front cover of my school magazine. My school magazine front cover and contents page conform to the codes and conventions of a magazine.

My contents page was made in Quark. It has 'contents' written at the top and in a larger font than everything else. It also has a picture of the front cover with numbers by each smaller image to show what page each story is on. Underneath this my contents page continues to develop the codes and conventions by having 3 columns each containing page numbers and a paragraph going into a little bit of detail about the story the buyer of the magazine can read. The contents page repeats information that the front cover has on it such as the school website and the issue number. My contents page has two letters in the right hand corner under the title. One letter is from the editor of the magazine while the other is a letter from the headteacher of the school. These letters would proceed to be in the school magazine every week to conform to the codes and conventions of a contents page.

I manipulated my final image in photoshop and then put a background to it and cropped in smaller images to make my front cover. My contents page was made in Quark. Tools used in this were the text box, picture box and the linking tool to move my text over to the next column to fit everything in. The tools I used in Quark were mostly basic as I didn't need anything else to create the contents page of my magazine.

The strengths of the products are that they conform to the codes and conventions of a magazine front cover and a contents page. Each product has certain things such as a masthead that is a larger font than all of the other writing. The weaknesses of my products are that because it was a preliminary task for the start of this course I have not been able to make it as best I can to reflect what I could do.

The strengths of using new media technologies are that I managed to create a product even when using a program such as Quark for the very first time. I had already used photoshop before but Quark was completely new. However the weaknesses are that some of the tools took me longer to use than others as I had not used Quark before such as scaling the image into a picture box.