Draft Design Example by Hannah Franks

Hannah Franks' work is an example of a professional looking piece of work. This is her draft product. It is successful because she has used the conventions intelligently to suit her magazine genre and target audience perfectly.
This piece of work also highlights how important colour and font choice are in the design process. All three of these products link together as they are following an in-house style. In other words, it is easy to see how all the pages come from the same magazine. Well done Hannah!

Magazine Front Cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Year 10 Schedule

Tuesday 21st
Begin creating the photoshop version of your film poster

Homework: Take photos for your poster or organise your props and bring them into college to take your photo tomorrow. Remember to think carefully about how you frame your image for effect.

Wednesday 22nd
Use photoshop to manipulate your image and begin creating your final poster.

Thursday 23rd
Continue completing your final poster.

Friday 24th
Finish your final film poster.

Is Production Easy?

Making a media product is hard work. It takes imagination, organisation, creativity and brilliant ICT skills.  Not only does your product need to look professional and creative but you need to completely know your target audience.

Last week we were looking at creating a magazine front cover that would appeal to a certain target audience. How successful was your final product and what kind of learning journey did you go on to get the product finished on time? Deciding the answers is called Evaluation. This is an important skill for Media Studies students.

Here is the task you should be finishing ahead of next lesson: 

Create an Evaluation Presentation (five slides using powerpoint).

•Explain your product (magazine front cover) and why it appeals to the target audience

•What research did you do? What did you find out?

•How does it follow the codes and conventions of magazines?

•Reflect on your work using media terminology (key concepts).