Evaluation Pt 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.

In making my magazine I failed to use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products. When analysing another magazine such as ‘the student magazine’ I was able to pick out the key conventions and features that worked well as well as what stuck out to me as a reader. I believe that I failed to recreate these conventions and features due to my lack of technical expertise and time I spent in making the magazine. Not knowing how to use the different software required making a good magazine really pulled me back, it is not possible to make a good magazine with little/no experience in using the required software. If I had known how to properly use the software, I could have been able to use some of the conventions in my magazine, but in the end I came out with something that I see as a really low grade attempt at a magazine. Along with the lack of time spent on the magazine, I felt that it was really being rushed and that because of that, I was unable to learn how to use the software, create a good design and complete   the magazine to a good standard.