Preliminary Task

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms or conventions of real Media products.
For my preliminary task i followed the forms and conventions of a magazine, our task was to make a magazine, which was for the school, and we had to decide who are audience was going to be, and choose the design for the front cover on the magazine.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
my media product represent particular social groups because it is a school magazine, which represents the school so my social group is parents of children from the school.
What media insitution might distribute your media product and why?
My magazine will be distributed from the school, and local shops around the chew Valley.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The Audience for my media product will be parents, and teachers, even grandparents of students in the school. so it will be people interested in the school and what is happening in the local school.
How did you attract/address your audience?
I attracted and Addressed my audience, by using the schools colours, and using a bold font, and using a titled that represents what the magazine is about, and its bald, and easy to see and understand what my magazine is going to be about, I also used Images which are from the school and what is going to be inside my magazine, so it represents the school. I used a Puff to get people to read into the magazine. Also coverlines so they knwo what the pictures are about, and what they are.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I used microsoft publisher for my prelimiary task because it is the easiest software to use and i dont know very much about photoshop or paint, but it wasnt very goood for layering or using different fonts, so for my main task i am going to learn how to use paint or photoshop, so i can make my magazine look more effective.
Looking back at your prelimiary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it too the full product?
First of all i did a flat plan, and then i tried doing the magazine cover on paint.net but i couldnt do anything so i decided to stick to publisher, i found publisher easy to use but theres not much you can do with it, and it takes time to things and get them in the right place, and then it looked all out of shape, i think my magazine now, hasnt got a big enough centeral image, and there is a lot on there, i think for my main task i wont have as much on there and a bigger central image, also doing layering.
i dont know how to put my template and magazine onto it.