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

I have created a front cover and contents page that replicates professional magazines. I have used three main colours, being black, white and red (in the style of NME) and then consciously added the green because my magazine is a 'Christmas issue' so i used festive colours. Real media products would normally have their models in the centre of the front cover. However I’ve chosen to put my model in the bottom left corner.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My prelim magazine features music, fashion, art and culture. Therefore it would appeal to teenagers who are in education, possibly teachers who are interested in the art/culture and music lovers. They layout of the magazine is simplistic and not too busy because i wanted it to have a clean and professional look. Students studying art or music would be interested in this magazine. By having a slang title being 'SKWL' teenagers can easily relate to it, the informal language also makes this magazine less boring to read compared to more upmarket/intellectual magazines.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

By having a school magazine brief, i would say that my magazine is predominantly for teenagers. The magazine also features a 'free EP' to collect, which i thought would be appropriate seeing as most teenagers like music and free stuff. I’ve used a basic yet effective colour scheme that would appeal to boys and girls.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

My magazine cover and contents page was created by using Photoshop. Therefore I have learn’t to cut out objects and created layers. I also accessed ‘Colour Lovers’ and ‘Da Font’ to help contribute to what colour schemes and fonts worked best. I have also learnt about the rule of thirds and different camera angles. For my magazine cover I used a mid-shot.