Q1 How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

- Costumes and Props - all me shows the character wearing a football kit, not a proper football kit. He's wearing shorts and shoes which makes him look like he's practicing at football

 - Visual Effects -The visual effects for the main cover of the magazine were kept simple. I used an effect to darken the bottom of the picture as it made the image more look catchy to the eye. 
 - Typography - The text i used for the title was downloaded from the internet however difficulties were faced on deciding what kind of test should be used whether it should have funky sort of an effect or should it be something more simple at the end i got this font which had balance of both. The other fonts used for the cover stories, The web page were selected randomly whatever font  suited the magazine was chosen however the aim was to use the same fonts  for all the cover stories.

- Lighting - There was no use of lighting as all  the shots were taken in day light - Settings - The setting of the main cover shot was in a park. It was to show that the main character is practicing. The double page spread shot was set in a proper football ground and the shot was taken during an actual match. The first shot on the content page was taken at a normal ground while the player being in action. The second image is set at futsal tournament. The third image was shot at again normal football ground. the shot was again taken during an actual match for some tournament. The fourth image is set at a park after the team winning a tournament and having a group photo . The fifth photo was again taken during a normal friendly football match


- Camera angles - For the main cover image of the magazine, a close up low angle shot has been used, For the double page spread a long medium shot has been used to show all the action. The first picture on the content page is a medium level shot, The second picture on the content page is a long shot, The shot used for the third image is a normal level shot, The fourth image is a medium level shot, The fifth image is a long shot.

The Media Product I created for the main task for my A1 thesis was designing a football magazine. The Magazine represents the football-ing world of Pakistan and how its trying to stamp its identity in the football-ing world

The Product itself revolved around many codes and conventions, From using different fonts to analyzing he colors of the magazine and various other things
I chose a male model who's actually in real life an amateur league player.more over it does not represents a class but the idea it promotes that the game can be played from people of all classes
 
How my magazine represents social groups and its issue?, The characters in my magazine are clearly football players. It was there amateur sort of look that gave away as they aren't in a proper football kit. however they clearly represent the people who play football in the country both professionally and at an amateur level


Q2 -  How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

The magazine will engage with audience  of every age it doesn't restrict the audience to a certain age. The magazine will connect to the audience who follow sports in general or football. The audience isn't restricted to male audience only it will also attract the female audience

The idea of distribution of the magazine is targeted to teenagers basically because the character at the main image is 17 years old, A lot of popular players started at the age 17 such C.Ronaldo and Leo Messi. The Very same way this Character is starting his career at the age of 17 is featured on the main cover page of the magazine

The magazine would be taken up by Dawn News as they dont have a magazine on sports, They do have a sports section in their magazine but that doesn't entirely focuses on football, which is to be consider an important sport for the country on all levels.
Q3 How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

This project did tested me at every point. At first I was confused having no knowledge of how to use different softwares and edit and create something which i have created, Therir were different sorts of challenges and extensive amount of research that finally helped me understand the whole idea

I have learned  a lot through this project, Firstly when I started this project I didnt know how take pictures on a manual mode of a camera, So I watched different Youtube Videoswhich helped understand the Camera better, As I had my shoot outdoors, Playin g around with the ISO and shutter speed of the Camera proved a challenge as I had to cover fast rapid moving actions. I initially tried out differenet camera angles and that can be visibly seen in my project. I had a choice whether to make these on Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft illustrator, I chose Adobe Photoshop as I was finding it difficult on working on a Vector based software, I tried different camera Angles while doing photography. Learned how to use different tools on adobe Photoshop. I also learned that its important maintain a single font using different fonts for magazine ruins it codes and convention


Q4  How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

There was less use hardware based technology as the Camera I used was Cannon 60D, Already having knowledge as in how to use a camera helped me alot in this project as I started taking pictures I understood the use of manual mode, How to play around with the iso and shutter speed

Learning adobe photoshop from Youtube has now become pass time sort of a habit.At first learning the software did seem to me as A mountain climb but however as I learned I found it more interesting than difficult. The Patch tool, the quick selection tool helped me alot in my process.Creating different layers and working on them provided with different angles to edit the project differently

Slideshare has helped me alot in my research work as all my research work was uploaded on it. It helped me define my process and research on the project