Thomas Grace AICE Media Studies - AS Level

 For this assignment I chose to analyze The Office: season 3, episode 17 “Business School”. This episode covers several plotlines with one of the main being Pam Beesly, a receptionist working at the Office, trying to pursue a future in an art career.  Throughout the show she expresses how she doesn’t want to stay as a receptionist and isn’t a big fan of working as one. Art is her true passion, but she doesn’t have the financial support nor the stability to take that leap of faith into an unstable career like art. Because of her family and herself’s social class she is limited to pursuing her dreams and is “stuck” working at an office in fear of failing. In the episode we see Pam symbolize her true desire by drawing a tape dispenser that is sitting on her desk at the office, showing  how mundane her job is compared to her dream due to her quality of life. Meanwhile this is all going on, the office’s upcoming big shot, Ryan, invites his boss, Michael to speak at a presentation of his in

  1.  How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? It represents issues that people may have while travelling and represents social groups of people who are interested in travelling a lot. 2.  How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? It engages with the audience by providing information that would be valuable to the audience and would be distributed most likely online as a real media text. 3.  How did your production skills develop throughout this project? I had to learn ways of producing a magazine online through various websites and systems. 4.  How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project? I used various websites to help produce my magazine and aspects of it such as the website “PicMonkey”. There was also a graphing website I used to create the data about my magazine before producing it.

  Here are the font options I chose: 1. Replica 2. Municipal 3. League Spartan 4. Brioche 5. Cheyenne Sans These fonts offer a sleek way of presenting the text without harming the ability to read the text. Some fonts change the letters too much in a way that makes it hard to read, these fonts that are possible options do not and will do the job. Credit to  https://blog.flipsnack.com/best-magazine-fonts-for-editorial-design/  for the images of the fonts

 My magazine is focused on travel so there aren’t any models in my photos  The photos will be used for their respective magazine page. The first photo is in Tennenessee, the second is in Key West, and the last ones are in New York City. I personally dislike the blurriness of the last photos, but it works well to capture the entire skyline and city. I’m going to use these to build upon the text in my magazine with visual representations. The contact sheet doesn’t apply to my magazine