Evaluation: Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The layout of my music magazine has changed a tremendous amount since my preliminary task I have not thought about anything in my prelimary task, it is disorganized messy makes no sense has big gaps and is just randomly placed. My new magazine however I learnt how to structure the front cover, structure text using guidelines and now I believe it looks very much professional and neat. The picture is also of much better quality and displayed neatly and to one side like my design was meant to be.

My college magazine’s picture was not one of good quality I over edited it cut half her head of and made her look like a munchkin to be completely honest looking back now I do not understand why I did it. Where as my music magazine photo is high quality taken by an SLR camera so I could focus and zoom this helped me get a very clear picture as you can see from some of my test shots it took a lot for me to learn how to use this camera effectively.

Since my college magazine I have learnt how to portray my genre of a music magazine as I have learnt about things such as mise-en-scene so I can now make someone look like a rock star.

I then started to think about colour and font sizes ca help magazines, I learnt that the sizes and font can show the magazines genre especially when it comes to the masthead. I used big fonts for the bad name as this is the biggest feature in the magazine and should attract the audience this shows understanding.

The layout of my magazine is better structured than my college magazine and I have organized my page better and made it a lot more understandable, I also added actual stories unlike my college magazine.

The text font for my college magazine was also not very reader friendly and I didn’t know about serif fonts back then so I believe writing alone has improved because I have now learnt.

In my preliminary task there was a lot of open space with nothing in since then ive found out this space should be filled to give my magazine a more professional look, More blank space the less attention your magazine will get.

The college magazine photos were also taken in a rush so the do not look good, I now know I have to take time choose the right light and time for a decent picture.

I also believe you need some form of props to help you hint at the story. You must reflect your genre well.