EVALUATION QUESTION SEVEN

LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION

FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?

THE TASK

• FOR THE PRELIMINARY TASK, I CREATED A MAGAZINE FOR MY SCHOOL, THE TARGET AUDIENCE BEING A MIX IN GENDER AND BETWEEN THE AGES OF 11-18. THE MAGAZINE WILL FOCUS ON EVENTS IN THE SCHOOL AND INFORMATION FOR PUPILS, INCLUDING UNIFORM, EXAM DATES ETC.

MY PRELIMINARY TASK

MY MUSIC MAGAZINE COVER AND CONTENTS PAGE

MY MUSIC MAGAZINE DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

EXAMPLES OF PROGRESSION

PHOTOSHOP SKILLS

• COMPARING MY MUSIC MAGAZINE TO MY SCHOOL I CAN SEE A DEFINITE IMPROVEMENT, THE IMAGES WERE CUT OUT NOT LEAVING A BACKGROUND AROUND THE PEOPLE IN THE IMAGE. MY MUSIC MAGAZINE HAS FEATURES OF ALL MAGAZINES INCLUDING A HEADER AND COVER LINES SURROUNDING THE IMAGES.

• I CREATED A MUCH HIGHER QUALITY MUSIC MAGAZINE IN COMPARISON BY LEARNING HOW TO USE THE TOOLS SUCH AS MAGIC WAND TO SEPARATE MY MODEL FROM THE BACKGROUND, DOING THAT I ALSO LEARNT HOW TO USE THE COLOUR REPLACEMENT TOOL TO REMOVE THE GREEN TINT AROUND MY MODEL THAT WAS LEFT FROM THE GREEN SCREEN. I LEARNT ABOUT THE CONVENTIONS OF A MUSIC MAGAZINE AND APPLIED IT TO MY WORK BY BASING IT ON A STYLE MODEL, AN EXAMPLE BEING PLACING THE MODEL OVER THE MASTHEAD TO SHOW THAT IT IS A RECOGNISABLE BRAND. I UNDERSTOOD HOW TO STRUCTURE PAGES, WHICH IS THEN AGAIN BASED ON MY STYLE MODEL, BY PLACING COVER LINES AROUND THE MODEL RATHER THAN OVER TO DRAW THE ATTENTION OF THE READER. OVERALL BY COMPLETING A PRELIMINARY TASK THAT FOCUSSED ON A COVER AND CONTENTS PAGE ALLOWED ME TO IMPROVE MY MAGAZINE, HOWEVER TO CREATE MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD I USED INDESIGN WHICH I FOUND HARDER TO USE BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I USED IT WHEN CREATING MY MUSIC MAGAZINE’S DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

• FROM MY PRELIMINARY PIECE I’VE LEARNT A LOT MORE ABOUT AUDIENCE FEEDBACK AND HOW IT IS IMPORTANT TO A MAGAZINE. AN EXAMPLE OF AUDIENCE FEEDBACK WOULD BE MARKET RESEARCH IN WHICH I CONDUCTED WITH MY MUSIC MAGAZINE UNLIKE MY SCHOOL MAGAZINE BECAUSE THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE IS TARGETED TO A NICHE AUDIENCE COMPARED TO A MAGAZINE OF A POP GENRE WHERE THE TARGET AUDIENCE NUMBERS ARE LARGER; COMPLETING MARKET RESEARCH HAS ALLOWED ME TO FIND THE CONVENTIONS THAT INTEREST MY TARGET AUDIENCE INCLUDING WHAT THEIR PREFERABLE FREE GIFT WOULD BE AND WHAT THEIR PREFERRED ARTICLES WOULD BE.