Reflection & Evaluation

My Preliminary task shows good ability to

research into audience and plan

the pages of magazine.

I need to consider the images, typography and layout more on both pages and to follow

typical conventions.

My evaluation is a good start but needs to be more

detailed critical and analytical of work and

approach to the preliminary task.

Ways I could improve my preliminary task:

College Magazine Drafts

My College Magazine

The difference between my draft & final product.

As you can see my final product and drafts are not the same, it has made me realise the effect the drafting has on the final product, so for my music magazine I have created more than one drafts so it can be easier to create the final. I have made my ideas clear so it will easier for me to evaluate later on. However I understand that sometimes the final product may differ to the drafts due to my ongoing reflection during the construction process.

Comparisons

My college magazine looks similar to this as it follows similar conventions to me. I have the key image in the middle and the masthead at the top so it can be eye catching, I have placed the cover lines around the key image. I think I could’ve done better. Also the color makes the fonts stand out and makes it clearer, the layout of this college magazine is similar to mine.The colors stand out and it also matches her top. The barcode is in the same position similar to mine.

ComparisonsThis is another college which I think is very poor magazine compared to mine it looks dull and boring not really eye catchy, where as mine the colors stand out and makes the audience want to read it, in my own opinion I don’t think it’s a good picture to put on a front cover maybe include it in a contents page, however I find it quite interesting because its different compared to most front cover, she looks chilled out and it links to the cover line ‘All work & no play’ so she’s trying attract the audience attention because it does relate to them.

Music Magazine Draft 1

Music Magazine Draft 1

Music Magazine Draft 2

Music Draft 2

My ideas

For my new music magazine I want it to look something similar to this, I want the key image to be in-front of the masthead but slightly lower different compared to the vibe magazine, because I want the audience to establish the magazine brand. My color for the masthead is red also. Also the selling lines will be placed around the key image. I want the key image to be the main focus of the magazine that attracts the audience to buy the magazine. My model will be looking directly into the camera so the audience can be engaged.

Type of conventions

The type of conventions I have used is informal language, barcode, medium close up shot, cover lines, selling lines all these elements make the magazine stand out and makes it successful, I have also made the house style the same throughout the whole magazine so every time the audience look at the college magazine they would know what school it’s from and be used to it.

I have also done the same for my music magazine, included, barcode, masthead, cover line, selling lines and I have made my shot type clear for my front cover it will be a medium close up shot and for my contents page & double page spread will be long shot, I’ve created two drafts of each so I chose the best one to make my final product.

Drafting Process

• The drafting process has helped me in many ways for example when I was creating the draft for the college magazine it gave me many ideas to help me create my final product.

• My drafts compared to my final product of the college magazine are not the same there are some changes that I made to the final product I only created 1 draft so the final product was hard to make so I had to keep restarting which caused a lot of confusion. Therefore I have created more than draft for my music magazine to make it easier for me to finalize and experiment the ideas to see which one works best.

The Final Drafts The main things that I have found successful about my drafts is the

masthead and cover lines my strong areas are my front cover & contents page I have created it just the way I want It to be eye catchy and something the audience would love to read but my weakest spot is the double page spread which needs more work hence the reason why I created another draft so it can give me more ideas, the more drafts I make the more better my double page spread looks and comes to live.

I think I have met the audiences needs, by following what colour they want on the front page and the house style through out the magazine, which is red and blue also the audience prefer to read articles in the music magazine so I have decided to create my own R’n’B artist called Jermaine Carter and talk about his successful life. I have conducted a primary research which enabled me to find out my audiences needs.