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 magazine has completely changed compared to my college magazines layout. I didn't fill the space at all making the cover look unprofessional and not entertaining to readers. I made sure my music magazine would be full of interesting cover lines and the space would be filled with interesting things included in my magazine. I made sure I stuck to my guide lines on my music magazine front cover so that t would keep that professional look.

The picture for my college magazine was taken on my IPhone so the image quality clearly isn't as good as it could have been, so to get a professional looking photograph I used a Canon SLR camera, with a flash giving me a clear image of my model and excellent lighting. I made sure my model was in better suited clothing for my music magazine cover photograph making sure every detail of my magazine link with my genre. Also to give more professional look to my photograph, I tested a few locations and found on which I could used on my cover instead of superimposing my model onto a coloured background.

The colours on my college magazine look childish and under developed, whereas because at the stage of making my music magazine cover I had a lot of knowledge about colours and font sizes, I made sure it all looked 100% professional. I researched many font styles and colour to make sure I could achieve the best looking masthead and cover lines etc possible.

The layout for my music magazine is structure much better than my college magazine as it looks much more professional and more like real music magazine. Whereas my college magazine has again a lot of white space and nothing to really catch the readers eye. The college magazine lacks page numbers and things included in the magazine, but for my music magazine I took my time researching other magazines of my genre to see what I could include to appeal to my audience.

The image on my music magazine clearly looks much more professional, as I used a Canon SLR camera to achieve these images. Whereas my college magazine image was taken on my IPhone so the clarity wasn't as good as it could have been. Also the cutting out of my photograph is clearly not as good as it could have been, yet if I was to cut the image out again now, I have the skills to make it look professional. 

The colours used on my college magazine really make it look very immature. The space on the page doesn't appeal to any audience as nothing is there to interest you. I researched other magazines of my genre to see what colour schemes they used, and I thought it would look the best for me to use neutral colours as these colours are associated with my genre. Also I made sure this time my model wore clothes linking with my genre and that would appeal to my audience other than in my college magazine where my model wore plain, boring, black clothes.