Evaluation 1

Here the evaluation process starts.

During the course of the next 2 or so weeks I will be writing  up an evaluation for my music magazine using the following questions:

1. What ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

More decisions - DPS

When talking to Afreen (a class mate) about my double page spread, the first thing she said was the blue circle didn't fit in with the theme of my magazine. I 100% agreed with what she said and so I used the same gold colour for the box as it shows conventions of colour schemes throughout my magazine. She also spoke about adding some colour to the text - I also thought that would be a good idea so I did and I think with the help of her advice it has benefited the look of my magazine.

Decisions decisions - Contents page

So I've nearly finished my contents page but I had a few minor things that I needed to figure out. These are as follows:

I like the gradient look for the contents page but when I asked my peers and teachers none of them liked it, because of this I've chosen to take it of because if my target audience doesn't like the way the product is its best if I change it so I can produce a successful music magazine. I also took it off because after looking at it for a while it had a poster-like effect to it and through research of magazines none of them had gradients for a whole page.

 After that change Mr Varguese said that I should try putting in lines to separate the columns. I did this as shown, however I didn't like the way it looked, nor did my teacher or some of my peers so I decided to take the lines off.

Lightening the front cover picture

When making improvements to my magazine i noticed the front cover image was a bit dark and so i used the curve function on Photoshop to make the picture lighter.

So far.. Nearly finished?

I have made many improvements to my magazines from the last pages I posted on here.
I've shown my changes by using the drive on my Google account.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/195yFDDg67kZcRVC7ueUkMCTfHH7Lseuz9kagHQ9bOvU/edit?usp=sharing

Were I'm at so far.

I haven't posted on here in a while, probably down to all my hard work :)
It's been a long journey and creating the pages for this magazine hasn't been easy.
Here are the first three drafts I gave in to my teachers. There very rough and as you can see, annotated everywhere with red pen. from looking at the feedback I got for this I was then able to improve my pages which is shown by the ticks. after every change I made I ticked so I knew I had done it so when it came to handing these pages in again it would've been closer to finishing.