Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
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| Preliminary task |
I have improved a considerable amount as you can see from the images. I understand more about what my target audience want in a magazine and have much more knowledge around the area, which allowed me to make my products look much more better and allowed me to appeal more to my target audience. Overall I am pleased with my final products of for my music magazine, as I feel that they represent the Pop/Rap genre very nicely, therefore appeal to my target audience.
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| Final music magazine (Front cover, Contents and DPS) |
The colour scheme I used was not in the slightest bit appealing. They didn't at all fit together, they were a really bad match of colours, which would certainly dis-attract the reader from wanting to read on, as it looks very unappealing and distracting with all the bright colours on the page. By the colour scheme not being constant, it actually makes the page look unorganised and like not something you want to read.
The title in the school magazine is not bold or doesn't catch the reader's eye in any way, therefore making it stand out less, automatically becoming boring and dull.
The main image on the school magazine again is not a image of a successful magazine front cover. It was taken with the camera on my phone, therefore it didn't turn out very professional. I took the photo with green background and tried to make the green a black background, which proved to be unsuccessful, as you can actually still see some of that bright background, which really stands out from the rest of the page and looks very unprofessional and disorganised and not at all like a successful magazine cover.
The background is another thing that made the front cover unsuccessful and not look professional. This is because I made it a very dark background, which did not at all contrast well with my images, or even my text and especially my sell line in the bright yellow star. By having a black background, it made everything on the page stand out, which was not at all a good thing, as it made everything look really disorganised and unprofessional.
The images on the contents page did not go very well with the background this is because I decided to have a black background and the images were all very brightly coloured, which made it stand out awfully.
There were also many problems in my contents page of my Preliminary task of a school magazine. First of all, I again chose a black background, which just by looking at the page, you can tell that this decision was a bad one, because it made the page look really dull and too dark, resulting in a unappealing contents page, that no one would want to read, especially the target audience, who were in fact students of a primary school. I should of thought more about what my audience wanted, which would of been bright colours and a full and cluttered page.
The contents page had a lot of dead space around it, which is the feature of an unsuccessful magazine, as it straight away dis-attracts the reader from reading the rest of the page, looks dull and boring and doesn't look at all professional.
The images on the contents page were also not a very good touch, as it didn't seem to fit in with the page. This is mainly because the images were of all different sizes, which made the page look really messy, and unprofessional.
Overall I feel I have improved drastically and have learnt so much in progression from my preliminary task of my school magazine, to my final product of my music magazine. For example I now know how to use Pixlr and know how to add effects to my images making them look effective and stand out, catching the reader's eye, whereas before I didn't have this skill and just put the image straight onto the page, without adding any sort of effect to it. The most important thing, I feel that I have learnt is how to make my magazine look professional and how to make it appeal to my target audience. I have gained knowledge of research techniques, being able to use a questionnaire to my advantage of making a successful magazine of what my target audience want to see in a magazine.
What made my final product much better that my preliminary task was a whole range of things that I have gained knowledge and skill on. For example on my front cover, contents page and DPS, I stuck with a convention of every successful magazine in my genre, which was a three colour scheme. This definitely made my front cover look more professional because it really came together nicely and catches the eye the reader and I feel it was one of many features that made my front cover and contents page successful.
My sell lines on my final product compared to the one on my preliminary task has improved a lot. It was thought out a lot more in my final product, as I actually linked it to what my target audience wanted and made it appeal to them, so they would buy the magazine, as well as making it look much more appealing.
The structure of my final magazine was, again thought out so much more than the structure of my preliminary task. I didn't have much text on my front cover of the school magazine, creating a lot of dead space, making it look dull and where I did have the text, it wasn't positioned right, I made it go around the main image, not making the page look interesting, as well as the font not being at all appealing. However in my final product I thought it through and actually made the structure of the front cover, contents page and DPS appealing to my target audience, not making it formal by just writing in boring columns, I made it quite informal, just what my target audience want, making it eye catching, fitting in with my magazine more, making them actually want to read on. With my DPS I did use columns for the article, however I believe that is a convention of a successful magazine. I didn't completely stick to this convention, I made it look more appealing by making the text go around the model on the page, allowing it to catch the readers eye and for them not to lose interest, like I feel my target audience would if I did it in straight columns.
With my final product I thought it through so much more than my preliminary task, and gained the knowledge on how to use a digital camera, which took a much better image than the images on my school magazine, that was taken on my phone. I thought about the Mise-en-scene in my final product, for my front cover, contents page and DPS. I thought through what the models were going to wear, the props used and the backing scene area in so much detail, whereas I didn't at all think about any of this whilst doing my school magazine.
I now feel more confident producing a music magazine, as I have a lot of knowledge around this area and how to use all the particular software's. I have more understanding of how to make a magazine that a particular group of people want and how to create a interesting, appealing and eye catching magazine from nothing. As you can see through comparison from my preliminary task to my final music magazine, I have improved and have gained so much more knowledge of how to create a successful music magazine.
There were also many problems in my contents page of my Preliminary task of a school magazine. First of all, I again chose a black background, which just by looking at the page, you can tell that this decision was a bad one, because it made the page look really dull and too dark, resulting in a unappealing contents page, that no one would want to read, especially the target audience, who were in fact students of a primary school. I should of thought more about what my audience wanted, which would of been bright colours and a full and cluttered page.
The contents page had a lot of dead space around it, which is the feature of an unsuccessful magazine, as it straight away dis-attracts the reader from reading the rest of the page, looks dull and boring and doesn't look at all professional.
The images on the contents page were also not a very good touch, as it didn't seem to fit in with the page. This is mainly because the images were of all different sizes, which made the page look really messy, and unprofessional.
Overall I feel I have improved drastically and have learnt so much in progression from my preliminary task of my school magazine, to my final product of my music magazine. For example I now know how to use Pixlr and know how to add effects to my images making them look effective and stand out, catching the reader's eye, whereas before I didn't have this skill and just put the image straight onto the page, without adding any sort of effect to it. The most important thing, I feel that I have learnt is how to make my magazine look professional and how to make it appeal to my target audience. I have gained knowledge of research techniques, being able to use a questionnaire to my advantage of making a successful magazine of what my target audience want to see in a magazine.
What made my final product much better that my preliminary task was a whole range of things that I have gained knowledge and skill on. For example on my front cover, contents page and DPS, I stuck with a convention of every successful magazine in my genre, which was a three colour scheme. This definitely made my front cover look more professional because it really came together nicely and catches the eye the reader and I feel it was one of many features that made my front cover and contents page successful.
My sell lines on my final product compared to the one on my preliminary task has improved a lot. It was thought out a lot more in my final product, as I actually linked it to what my target audience wanted and made it appeal to them, so they would buy the magazine, as well as making it look much more appealing.
The structure of my final magazine was, again thought out so much more than the structure of my preliminary task. I didn't have much text on my front cover of the school magazine, creating a lot of dead space, making it look dull and where I did have the text, it wasn't positioned right, I made it go around the main image, not making the page look interesting, as well as the font not being at all appealing. However in my final product I thought it through and actually made the structure of the front cover, contents page and DPS appealing to my target audience, not making it formal by just writing in boring columns, I made it quite informal, just what my target audience want, making it eye catching, fitting in with my magazine more, making them actually want to read on. With my DPS I did use columns for the article, however I believe that is a convention of a successful magazine. I didn't completely stick to this convention, I made it look more appealing by making the text go around the model on the page, allowing it to catch the readers eye and for them not to lose interest, like I feel my target audience would if I did it in straight columns.
With my final product I thought it through so much more than my preliminary task, and gained the knowledge on how to use a digital camera, which took a much better image than the images on my school magazine, that was taken on my phone. I thought about the Mise-en-scene in my final product, for my front cover, contents page and DPS. I thought through what the models were going to wear, the props used and the backing scene area in so much detail, whereas I didn't at all think about any of this whilst doing my school magazine.
I now feel more confident producing a music magazine, as I have a lot of knowledge around this area and how to use all the particular software's. I have more understanding of how to make a magazine that a particular group of people want and how to create a interesting, appealing and eye catching magazine from nothing. As you can see through comparison from my preliminary task to my final music magazine, I have improved and have gained so much more knowledge of how to create a successful music magazine.
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