Evaluation- Question 7

What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the school magazine (preliminary task), to creating your music magazine?
During the progression of creating my magazine, I done a lot of research and practice to help me create the most professional magazine that I can. I have researched into what would make my magazine suitable for my target audience, using surveys created on 'Survey Monkey', which has helped me gain skills and knowledge. I have also analysed previous student work, which I was able to identify the strengths and weaknesses within their work, to help strengthen my own. I have also gained confidence and skills when using Photoshop, therefore, I was able to edit my photos professionally, compared to when I used the photos in my preliminary task, my photos for my final magazine are taken in a professional studio, with a digital SLR camera, and appropriate lighting. I could then edit my images on Photoshop, using the skills that I have learned when practising on Photoshop, which you can see in my blog, which I will also link to this post. After researching previous student work, I was able to acknowledge what makes a music magazine stand out and what is popular with my target audience, such as being able to identify which font would be most sutiable and professional, and how to edit/touch up any images to give them a more professional look, compared to my preliminary task which was much more amateur and only gave a basic structure of my magazine, which, overall after I had analysed other work, and current music magazines I changed the structure slightly such as the location of my cover lines, colour and fonts. In this post I will also link my prelimary task to show development. My contents page has also changed a lot since my prelimary task. After thorough research I had identified what makes a contents page unique and stand out to my target audience. I changed the layout of my images, list of contents and masthead. After having a lot of practice taking photos during my photoshoot, I was able to find the right style for my model and myself to work with whilst creating the images for my music magazine 'NOIZE' this allowed me to use my current knowlegde to create a professional image using angles, lighting and styling to suit my magazine. Although one thing I may change with my magazine if I were to repeat it would be to not make a lot of my images in black and white, and allow myself to experiment with other colours and themes, which may allow my magazine to stand out more using a wider variety of colours.

Photoshop Practice
Preliminary Contents Page
Preliminary Front Cover