My Products

After doing various drafts for my front cover, contents page and double page spread, the above are my complete and final products.

Evaluation Q1

Q1 Evaluation

Evaluation Q2

Evaluation Q3

q3 Evaluation

Evaluation Q4

Evaluation Q5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Questions for feedback (focus group) video?

1. Which existing magazine do you think compares to my magazine?
2. Do you think my magazine appeals to both genders?
3. Would you consider buying/subscribing to this magazine?
4. In comparison with other existing products, does the style of my magazine follow key codes and conventions?

I decided to video my audience to recieve feedback, as it felt it would more to the point than rather writing out an essay. Additionally i thought this was the most reliable way of of gaining audience feedback as it was direct feedback from my audience.

Evaluation Q6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Products;

Camera - Nikon Coolpix L820, product details -

• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.1 x 7.6 cm ; 472 g 
• Boxed-product Weight: 962 g
• Batteries 4 AA batteries required.

I used the above camera to take the photo's of my models in my magazine. Due to using a high quality camera I was able to produce high quality pictures that are good enough to be published in a professional magazine.

Prezi - is a cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas.

I have used Prezi throughout my work to present work and ideas.

Blogger - a publishing tool to allow me to share text, photos and videos

Throughout the course I have used blogger to showcase and organise my work. Using blogger has various advantages as it allows me to present my work in all different types of media forms.

Scribd - I used scribd as a digital software that allowed me to upload PowerPoint presentations to blogger.  

Editing in Photoshop by taraburton07

Evaluation Q7

Looking back at you preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
 

Preliminary Task - College Magazine               Final Product - My music magazine

My Preliminary Task

For my preliminary task I had to create a college magazine front cover, the basis of this task was mainly in preparation for my final product on creating a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine. Additionally the preliminary task also developed my skills and gain experience in using Photoshop. The image below shows the certain aspects I have learned from the preliminary task and the skills that I have continued to develop whilst creating my final products.

Preliminary Task Continued ........

The following context shows a brief breakdown of my preliminary college magazine front cover compared to my final music magazine front cover. The benefits of doing the preliminary task helped me understand the key conventions that needed to be applied to a magazine front cover to make it effective to the targeted audience, as I found from my preliminary task it illustrated how unconventional it appeared and the mistakes I had made. For example it come to my notice that my college magazine did not conventionally follow the code of having three colours for the scheme, also there was no skyline. Through doing research for my music magazine, it came to my attention that from looking at existing magazines that when it came to planning I had to take into account the colour scheme, masthead, barcode, skyline, sell lines and I also learnt of the different types of shots that are conventionally used on the front cover of magazines.

Comparing my products

Comparitive Table

From the table above it is clear that the difference between my preliminary task and actual product is obvious, as I have developed my skills from producing the college magazine to including key codes and conventions in my actual music magazine which where significantly lacking in my college magazine.