Evaluation 7

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

Doing a preliminary task before the production of my final product gave me greater awareness of how consideration of the target audience determines the outcome of decisions made during the production process. For example the preliminary project was good for me as both the prelimanary and my final product were aimed at the same demographic, my prelimanary was aimed at college students and my main project was aimed at college and older so I was able to use a lot of the features I found out for the preliminary in my main project. Without the preliminary project I wouldn't have learned the skills that I used a lot during my main project for example Blogger, Prezi and Slideshare. During the preliminary I was just getting used to using blogger and uploading but when it came to my final product I was confident using it which allowed me to use it quicker and it was a lot easier. 

I was able to use it for my planning and preparation which was vital as I was able to create a well thought out plan of how I wanted to make my magazine which was a lot easier to do then when I made the plan for my preliminary project. The main skills that I found useful before beginning the final product was the practice in the use of programmes such as, InDesign. After completing the preliminary task I felt that I had the skills needed to create and magazine front cover and other sections of the product. This shows to me how important the preliminary task is to making students feel comfortable with the technology before beginning that final task. 

There are other programmes that I didn't need the practice with Such as, Photoshop. This is a programme that I feel incredibly confident with because I have this programme at home and I have used it whilst doing GCSE media. The experience with Photoshop helped me manipulate photos in ways that I wouldn't have been normally able to do. Not everyone has these opportunities and I felt the need for the preliminary task, showing how necessary the preliminary task is and showing how much students learn from it and how they adapt this knowledge to the final task.    

Evaluation 6

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

I have created a Prezi account to illustarte how technology has aided the process of the Production of each aspect of my magazine.

http://prezi.com/zs5zi_5yfhuh/what-i-have-learnt-about-technology-in-the-process-of-the-production-of-my-magazine/

Evaluation 5

_{How I addressed my audience when designing}

Firstly, when deciding on the design for the masthead I went through many different fonts. Getting the right masthead font is the key to the attraction of the magazine. The masthead will become known and create synergy with my magazine style. I chose this font because this font is based on the design of stencils. By using stencils it shows connotation of graffiti. This appeals to my audience because graffiti is known for being a young art form. 

Everything on the front cover is to attract my demographic and one of the most important features of the cover to appeal to the audience is the photo. The image of the male model is vital. I chose to take my photo close up to capture he features. The model has long her and generally his style reflects the audience so the demographic can relate themselves to the person of the cover. Once I had taken the photo I used gradient map to create this orange effect which makes it more unique.   With the main tag line to my magazine cover I chose this font because mainly it is incredibly clear. What I loved about this is that the letters are not even and are crooked. The clarity was to make the font stand out but the bizarre crooked style makes it looks like careless style. This careless and sloppy style reflects the audience making it seem like it was designed by the people that will read it. This is a theme that I tried to carry out throughout the entire magazine.   

The smaller and insignificant, less important fonts on this magazine cover have been designed with a font called mistral. Mistral is a great font that looks like a very stylish and artistic font. It looks realistic due to it looking like hand writing. By using a font that looks like hand writing it again appeals to my target audience because it makes it seem like anyone could have designed it, including them. The entire magazine has a theme of a realistic style especially in the fonts.

Evaluation 4

Evaluation 1

Forms and conventions of real media products

This is a link to the website slideshare. This website has helped me create my first evaluation point. This is a very useful site. However, there was problems with uploading so the font sizes have changed unexpectedly. Please forgive this error and enjoy the powerpoint.

http://www.slideshare.net/Eldamar/presentation1-7475199