Evaluation question 7:Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

  

When I made my college magazine, I was very new to Photoshop and I think this is made very clear in the difference between my college magazine and music magazine. Both of the magazines required me to cut out the image of my model however the way I have done it in my college magazine is very messy and has jagged edges whereas the music magazine has smooth edges and you can barely tell it has been cut out.

  The photography on my music magazine looks a lot more professional than my college magazine. The lighting on the photo on my college magazine has an orange tint to it. I also didn’t do any styling at all on the model, I literally just took the photo in college. Whereas my photograph for my music magazine is very styled as I knew exactly what style I wanted my model to be. I also really focused on getting her personality to shine through by using very specific poses. I made sure the lighting was good so that the models features are captured in the way you would expect to see on a professional magazine cover.

  The font that I used on both were quite similar as I really like the bold look however the size of font I used on my music magazine was much bigger so that it caught the readers eye and looked modern whilst sticking to the genre.

  The font, colours and photographs I used on my magazine were all specific to my genre of chart music. Although I wanted my college magazine to appeal to college students I feel t looks more like a poster than a front cover and the colours I used were probably more suited to a younger audience.

  The layout of my music magazine looks much more professional than my college magazine. There are lots of gaps on my college magazine cover therefore it doesn’t look like a magazine cover and looks more like a poorly put together poster. Whereas my music magazine has barely any gaps and each of the parts of the cover attracts the audience in its own way.

On my college magazine contents page I used InDesign to make it and for my music magazine I used Photoshop. Although I used different technologies to make each of them there is still a clear progression from the college magazine to the music magazine.

  The photography on my contents page is a simple picture of the outside of the college. On my music magazine The pictures are fit well around the text.

  The font on the college magazine is all the same and not the kind of font you would see in an actual magazine. It is also very large. The font on my music magazine is more professional serif font. The font sizes are very different as the titles are bigger and the page titles smaller.

  The layout of my college magazine is very simple and leaves the page looking very empty. The layout of my music magazine leaves the page looking full and the picture fits around the text.