The Evaluation - Notes Continued

Question 4 notes – Question 4 and 5 are both based around audience and audience feedback, but they are different pathways. For this question, you can refer to press pack/ media kit for help.  Here you are to describe WHO exactly you audience are, gender, age, social status, working class, ethnicity, what kind of fashion and things your audience would buy, that kind of information. You should also refer to your magazine / pitch, the slide outlining audience. Demographic, Socio-Economic profiling. For this, you could create your own Press Pack, Following magazine color schemes.

Question 5 – Question 4 identified who the audience is, Question 5 is talking about how you addressed the audience. For instance, the techniques you have used in your magazine, what have you done to entice the audience. ‘New media technologies’ <- Facebook, Twitter. QR code -> accessing things through your phone etc. Then talk about Models you have used, Color scheme, Fonts, Use of language/Register, How the model addresses the audience. Reflect on feedback, Comment on it, about recommendations, if you have listened, the good and bad suggestions/comments.

Question 6 – You have to discuss every bit of technology you have used.

·         Photoshop (Image manipulation purposes)

·         In-Design (Is professional for page layouts, what other magazines use)

·         Illustrator (Create text, has abilities you can’t have in Photoshop)

·         Blogger (Media technology, to show journey/progress, Easy platform, online it is interactive, family friends can see it)

·         Photography studio (Massive importance, with the notes we got, explain why we used the professional studio, discuss the lighting, DSLR cameras – resolution, color, backdrops) Refer back to notes and set-up of studio.

·         Technologies in evaluation ( Come back and answer this part of the question when you have finished all of the questions, then explain why you have used the ones you chose, how you thought they were appropriate)

·         Magazine Pitch (Used PowerPoint, because I was comfortable with the layout, the fonts, the way it looked simple, etc.)

·         Timetoast

Give an overall of the tools that you have used on Photoshop, In-Design and other applications, go through why you used ruler lines, blur tools, resizing pictures, frames and other things.

Question 7 – For this question, you will need to refer back to a lot of previous tasks, Firstly, the actual college magazine, using transitions, pictures, notes. Have at least two visual differences, being the college magazine and then the Music magazine, to show progress and what you have learnt on both of the tasks. On a practical, Technical and Theoretical level – Appropriate use of fonts, are the images appropriate, is it all original material, pixelated, eye contact. Theoretical level being terminology, the semiotic analysis. The meaning of a pull quote, anchorage. Dissect your magazine. 

The Evaluation - Notes

10/12/2014 // Final Front Cover

Here is my final front cover of my magazine

10/12/2014 // Complete DPS

Here is the Final / Complete DPS for my magazine 

10/12/2014 // Final Contents

With the workshop today, this is what i have done, and everything is now complete.

Here is the finished Contents page

10/12/2014 // Tomorrow's Workshop

Here a list of things that need to be done tomorrow during the workshop? -

1 // Finish Contents Page

2 // Make sure ALL things are finished and Perfect

3// Make a blog with Final DPS/COVER/CONTENTS

09/12/2014 // Contents Nearly Done

Here is what my contents page is like without my final touches being the additional photography

05/11/14 // DPS Done & Contents page Update

Here is my finished DPS

And this is the update to my Contents Page 

04/12/2014 // Contents page

Updates on contents page, I changed from this

To this, as an advertisement is not as important as my contents and my magazine would look better with a double page contents.

04/12/2014 // DPS

Here is what my DPS is currently looking like, i feel as if it is very close to being finished, with just some minor changes to font and positioning.

02/12/14 // DPS update

In my feedback I was told that the font I had used wasn't
so clear to read, so I decided to change the font, I personally think this font suits way more.

02/12/2014 // Class feedback

When I was away yesterday due to a photography trip, the class had a group session where they commented on the current work they had, this was so that the class had feedback to work of off.
I asked two of my classmates and miss to comment on my current work, which is this -

Here is my feedback - 

Maraam – Front cover // make cover lines more bold and noticeable as they won’t be seen from a distance. Contents // Edit font to bigger size and finish – DPs // Just finish off and make sure columns are in line

Aadam – Front cover // very good organisation, photography is good however font is hard to read or isn't eye catching enough. // Contents page is unique which makes it different from competitors, you may want to decrease the size of the exclusive feature box. // DPs the layout is really good, but again the font you have used is quite dismissive, e.g “large blocks of text”

Teacher Feedback –

Front cover // the genre is very clear in terms of the picture, styling, colour scheme and choice of font.  I wonder if you need a banner behind the masthead to make it stand out more.  Also there is too much text in the cover lines and they are not always easy to read. You should make each cover line a separate layer for the main cover line, so you can experiment with layout and move each part around.

Contents // make it clear that the main story is the cover story- give it a header.  Remove the advert. Replace this with categories such as features, regulars, news… you could add an editor’s letter. Upper case throughout does not work. Can you find a similar font that allows lower case as well? Upper case / bold for the headers is fine however,

DPs // upper case throughout- see my comment above. The shots of your model are all very similar- medium close up. Add some more variety.  Measure the columns. Add a solid line in the fold so that it shows in the export. Add the masthead / website to the top or bottom of each page to brand the magazine. There is too much empty space. Try adding a text box- e.g. with facts about her or her fans.