Evaluation Number 7

After taking these screen grabs and putting my final magazine cover and preliminary magazine cover together I am really pleased with what I have achieved throughout this school year. I think that my magazine looks very professional, and I am extremely happy with my progress. I believe that the reasoning for my final magazine looking better that my preliminary magazine is because of the skills I have learnt and then used and put into my final product. My main target for my magazine was to make it look professional and as if you could pick this up in your local supermarket; I think I have achieved this. By putting the masthead, cover lines and main image in a stereotypical place and abiding to magazine rules this helps make the front cover look more professional. As you can see on the preliminary I have not included a bar code, price or date of my magazine - however, for my final I have done this. This is my favourite image of my model Chloe and I am pleased with how it looks. I am sure you would say that my photography skills, that were very minimum, have became better. Finally, another thing that has improved for my final front cover is my perception of appearance. The fonts I have used and also the colours look better and would be more likely to be used on real media products.

Again, like the front cover I am pleased with what I have achieved at the end of making my contents page. As you can see, my preliminary contents page is very sparse. On the other hand, my final contents page looks full but also minimalistic which was the look I was going for. Skills I have used during making the contents page included using Photoshop. For the Polaroid images at the bottom of my page I firstly found an image of a Polaroid picture and then opened it into Photoshop. After I had done this I cut out the photograph that was in the Polaroid and used the magic eraser tool to make the background transparent. Using photographs I had taken (one of my model Chloe, Kate Nash, George Craig and Will), I cropped them to a correct and accurate size and added them into the Polaroid frame. Lastly, I used the text box tool to add relevant page numbers to the Polaroids. Similarly to the final front cover of my music magazine, I think that the fonts I have used make it look professional, also, I have used a variety of fonts rather than just the one I used for the preliminary.

 I did not do a double-page spread for my preliminary task, unlike the front cover and magazine contents so I do not have a picture to compare my final double-page spread to. However, I will be comparing my final double-page spread to the contents page and front cover preliminaries I did. Around the edge of my page I have added a boarder, I think this is a nice touch and makes it that bit better. Also, after analysing other music magazine double-page spreads I liked the idea of using black and white and then one or more bolder colours to make certain words, phrases and/or texts stand out; I used black and white with red and navy blue. I chose these colours because it helps make all of the pages of my magazine look like they tie in together, this was one of my improvements. Finally, I positioned random quotes around the image of Chloe because I think that they look better dotted around rather in a positioned place.