EVALUATION 7:Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

EVaLUaTIoN Question

Throughout the process I have continued to learn from my preliminary task to create my final piece to represent my target audience as well as an actual music magazine.
Firstly the front pages show the changes that I have made through learning in Photoshop. The front cover of my music magazine it show how  have more effectively used the spacing of the page and aligning all the text accordingly well to the image.
In my preliminary task the pictures text is put in places where it could interfere with the main image importance such as the girls head. the text says:

Sixth form inter-form sport results and fixtures! 

 At the time lineament wasn't something I was used to ass I often didn't know when it was necessary and needed to be corrected.The text were also spaced out oddly and sometimes became in close contact with another piece of text. However in my final piece the lineament had improved through the work of Photoshop and their tools, I was able to make my final piece front more spacious and using the plain background space effectively to grab my target audience. This was mainly attained thought the advertisement of the iconic artist concert ticket. The elliptical circle, created by Photoshop had text which said:

" A chance to see drake live in London!" 

 This would draw them in through the celebrity endorsement and showing that you know what artists they would want to see. This was not used at all in the preliminary task and there were no offers to the readers.

Secondly would have to be the amount of editing I did to the front cover image to make it more appealing to the target audience as well as any publishers who would be interested in selling the magazines.
In the preliminary task, my picture was not edited in brightness because we had a tight schedule and I wanted to get a good image. I further went on not to change anything at all which later affected the picture.

However in my final piece I constructed a lot of editing to make the picture high quality, along with making sure that it would be an appropriate shape, blemish free, bright colours slightly contrasted so make an colour block effect.
the remix title:

"REMIX, Change It Up"

Show this perfect as the two colours are bold, bright and are commonly used throughout the front page and the music magazine.
 This was incredibly important that this is done so that the colours used on the page through Photoshop would not drown out the colour from the original background photo. As you can see in the preliminary I did not and the cover looked odd and disorganised well as my final looked polished and bold.



Secondly, the contents page shows how I have developed my understanding of photoshop and other technologies through the layout of the page and the appropriate colour schemes. As well as this, I have learnt to use my resources more carefully to pick how many pages would be needed. Such as the amount of pages for the DPS and contents page are not fixed so if its better for the target audience and depending on whether the music magazine is weekly or monthly if the contents is a double page and the double page spread has an extra page.
In the preliminary task the contents pages was created through basic ideas and want I already knew about photoshop in that small amount of time.
the word:

"CONTENTS, contents"

was repeated because I wanted to combine two different fonts and colours to show the schools identity and house style. this was achieved through the colour indicator however the colour seemed to clash and there was different shades of the same colour so my contents eventually looked far from professional.
Titles such as:

"Sports News And, And In Other News"

did not show up well against the picture because the structure of the contents was bad. Furthermore I ended having to delete some information I was planning to put up there because I would not know how to display a DPS contents because of the amount of research we had done up until that point.

However in my final piece I had decided to firstly use a double page contents so that I could use a common convention of a monthly music magazine as well as include any of the information that may have been missed out such as the:

"The GRAMMY and BRIT nominations are in!"

I also decided to use a conventional editorial letter so that the audience would feel a connection or a friendship between the magazine and the reader.
The colour scheme was accurate as I used the colour indicator so that tit gave it a professional look. I also used the same colours that can be found in the title. I also tried to stick to the monogamous colour scheme and made the background black.
I added the title:

"THIS WEEK"

  To stick to the common uses of a Hip Hop magazine to inform the readers of the latest goings on of the hip hop world as well as news such as awards and festivals.
I also decided to display the word contents in a different way, similar to what I tried to do in the preliminary task.

Within my first attempt the image was placed on the left hand side, and because I did not put a different layer when it was created it limited the movements on the page and I could not make any improvements.
The contents had overall improved because of the new techniques that I had picked up and the through research on my target audience which were not thought though properly in my preliminary.