Evaluation

Evaluation

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Examples of Planning & Research (Evaluation)

Here is an analysis of a competitor's front cover. I deconstructed the cover and made connotations and denotations. This helped me as i could see all the codes and conventions I needed to include in my front cover. It also gave me inspiration and ideas for my front cover, for example highlighting certain words or phrases in different colours to make them stand out.

Here is an audience profile that i created. I needed to have a solid idea of who my target audience were and what type of things they would be interested in. This audience profile helped me determine who i wanted my target audience to be.

Here is some information on my competitors. This gave me ideas on which institution my magazine should be in. It also help me decide whether it should be USA, UK or worldwide based. This also gave me an indication of what sort of price range my magazine should be selling for.

Example of how i used Photoshop (Evaluation)

Here is a visual on how i used photoshop to edit and manipulate some of my photos. I am going to use the picture i made of the two artists at the MTV Awards as an example.

I took these four images and used photoshop to combine them together to make this final image...

This is an example of how technology has helped me a lot throughout the project. Without photoshop, i would not have been able to do this and my magazine wouldn't be as creative and professional looking.

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Here is my double page spread. It contains an interview about a new Hip Hop group with a twist, M.A.D. I am very pleased with how this turned out, as I think it looks quite professional. The use of code and conventions you would find in an interview played a big part in making it look professional. For example the bold quotes, separate colours for the questions and answers and the names of the people who wrote the article and took the pictures. I think that the layout works really well, because it is a good combination of text and images. This is effective, because there isn't too much writing with only few pictures or too many pictures with a short interview.

Contents Page

Here is the original design for my contents page. I chose to have it as a double page spread so that I could fit more information on it and split up the different sections. I am quite pleased with how it turned out as i think that it looks quite professional. I think that the layout works quite well as i have utilised the two pages very well. However, I could not use this as my final contents page as in contained unoriginal images.

This is the edited version of my contents page that contains original images that I used to replace the unoriginal ones. I was able to recreate the images really well using photoshop, however I think the overall look doesn't look as professional as it did with the unoriginal images.

Front Covers for Music Magazine

Here is the first front cover that I created. The background is very striking and powerful,which makes the front cover stand out. I think it looks quite professional, however the 'also inside' bar on the left hand side makes it slightly unprofessional. Due to this, and the fact that the dominant centre image did not contain pictures of the artists mentioned in my magazine, I decided not to use this as my final front cover. I also thought that I wasn't being creative enough when I made this front cover and I didn't use Photoshop as well as I could have.



Here is the second front cover that I created and it is the one I chose to use as my final front cover. I chose this cover, because i think that it is bold and stands out but is also simple at the time, which is good as it draws your attention in but isn't too in 'your face'. I also thought that I was more creative with this front cover as I enhanced and manipulated the photos that I used to get my final result.
I also think that I have re-created the style that my 'Red Head' front cover had. The dominant image is strong enough to be the only image on the cover and the simple font makes it stand out even more, similar to the 'Red Head' cover.

I think that the front cover looks quite professional and as you can see; my Photoshop skills have come a long way since my pre-lim task.

More Practice

Here is another front cover I created with a partner, Tom Brice. The front cover was for a fashion magazine aimed at ginger people.

As you can see, my skills with Photoshop have improved as the quality of this front cover is much better than my pre-lim task. I was very pleased with how this magazine turned out, because it is very striking and bold. This is due to the powerful dominant centre image, which makes the entire front cover stand out. The fact that all the other text on the front are quite dull and plain colours makes the picture stand out even more. Due to the fact that the centre image was so strong, it meant that I didn't have to include any other images on the front cover as it was strong enough to be on its own.

This is a style i want to re-create for my music magazine.

I also learnt from the mistakes I made in the pre-lim task. This time round, I made sure i included all the codes and conventions found on a professional front cover for a magazine. This front cover has everything you should find on a front cover ranging from the website at the top of the page to the barcode at the bottom.

I feel that this front cover looks very professional and I am very pleased with it. I hope that i can do this again with my music magazine.

Pre-lim Task

This was the front cover i designed for my pre-lim task. The task was to create a front cover for a school magazine. My target audience were students in the school as well as anyone outside the school that may be interested in what's happening within the school.

From this image, you can see that this wasn't my first time using Photoshop as I have used quite a few techniques to enhance the image and make it look as professional as i could. However, you can also see that my Photoshop skills are very basic as there isn't anything that is impressive or advanced.

I was happy with the outcome of this front cover, however I wasn't fully pleased with it. This is becuase there are some things that i could have done to improve the quality and make it look more professional if i had more advanced kills with photoshop. For example i could have corrected the lighting issues in the dominant centre image. I could have also created a better background, which would make the magazine stand out more and look less simple and plain.

It is also missing a few of the key codes and conventions that should be on a magazine front cover, such as a barcode, price, date and website. Without all of these elements, the front cover looks unprofessional.

My Magazine

Hey everyone, my name is Dan Josiah and my music magazine is called 'Speaker Boxx' and is based on hip hop and R'n'B which is why I am in the hip hop section. My target audience are males and females aged 16-25. They like to be the first to know the latest news and gossip in the Hip Hop and R'n'B scene and like to own the latest songs in this genre before anyone else.