Monday 20th October - Evaluation

For my preliminary task there are some things which I feel I could have improved on my school magazine front cover and contents page. I also feel that this preliminary task will help when it comes to producing my music magazine, because I now know to complete work on the deadlines which are set. For my preliminary task I did not complete my school magazine front cover and contents page for the deadline which was set, and I know now to complete my main task on time. However, I completed my planning on time and also took my pictures for my front cover and contents page on time as well.
When creating my front cover, I didn’t follow the codes and conventions as well as I could of, and I think that this will help when it comes to producing my music magazine as I will know to follow the codes and conventions. Also, after taking pictures for my front cover and contents page, I have a better idea of the different types of angles I can use.
One of the strengths of my front cover, I believe was the main picture as it was a medium close-up which was asked for in the brief, and it was also different to other peoples photographs. Another strength was that I followed some of the codes and conventions of a magazine front cover e.g. relating a cover line to the main picture and making it stand out the most so that it is obvious it relates. A weakness which I found was thinking of cover lines for my front cover, as this took the longest to do. Also, thinking of 10 regular content and 10 feature articles for my contents page took a long time, so therefore this was also a weakness. Another weakness which I found was finding pictures to put on my contents page, as I didn’t take as many pictures which I needed.
New media technologies which I had been taught to use helped in creating my contents page, as we had to use Quark Xpress which I had never used before. I found Quark Xpress easy and simple to use once we had a demonstration on it and I had a clear idea on how to use it. The other media technology we used was Photoshop, but I had already used this when creating my magazine front cover for GCSE media.