Evaluation Q7

7. Looking Back at your preliminary task (college magazine), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Since i looked at the college magazine i feel that i have greatly improved my skills in not only constructing a magazine but i am also able to now to realise what i have done well and what requires improvement throughout magazines. For example i went back and found very simple errors throughout my music magazine drafts the where easy to improve. I am able to now realise and analyse the construction of a magazine and its requirements for it to become successful and address the correct target audience.

Now i am also able to plan a more structured and understandable way to insure that i make sure i do not have any flaws or mistakes throughout my magazine. Planning also helped me make a more clear magazine that shows representation from other professional music magazines in which mine can be related to. By setting a house style and colour scheme was my best plan of action to make sure that i kept to a strong plan. I have learnt from previous mistakes that when planning out a music magazine that every feature must be considered and taken into consideration. Here you can see from one of my previous drafts of my front cover how it is extremely simple and dull. By using photoshop i was able to create a more interesting and unique house style.

Using photoshop really allowed me to be a lot more creative and unique when creating my magazine using a lot of new tools that helped me create a new and interesting style to my magazine. I was also able to learn a lot about photoshop manipulation, allowing me to edit images to better fit them to the genre of the magazine. You can see how i have used a gold house style to make my magazine a lot more stylish and to fit the genre. I also used photoshop manipulation to create a black and white image to show the representation of the genre being slow paced and acoustic.