Thursday, 10 April 2014

Evaluation Q7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
My final front cover compared to my preliminary college magazine front cover:
Here is my final contents page compared to my preliminary college magazine contents page:



From the progression from the preliminary task to the final product, I feel I have learnt a lot about the conventions of music magazines. On the final product I have put the main image in a suitable place so that there's enough room for other conventions, such as text. his is something I have not done on my college magazine. I have also put the teller in the right place this time. On my college magazine I put the teller at the bottom. This is very unconventional for a magazine (a college or music magazine) because it does not catch anyone's eye when it's at the bottom of the page. I have also learnt of how to pick a suitable colour scheme.
On my preliminary task the only colours I used were blue, purple (which are very similar) and yellow. The lack of colour made the contents page and front cover extremely boring to look at. There is also a complete lack of detail on my preliminary task. 
One major difference for me when making my final product was that I fully planned my music magazine. For my college magazine I had drawn a draft by hand and made a quick digital mock up in five minutes on Microsoft word without any research. When creating my final product I found that researching into existing products was incredibly useful and making several drafts by hand and on Photoshop really helped.
This is an example of a draft made on Photoshop:





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