Double Page Spread

Contents Page

Front cover

Evaluation Question 7 (Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from that to your full project?)

Here we have my Finnished product and my preliminary task. I feel my final product is much better than the preliminary in quite a few ways. The main differance I can see is the cutting out of my model. In the preliminary you can see the edge of the picture where it was cut out of the background, and is really of quite poor quality. I am actually very proud of the cutting out on display in my Final front cover. You can't see the edge of my model and it looks very professional. I also think the background is a huge step up from before, as the blue of the preliminary is totally the wrong colour for a magazine colour and doesn't make the magazine very attractive. The brick effect background looks very urban and I think it would really both fit in, and stand out on the shelves.

The contenets page in my preliminary task was very basic, as I spent so much time doing the cover. It was obsurdly basic, with a faded blue background and and some made up articles that I put on. That was it. Dull and boring. What's more, the light blue background clashed with the white writing meaning it was hardly readable.My finished product is a million times better! The background is the brick-street theme running throughout the entire magazine. There are red boxes atop the background containing all of the next. This makes sure the text stands out from the multicoloured background. There are pictures to show what is going on in the rest of the magazine, and to give a preview of what the other articles will be. I feel this makes the magazine look more attractive overall.

EVALUATION QUESTION 6 (What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?)

In the making of my product i learned a lot of new things about the technology I was using and I have found a lot more new and useful websites that I will be able to utilize in the future. Firstly I used a Mac Computer, (but I was not able to get my own picture of it) which was an entirely new experience for me altogether. It took me ages to get used to where everything was and how it worked, but after a few weeks I started to get used to it. I quite like using the Mac now, but I do prefer a good old windows PC. I wanted to take my pictures outside so I had to use my own Canon 450D, which I very much like. I didn't really learn anything new in the process of taking the pictures.I used a memory card and a memory stick to transfer and move my pictures and data around, as they are a quick and easy way of moving files. I used the Power point to plan out a lot of my work. It is a program I have used since I was 5 and I am very used to the software. I used Photoshop to actually make the magazine, and considering I had never used the mac version and had limited knowledge of the program before. I have learned a lot about what you can do with the features of Photoshop and how they can be implemented to improve a magazine. Finally, I used DaFont to get some fonts that I could use for my magazine, and I used YouTube to showcase some of the music my magazine would be representing.

EVALUATION QUESTION 5 (How did you attract/adress your audiance?)

I have made a presentation on the website "prezi" as I felt this would be the best way to show my work.
http://prezi.com/nde1eocqib24/front-cover/

EVALUATION QUESTION 4 (Who would be the target audiance for your media product?)

The above video is my friend Josh, answering a few questions about himself and his interests, to give an example of my target audience. Off camera Josh also said that he liked the cover and contents page of my magazine, and that the articles in the contents page could lead him to purchase my magazine. He also said that he liked the colours used in the text as he thought they stood out and caught his eye well.