EVALUATION. part 7.

EVALUATION.
Part 7.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

This is a school magazine cover that I created for my preliminary test.



looking back on my preliminary task I can see numerous things I would never peruse whilst creating a magazine cover now. I think through not only experimenting and trying out different magazine techniques, but combined with research from the history of other music magazines, I have picked up on many techniques that have benefited my cover.

This photograph for some reason has come up very pixelated, however originally was very clear. Some of the things I didn't take into account whilst planning this cover was fonts, themes or even photograph positioning. This was the only photograph I had taken, which I now know wasn't wise as having a wide variety to choose from is so much more satisfying knowing my picture is the best one I could get.

My title 'Southfield school for girls' is not bond or big so it does not stand out or capture the audience eye at all, this was something to learn from for my final cover. Not only did the title not stand out but the subtexts and catch lines were not eye grasping either, I again learnt from this making sure in my next cover I would use a bold eye catching font with a colour that stands out drastically. Also I found that layering text over the main image is a bad idea as the page just looks cluttered and messy, so I made sure in my final piece I did not do that. 

Although I made a lot of mistakes on this cover there were a few aspects I am proud of and wanted to keep for my final, for example on this cover the bottom logos placed in a white strip looked very professional in my opinion. Unfortunately however this wouldn't be appropriate from my music magazine being a completely different style.

This is my final piece.

I made sure to bare in mind all of my mistakes that I made in my preliminary task. the title is a lot more bold and captures the eye a lot more. I even think having just a single word rather than three words helped keep it short and eye catching. I made sure to have a theme, rolling with black and blue. I chose these colours as I have previously experimented with these colours and I found it was very successful. I made sure my text does not overlap my image to avoid clutter and I also found having my tag lines shorter was a lot more professional and effective.

unlike my first magazine I was able to feature real well known artist names and real life events/news, this was a lot more interesting for me to create and I found it attracted a lot more of an audience.

For this magazine cover I put in a lot more planning time and preparation time, I found that knowing exactly what I wanted to created and how I would do it was a lot more effective and actually saved me time, this was especially useful as this piece was set for a deadline.