2. • As my focus was not a big success, I had
to do a lot of the research myself.
• I went for the childish, or ‘amateur’
effect here, which connotes that the it is
a school newsletter, and done by a
student.
• I tried to follow house style, with the
blue, white and black colour text, which
are used in the Ratcliffe logo.
• I wrote ‘Lloyd The Media Success’ in
blue, as blue is the main dominant
colour in the logo, and connotes that he
is good at media.
• Looking back at this, there are so many
things I would have done differently, and
because I ‘rushed’ it, I found the
outcome to be quite poor, as to what I
could have done if I managed my time
properly.
3. • In order for my magazine to be successful, it
had to be conventional, and to do this I
needed to find out about by target audience
, and from my focus group, my group liked the
current idea of red, white and black for the
house style, but as the process went along you
can see that there were some changes made.
• The artist is making some hand
gestures, (which can’t actually be seen to well
on this photo) which connotes that it is a
street genre magazine, as hand gestures are
stereotypically associated with the street
genre.
• The artist is placed in front of the masthead
‘Amped’ which connotes that the artists is up
and coming and also should be taken note of.
And also that the consumer is assumed to
know the masthead of the magazine by being
partly hidden, and by the artists featured on
the page. Other artists are placed around the
page, which simply just didn't’t block the
4. Overall
• My preliminary task was an extremely poor attempt by me and would haver
changed so many things, to be some what of equal quality of my final production. I
feel that I managed I was able to use the failings of my preliminary and use them to
my advantage on the final production. There are many things that I would have
done differently that I could have done to make my preliminary much better, and
also more conventional and appealing to my target audience.
• I would have used a different image of the waterfall at the front of the school,
simply to make the image clearer on the newsletter. I would have also used a
different image of my student, probably doing an activity to make it more
conventional. The decision as to what fonts to use would not be rushed, and fonts
would have been chosen more carefully. Also the actual logo would have been
embedded and general placements on the page would be made different and more
conventional.
