As media evaluation

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

2. In the progression between doing the preliminary task, I have become more
accustomed to be able to think about the decisions I make about what to
include and how I would justify these choices with how it would attract the
audience and how it would be similar to other magazine conventions.
Especially learning how to integrate these aspects into the magazine while
keeping it to the genre and making it looking professional and not clustered.
Something else, I have learnt regarding the design of the magazine is the
importance of the aspects of the image adds to the overall product from the
models poses to what costumes they wear.
The main task I was able to provide an depth analysis on other magazines which enabled to build a
better idea of what conventions are popular and what aspects I can use in my own magazine.

3. • Looking at my preliminary
• Photoshop editing
• Analysis
• Design
• Things I didn’t know before

4. In the choices of the fonts and text used it has changed drastically as we
began to construct the magazine as it was important in all aspects of the
magazine to be able to fit together nicely and also, fit our genre of which is
why we downloaded other fonts. This allowed to find unique and fonts more
suited to magazine instead of using those that come on the software. The
final product of the main task contains more in a way of depth and
conventions whereas, the preliminary had very little in a way of text only a
mast head, a date line and a cover line. The text would not be very effective
when it came to attracting a potential readership whereas, the taglines, eye
catching cover-lines to enable to appeal to readers.

5. I learnt about the importance of the images chosen and where they are suitable to be placed on the magazine
also, the impact the photo has on the design and the effect it has on how it is brought everything together. The
reason the decision to use a photo with a plain background was to avoid any focus on any other than the