EVALUATION QUESTION 7

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

2. AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
HOW HAVE MY TECHINICAL SKILLS IN PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN AND ILLUSTRATOR BEEN
IMPROVED?
(comparing the college magazine skills with the skills I have learnt in the music magazine)
 You have significantly improved on the photography skills and using
Photoshop as you can see that clearly on both the front covers of the
magazines produced. Also using illustrator and iNDesign skills have improved a
lot through how you have learnt to structure the magazines, there is a clear
difference in quality.
 More quality is the image now then before in the college mag there is a clear
difference on both how you took the shots and quality.
 Definitely improved skills on INDESIGN as the layout improved so much in
the music magazine you had made.

3. COMPARING FRONT COVER COLLEGE MAG
AND MUSIC MAG
MY COLLEGE MAGAZINE
FRONT COVER
MY MUSIC MAGAZINE FRONT
COVER

4. COMPARING CONTENTS PAGES OF COLLEGE
MAG AND MUSIC MAG
 Very simple contents layout with a lot of blank spaces
 Not much work put into the actual design on the structure as
it is a simple column and row feel looking very compact.
 should have made pictures more smaller and structuring
them more creatively.
The numbers are larger then they
should be, should have been slightly
smaller and a different colour. The
Grid effect is good though as its easy
to read for any age group.
Structure looks very creative
and abstract with the layering
of the contents and pictures
 Clear colour scheme compared to the college mag which can be a
bit confusing.
 Images working well stacked next to one another using up all the
space.
 Font that looks exciting when you first look at the page.

5. COMPARING MAST HEADS
COLLEGE MAGAZINE MAST HEAD
The mast head is very simple and not a lot of work
has gone into it.
 Using a very basic font that doesn’t really stick out
of the page
Colour choice was poor as the background image is
overpowering the mast head and not clear enough to
read.
MUSIC MAGAZINE MAST HEAD
 Colour is really bright and stands out, use
of three colours working well together
creating a housestyle.
 The bold font is easy to read and thick
enough to make out in the front cover.
Well structured and layered out with the
small text on top and still large enough to
read.

6. COMPARING PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography has improved so much with the quality of how I have taken the photo
compared to how I took the front cover shot for my college magazine.
Even though I used a DSLR camera in a photo studio as well the shoot angle and how I
told my model to pose for me has improved so much as well. Using the Black and white
and working with the levels on the camera ensured I took a picture highlighting her
definitions on her face, this is something I never even knew how to do back when I was
taking pictures for my college magazine. Also this final front cover image had a lot of
retouching and editing the face to achieve this flawless skin look which I slowly learnt
how to do better.
Photography for this college front cover was done
using a normal camera in the college streets. As you
can tell quality of the shot is not even half as good
as my music front cover shot of my model . Her face
is still blurry and not in full focus and also the black
and white background makes the model stand out
too much. Image of the model hasn’t been edited at
all with no retouching or Photoshop editing so it does
look very basic and you can still see some spots as
her face doesn’t look as flawless as it does for the
model in my music magazine. Having said all of that
I still feel with time given and the camera I used I still
produced a half decent shot in scale and a half body
shot which looks fairly decent as well.

7. SUMMARY
 IMPROVED PHOTOSHOP SKILLS- I learnt how to properly edit the photos creating
a smooth image that looks effective. I learnt how to use levels, saturation and
density more in detail to create a more sharp and crisp finish to my photos. I learnt
how to use guild lines correctly to structure my texts and font in the correct order.
 IMPROVED ILLUSTRATOR SKILLS- I improved on how to structure my layout of
large blocks of texts so they look more organised and easy to read. Also I improved
on learning how to convert vector shapes to individual edit letters to create detail or
make them larger.
 IMPROVED JOURNALISM- In writing large amounts or journalism for this magazine
I was able to grasp how to write a good piece of detailed journalism. Also I learnt
how to answer questions effectively whilst writing a good piece of journalism.
 As a result of using various technologies to present my work I am now equit to really
present my work in a more creative way rather then using the conventional word and
PowerPoint to show the information.