The document contains evaluations of the author's research, planning, time management, technical qualities, aesthetic qualities, and audience appeal for a school project creating an indie music magazine. For research, the author felt their detailed analysis of existing magazines was a strength but not researching similar topic magazines was a weakness. For planning, unique mood board ideas were a strength but lack of detail on mind maps hurt time management. For time management, more time was needed to complete and polish the project. For technical qualities, similarities but also differences from another student's project are noted. For aesthetic qualities, the unique layout and design were strengths but lack of images was a weakness. For audience appeal, covering a variety of music topics and using creative colors and patterns

1. Evaluation
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2. Research
• I think the strengths of my research was that I talked about each product in a
large amount of detail, this meant that I cover a wide variety of different
aspects of the products such as the colour scheme, lighting, text to picture
ratio and what the target audience is for each one of the magazines. When
doing this I talked in detail about the advantage and disadvantage of each
feature and how it effected the product overall. This research helped the
creation of my product because it allowed me to see what I needed to do to
make my product more appealing to my target audience such as giving me
ideas like including my audience into my product to make It feel more relevant
to them and make them more tempted to buy my product. However I think
one of the weaknesses of my research is that I didn’t research any music
magazines that had the same topic as my magazine, this might mean that I
missed out on some very useful ideas to make my magazine more appealing or
I might of not put some important information into my magazine because I
didn’t check what other existing music magazines had done. I think my
research could be improved if I had researched more products that talked
about the same topics as mine rather then one that had similar ideas such as
involving the audience.

3. Planning
• I think the strengths of my planning was that I made a detailed mood
bored that has unique ideas that I could add to my magazine to make it
stand out more to my target audience such as using unusual colour
schemes and styles so that it doesn’t look like other competitor products.
I think the weaknesses of my planning was that I didn’t go into enough
detail on my mind maps. I think this could of effected my time
management and the overall quality of my work because it meant that in
some parts of my production I had to think of ideas on the spot slowing
down my overall progress. I think I could improve this by talking about a
wider range of ideas in detail and also giving myself a backup idea in case
my first idea doesn’t work.

4. Time Management
• I did not manage my time well and did not complete my project on time. I
think If I had more time I would have been able to not only complete my
project on time but I would have also been able to make a much better
quality product because I would have been able to spend more time on
trying to make creative and new ideas as well as getting more information.
If I had more time I would have spent more time testing ideas and making
the quality of my work better.

5. Technical Qualities
We have both put a
main character in the
centre of the page
and have also both
used records on our
cover to show what
era the music is from
We have both tried
to split the page to
make the writing
seem less
overwhelming to the
reader on the double
page spread
We have both used
simple colours on the
double page spread
so that the reader
focuses more on the
information then the
appearance.
However the
appearance is still
appealing

6. Aesthetic Qualities
I think that my work looks good because on the cover I have used a unique layout and have made every
peace of my cover from tools on photoshop such as the pen tool, brush tool, rectangle and circle tool to
make the shapes and designs that I need. This will help to make my product stand out more because it is
different to other competitor products and will also make my magazine more attractive because its
something new for the audience to look at. I also think my product looks good because on my double page
spread I have made a design that makes the amount of writing less overwhelming to my audience as well as
giving something visually appealing for my audience to look at. I have done this by having a large section of
my page just be the name of the magazine as well as having music notes in circles behind the writing making
the writing bolder and more appealing because its not just on a bland background. However I think one of
the weakness of my double page spread is that I don’t have any images meaning my double page spread
might be less appealing to my audience.

7. Audience Appeal
I have made my product appeal to my audience by talking about a range of different topics to do
with indie music. For example some of my audience likes to go to the festivals rather then find
out information about the music in general so I have information on the most popular indie
music festivals however the rest of my audience likes to learn about the music and where it
came from so I have information about that as well in my double page spread so it appeals to
both. When asking my target audience what they like from a music magazine the majority said
that they like a magazine that is creative and colourful so I used a range of different patterns on
my cover and double page spread and made a unique design on my cover with the use of
vibrant colours to make it appealing to my audience such as the blue falling from the brain too
the guitar.