Oscar Gibb evaluated his magazine design project. His research involved studying sport magazines like Match of the Day and Four Four Two to help design a magazine that would appeal to both male and female audiences. For planning, Oscar drew on his experience creating a similar magazine project previously. His time management improved from past projects as he caught up after being ill. Oscar aimed to create a magazine with a more formal style than Match of the Day to appeal to older kids, combining elements of Match of the Day and Four Four Two. He used new Photoshop tools to improve the aesthetic qualities and felt it effectively targeted his intended teenage audience.

1. Evaluation
Oscar Gibb

2. Research
• My research had a lot of strengths as I already knew what idea I was
intending on creating as I had created a piece of magazine for my GCSE
project on a football team so I wanted to make a similar piece as it was
creatively different and interesting (for me) to make. My research
consisted of a lot of sport magazines like Match of The Day, Four Four Two
as I also researched a stereotypical women's magazine as I wanted to see
what may help me attract a bigger audience (the women) as younger girls
are mostly segregated to only pink and don’t find football as interesting so
I thought I may attempt to create a double paged spread which involved
men and women teams so it would appeal to all audiences and is better
fro the younger ages.

3. Planning
• The strengths to my planning is that I had already made a similar project
on magazines so I had a fairly clear understanding of the project and what
I needed to do and so I had an idea already in my had of what I could
create as it was going to link to what I enjoy so the project is enjoyable but
also something I know I can create but in prove my skills and create
something different to the usual football magazines that are released all
the time as I didn't want to make a complete replica of a Match of The Day
magazine and so I wanted to make a magazine which was a bit more
formal and wasn’t packed full of explosive colours etc.

4. Time Management
• My time management was better than on the other projects as I was ill for
a full weak but I came in and stayed behind in lessons and spent all my
frees catching back up on the pre-production stage and also I caught up on
all my past projects etc. I was up to date throughout the project as every
piece of my work has been delivered on on deadline days until my week
off although I have still caught up an everything was on time. I think I
could have still improved my time management by spending less time on
production and more time on. My pre-production and planning stages as
they are lacking in detail etc.

5. Technical Qualities
My front covers isn't very similar to a match of
the day magazine as my magazine is dedicated
to one club and so I wanted to focus more on
that side than creating a magazine which is
very similar to Match of The Day as it is full of
different PUGs and is not suitable for a kid in
the age that my magazine is aimed towards.
The similarities between my magazine and the
Match of The Day magazine is that they're
both football based and both are made o
appeal to a younger audience although mine is
aimed at a slightly higher aged audience due
to the cover.

6. Technical Qualities
The similarities between my double paged
spread and Match of The Day’s is that they
both follow a colour scheme with the front
cover as mine follows the yellow and green
colour scheme which is created to match the
football teams badge and kit whereas the
Match of The Day double paged spread still
follows the theme of the front cover as It
involves a lot of PUG’s as there is still a lot of
information dotted around the page as most
of the time the information is provided with
an image as most of their audience would
only be interested in the piece of text
because of what the image may be.

7. Aesthetic Qualities
My work looks good and better than most of my
other project due to me using new and different
tools on Photoshop like the pencil an gradient blend
tool and having the layout of the text to be natural
and in a more formal style to combine a children's
magazine like Match of The Day with a more formal
and adult consumed one like Four Four Two as mine
is aimed at an older audience than match of the day
as the younger teenagers will begin to understand
the humour of the magazine compared to the
humour in Match of The Day. The strengths of my
magazine is that it hits the main target audience of
teenagers.

8. Aesthetic Qualities
My work looks very good due to the
background being quite formal and looks
different to a Match of The Day magazine
which helps it being different and looks a lot
more like a Four Four Two magazine as that’s
aimed at a very similar target audience of
young to older teenagers just mine can appeal
to a younger audience too as the information
on this page doesn't use an eccentric
vocabulary and has funny stories to appeal the
their younger senses of humour. It could be
improved if the layout as a bit different with
images and maybe a couple more images
around to help break up the text on the page
so it doesn't’t come across as a boring piece of
information.

9. Audience Appeal
I appealed to my target audience as its aimed mainly at older kids as its not created
like a match of the day which is full of colour and images as they are magazines are
aimed at very young kids and this is for more developed kids who are beginning to
understand more detailed words like so the text is still easy to read for a younger
viewer as it doesn't involve any too eccentric words etc.