The document provides a summary and evaluation of a student's final production project. It discusses the student's research process, planning, time management, technical and aesthetic qualities of the products (a magazine and posters), audience appeal, and peer feedback. For the research, the student conducted surveys and interviews. Planning involved mind maps and mood boards, though magazine research was lacking. Time management was poor due to illness, limiting the products. The magazine and posters were well-designed overall based on technical and aesthetic feedback. However, the magazine could have included more content and information. The peer feedback agreed more content in the magazine was needed but disagreed that the poster required more visual effects. With more time, the student would have added more content to

1. FMP Evaluation
Louis Dowson

2. Production Process Evaluation

3. Research
• I really liked my research this final project because I enjoyed looking up
similar products to my own, this also really helped get a grasp of the kind
of product I wanted to make, looking at all these prexisting posters and
magazines definitely helped my final product as a whole, I the did a survey
this helped incredibly as I was told what sort of audience I was looking for
and what they liked/didn’t like, with this I got great feedback and it
allowed me to be more sure of what I need to do for this product, I then
did some interviews and this had the same effect as the survey, I got some
feedback from the actual audience and so I knew what they wanted and
what I needed to do to please them.
• The weakness of this research would be that I didn’t really research
magazines at all, at first I did not know that I was actually doing 3 products
so I only researched posters, this was a problem as later on I didn’t have
too much to go on, so I researched magazines while actually making mine.

4. Planning
• The strengths of my planning were many, I used Bubbl.us which is a very
fun and easy to use mind map maker, it allowed me to think of all the
things I could include in a poster or magazine and so I was able to get
them down onto the website and branch off into other sectors which were
useful to my research, this helped my product as it made me think of
things I might not have before which in turn improved the product greatly,
I also did a mood board and filled it with many different posters which had
already been made, I also put fonts and other random pictures of games,
anime, movies which allowed me to think of ideas and to really get a grasp
of what a poster should look like.
• The weaknesses of this plan was clear, I did not focus on my magazine
research enough, the mood board featured no magazine pictures or
anything related to a magazine and when I was asked to do a final mind
map there was no magazine mind map, only a poster one.
•

5. Time Management
• My time was not managed very well, all though I got everything in apart
from this evaluation, I was ill a lot, which made me have to complete a lot
of work from home, while this wasn’t incredibly difficult, it meant I had
less time and was working with great haste when I realised how much
work I needed to complete in such a short amount of time, if I had more
time I would have done more pages for my magazine and possibly a back
cover for it, perhaps some more posters but my products would have
definitely been miles better, but unfortunately I didn’t have a huge
amount of time so I could not do this, I could have made my magazine
more full with content and I feel like this would have been more appealing
for the audience, and so I am quite annoyed that I didn’t actually do that
but, it is what it is I’m afraid.

6. Technical Qualities
My magazine is fairly professional
in my opinion, the cover looks like
it could genuinely be from a
magazine that already exists, this
is why I like it, it has the main
character from Skyrim in the
centre of the page, along with
‘The Elder Scrolls’ in front of him,
behind this all is a background
from Skyrim, this really fits as the
whole thing is about the Elder
Scrolls, the reason why I went for
a yellow, black and red is fairly
simplistic, I like the colours and I
feel like they go well with each
other, I stick to these colour
schemes throughout the
magazine cover and so it works
nicely, I also have a title at the top
‘PC DAILY’ this is a fairly standard
gaming magazine name, I also
added some information about
whats inside the magazine dotted
around the front cover, this makes
it feel like a real magazine in my
opinion, then of course in the
bottom right corner I have the
barcode and the age rating on it.
This xbox 360 magazine is as
professional as magazines get,
the xbox magazine is probably
one of the most popular
magazines ever, right in the
middle is one of the characters
from the Elder scrolls online
trailer, this lets you know its
about Elder Scrolls Online
without even reading anything,
in front of the character is the
Elder Scrolls Online, this
reinforces that the main topic
of this magazine will be ESO,
behind the main character at
the top is the X360 title, the X
is in a green and the 360 is
white, they stick to this colour
scheme throughout the front of
the magazine, they also have
information about the contents
of the magazine dotted about
on the front cover, this allows
people to know whats inside,
then right at the bottom middle
is the barcode.

7. Technical Qualities
First of you can tell this is a
Naruto poster from the
large Naruto title in the
bottom, this is why I did it,
it’s large and doesn’t allow
people to get confused,
behind this is the main
character ‘Naruto’ looking
sad and defeated, this is
because of all the people
he’s lost, behind him are
faded pictures of loved ones
which have died, and then I
put a nice grassy anime field
background behind this,
this really made the whole
thing feel complete as what
is a poster with a bland
background, I really like this
poster as it just works well,
with Naruto looking sad and
the loved ones behind him,
it also looks like a
professional Naruto poster.
Again you can instantly tell
this is a Naruto poster as it
has the big Naruto title at the
bottom, I reckon they also did
it for the same reason as I,
that it allows people to know
this is about Naruto, behind
the title similar to mine is
Naruto but in this one he is
preparing for battle with a
hand sign, to the left and right
of Naruto are some of his
companions which appear
regularly in the show, this is
obviously done so people
know these characters are
important, the background is
a blue which I feel like goes
well with the rest of the
poster.

8. Aesthetic Qualities
I really think this front cover
looks great, it has
everything a magazine
needs to be a magazine, the
title a character in the
middle, information you
name it this cover has it, I
think this cover might not
have been as creative as I
liked but, it is a magazine
cover and most seem to
keep to one specific style or
scheme, which I did with
mine, I would possibly
improve this by adding
more information about the
magazine around the cover,
and add some more on the
bottom bar.
The strength of this piece is
that it looks like a gaming
magazine should, a character
on the front, the title of the
game they’re from in front of
them, at the top there’s a
title and around the
character is information, it’s
what you’d expect from a
magazine and that’s why I
like it, I’d say the only
downside is that there is that
there is no information on
the bottom bar, and there
possibly could be more
information around on it.

9. Audience Appeal
This appeals to the people
who answered my
questionnaire as it’s a
gaming magazine, and this
is what people said the best
type of magazine was, so I
think that the whole of this
magazine would appeal to
the target audience as
there is nothing in this
magazine which doesn’t
focus on gaming, this
product would also be
available online and in
stores which again appeals
to the target audience.
This appeals to most of
the audience who took
my survey as this is a
poster which is about
Anime, it can be bought
from stores and online,
and it can be put up
with a frame, with blue
tac or even tape, this
appeals to the target
audience as they all
answered a question
about this.

10. Peer
Feedback

11. Feedback 1
• What did you like about the product?
• What improvements could have been made to
the product?

12. Feedback 2
• What did you like about the product?
– I really liked how the magazine focused on the
Elder Scrolls, as I love that game series a lot, I also
loved the layout of the magazine cover.
• What improvements could have been made to
the product?
– I think maybe there could have been more
information around the magazine, and perhaps
more content inside it.

13. Feedback 3
• What did you like about the product?
– I really liked the whole layout of the Naruto poster
and how it looked and felt like a Naruto poster
that had been made professionally.
• What improvements could have been made to
the product?
– I think there should have been more visual effects
on the poster to increase the quality maybe, this
would have definitely made it professional.

14. Peer Feedback Summary
• What do you agree with from your peer
feedback?
– I agree that the information on the magazine could
have been better, I also agree that there could have
been more content inside the magazine, but I did not
have enough time for that, so unfortunately I did not
do more.
• What do you disagree with from your peer
feedback?
– I would disagree on me needing more visual effects in
the Naruto poster as there isn’t much else I could
have done without going over board and ruining the
whole thing completely.

15. Peer Feedback Summary
If I could change anything it would be adding more content to the
magazine, I would do an article for Morrowind, Daggerfall and
Arena too, this would make the whole magazine feel a lot more
professional and complete, but as I’ve said before, I did not have
enough time for this so I only did two articles inside on Oblivion
and Skyrim, I would also have added more information to the
front of my magazine, to make it feel more like an actual
magazine like the xbox magazine or others, I don’t really think
there’s much I’d change about my poster as I think it’s fairly
complete already, but definitely if I had more time I would have
done more posters.