Ffion feels she has learned many important skills in progressing from her preliminary magazine task to her full music magazine. She has learned about including subsidiary images and proper headlines, removing backgrounds from photos, following magazine codes and conventions, using effective color schemes, and creating a layout with an important contents page. The preliminary task lacked these elements and had an "awful" red background with poor writing. Ffion has also learned magazines can be up to 60 pages to provide enough information to readers, compared to her preliminary task being only 7 pages. Overall, she feels her skills with InDesign, Photoshop, and other applications have greatly improved, allowing her to create a more professional magazine.
1. Evaluation 7
Looking back to your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
2. Preliminary vs Music
I feel I have learnt a lot of skills since my preliminary task, I have learnt how many
subsidiary images you should use how many headlines there should be on a front
cover. As you can tell I have also learnt how to remove backgrounds and how to
take good photos with positioning. Personally I can see a huge improvement from
my preliminary to my music magazine with text/ colour. I have learnt how to follow
the codes and convention of a magazine. I have learnt that colour schemes are very
important on a magazine, they must fit the genre. It is a shock looking back to my
preliminary task.
Awful colour writing
on a red background,
needed a stroke of
1.5.
Stands out
more due to
using the
stroke tool.
3. I have learnt about layout of a magazine and how
important a contents page is to a magazine. The
colour scheme is so bland in the preliminary task
compared to the colours used in the music
contents. I have learnt that there can beup to 60
pages in a magazine where I have only used up to
7 pages in the school task. That would not sell as
a magazine because it would not have that much
information. I have gone up to 30+ on my music
magazine contents.
I have learnt the codes and conventions of a
contents page and to look at similar genre magazines
contents and see how they work their layout and
photos. I am still not 100% pleased with my contents
page but I have learnt many things. For example the
blue boxes I had to use about 3 layers so the text
could be seen over the colour.
4. Through the preliminary task and the music magazine I have learnt many skills about
applications on the laptop to make a music magazine. I feel like I have improved quite a
bit from my first ever task I did on InDesign. Making a music magazine can take a very
long time; picking the right text, correct colour schemes, images positioned well,
models that represent what you are trying to produce.
The making of magazines is a very hard industry but a lot of fun, you really do have to
think of snappy, short headlines not long nonsense ones that the audience will not read
like I used in my preliminary task. The words needs to be short, fast and interesting like I
have used on my music magazine task. I have enjoyed making my magazine on
InDesign, Photoshop and blogger it has been great fun. It is weird to think how much
time and effort has to go into making a music magazine to make a profit.
I conclude from the making of my magazines I have improved and you can see that
through the designs of both. Looking back to my preliminary you can tell some things
have not been taken into consideration. I am happy with my final outcome and how my
layout has worked. Even though it has taken me along time I know see how tough the
industry is getting.
Ffion Thompson 9160