1. Evaluation task 7
Daniel Monaghan

2. On the left hand side is my prelim task masthead and on the right is my
final masthead. The skills I have learnt since my prelim task are clearly
shown in my final masthead. The masthead clearly represents the
genre of my magazine and matches the house style this is key in my
magazine as it shows continuity and that everything in the magazine is
related. The final masthead looks more professional as it looks like it
would be used by a magazine. The skills I have learnt in photo shop
allowed me to clear a white background that was behind the text to
the extent that you cant tell that there was anything there. I also learnt
that the masthead shouldn’t be covered if it is a new magazine as the
target audience wouldn’t know what the magazine is called, the
masthead should only be covered to suggest familiarity.

3. On the top left is my prelim task and on the bottom
left is the final task. I have pick up lots of skills since
my prelim task which has allowed me to create a good
final front cover. I used techniques such as drop
shadow on text to make the text jump out off the
page, this catches the readers eye from the shelf. My
final front cover is clearly split in to 3rds as this is a
key convention of a magazine other key conventions
which I have learned and used in my front cover are
the puff on the left side this is used to store extra
‘special’ information it catches the readers eye and
alerts them of the special information in the magazine
finally I have used Photoshop to edit the light levels of
the final photo on my front cover and cover up any
imperfections this is what would be done to a real
magazine to make it more appealing to the target
audience.

4. On the top left is my prelim task contents page and on
the bottom left is my final contents page. Some of the
skills I have learnt that are evident in final contents
page are using Photoshop to edit my picture for
example I have edited the light levels this has made
the photos darker or lighter making them look more
professional, I have also used the key conventions of a
magazine which I have learnt about such as 3 vertical
columns should be present unlike in my prelim task,
this is when I didn’t not know the conventions very
well, this makes the page look more organised and
professional. My final contents page contains more
content for my magazine making it seem more full and
worth the money the target audience would be
paying, I have included short teasers of the story on
some pages this is done in magazines to draw the
reader in and then makes them want to read that
story so they will buy it and go straight to that page.