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The student created a school magazine as media coursework to prepare for a final music magazine project. They took photos around the school for the magazine but found the photo shoot and using Photoshop difficult due to their limited experience. While the front cover and sections seem authentic, some photos were blurry and the student wishes they captured more pictures of students and teachers to make the magazine more realistic.
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Evaluation question 7
The student felt they learned several important lessons from their preliminary school magazine task that improved their full music magazine task. Specifically, they learned to have models look directly at the camera to engage readers, put headlines directly on models, use a limited color scheme to create a brand identity, edit images more in Photoshop, and include common magazine elements like a subscription section. The student also felt more confident and skilled in using Photoshop and InDesign's advanced tools which helped them create a more polished final magazine.
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The document outlines 23 lessons for a student to complete coursework on creating their own music magazine. Over the lessons, the student created drafts of a front cover, content page, and double page spread for their magazine, receiving feedback from their teacher. They also conducted research and interviews. While some lessons were spent planning, the majority of lessons were used to design and refine the different pages of the magazine before submitting for grading.
Question 7
The student learned several important lessons from creating a preliminary school magazine that helped them improve their final music magazine. For the music magazine, they conducted more research on their target audience and took inspiration from professional magazines. This helped them create a more polished, professional product at a higher standard. The front cover of the music magazine was edited to a higher quality and featured more catchy, creative text compared to the school magazine. The additional time spent on the music magazine allowed for more editing and improvements.
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- They intended to include an appropriate title linked to the content.
- Throughout the process, the student familiarised themselves with Photoshop and how to use its tools and features.
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- The contents page of the preliminary magazine lacked conventions, had too much white space, insufficient details and articles, and images that were not neatly ordered. In contrast, the main task contents page looks more professional with quality images, articles relevant to music, and a clear color scheme and text.
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The document describes the front and back covers of a school magazine created by the author. For the front cover, the author used the school's colors of blue and white with orange headings. Models are pictured in the library smiling to convey a friendly atmosphere. The back cover features the same design elements and the school logo. Pictures were taken around the school to illustrate contents like a badminton class, showing the school's support of exercise. Creating the magazine improved the author's photography, Photoshop, and design skills.
Evaluation
The document is an evaluation of a magazine created for college students aged 16-19. The front cover features a smiling female student holding a notebook to represent enjoying college. Bright colors like yellow, green and purple were used to convey happiness and energy. Cover lines aim to relate to student struggles to engage readers. The contents page continues the color theme and uses images and folios for accessibility. While pleased with the front cover design and colors, the evaluator notes the contents page could be more visually interesting and use different images and fonts for more appeal.
Preliminary task evaluation
The author discusses improvements in their skills with Photoshop and other design tools. They have learned about specific tools in Photoshop and their uses, as well as design terminology. This is evident from the higher quality of a music magazine cover they designed compared to an earlier college magazine cover. Their contents page for the music magazine is also more detailed, professional, and makes use of multiple pictures based on their research into typical magazine design.
Creating my college magazine
Here is a slideshow of how my preliminary task of creating a college magazine has helped me and allowed me to gain skills for when I create my music magazine.
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- 1. School magazine evaluation My task for media was to create a school magazine in preparation for our final coursework, to create a music magazine. My target audience for this magazine was the pupils who attend the school, their parents/guardians and teachers. I planned to attract my target audience by including useful sections about the school, such as introductions to year sevens and year twelve, school news and events, as well as pictures of the school itself. My understanding of Photoshop made completing the task of creating my school magazine difficult, as I previously had little knowledge on how to use it. Although, I knew how to insert pictures so I did this on my front cover and contents page. I also found the photo shoot task quite difficult because it was hard to decide what to take pictures of around the school, but it was enjoyable and soon became easier. I am fairly happy with the pictures I took because I managed to take some of the school grounds as well as a sixth form pupil to use on my front cover, which I’d aimed to have in my original drawn design. However I’m not entirely pleased with them overall because some of them were blurry and I didn’t manage to get more pictures of teachers and students.
- 2. I think my magazine front cover and contents page look authentic because I’ve included sections that you could genuinely find in a school magazine. The pictures I’ve included could also appear professional, if the quality was improved. The colour scheme I’ve used also relates to my school’s colour scheme (red, black and white), causing it to appear more realistic. However due to the blurry images and my knowledge of Photoshop, it might not look that realistic. I would have preferred to have taken more pictures of students and teachers in classrooms for my school magazine, as I didn’t get any, which is something I’d change if I could. Also, I’m not that happy with the header of my magazine, I maybe would have made it more bold and colourful, so if I could do it again, I’d probably do that.