EVALUATION 7:LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE

LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO FULL PRODUCT?

MASTHEADS

I used these two mastheads above for my preliminary task and main task. Both mastheads were put in front of the cover image, the was due to the fact that the magazine was brand new and it is imperative that the masthead is clear and easy to read for the audience. Had I put the masthead behind the image it would of not been clear enough for the audience to see (especially for the music magazine). From my preliminary task I learnt a lot about the masthead needing to stand out and that is why I used black font for my music magazine because it stood out nicely from the background colour.

• Close to both my mastheads I have the dates, in my opinion I think it would have been better for the date on the music magazine to be in the corner of my masthead, however I didn’t have enough space in the corner and so I had to put the date underneath the masthead. I think the position of the masthead in the school magazine goes well with the magazine because the school logo is in the corner and I prefer having the logo in the corner rather than underneath the masthead.

FRONT COVERS• The biggest difference between my front covers is that my school magazine is a lot

more vibrant (with the 3 yellow lights going through the page) than my music magazine because it is aimed at a younger audience and my music magazine is aimed at a older and wider target audience and due to the genre my magazine may seem monotonous. The difference in images is the positioning of the images, in my music magazine the artist is looking straight at the audience which connotes that he is confident person. His couch posture connotes that he is pretty laid back and that he lets his music do the talking. What I have learnt from preliminary task is that depending on your posture can say a lot about the person without even reading about them and that’s why it is important to have the right posture so that the audience gets the right message that the artist is trying to send.

• In my school magazine the picture was took using the over the shoulder shot to attract the reader and make them curious about what the person in the picture is looking at. In both magazines I used common conventions related to my magazine topic/ genre for example; puffs, cover lines. All of these techniques were used to captivate the reader with content within the magazine.

FONTS • In my preliminary task I used a standard font where as in my music magazine I

used more of a edgy font which connoted a different side to the artist which the audience wouldn’t of expected. For my school magazine I wanted to make it easy and clear for students to read so I therefore made the font a bit more spaced out. The edgy font was used to get the reader to become engaged and wanting more.

NAMES• When I was choosing the names of both magazines I wanted them both to relate

to the genre of the magazine. I feel that I chose the names that suited both magazines and that they both captivating for the reader.

CONTENTS PAGES• When making my contents pages I had learnt a lot from my preliminary task. I

believe the layout for the music magazine was spot on as I was able to fit everything on the page nicely, however for my school magazine I was unable to fit everything I wanted to on the page as I ran out of room which meant that my layout wasn’t particularly good. Another key thing I learnt from my preliminary task is that certain fonts need to be in different colours to signify the importance of it, for example the green writing on contents page (music magazine) compared to the red writing below it.