EVALUATION 7:

Looking back at your

preliminary task, what do you

feel you have learnt in the

progression from it to the full

product?

The genre of my music magazine is Rap/R&B, and the aims

were create a magazine based upon a genre who my choice

which I intended to target the audience of both Rap and R&B

and both male and female aged between 16 and 24.

From doing my preliminary task, I have a much better

understanding on how the conventions of a music magazine

works. Doing my preliminary task required me to look at

many different magazines at their structure and layout so my

magazine would look realistic and fit in with others like it.

After analysing my final Front cover, contents page and double page spread, I have realised

that I have used many different features of both Photoshop and InDesign to achieve my specific

layout and structure which I wanted. My skills have definitely developed and especially improved

over the course of the production of my product in comparison to my preliminary task which I

crated using Photoshop which at that point I didn’t understand how to use it or what it was for

other than to edit photos and therefore my preliminary product had limited features on it and

didn’t look professional at all. Although, I had used Photoshop at the beginning of the project to

create my preliminary task, I can clearly see a massive improvement in my use of the features it

offers. To achieve all three of my preliminary task, mock ups and my final production, I took the

images with a professional camera in a photographic studio which allowed me to get used to

using a professional camera whereas I’m used to using my IPhone 5 as a camera at home. The

lighting in the studio allowed me to give a high quality appearance to my images which enhances

the models appearance and good looks to give a good final image. I managed to shot various

shots of my model such as close up, full length shots and a long shot in case I wished to use in

the my magazine to make each page look different and show different aspects to my model to

show the ways he presents himself.

My preliminary task was a lot different to that of my final

product due to the use of mise-en-scene because my preliminary

task was based on a school magazine compared to my music

magazine based on both Rap and R&B genre of music. Preliminary task:

MOCK UPS

In my mock ups, there are many things missing e.g. Price, Social media icons and a tag line. I do believe that compared to my preliminary tasks my mocks are considerably more accurate to magazines that are on the market at the moment.

FINAL PRODUCTS

Front cover ……..

FINAL PRODUCTS

Contents page …….

FINAL PRODUCTS

Double page spread …..

From my first

preliminary task to my

final product, I have

learnt how to use many

different software’s

accurately, precisely and

effectively to achieve a

good quality product

with the use of functions

and features of a music

magazine, you can

clearly see my more

improvement in these

areas across the three

different sets of images.

As you will be able to see that there are many

conventions missing from the school magazine

preliminary task such as the use of borders and

pull quotes etc. The conventions of a typical

music magazine are slightly different to those of a

school magazine due to the factor that there is a

larger audience the school magazine has to

appeal to for example, the students, the teachers

and parents which are all different age groups.

My use of typical conventions of a music

magazine has clearly improved throughout each

stage of the course through my mock-ups and

final product.

For my final product, I managed to produce a design that my

target audience accepted to see, as this would satisfy their needs. I

also learnt how to use a limited amount of space and gain minimum

attention from the target audience with a simple structure and

layout.

I have definitely improved and progressed from my preliminary

task to the mock-ups and my final design, as you can clearly see that

my final design is much more detailed with the range of conventions

I used and looks therefore more realistic and professional.