Monday 7 May 2012
Friday 4 May 2012
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Looking back on my preliminary task I realise that I have learnt a lot about being precise with the target audience which I am targeting and the aspects which are most important to a magazine.
I believe that the main image is one of the most important parts of a front cover because that is what the customers see first, so it needs to be very appealing.
Looking at the two front covers which I have created, I have a medium shot for both images; the difference between the two images is the pose being carried out. I think having the model closer up makes the reader feel like they are interacting with the model and makes it feel personal. I don’t think that long shots should be used on front covers as they don’t stand out much on the cover.
The layout has improved a lot. With my preliminary task the layout is completely different, the sell lines are down the bottom of the page, and the subsidiary image is not the best of quality either. On my school magazine I think that the main image is good and effective as I left the perfect amount of room for the masthead and slogan. I think that my music magazine is a big improvement from my school magazine, the sell lines run down the side of the page, nowhere near the models face and fills out the page, whereas on my school magazine, because I put the sell lines down the bottom of the page, it left lots of room down the sides where there was no information.
I have learnt that it is best to use a variety of different camera shots and editing is very important when trying to ‘touch-up’ your image to make it look more effective and less boring.
The masthead is important as that is what people will use when talking about the magazine, so it is essential that is short-and-snappy, unique, and catchy and has to have a meaning to it. I think that I have improved the originality in my music magazine, whereas my school magazine was very ‘mainstream’.
I am now familiar with the software adobe in-design from creating my three different magazine pages and school magazine. I have learnt how to create the layout and style of a double page spread, how to split the pages into columns. I have gained experience compared to my school magazine cover. This is evident in the finished products layout in the music magazine.
I have learnt that a consistent colour scheme is important because it gives my magazine its image, then people start to associate those colours with my magazine, this will make the magazine instantly recognisable.
On my preliminary task I tried to keep the cover even at the bottom of the page with the sell line. I did this because I thought it would look tidier and make the main image stand out more on the page. As now I have realised that you can work around the main image rather than avoiding it.
I believe that my magazine pages look realistic as I have made up the codes and conventions of a real music magazine. I am happy with the outcome of how my magazine looks. I am especially pleased with the front cover and contents page. If I were to improve on my magazine then I would have a background different on the main article as I think that at some stages the text is difficult to read.
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