Note to moderator

Dear moderator, my brief for my AS Media was to create a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a new music magazine. I decided to do a genre of indie/rock/alternative as I thought it was current and would have a wide audience- however I aimed it mainly at females between the ages of 16-22.
Name: Madison Pascoe
Candidate number: 9081
Edgbarrow Sixth Form- 51111

Question 1 and 2 final evaluation

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Question 3 final evaluation

Question 4 and 5 final evaluation

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Question 6 final evaluation

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 

Throughout doing the construction for my magazine I learnt lots of different things from many different types of technology. 

The program that I learnt the most from was definitely Serif Page Plus. This was the program that I used to do all of my construction. I learnt the importance of positioning texts and images so that everything looks in line and professional. I have also learnt how to make texts look 3D and stand out from everything which I found out was really important in making the masthead look professional and so it stood out from the rest of the text. I also learnt the importance of different sized texts and how the most important texts should be the largest on the page.

I also used blogger to get people to give me feed back from my construction- which in the end was very useful in finding out what other people thought was good and what needed to be change.

Another program I learnt was adobe photo shop. I used this to edit my pictures to make them look more professional. I only used it to slightly change the exposure to make the images slightly brighter, however it did make a big difference and was very useful.

Question 7 final evaluation

Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at my preliminary task I feel that I have learnt a huge amount and improved dramatically in a variety of skills.

I have learnt the importance of audience research. I have found pout that with audience research and audience feedback- there wont be an audience. Unless you know exactly what your target audience want from your magazine then there's no point. I also learnt that it's very important to establish your target audience and know who you are aiming your product at otherwise it can be a bit too general and not targeted at anyone in specific so not many people would be likely to buy it. I have also learnt how to and how important it is to attract your target audience and know what would attract them. If you didn't have anything that would attract them then you would have no audience.

I have also learnt that it's very important to have good quality images in order to make the magazine look as professional as possible as it's very easy to tell what has been taken professionally and what hasn't. It also makes the magazine look much more appealing.

Another thing I have learnt is how to use text sizes effectively in order to show what's more important and also to show what image links to what text- and the magazine mast head must be the biggest font on the page- and the splash as the second largest.

 

You can clearly see what was the preliminary task and what was the final draft. The preliminary draft has a very strange colour scheme as none of the colors match too well and are slightly dull and unappealing- however the final draft has a very bold colour scheme and would appeal to a specific audience. Also, the text size on the preliminary is all the same and there were no subheadings or even pull quotes to draw the reader in. However in the final draft there are a variety of different text sizes to show what is more important and should be read first.

Evidence of own images

Here is a picture of the ticket from the concert I went to that the pictures are from and also the professional camera I used to take the images with.