Evaluation

Media Power Point

For our evaluation, we had to come up with a PowerPoint presentation showing what we used, and how we managed to create our magazines. We had to talk about forms and conventions and the programmes we used to adapt/change our pictures to make them better and more presentable.

Contents Page

After completing my front cover of my magazine, my next assignment was to create a contents page for the magazine. I found this task easier than making the front cover, because now that I had a front cover to link with, my options became more limited and therefore I had to work with what I could that also tied in nicely with the genre of the music magazine that I'd created.

     For my contents page, I attempted using a different 'model' other than my main model that would be taking up the majority of pictures in my magazine.

Like I did on my front cover, I tried to keep my contents page full, but then didn't want to make it seem over crowded with information.

     I produced my contents page on Adobe PhotoShop, I have found using PhotoShop easier and easier as I have progressed throughout the course and now can complete my pages, and adapt particular pictures with ease. 

     The one thing that I don't like about this picture that I only noticed after completing it is that in the background you can see a lorry, and several

other background features that I preferably would not have liked to be there.

     I chose to use this picture, because I thought it stood out from all of my other choices. Also changing the model, also enticed me to choose this picture. Here are a few of the rejected pictures that I took:

I didn't choose this picture, although It was one of my favourites due to the change of angle and the position of which he has taken, because he was the same 'model' that I had previously used on my front cover. I didn't want it to become repetetive so that he would be the only 'model' throughout my magazine. I wanted to have a range of different people, so that it could attract other people in.

I didn't chose this picture purely because I wasn't very keen on the pose that he had taken up, I didn't think that It tied in well with how I wanted to present my magazine. What I did like about this picture was the light, It made the picture bright and it was the amount of light that I thought would be perfect for my magazine because it wasn't to dark which may make the magazine look glum and dull. It used natural light which would've been good for the contents page.

'Fusion' magazine - Sketch

Here is my sketch, as you can see, my drawing skills are not at a particularly high standard. The proportions of the person in this sketch is all wrong, I aim to make the main picture bigger, and have smaller pictures dotted around. My main aim is to not crowd my front cover and only show the main information that is to be shown in the magazine.  My back ground will hopefully make the front cover seem a bit more crowded.

I want to make my front cover seem fairly formal and show a serious tone. I don't want to make my magazine seem chatty, informal, and not have a serious tone. So I tried to stay formal and add colour so as to make it easier on the eye, and more appealing to the target audience.

Here is my final copy of the magazine cover. I began by trying to make my heading stand out as much as possible, and I think that the effect that I put on the heading, that it was coming off the wall makes it stand out quite alot. Like i said, I didn't want my front cover to seem over-crowded, so I therefore tried to include few bit of information, but obviously the most important bits, that I thought may really capture the costumers eye. The only problem that I think I had was that colour wise, it may be seen as a bit bland. So if I were to do it again, I would try to use a range of different colours because that would really catch the eye of the constumers. I wanted my magazine do be different, bring something new to the market and appeal to the people who enjoy this type of music, I think I did do this, but I thought that I should have shown that it was specifically a Jazz music magazine, and therefore really emphasise that.

Fusion Magazine

Here is my first take on my front cover picture. I wanted him to stand out so i put what he was wearing against quite a bland coloured background.
I didn't like this picture because he was too central in my image. I wanted him to be closer the left hand side to give me space to work around him.

I liked the proportions in this picture. It gave me a good amount of room to fill around him. My main aim was to not overfill my front cover, I wanted information to be displayed but I didn't want it to look overcrowded. So I felt Ineeded quite a bit of room to do this. The only thing I didn't like about this pictuire was the expression on my models face.

This was my final picture. It was similar to the last, the only improvement being expression on his face. I wanted my magazine to come across as funny and full of information. Therefore I tried to make it formal. I think the expression on his face helps portray this for the rest of the magazine.