Final Post

I have now finished my coursework or the making of my music magazine, so this is my last post.

Audience Feedback

I got a number of different views of my music magazine, some people thought that it was really good and told me that it looked very professional and fitted the genre of the mainstream audience very well. Others gave me tips on how to improve it, so how they thought I could make the magazine look better than it does at the momemt. I recieved all this feedback from the people in my class by what thye told me in lessons and from my parents and friends at home. The audience feedback helped me quite a lot and was of a lot of good use to me.

2nd Part of Evaluation

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have used a number of different technologies in the production of my pages for my music magazine. I used photoshop to make my front cover, at first i struggled with the editing of colours and the pictures, but when I started to get the hang of it I found it quite easy and fun to produce by front cover because I enjoyed playing around with the different colours, effects and fonts that were available for me to use. I used Microsoft publisher for my contents page which I had used before I started this project, but I did learn some new things to do with the software, for example I learnt how to fill a text box in with colour as I did not know this before. I generally enjoyed making my contents page as I liked playing around with different layouts and fonts to see what looked best, this is why we made drafts of our pages before we chose the final one. Finally I used InDesign to make my double page spread, which I found quite hard as the software is not the same as the other software that I have used before, I found it very hard to move my pictures around as they did not move very easily, they either zoomed in or zoomed out, but after enough practise I got the hang of it and then I found it quite easy.
I have learnt a number of different things throughout this project, I learnt how to use InDesign and Photoshop and the only prior experience I had of that was in the preliminary text that we made school magazines. I have also learnt how to use blogger and how to change the layout and style of your blog, how to add different tools such as polls and hyper links and finally how to upload pictures to my blog.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you fell you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel that I have learnt how to use the software that was required a lot more effectively to my advantage and how to make my pages look more professional. I feel I have learnt to use the effects that are on offer reasonably well to my own well being to help with the aesthetic look of my magazines. I feel that I now have learnt a better use of technology and feel I could definately use the software that we used again in other subjects or work if I needed to do it. I also feel I have developed more practical skills when it comes to technology.
I have also learnt a lot about the target market and what they look for in the product that they are buying for, I learnt how the style of the magazine can affect the price, for example a monthly magazine can cost more than a weekly magazine because it comes out less times and therefor should be of much higher qaulity.
Finally, i learnt a lot more about the magazine industry, and what is included in magazines for what reason, for exmaple a free cd or free posters are included in magazines to persaude the reader or target market to buy the magazine because they may feel that they get more out of the magazine.

Evalutation

Evaluation of my media coursework, the music magazine

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Final Contents Page

After looking at my contents page, I decided that the arrow that was originally there didnt look right and just didnt fit in with everything else that was there, so I made another one on publisher and put that in.

Final Double Page Spread

After discussing with my teacher I have made some changes, I made the writing in the arrow white and more central, took away the underlining from the questions and changed the colour to navy blue and the old blue looked a bit childish.

Final Double Page Spread.

This is my Final Double page spread after my teacher has checked everything that I have done. I made some changes from the second draft, I made more writing, deleted a arrow and placed a new one in and I changed the colour of my questions to blue instead of having them underlined.