Evaluation Q7

                                           (Prelim)                                                     (Final)

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

I have learnt a lot since I started making my magazine, I my understanding in to just how much work and thought goes in to everything that we buy every day in the shops. Before when I used to make something I used to just put it together and that would be that, but now when I approach a task when I am doing it i think of ways in which I could represent things better, or how things I have done look to other people and what they might think that it shows about me and my work.

 I also have not only learnt about a wider range of technologies, I have also learnt how to use them, before if I was given a task I wouldn't have thought of anything other than different forms of Microsoft, now though I use loads of different ways of working and presenting my work that I am now using in other subjects. Not only have I learnt about new software's but I have improved in my usage of other software's, like Photoshop before I would struggle to put an image in to Photoshop yet alone do anything to it. Now I can put numerous images bits of text in, edit bits out I don't want remove backgrounds and modify images. It used to frustrate me and take a very long time to do anything, especially when doing the prelim, getting all of the different elements to come together was so annoying, I would have to ask Sir how to do what I wanted. Whereas in the final draft I could go straight in to Photoshop identify what was wrong know exactly how to fix  it and then do it in no time at all.

From the prelim to the final I have learnt how to modify my images so that they aren't bright and glarey, but I also think that this may be down to the fact that I learnt how to take pictures better and how to set it up better, how to angle the lights to get rid of shadow on faces, how to change the camera to make sure that not everything was really bright (that was an early problem with a lot of my images).

                                                (Prelim)                                                 (Final)

I learnt how to make my work look more interesting, not only on my prelim but also my first and second drafts my work had to much order and formality to it, it was way to ordered in appearance it looked like a science book, everything looked  boring. When this would fed back to me in the class feedback I decide to look at other features that I like from other magazines and put them in to mine. With my final draft I managed to keep that level of neatness and order, whilst managing to still make it look interesting.

Evaluation Q5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Here is my presentation for Q5 of my media evaluation.

Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

This I my answer to media evaluation Q4.

Evaluation Q3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

This is my answer to media evaluation Q3.

Evaluation Q3

Evaluation Q1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

This is my answer to my media evaluation Q1.

Media Evaluation Q1

Evaluation Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This is a link to my answer to question two. I have produced a Glogster page to show how my magazine represents different social groups.

http://aaron1s8ored.edu.glogster.com/evaluation-q2

Evaluation Q6

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

Laptops and Computers- I used laptops and computers to do virtually all of my work on, I learnt that there are a lot more technologies out there to use on these things than i thought to use in so many different ways to present your work in new and different ways, to find out new things. I used a bunch of different software and websites whilst doing my magazine and these are just a few.

-Blogger- I used blogger to put all of my work on to show people what I have been doing and how i have done it, it is a software that I had heard of before but never thought of used as I would just took it as a software for what I would of then assumed was blogging, putting your own thoughts and opinions out there for people to read and watch. I wouldn't have thought to do what we have done with it I didn't think you would be able to do so many things on it such as, put stuff from just about every other software on it, and the shear size and scale of the people that use it, like people in Russia have been reading my blog. 

-Photoshop- Before doing this magazine I couldn't even put a photo in to Photoshop without breaking something, and couldn't even imagine the amount of different ways that you could edit an image, and I may have not included them in my final pieces I certainly used tried some of them out even if it was just for giggles. Removing backgrounds and imperfections from images is really useful especially when you camera skill aren't very good like mine and you can remove any annoying extra hand from the shot some background that you didn't want to be there.

-Dafont- with its huge array of fonts for any occasion that you could imagine it provides you with every font you could ever need and gave me my font for my title, contents and double page spreads headers.

-Wikipedia- provided me with the answer to any research and has the answer to just about any question you could ever think (that man kind actually has the answer to) if you look hard enough. Yes people say that it is unreliable because anyone can go on and change it but that just means that there are millions of people heads going in to the facts going on to the website and means you are more likely to find your answer, I didn't even realize simply how much you can find on this website

-Camera- useful in so many situations, but I had never been in a situation where I to think so hard when using a camera, should I put flash on should I change shutter speed, its all over my head and all of those little changes you make can turn a shot from good to great, whether it catches the little extra detail that makes the shot.

 -Photography lights- light is so important when taking photos you never think about it when you are out with your mates and just taking a quick snap shot, but when you are in a studio you have to place you lights so that all of your models face it lit up which is far more difficult than you would think. Or you could use that shadow to you own advantage, for dramatic effect .

Updated Colours

I decided to switch to far more familiar colours for a magazine, I switch to blue, black and white. I switched from my original choice of colours as they were considers to be way to abstract so I thought that I would go with what people knows works.  The modern colours scheme reflects the youngish age of my audience, and is a set of modern clean colours that work well toghther

The Final Magazine

Cover Page of CORD

Contents Page CORD

 Double Page Spread CORD

Feedback on the draft

I held a group discussion with some members of my class,  had conversations about it with my teachers, and received feedback from my class mates on my blog. This is the feedback that I got and how I am going to go forward and improve upon my work.

I had a lot of trouble taking the shots for the magazine so, the feedback was mainly related to that, but I did pick up some feedback about other stuff. My cover page the title at the top was liked and didn't need much work, however the fact that I had used that font on every page and I was told that on my double page spreed I should pick a font that is more suited to the artist.

My contents page, I was told the layout was too flat and it was too like a list and I needed to make it look a bit uneven, also the image was well out of proportion, I was also told that I should include more images on my contents page, they think that this would help to brake up the order of the page, and make it look like a proper magazine. I also do no like the font that I have used for the bulk of my text so I want to change that, to something that is a rounded, I original thought that the different font would work, but I think because of thew genre of the magazine and my feedback that it needs to be changed.

I was also told that I should put more information on the front cover, as the type of shot that I have taken is not drastic or shocking enough to make that front cover, so I need to include more information to fill it and make it more interesting.