Evaluation

I will be evaluating my magazine and contents page. I will be looking at how it both follows and deviates from the codes and conventions of a magazine. I will also talk about how I could have improved my magazine.

My media project both follows and deviates from the codes and conventions of a magazine because if you look at my front cover you will see that I have a big mast head, this is so it will stand out and my target audience will see it more clearly. I followed them a lot on my magazine front cover as you can see, as I have my positioning statement, date and issue number at the top by my title and my bar code at the bottom. This is what the codes and conventions say, I followed them so my target audience will see them and recognise straight away that it’s a magazine from the setting. I also challenged the codes and conventions as my contents page is only one page whereas most contents pages are two page spreads. I decided to change this because i know from experience that no one really looks at the contents page for long, and my target audience won't want too many pages of a contents page. I chose to do this so it will appeal to my target audience more.

To make my magazine and contents page I used Photoshop and QuarkXPress. I used Photoshop on the front page and Quark on the contents page. I found Quark easier to use than Photoshop as I found the tools where easier to find and I thought it was easier to play around with. I thought using these technologies made making my project easier as I could play around with the colours and pictures more but also if I accidently locked the layers I could no longer change what I wanted to or if something when wrong with the system then I could not save it or access my work.

If you look at my sketches you will see that I have changed my project from the original idea because once I had uploaded it onto the computer I thought that it was not as effective so I changed it and it worked so that’s why they are different. Overall I am happy with my project as I think I worked well and hard on it, if I would improve anything I would change the colours so they stand out more and I would put more coverlines on my front cover other than that I am happy with my production.