C13 Evaluation

FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO ... Evaluation ...

I have now made my music magazine MUSE. I have created using the programme photoshop and using my own photography a front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Here I am comparing my front cover to an existing top music magazine. Q is a magazine that I have already researched in great detail and I liked the way in which they presented their front covers. I have used arrows to explain feature on my front cover and have circled those that are also found on the front cover of Q magazine. The various similiarites show that my version of a music magazine is comaparable to that of the real thing.

Here I have images of my contents and page and double page spread shown next to images of those pages from existing music magazines. The double page spread looks professional and has many similarites to the real product. However I am not so happy with my contents page which looks a little amatuer. I would re-think the style of contents page if I was to repeat this activity and would also like to present my contents page over a double page spread like you would find in an ordinary music mag.

Here I have pin pointed various features of my magazine that I have used to attract my target audience. I have included image and caption. These regard various feature such as the artists used, free gifts and low prices.

I have decided that if I was to publish MUSE, then I would like BAUER to be the company I work alongside with. This is because they are successful dealing with magazines like my own and yet do offer any existing magazines that will cause a threat to the production of MUSE. I think that BAUER is a good strong choice of industry. I have also included the other music magazines that they have produced. I have not named them, I have simply posted their logos, these logos are well known and a vast majority of the public could guess the magazine from the logo itself. This shows how successfull BAUERS other magazines really are.

I have bullet pointed the main areas that concern my 15-25 year old target audience. I have also added various images of people who are that age to present a small audience profile.

I have learnt alot during the process of this portfolio including technical and personal development. I am proud of my achievments that I have worked reach. This task was not easy however I think that I tackled it with the right frame of mind and was open minded to learn new skills and to work my way through vast series of trial and error when trying new things.

I have been on a rollcoaster of a journey from when I made my front cover for my preliminary task to completing my final music magazine. The diffrence between the work I have made is very clear when comapring the two images. But the way in which I handled the tasks and used the software has changed immensly. I am now more confident and I am satisfied with usinf photoshop. I have come a long way and do not want stop this new learning curve.

To finish my conclusion I have simply analysed each page and given myself suggested improvements if I was to carry on with this task further. I think that it is important to realise that more potential can be made so that you progress with your knowledge. However to make most of the improvements I want to I will need to do a lot of learning from tutorials etc, as some of the technical aspects are very complex.

I am least happy with my contents page because I do not think that it looks professional. Although I am desperate to be able to create this element over a double page spred so that I have more space and opportunites. I think the main problem with this page is the lack of space, therefore the page looks very overcrowded.

I was very happy with my double page spread but it wasn't until I had finished my evaluation presentation that I realised I had forgotten to add page numbers. Although it seems a minor detail, the contents page would loose it's purpose if pade numbers were not inserted. This has shown me how easy it is to forget something so trival which yet could lead to a major problem. I understand now why it is so important in the real publishing industry to have proof readers and editors who look closely to ensure there are no mistakes printed in the final copies.

I concluded a few of the major points to end my evaluation. Throughout the slides there is number of yellow stars that indicate certain sections of my blog. This is to ensure that further expanded ideas and answers can be found easily through a simple directory.

Overall I have really enjoyed the task I was set and would love to do a similar challenge again soon. I have made myself proud in what I have learnt, this includes how much patience I have now tolerated myself to have! Especially when things do go wrong. I will leave this blog with all three images of my MUSE music magazine pages below.

Goodbye from me...

Karmann Damiral

new producer of MUSE.