Centre Name: Norbury Manor BEC
Centre Number: 14343
Candidate Name: Sabrina Boukhalfa
Candidate Number: 9202
Unit: G321
Monday 31 March 2014
Friday 28 March 2014
Evaluation - Question 7
Evaluation 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Looking back at my preliminary task, I have seen a drastic
improvement as I have learnt the codes and conventions of a Pop magazine. This
is made obvious when comparing the two media texts I have produced over the
past year, my Preliminary task to my final product.
I created a music magazine for my foundation portfolio and an educational magazine for the preliminary task. Between the two, a vast improvement is evident when looking at my music magazine as it appears more realistic because of the codes and conventions present which gives the magazine an overall established look. On the other hand, my college magazine lacks believability due to the colour scheme especially the font colour. This is because my colour choices for the text (pink, black and white) do not give the magazine a professional look as through research; I have found that you would usually find magazines of this genre to have a basic colour scheme such as black, white, red etc as the simplicity of the colours helps make the magazine appear more professional. Because of this, I assured that the colour scheme for my final cover was appropriate by conducting further research into pop magazines for example Q magazine, top of the pops, Billboard etc and I analysed the different colours used throughout. In doing this I was able to understand what an appropriate colour scheme should be.
When
looking at the different cover photos used on both products, I have found that
the image used on the music magazine is of better quality due to the clearness
and sharpness of the image as my photography skills have improved over time;
resulting in a more advanced finish. This is because by the time I was required
to create my final piece I had already become more familiar with the camera and
had learnt different techniques and modes. For example portrait, landscape, outdoor,
indoor etc which in turn helped the quality of the images to look more
professional.
The
models used in both magazines are looking directly into the camera which was
done purposely in order to create a connection with potential buyers. Their
facial expressions are both positive as they can be seen smiling which helps to
create a welcoming and friendly atmosphere.
In
my music magazine the smile is used to connote a bubbly personality as pop
music is a more positive and up lifting genre of music and this was done
purposely in order to make obvious to the audience the genre of the magazine.
For
my college magazine the model is smiling in the hopes of showing the target
audiences ‘parents’ that the students that attend the college are happy as they
appear to be thriving and eager to learn.
Editing
the images for my magazine cover took around 1 hour to do for my preliminary
task as I had vague understanding on how to make the image appear better where
as for my music magazine I was able to adjust the exposure and lighting for my
cover photo using Photoshop. From when I was using Photoshop In my preliminary
task - which I has no understanding on how to use the software, to when I was
editing my cover photo for my pop magazine, my skills on Photoshop had advanced
a whole lot more.
Both
my magazine covers weren't very clear on what the theme of each magazine was.
As you can see for my preliminary magazine we can see that the student’s
environment is outside a school which straight away indicates to the reader
that this is an educational magazine but the models appearance does not make it
obvious to the viewer that she’s a student, usually in a school magazine there
would be a more obvious statement to show its a school magazine for example a
student holding a book/books, or doing work in a lesson, but I had failed to
show that. Looking at my music magazine the model isn't the one showing the
reader its a music magazine instead the features around her are doing that and
the headline at the top of the page states very clearly that it is a music
magazine as its shown very boldly at the top that it is ‘THE UK’S #1 MUSIC
MAGAZINE’. Also my research on pop magazines have shown very few artists doing
anything to represent anything musical, usually they are just posing so that’s
why I followed that convention and just had my artist smiling in a
close-up/extra close-up shot of her. So even doe both magazines weren't very
clear on what the theme of both magazines were, I still justified why my music
magazines image wasn't obvious what the theme was.
When I compare the two layouts of the contents pages,
it is clear to see that they are both vastly different.
The preliminary contents page is
simple and the information on the page is very limited, the actual content on
the page is un-realistic for a real life magazine because you’d usually find
almost a page or list of content. Where the page numbers are allocated they
have not all been lined up, also the images on the other side of the content
appear odd as there is one more space beneath the last image but that space hasn't been filled in. In comparison to my contents page you can clearly see it has a strong structure and layout, I had planned where all my images were going
to go and I've planned how much space I needed to leave to fit in my text, the
overall look of the page looks convincing as a contents page.
it is clear to see that they are both vastly different.
Evaluation - Question 6
Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Thursday 27 March 2014
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