Evaluations on ISSUU

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Question 2. of Evaluation

Question 1. of Evaluation

Feedback 2

This week I took 5 photos of my magazine from the computer on my mobile phone. I took these photos home and showed them to my parents and a few friends, this was the feedback I gathered. 


Feedback from Parents:

Mum: "Ross' new magazine design is very different from his original idea. I believe that the changes he has made are made for the better as there is a new found dynamism in his work, whereas before his ideas were good but fairly plain. The only criticism I would make is that all his images are very similar and aren't too eye catching."

Dad: "I like Ross' new magazine design. In all fairness I from what I remember him saying I preferred his original idea but I do think that this final magazine he will use is of a high standard. When speaking to him about this, Ross said his first colour scheme consisted of mostly of blue, and obviously in comparison this colour scheme is much opposed. But I do like this colour scheme of yellow and black, rather than the idea of blue. I do think his imaging is too the same and needs to be changed."




Feedback from Friends:

Friend 1: "His magazine is very decent. I'm not too sure on the colour scheme of black and yellow, personally I would change to red and white. I do however like his text style and use of font as they are quite easy on the eye and don't pose a harsh or harsher feel. I spoke to Ross' mum about his magazine and we both agreed that he imaging is far too similar. Ross has asked me if I could be used as a model in a photoshoot. I am more than happy help and will try and make sure Ross gets some decent images for his magazine."

Friend 2: " The last time Ross showed me his magazine ideas and told me what he would like to do was quite a while ago. From what I remember, his design has changed drastically. Most notably he has changed the colour scheme and images. I take media at A-level also, we have to carry out the same task as well, and in comparison to mine I would say Ross' is much better than mine and a lot more developed. If Ross uses this idea well, I reckon he can receive high marks."

Feedback

Feedback:

‘Good idea for design with person on front cover facing sideways, it’s different. Good proposed colour scheme with black and yellow, work well together, stand out. Might be little a difficult getting the contents design to as Ross has explained to me. Probably needs some variation in colour within the magazine, not just yellow and black throughout. But overall good choice for design and should work nicely’- Mum.

‘Decent idea, from sounds of it might be a bit hard to pull off. But if done right magazine could be very good. Good content ideas as well, the explanation of using a mix of well-known artists and existing artists, colour scheme is to my taste but does work, think it would have been better if using red instead of yellow.’- Dad.

 
  ‘Really really good design, similar to the design I did at my school for my media project. It’ll work really well especially if exactly, or near enough the same as the placed images he’s told me he’s put place in the magazine at the moment. For my media I used a wider range of colours, so for Ross to expand an make his magazine more interesting he should probably think about using like 3-4 more different colours.’- George.

Evaluation

I have now finished my haydon magazine. The final product was not as I had fully intended but I am still happy with what I have produced. I believe my skills with the software used to make the magazine have improved drastically since the start, I am still not one hundred percent confident on the software but I have grasped the basics and generally know how to put the software into practice. This includes placing photographs, creating texts borders and changing the fonts and colours of the texts. My creative ideas changed for my final design, I chose a different front cover photo, whilst at the same time changing the colour scheme to only dark blue and white opposed to my original idea of using red aswell. I chose to change the colour scheme to only blue and white for consistency so when the reader looks at the magazine everything flows and their eye isn't bombarded by an array of colours. I used two thumbnails unlike my design ideas which only had one thumbnail. Further, I didn't use the text borders I had intended to use, this is due to my lack of knowledge and ability on the software, I therefore didn't use any borders and let the text sit freely. I used the font I wanted to use for the magazine title, I continued this style of font for the rest of the of the text on the front of the magazine. I did this for the same reason I made the colour scheme all the same, for consistency and look better on the page, unlike if there were to be multiple fonts which would make the text look uncomfortable/out of place when placed together on the page. For the contents page the idea was kept from my design plans, but the shadow effect was not used and the background colour fades from white into black unlike my plans which just had a plain white background. The pictures I used at the bottom of the page were as I had imagined. In conclusion, I am pleased with my final magazine product and with extended use of the magazine making software I will gain experience and become more adapt meaning I will be better at using the program, which will be beneficial to my music magazine project.